Bad Girl 1931  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, Frank Darien, Paul Fix, William Pawley, Edmund Breese, Sarah Padden, Irving Bacon, Louis Natheaux
A couple have had trouble making ends meet until a new baby arrives. Frank Borzage won an Academy Award as Best Director and the film was nominated for Best Picture.
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The Big City 1937 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher, Eddie Quillan, William Demarest, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Regis Toomey, Paul Harvey, Victor Varconi
Russian immigrant Joe Benton (Spencer Tracy) is an independent cabby who gets caught up in a taxi-driver war.
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The Big Fisherman 1959   N/R, 180 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Howard Keel, Susan Kohner, John Saxon, Martha Hyer, Herbert Lom, Ray Stricklyn, Marian Seldes, Alexander Scourby, Beulah Bondi, Jay Barney
Based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, this Disney production is overly long and not well executed. It is the story of Simon Peter (a miscast Howard Keel), the "fisher of men," who started as a fisherman and became a leader in the Christian movement. Good scenery (San Fernando Valley) with three Academy Award nominations. 1 User Review
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| | brimashica 02/08/2007 | | Yhis is a excellent movie to watch. Yet I can't find it to watch. The peson I watch the movie from can't find it. I would like to watch this movie, because I am teaching my kids about the Lord. |
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China Doll 1958 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Victor Mature, Ward Bond, Lili Hua, Bob Mathias, Johnny Desmond, Stuart Whitman, Denver Pyle, Elaine Devry, Ann McCrea, Danny Chang, Don "Red" Barry, Tige Andrews
John Wayne was the executive producer of this film about U.S. Air Force Captain Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) who, while in China during World War II, marries a Chinese woman and fathers her child. The couple is killed, and 13 years later their daughter (Lili Hua) travels to the United States.
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Desire 1936  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Akim Tamiroff, Marc Lawrence, Ernest Cossart, Alan Mowbray, Zeffie Tilbury, Harry Antrim, Harry Depp, Albert Pollet
In this comedy, Madeleine de Beaupre (Marlene Dietrich) tries to smuggle a piece of jewelry across the French border–in the pocket of innocent Tom Bradley (Gary Cooper) who is on his way to a holiday in Spain.
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A Farewell to Arms 1932  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue, Blanche Friderici, Henry Armetta, Mary Forbes, Paul Porcasi, George Humbert, Gilbert Emery, Herman Bing, Gino Corrado, Marcelle Corday, Doris Lloyd
This Ernest Hemingway story about an ill-fated romance during World War I is brought to the screen with Gary Cooper starring as the ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and Helen Hayes in the role of nurse Catherine Barkley. Frederic and Catherine meet and fall in love in war-torn Italy. Their romance leads to Maj. Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou) becoming jealous and having Catherine transferred to Milan. When Frederic is wounded and taken to Catherine's hospital, the romance resumes. Later, Henry returns to the war while the now-pregnant Catherine travels to Switzerland. Rinaldi intercepts Catherine's letters to Frederic, but when the war ends, Henry goes to Switzerland in search of Catherine.
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The Green Light 1937 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry O'Neill, Spring Byington, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Walter Abel, Henry Kolker, Pierre Watkin
This is a philosophical drama about an idealist physician (Errol Flynn) who undergoes a conversion and leaves his profession to learn more about meaning in life.
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Mannequin 1937 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan, Leo Gorcey, Elisabeth Risdon, Mary Philips, Bert Roach, George Chandler, Paul Fix, Oscar O'Shea, Wade Boteler, James Flavin, Mary Gordon, Frank Puglia
A poor working girl, Jessie Cassidy (Joan Crawford), uses wealthy shipping tycoon John L. Hennessey (Spencer Tracy) to attain her dreamed-of destiny. "Always and Always" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.
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Man's Castle 1933 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl, Marjorie Rambeau, Dickie Moore, Helen Jerome Eddy, Harvey Clark, Kendall McComas
Trina (Loretta Young) and Bill (Spencer Tracy) are a young couple trying to cope with the Great Depression. She becomes pregnant, and Bill turns to the criminal world to support Trina and her expected family.
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Moonrise 1948 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Harry Morgan, Harry Carey Jr., Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, Irving Bacon, Selena Royle
Danny Clark (Dane Clark) grew up under the shadow of his father's hanging following a murder. When he is pushed to the breaking point, he commits murder, tries to establish a cover-up, and finally admits his crime and seeks redemption.
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The Mortal Storm 1940 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack, William T. Orr, Maria Ouspenskaya, Bonita Granville, Irene Rich, Esther Dale
In this propaganda film about the tragedies endured by the Roth family, the father, a German professor (Frank Morgan), speaks out against the Nazis and ends up in a concentration camp where he is killed. His two sons (Robert Stack and William Orr) become Nazis as does his daughter's fiance (Robert Young). His daughter (Margaret Sullavan) eventually tries to cross the border into Austria with the man she loves (James Stewart), but she is killed trying to escape.
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Secrets 1933 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western / Romance
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith, Blanche Friderici, Doris Lloyd, Herbert Evans, Ned Sparks, Allan Sears, Mona Maris, Huntley Gordon, Ethel Clayton, Bessie Barriscale, Lyman Williams, Virginia Grey, Ellen Johnson
Mary and John (Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard) leave New England and join a group of pioneers heading West across America in their covered wagons. They settle in California and become cattle ranchers. When tragedies occur–including Indian attacks, the death of Mary's child, and John's philandering–Mary still remains a loyal wife and mother.
