Raoul Walsh

Raoul Walsh

March 11, 1887

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Raoul Walsh (March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh. He was known for portraying John Wilkes Bo…

Known For

30 titles
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White Heat

White Heat

1949 · 1h 54m · Movie

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

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High Sierra

High Sierra

1941 · 1h 40m · Movie

After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

7.5
3
The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

1939 · 1h 46m · Movie

Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

7.9
4
They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night

1940 · 1h 35m · Movie

When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

7.2
5
Captain Horatio Hornblower

Captain Horatio Hornblower

1951 · 1h 57m · Movie

During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters.

7.3
6
The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

1924 · 2h 35m · Movie

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

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They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On

1941 · 2h 22m · Movie

A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.

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The Enforcer

The Enforcer

1951 · 1h 27m · Movie

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

7.3
9
The Big Trail

The Big Trail

1930 · 2h 5m · Movie

Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.

7.2
10
The Strawberry Blonde

The Strawberry Blonde

1941 · 1h 39m · Movie

Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.

7.2
11
Come September

Come September

1961 · 1h 52m · Movie

Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.

6.9
12
Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim

1942 · 1h 44m · Movie

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

7.5
13
Pursued

Pursued

1947 · 1h 41m · Movie

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

7.2
14
The Tall Men

The Tall Men

1955 · 2h 2m · Movie

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

6.7
15
Colorado Territory

Colorado Territory

1949 · 1h 34m · Movie

Outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.

7.2
16
Dark Command

Dark Command

1940 · 1h 34m · Movie

In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.

6.7
17
Battle Cry

Battle Cry

1955 · 2h 29m · Movie

Young Marines have adventures in love and war.

6.4
18
Band of Angels

Band of Angels

1957 · 2h 5m · Movie

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.

6.5
19
The World in His Arms

The World in His Arms

1952 · 1h 44m · Movie

In 1850 San Francisco, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska.

6.8
20
The King and Four Queens

The King and Four Queens

1956 · 1h 26m · Movie

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

6.1
21
The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead

1958 · 2h 11m · Movie

Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect.

6.4
22
Manpower

Manpower

1941 · 1h 44m · Movie

Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.

6.6
23
Silver River

Silver River

1948 · 1h 50m · Movie

After Mike McComb is booted out of the cavalry, he becomes riverboat gambler and silver mine owner in Nevada.

6.5
24
The Lawless Breed

The Lawless Breed

1952 · 1h 23m · Movie

After being released from prison, former gun-fighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.

6.3
25
Me and My Gal

Me and My Gal

1932 · 1h 19m · Movie

Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen's sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.

6.6
26
In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona

1928 · 1h 35m · Movie

A charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.

5.5
27
The Man I Love

The Man I Love

1946 · 1h 36m · Movie

A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.

6.6
28
A Lion Is in the Streets

A Lion Is in the Streets

1953 · 1h 28m · Movie

A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

6.1
29
Artist and Models

Artist and Models

1937 · 1h 37m · Movie

Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an amateur from high society rather than a p...

6.0
30
Wild Girl

Wild Girl

1932 · 1h 18m · Movie

Bret Harte's story of Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl who is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocr...

6.4