Air Force 1943  N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Ridgely, John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, George Tobias, James Brown, Moroni Olsen, Faye Emerson
Use of newsreel footage from World War II is effectively utilized to tell the story of a B-17 Flying Fortress crew as it prepares for battle in the Pacific Theater. This film won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Cinematography, and Special Effects.
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Between two Worlds 1944   N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward A. Blatt
Cast: John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Eleanor Parker, Edmund Gwenn, George Tobias, George Coulouris, Faye Emerson, Sara Allgood, Dennis King
In this updated remake of "Outward Bound" (1930), deceased passengers aboard a ship of the dead, "Limbo," are headed to either Heaven or Hell. But, before the destination for individual passengers can be determined, their life stories are revealed.
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Body and Soul 1947  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Anne Revere, Canada Lee, Hazel Brooks, William Conrad, Joseph Pevney, Virginia Gregg, Milton Kibbee, Art Smith
Charlie Davis (John Garfield), a young man from a poor family, is determined to find success in the boxing ring–by hook or by crook! The fight scenes in this excellent film are impressive.
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The Breaking Point 1950 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford, Sherry Jackson, Ralph Dumke, William Campbell, John Doucette, Edmon Ryan
This remake of Ernest Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" stars John Garfield in the role of Harry Morgan–the captain of a boat who, needing money, contracts to smuggle illegal aliens into California.
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Castle on the Hudson 1940 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O'Neill, Jerome Cowan, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, John Litel, Willard Robertson, Edward Pawley
This remake of "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" involves prison inmate Tommy Gordon's (John Garfield) attempts to challenge Warden Long's (Pat O'Brien) prison reforms.
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Daughters Courageous 1939 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, May Robson, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh
This sequel to "Four Daughters" takes up with their father (Claude Rains) returning home and continues the romantic escapades of the four sisters.
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Destination Tokyo 1943 N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson, William Prince, Robert Hutton, Tom Tully, Faye Emerson, Peter Whitney, John Forsythe, Warren Douglas, John Alvin, Bill Kennedy
Captain Cassidy (Cary Grant) commands a United States submarine during World War II. His assignment is to sail into Tokyo Bay to gather information about weather conditions in preparation for a bombing of Tokyo. The plan involves putting ashore meteorologist Raymond (John Ridgely) who will obtain the needed data. The submarine leaves San Francisco on Christmas Eve, and the voyage will prove harrowing as the crew sets out to fulfill its mission. This film was released during World War II, and, while propaganda is obvious, it is still an exciting story.
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Force of Evil 1948 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Abraham Polonsky
Cast: John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez, Roy Roberts, Marie Windsor, Howland Chamberlin, Paul McVey, Beau Bridges, Paul Fix, Sheldon Leonard
Joe Morse (John Garfield) is a lawyer who tries to organize racket members but gets in over his head in New York's organized crime scene.
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Four Daughters 1938 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Claude Rains, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, May Robson, Dick Foran
Four sisters in the Lemp family find love and happiness in this popular film that spawned "Daughters Courageous," "Four Wives," and "Four Mothers." The movie was remade as "Young at Heart." Five Academy Award nominations including Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor.
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Four Wives 1939  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield, Frank McHugh, Eddie Albert, May Robson, Dick Foran, Henry O'Neill, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane
This sequel to "Four Daughters" again features the Lemp sisters–now married and raising their own families.
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Gentleman's Agreement 1947 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, Sam Jaffe, Nicholas Joy, Harold Vermilyea
Journalist Phil Green (Gregory Peck) pretends to be Jewish for an article he is writing; in the process he encounters anti-Semitism. This experiment affects his family when his son Tommy (Dean Stockwell) suffers prejudice at school as a direct result of his father's article. The film won the Best Picture Academy Award, Elia Kazan won for Best Director, and Celeste Holm carried away an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Nominations went to Peck, McGuire, and Revere.
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He Ran All the Way 1951 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle, Gladys George, Norman Lloyd, Bobby Hyatt, Clancy Cooper, Renny McEvoy, Dale Van Sickel
In this final film of John Garfield, he plays a criminal escaping after a bank robbery in which he killed a cop. He takes refuge with Peg's (Shelley Winters) family and takes them hostage.
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Hollywood Canteen 1944 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Bette Davis, John Garfield, Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark, Janis Paige, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Eddie Cantor, Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Peter Lorre, Theodore von Eltz, Eddie Marr, Many Guest Stars
Cpl. Ed "Slim" Green (Robert Hutton), a soldier on sick leave during World War II, visits the famous U.S.O. Hollywood Canteen founded by Bette Davis (Herself) and John Garfield (Himself). Slim gets a kiss from Joan Leslie (Herself) who is the woman of his dreams. He returns to the Canteen and, this time, wins a date with Joan when he is named the Canteen's millionth visitor. Does romance lie ahead?
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Humoresque 1946 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Craig Stevens, Paul Cavanagh, Nestor Paiva, Monte Blue, Fritz Leiber, Peggy Knudsen, Joan Chandler, Tom D'Andrea
Helen Wright (Joan Crawford) gives Paul Boray (John Garfield) financial help to further his career as a concert violinist in this film about Paul's devotion to his music, Helen's love for Paul, and her own devotion to alcohol.
