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1. Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War
An American World War I soldier whose disfigured face is reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons returns home after 20 years, but no one recognizes him, his widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson
Votes: 2,985 | Gross: $3.25M
2. They Won't Believe Me (1947)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable-sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson
Votes: 2,962
3. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
PG-13 | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
Directors: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 14,015 | Gross: $0.97M
4. Swamp Water (1941)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Attempting to find his lost dog in a vast Georgia swamp, Ben Ragan stumbles upon wanted murderer Tom Keefer who convinces Ben he was framed for the murder by the real killer.
Directors: Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel | Stars: Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews
Votes: 2,113
5. The Man I Married (1940)
77 min | Drama, Mystery
Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Anna Sten
Votes: 600
6. The Moon Is Down (1943)
90 min | Drama, War
During the Nazi occupation of Norway, a small Norwegian village struggles to cope with the invaders and some locals choose collaboration while others prefer armed resistance.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon
Votes: 538
7. The Pied Piper (1942)
87 min | Drama, War
While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger
Votes: 736
8. Martin Luther (1953)
Approved | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre, Guy Verney
Votes: 667
9. And Now Tomorrow (1944)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A wealthy woman who lost her hearing to meningitis meets a doctor who is concocting a serum that will cure deafness.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward, Barry Sullivan
Votes: 469
10. O.S.S. (1946)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, War
During WW2, the O.S.S. sends teams of spies and saboteurs into Nazi-occupied France.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt
Votes: 574
11. Happy Land (1943)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance, War
In a typical American Midwestern city, Hartfield, Iowa, Lew Marsh (Don Ameche) is the owner of a drugstore. Everyone knows Lew and knew his grandfather, old "Gramp" Marsh (Harry Carey), who... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford
Votes: 381
12. Day of Triumph (1954)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, History
An inspiring and ground breaking film on the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
Directors: Irving Pichel, John T. Coyle | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Robert Holton, James Griffith, Joanne Dru
Votes: 86
13. Secret Agent of Japan (1942)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison, Victor Sen Yung
Votes: 120
14. Quicksand (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre
Votes: 2,673
15. The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Approved | 120 min | Drama
A press agent brings a dead actress home for burial. To promote her one film, he asks churches to ring bells for 3 days, hoping to get the studio head to release it.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 1,126
16. Something in the Wind (1947)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Donald O'Connor, John Dall, Charles Winninger
Votes: 536
17. Temptation (1946)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Ruby, a beautiful divorcee with a shady past, marries a rich Egyptologist, and while he continues excavating a Pharoah's tomb, she becomes bored until she falls for a debt-ridden, blackmailing Egyptian prince.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas
Votes: 379
18. She (1935)
Passed | 101 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
A group of explorers search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality.
Directors: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel | Stars: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 1,906
19. The Great Rupert (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Family
A little squirrel with lots of charm accidentally helps two poor, down-but-NOT-out families overcome their obstacles.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth
Votes: 1,575
20. Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
While on vacation in the Caribbean with his wife, a middle-aged man unexpectedly finds, and falls in love with, a mermaid.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey, Andrea King
Votes: 1,349
21. Dance Hall (1941)
72 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Carole Landis, Cesar Romero, William Henry, June Storey
Votes: 74
22. Destination Moon (1950)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
"Destination Moon", tells the tale of when Doctor Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer approach Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson
Votes: 4,694 | Gross: $5.00M
23. Santa Fe (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Western
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter M. Thompson
Votes: 1,137
24. Hudson's Bay (1940)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, History, Romance
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, John Sutton
Votes: 497
25. A Medal for Benny (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny
Votes: 217
26. Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Sara Allgood
Votes: 252 | Gross: $0.20M
27. Without Honor (1949)
TV-PG | 69 min | Drama
Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Laraine Day, Dane Clark, Franchot Tone, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 414
28. Before Dawn (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Sinister forces compete to find the million dollars in gold hidden by recently deceased gangster Joe Valerie in his family's old dark house 15 years earlier,
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges
Votes: 513
29. The Great Commandment (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Romance
In Jerusalem young Zealot Joel wants to fight the Roman conquerors and hopes that Jesus will be their Jewish king. But Jesus is crucified, and Joel becomes an early Christian, learning to live by the divine command, ‚Love thy neighbor.'
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: John Beal, Maurice Moscovitch, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Cooley
Votes: 138
30. The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesn't care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesn't feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles
Votes: 523
31. The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, War
Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off ... See full summary »
Directors: John M. Stahl, Irving Pichel | Stars: Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Michael O'Shea, Vincent Price
Votes: 249
32. Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy
In 1940, Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a retired Army officer, returns to his home town of Fredericksville, Georgia, and is disturbed at the lack of civic pride. He ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 448
33. The Sheik Steps Out (1937)
Approved | 65 min | Musical
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Lola Lane, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Burke
Votes: 44
34. The Duke Comes Back (1937)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An ex-prizefighter returns to the ring to help his father-in-law who has money problems. Based on Lucian Cary's novel "The Duke Comes Back."
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Allan Lane, Heather Angel, Genevieve Tobin, Johnny Russell
Votes: 55
35. Earthbound (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Mystery, Fantasy
A murdered man (Baxter) helps his widow (Leeds) bring his killer (Bari) to justice.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 141
36. Larceny on the Air (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. Lawrence Baxter, working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose a number of fraudulent patient medicines, with his bitterest attacks being aimed at ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Robert Livingston, Grace Bradley, Willard Robertson, Pierre Watkin
Votes: 130
37. Beware of Ladies (1936)
Approved | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A female reporter with marital problems is sent by her boss to cover the campaign of a young political neophyte who's running against the local crooked political boss.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Donald Cook, Judith Allen, George Meeker, Goodee Montgomery
Votes: 105
38. The Gentleman from Louisiana (1936)
67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Eddie Quillan, Charles 'Chic' Sale, Charlotte Henry, John Miljan
Votes: 24