Jack L. Warner

Jack L. Warner

August 2, 1892

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Leonard "J. L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian-American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spanne…

Known For

54 titles
1
Casablanca

Casablanca

1943 · 1h 42m · Movie

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

8.5
2
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948 · 2h 6m · Movie

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

8.2
3
My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

1964 · 2h 50m · Movie

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.

7.7
4
The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

1946 · 1h 54m · Movie

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail--and what might be love.

7.9
5
Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 · 1h 58m · Movie

Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...

7.9
6
The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938 · 1h 42m · Movie

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

7.9
7
To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

1945 · 1h 40m · Movie

During World War II, an American expatriate helps transport a French Resistance leader and his wife to Martinique while romancing a lounge singer.

7.8
8
Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

1945 · 1h 51m · Movie

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

7.9
9
Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938 · 1h 37m · Movie

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

7.9
10
Dark Passage

Dark Passage

1947 · 1h 46m · Movie

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.

7.5
11
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 · 2h 6m · Movie

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

7.6
12
Captain Blood

Captain Blood

1935 · 1h 59m · Movie

After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.

7.7
13
1776

1776

1972 · 2h 21m · Movie

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

7.6
14
Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933 · 1h 37m · Movie

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.

7.7
15
The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1941 · 1h 52m · Movie

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.

7.5
16
Camelot

Camelot

1967 · 2h 59m · Movie

The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of the illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "Round Table" of...

6.6
17
Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington

1944 · 2h 26m · Movie

Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis enters into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.

7.6
18
Possessed

Possessed

1947 · 1h 48m · Movie

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

7.1
19
Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo

1943 · 2h 15m · Movie

In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.

7.1
20
The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1936 · 1h 55m · Movie

A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.

7.0
21
Passage to Marseille

Passage to Marseille

1944 · 1h 49m · Movie

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

6.8
22
Humoresque

Humoresque

1947 · 2h 5m · Movie

A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

7.3
23
Conflict

Conflict

1945 · 1h 26m · Movie

An engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister.

7.1
24
Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic

1943 · 2h 6m · Movie

An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.

7.0
25
Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail

1940 · 1h 50m · Movie

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

6.2
26
'G' Men

'G' Men

1935 · 1h 25m · Movie

James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.

7.1
27
A Stolen Life

A Stolen Life

1946 · 1h 49m · Movie

When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

7.2
28
Air Force

Air Force

1943 · 2h 4m · Movie

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

7.0
29
The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios

1944 · 1h 35m · Movie

Mystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued after the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.

7.2
30
Deception

Deception

1946 · 1h 55m · Movie

After marrying her long-lost love, a musician finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

7.0
31
Black Legion

Black Legion

1937 · 1h 23m · Movie

A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

6.9
32
Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots

1936 · 1h 22m · Movie

When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.

7.0
33
The Dawn Patrol

The Dawn Patrol

1938 · 1h 43m · Movie

British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.

7.5
34
The Verdict

The Verdict

1946 · 1h 26m · Movie

After an innocent man is executed in a case for which he was not responsible, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.

7.2
35
Battle Cry

Battle Cry

1955 · 2h 29m · Movie

Young Marines have adventures in love and war.

6.4
36
A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder

1938 · 1h 25m · Movie

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

7.0