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Seventh Heaven 1927 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: 7th Heaven
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Ben Bard, Charles Farrell, David Butler, Marie Mosquini, Albert Gran, Brandon Hurst, George E. Stone, Emile Chautard, Lillian West, Gladys Brockwell, Jessie Haslett
This story is about Diane (Janet Gaynor), a Parisian waif who, after being exploited by her sister Nana (Gladys Brockwell), finds a life with Chico (Charles Farrell), a sewer worker. When World War I begins, Chico has fallen in love with Diane, but he is sent to the front. Diane gets a report that Chico has been killed, but the report is wrong, and Chico, now blind, finds his way back to Diane. This film won Best Actress (Gaynor), Director, and Screenplay Academy Award honors. This was the first year for the Oscars and covered a two-year period (1927-28).
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The Shining Hour 1938 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, Fay Bainter, Allyn Joslyn, Hattie McDaniel, Frank Albertson, Oscar O'Shea, Frank Puglia
A conservative farmer, Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas), marries showgirl Olivia Riley (Joan Crawford), and problems develop when he introduces her to his family.
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The Spanish Main 1945  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes, John Emery, Barton MacLane, J.M. Kerrigan, Fritz Leiber, Nancy Gates, Jack La Rue
Swashbucklers on the high seas is the theme of this adventure in which Capt. Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid) takes on the evil Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak) and wins the hand of the beautiful Contessa Francesca (Maureen O'Hara). 1 User Review
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| | Don't pay too much | Anonymous 02/13/2007 | | The Chinese bootleg has the opening & end credits chopped off. I guess they didn't want "RKO Studios" to be shown. Worth owning, but buy from a seller on Ebay rather than a high priced seller on Amazon. |
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Stage Door Canteen 1943  N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Cheryl Walker, Marjorie Riordan, William Terry, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early, Patrick O'Moore, Ruth Roman, Paul Muni, Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn
This is another W.W.II-era musical in which the studio loaded their stars into a film to help the war effort.
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Strange Cargo 1940 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, J. Edward Bromberg, Eduardo Ciannelli, Victor Varconi, Paul Fix, John Arledge, Frederick Worlock, Bernard Nedell, Betty Compson, Francis McDonald
Convicts escape from a penal colony off the coast of South America. They board a sloop commandeered by another escapee Andre Verne (Clark Gable), and his girlfriend Julie (Joan Crawford) joins the group. Another in the group is a mystic, Cambreau (Ian Hunter), and, one-by-one, the escapees come under his spell as they die. Few survive the trip, but at the end, Verne believes that Cambreau is God, and he repents. Now, Verne returns to serve out the rest of his sentence, and Julie agrees to be there for him when he is released.
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Street Angel 1928 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guido Trento, Natalie Kingston, Henry Armetta, Louis Liggett, Alberto Rabagliati, Cino Conti, Milton Dickinson, Helena Herman
Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress (1927-28) for three films: "Sunrise," "Seventh Heaven," and this one in which Gaynor portrayed a circus performer who became the muse for a struggling artist.
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They Had to See Paris 1929 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Marguerite Churchill, Ivan Lebedeff, Rex Bell, Fifi D'Orsay, Owen Davis Jr., Edgar Kennedy, Gregory Gaye, Theodore Lodi
An Oklahoman (Will Rogers) gets rich, and his wife (Irene Rich) wants to use some of their newfound wealth to finance a trip to Paris.
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Three Comrades 1938 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Guy Kibbee, Lionel Atwill, Henry Hull, George Zucco, Charley Grapewin, Monty Woolley
Margaret Sullavan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Pat–a woman dying of tuberculosis. The story reveals the devotion of three young men whose friendship gains strength as they care for the woman they love.
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Till We Meet Again 1944 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Ray Milland, Barbara Britton, Walter Slezak, Lucile Watson, Mona Freeman, Vladimir Sokoloff, William Edmunds, Konstantin Shayne, George Davis, Jack Lambert
French nun Sister Clothilde (Barbara Britton) helps a downed American pilot (Ray Milland) evade Nazi capture during World War II.
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Young America 1932 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Tom Conlon, Doris Kenyon, Ralph Bellamy, Beryl Mercer, Louise Beavers, Raymond Borzage, Robert Homans, Sarah Padden, Anne Shirley
It takes his role of preventing a robbery to allow orphaned Arthur Simpson (Tom Conlon) to gain a place of respect among his friends, relatives, and community.
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| Oscars: Best Director for Seventh Heaven (1928), Best Director for Bad Girl (1932) |
1. Bad Girl (1931)
2. The Big City (1937)
3. The Big Fisherman (1959)
4. China Doll (1958)
5. Desire (1936)
6. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
7. The Green Light (1937)
8. Mannequin (1937)
9. Man's Castle (1933)
10. Moonrise (1948)
11. The Mortal Storm (1940)
12. Secrets (1933)
13. Seventh Heaven (1927)
aka: 7th Heaven
14. The Shining Hour (1938)
15. The Spanish Main (1945)
16. Stage Door Canteen (1943)
17. Strange Cargo (1940)
18. Street Angel (1928)
19. They Had to See Paris (1929)
20. Three Comrades (1938)
21. Till We Meet Again (1944)
22. Young America (1932)
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