Across the Wide Missouri 1951  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou, J. Carrol Naish, Jack Holt, Alan Napier, George Chandler, Richard Anderson, Douglas Fowley
Flint Mitchell (Clark Gable) and Ironshirt (Ricardo Montalban) are 19th-century pioneers who are intent on fur trapping while Indians are just as determined to keep them out of their hunting grounds.
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Ambush 1949  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl, Don Taylor, Jean Hagen, Bruce Cowling, Leon Ames, John McIntire, Chief Thundercloud, Pat Moriarity
An Indian is involved in tracking a missing woman in this run-of-the mill Western which pits the U.S. Cavalry against the Apaches.
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Battleground 1949  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland, Don Taylor, Richard Jaeckel, Leon Ames, Bruce Cowling, Douglas Fowley, Herbert Anderson, Thomas E. Breen, Denise Darcel
The Battle of the Bulge provides the setting for this realistic look at the pathos of war. Led by Holley (Van Johnson), the men of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division spend the winter of 1945 in the Ardennes Forest preparing to battle the German army. Trapped and demoralized, the men do manage to work together to defend their position. Academy Award nominations included Best Picture, Director (William A. Wellman), and Supporting Actor (James Whitmore, for his role as the battle-scarred sergeant, Kinnie). It won for Best Writing and Cinematography.
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A Bell for Adano 1945  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Glenn Langan, Richard Conte, Harry Morgan, Roy Roberts, Marcel Dalio, Luis Alberni, Eduardo Ciannelli
Based on John Hersey's powerful novel about the American occupation of Adano, Sicily during World War II, this film involves Major Joppolo's (John Hodiak) efforts to stabilize the community and replace the bell by which the town orders its life.
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Command Decision 1948 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Brian Donlevy, Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Charles Bickford, Edward Arnold, Richard Quine, Ray Collins, John McIntire
During World War II, Air Force General K.C. "Casey" Dennis (Clark Gable) orders a disastrous daylight bombing mission over Germany. His superior, General Roland Kane (Walter Pidgeon), investigates the matter that ends up the subject of a Congressional hearing.
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Desert Fury 1947 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lewis Allen
Cast: John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Mary Astor, Kristine Miller, William Harrigan, James Flavin, Milton Kibbee, Ray Teal
Fritzie Haller (Mary Astor) is a gambling house madam who wants a better life for her daughter, Paula (Lizabeth Scott). Problems skyrocket when Paula meets gambler Eddie Bendix (John Hodiak).
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The Harvey Girls 1946  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien, Marjorie Main, Kenny Baker, Cyd Charisse, Chill Wills
"On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" won the Academy Award for Best Song in this musical about the waitresses at Harvey's train station restaurant who have run-ins with the rowdy saloon workers in their town.
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Homecoming 1948 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Ray Collins, Gladys Cooper, Cameron Mitchell, Marshall Thompson, Lurene Tuttle, Jessica Grayson, J. Louis Johnson, Eloise Hardt
Doctor Ulysses Delby Johnson (Clark Gable) enlists in the Army as a World War II surgeon and learns the real meaning of love and life from his nurse, Lieutenant Jane "Snapshot" McCall (Lana Turner). Drags a little as time goes by.
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 I Dood It 1943 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Musical
aka: By Hook or By Crook
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley, Patricia Dane, Thurston Hall, Lena Horne, John Hodiak, Butterfly McQueen, Sam Levene, Hazel Scott
Joseph Rivington Reynolds (Red Skelton) is a valet who marries a dancing star (Eleanor Powell)–whom he idolizes–when she wants to make her boyfriend jealous.
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Lifeboat 1944 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee, William Yetter Jr.
After being torpedoed by a U-Boat during World War II, the ship's survivors–wounded stoker Gus Smith (William Bendix), fashion writer Constance Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), tycoon Charles Rittenhouse (Henry Hull), radio operator Stan (Hume Cronyn), Capitalist Charles Rittenhouse (Henry Hull), Communist John Kovac (John Hodiak), nurse Alice MacKenzie (Mary Anderson), Black steward George Spencer (Canada Lee), and hysterical Mrs. Higley (Heather Angel)–take onto their life raft Nazi commander Willy (Walter Slezak) of the U-Boat that sank their freighter. As the only seaman among the group, Willy takes charge, and their fate lies in Willy's hands. Alfred Hitchcock received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
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Love from a Stranger 1947 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Whorf
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, John Howard, John Hodiak, Isobel Elsom, Ernest Cossart, Ann Richards, Frederick Worlock, Philip Tonge, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Billy Bevan
This remake of the 1937 Roland V. Lee film casts Sylvia Sidney in the role of the woman who suspects that her new husband (John Hodiak) plans to kill her.
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Malaya 1949  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Valentina Cortese, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak, Lionel Barrymore, Gilbert Roland, Roland Winters, Richard Loo, Ian MacDonald
To continue fighting World War II, the United States needed rubber from Malaya and planned a mission to ship the commodity back through enemy-held territory. This is the story of that excursion.
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Night Into Morning 1951 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fletcher Markle
Cast: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis, Lewis Stone, Jean Hagen, Rosemary DeCamp, Dawn Addams, Jonathan Cott, Celia Lovsky, Gordon Gebert
Grieving after his wife Ann (Rosemary De Camp) and their child die in a fire, Phillip Ainley (Ray Milland) copes poorly via alcohol and becomes suicidal.
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The People Against O'Hara 1951 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, Pat O'Brien, Eduardo Ciannelli, James Arness, Jay C. Flippen, Arthur Shields, Charles Bronson, Henry O'Neill
Defense attorney James P. Curtayne (Spencer Tracy), with a questionable past of his own, agrees to defend John O'Hara (James Arness) against the charge of murder.
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The Sellout 1952 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gerald Mayer
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter, Paula Raymond, Cameron Mitchell, Karl Malden, Everett Sloane, Whit Bissell, Thomas Gomez, Jonathan Cott
Political corruption in a small town is the theme of this story in which newspaper editor Allridge (Walter Pidgeon) fights the forces of city hall.
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Somewhere in the Night 1946 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson, Fritz Kortner, Margo Woode, Sheldon Leonard, Lou Nova, John Russell, Houseley Stevenson, Charles Arnt
Returning home to LA from the World War II battlefront, George W. Taylor (John Hodiak) suffers from amnesia. With only two clues available to uncover his past, George stumbles onto evidence that he is a murder suspect and has stolen millions in cash.
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Trial 1955 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak, Katy Jurado, Rafael Campos, Robert Middleton, John Hoyt, Paul Guilfoyle, Elisha Cook Jr.
Angelo Chavez (Rafael Campos) is a Hispanic boy arrested for the murder of a young white girl. Glenn Ford plays the rookie lawyer who defends Angelo amidst great racial (and political) tension in a California town. Arthur Kennedy was nominated for an Oscar (Best Supporting Actor).
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| 1. Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
2. Ambush (1949)
3. Battleground (1949)
4. A Bell for Adano (1945)
5. The Bribe (1949)
6. Command Decision (1948)
7. Desert Fury (1947)
8. The Harvey Girls (1946)
9. Homecoming (1948)
10. I Dood It (1943)
aka: By Hook or By Crook
11. Lifeboat (1944)
12. Love from a Stranger (1947)
13. Malaya (1949)
14. Night Into Morning (1951)
15. The People Against O'Hara (1951)
16. The Sellout (1952)
17. Somewhere in the Night (1946)
18. Trial (1955)
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