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Jigsaw 1949 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
aka: Gun Moll
Director: Fletcher Markle
Cast: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence, Doe Avedon, Henry Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, Burgess Meredith, John Garfield, Winifred Lenihan, Walter Vaughan, George Breen, Robert Gist, Hester Sondergaard, Luella Gear
A series of murders are taking place in New York, and, after the gangsters kill New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy's (Franchot Tone) friend Charles Riggs (Myron McCormick), he is dedicated to exposing them. The gangsters are a "hate group" involved in stirring up racial prejudice. The group sends Barbara (Jean Wallace) to seduce Howard, but after she has second thoughts, she is murdered also. Now, Malloy is even more determined to bring them to justice.
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Juarez 1939 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, John Garfield, Gale Sondergaard, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Joseph Calleia, Gilbert Roland, Henry O'Neill
This film relates the story of Mexico's peasant leader who sets out to liberate his country from Emperor Maximillian in the 1860s.
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Nobody Lives Forever 1946 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson, George Coulouris, George Tobias, Robert Shayne, Richard Gaines, Richard Erdman, James Flavin
Nick Blake (John Garfield) is out to get Gladys Halvorsen's (Geraldine Fitzgerald) inheritance by seeking her love, but he falls in love with her in the process and mends his ways.
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Out of the Fog 1941 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert, George Tobias, John Qualen, Aline MacMahon, Leo Gorcey, Paul Harvey, Jerome Cowan
This film adaptation of Irwin Shaw's "The Gentle People" is the tale of Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) and George Watkins (Eddie Albert) who try to stand up to mobsters extorting money by terrorizing local fishermen.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter, Alan Reed, Jeff York, Morris Ankrum, Wally Cassell, Byron Foulger, Dick Crockett, Betty Blythe, Joel Friedkin
Cora (Lana Turner) falls for drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) who her husband Nick (Cecil Kellaway) has hired to work as a handyman at his gas station/diner. If Frank and Cora are to live "happily ever after," they need money. Their solution: murder Nick and collect on his insurance. They try to kill Nick. But, they fail, and now District Attorney Kyle Sackett (Leon Ames) is determined to get to the bottom of what really went on the night Nick was "accidentally"–but not fatally– electrocuted in his bathtub.
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Pride of the Marines 1945 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely, Rosemary DeCamp, Ann Doran, Anthony Caruso, Moroni Olsen, Warren Douglas, Don McGuire
U.S. Marine Al Schmid (John Garfield) was blinded during the World War II Guadalcanal battle. When he returns to his Philadelphia home he must adjust to a new lifestyle.
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The Sea Wolf 1941 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart, Barry Fitzgerald, Stanley Ridges, Howard Da Silva, Francis McDonald, David Bruce
Based on Jack London's novel, this is the adventure story of the diabolical Captain Wolf Larson (Edward G. Robinson) whose crew plots to save themselves from Larson's clutches.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars 1943 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Dennis Morgan, S.Z. Sakall, Joan Leslie, Ann Sheridan, Hattie McDaniel, Edward Everett Horton, Jack Carson
Movie star Eddie Cantor (Himself) steps in as chairman of the Cavalcade of Stars benefit show and creates so many problems that the producers (S.Z Sakall and Edward Everett Horton) arrange to have him kidnapped. They plan to replace him with his look-a-like, talented bus driver Joe Simpson (also Eddie Cantor), who has been looking for work as an actor but can't get a job because he looks so much like Cantor. Simpson proves to be a hit and is signed to a film contract.
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They Made Me a Criminal 1939 N/R, 139 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, May Robson, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Ward Bond
After he thinks he has accidentally killed a man, a prizefighter (John Garfield) retreats to a children's home where he finds security.
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Tortilla Flat 1942 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, Sheldon Leonard, John Qualen, Donald Meek, Allen Jenkins, Connie Gilchrist, Henry O'Neill, Arthur Space, Mercedes Ruffino, Nina Campana, Betty Wells
This film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel features Spencer Tracy in the role of Pilon the leader of a group of friends living in the poor, Mexican community bordering on the town of Monterey, California. Pilon plots to steal the money that "the Pirate" (Frank Morgan has saved, while another of the friends, Danny (John Garfield), woos Dolores "Sweets" Ramirez (Hedy Lamarr). When Danny inherits two small houses, and the friends move in, Pilon moves away from his plan to steal "the Pirate's" money, and his attention switches to Dolores who he plans to steal away from Danny. But, after Danny is injured in a fight, Pilon changes his tune and helps Danny and Dolores get together. Frank Morgan was nominated for an Oscar (Best Supporting Actor).
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We Were Strangers 1949 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz, Gilbert Roland, Ramon Novarro, Wally Cassell, Leonard Strong, Jose(2) Perez, Morris Ankrum, Tito Renaldo
Set in Cuba during 1933, this good political drama is filled with intrigue caused by a plot to bomb a tunnel and blow up certain corrupt Cuban government officials.
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| 1. Air Force (1943)
2. Between two Worlds (1944)
3. Body and Soul (1947)
4. The Breaking Point (1950)
5. Castle on the Hudson (1940)
6. Daughters Courageous (1939)
7. Destination Tokyo (1943)
8. Force of Evil (1948)
9. Four Daughters (1938)
10. Four Wives (1939)
11. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
12. He Ran All the Way (1951)
13. Hollywood Canteen (1944)
14. Humoresque (1946)
15. Jigsaw (1949)
aka: Gun Moll
16. Juarez (1939)
17. Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
18. Out of the Fog (1941)
19. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
20. Pride of the Marines (1945)
21. The Sea Wolf (1941)
22. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
23. They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
24. Tortilla Flat (1942)
25. We Were Strangers (1949)
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