Van Heflin
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1910-12-13
Locus Natus: Walters, Oklahoma, USA
Et ut: Emmett Evan Heflin Jr., Ван Хефлин, Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr.
Santa Fe Trail
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...
release : 1940.12.20popularis : 10.374
Shane
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
release : 1953.04.23popularis : 14.382
The Greatest Story Ever Told
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling....
release : 1965.04.09popularis : 22.464
Airport
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
release : 1970.03.25popularis : 15.514
Possessed
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.
release : 1947.05.29popularis : 5.291
Tap Roots
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the...
release : 1948.08.25popularis : 5.92
The Prowler
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who...
release : 1951.05.25popularis : 10.278
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married....
release : 1946.08.19popularis : 6.287
Act of Violence
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him...
release : 1949.01.22popularis : 8.528
Johnny Eager
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
release : 1941.12.09popularis : 5.337
3:10 to Yuma
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's...
release : 1957.08.07popularis : 22.816
Once a Thief
Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer...
release : 1965.04.24popularis : 13.835
The Three Musketeers
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
release : 1948.10.20popularis : 8.9
Gunman's Walk
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
release : 1958.07.01popularis : 4.488
Presenting Lily Mars
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
release : 1943.04.29popularis : 4.729
Black Widow
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
release : 1954.10.28popularis : 4.952
Back Door to Heaven
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
release : 1939.04.19popularis : 3.353
Madame Bovary
After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young...
release : 1949.08.25popularis : 8.767
Tomahawk
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to...
release : 1951.02.05popularis : 8.279
Stagecoach
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been...
release : 1966.04.21popularis : 13.206
Grand Central Murder
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a...
release : 1942.05.01popularis : 5.273
Kid Glove Killer
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
release : 1942.04.17popularis : 2.276
They Came to Cordura
An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion...
release : 1959.06.01popularis : 4.005
Till the Clouds Roll By
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage...
release : 1946.12.05popularis : 8.407
Certain Honorable Men
The protégé of a powerful congressman discovers his boss's corruption.
release : 1968.09.12popularis : 2.025
Tennessee Johnson
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early...
release : 1942.12.01popularis : 4.484
Count Three and Pray
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.
release : 1955.10.01popularis : 4.07
Battle Cry
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits...
release : 1955.02.02popularis : 3.429
My Son John
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
release : 1952.04.08popularis : 1.128
The Raid
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie...
release : 1954.08.04popularis : 5.981
B.F.'s Daughter
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
release : 1948.03.24popularis : 3.826
Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon
Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon was the last of three documentaries William Friedkin made for producer David Wolper. It concerned the world of pro...
release : 1965.11.15popularis : 1.329
The Ruthless Four
This superior Spaghetti western scrutinizes the greed and paranoia that afflict four men as they struggle among themselves to unearth a fortune in...
release : 1968.02.09popularis : 5.441
Patterns
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with...
release : 1956.03.27popularis : 5.292
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young...
release : 1941.12.04popularis : 5.02
The Feminine Touch
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...
release : 1941.10.01popularis : 2.603
Seven Sweethearts
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven...
release : 1942.11.13popularis : 1.919
East Side, West Side
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
release : 1949.12.22popularis : 3.352
Green Dolphin Street
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William....
release : 1947.01.15popularis : 6.594
South of Algiers
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
release : 1953.03.17popularis : 3.332
The Big Bounce
A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
release : 1969.03.05popularis : 2.479
Five Branded Women
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to...
release : 1960.03.15popularis : 4.595
The Secret Land
This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedition to Antarctica, known as Operation High Jump....
release : 1948.10.22popularis : 3.029
Woman's World
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto...
release : 1954.09.30popularis : 8.864
Under Ten Flags
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and...
release : 1960.09.15popularis : 1.755
Cry of Battle
During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and...
release : 1963.10.09popularis : 2.246
Flight from Glory
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney...
release : 1937.08.20popularis : 2.192
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
release : 1937.04.16popularis : 2.839
Week-End with Father
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
release : 1951.12.01popularis : 4.26
Annapolis Salute
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the...
release : 1937.09.10popularis : 2.797
Saturday's Heroes
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.
release : 1937.10.08popularis : 0.879
Tempest
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he...
release : 1958.12.01popularis : 4.002
The Last Child
In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very...
release : 1971.10.05popularis : 3.179
Tanganyika
A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.
release : 1954.07.03popularis : 2.705
The Man Outside
Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be...
release : 1967.08.24popularis : 1.24
The Wastrel
A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his...
release : 1961.02.24popularis : 3.65
A Woman Rebels
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
release : 1936.11.06popularis : 2.844
Ricochet
An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training.
release : 1961.10.03popularis : 2.324
That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
release : 1974.06.21popularis : 5.02
Wings of the Hawk
Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the...
release : 1953.08.26popularis : 6.176
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned...
release : 1997.05.12popularis : 3.709
The Teen-Age Revolution
Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.
release : 1965.10.19popularis : 1.109
The Bold Men
A documentary about men who are courageous enough to risk their lives undertaking challenges, sports-related and not, that are at the limit of human...
release : 1965.03.02popularis : 2.498
University U.S.A.
Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A student film about college life on the UCLA campus in the...
release : 1950.01.01popularis : 1.971
The Dark Side of the Earth
A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.
release : 1957.09.19popularis : 3.257
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.
release : 1991.07.15popularis : 1.769
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the...
release : 1954.09.28popularis : 2.86
The Thin Blue Line
The work of the US police force and the problem of fighting rising crime across the country.
release : 1966.03.09popularis : 1.268
Land and Live in the Jungle
In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two...
release : 1944.03.14popularis : 0.918
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...
release : 2019.07.14popularis : 2.912
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
release : 1985.03.03popularis : 4.762
Land and Live in the Desert
Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving...
release : 1945.12.11popularis : 1.392