THE FILMS OF DELMER DAVES
by chpknock | created - 23 Nov 2020 | updated - 04 Mar 2021 | PublicGreatness Overlooked: The films of Delmer Daves
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1. Destination Tokyo (1943)
Passed | 135 min | Adventure, War
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.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely
Votes: 5,751
2. Dark Passage (1947)
Passed | 106 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 21,983
3. Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Approved | 118 min | Drama, Family
Grand Teton quarryman and family patriarch carefully navigates issues of religion and education in order to eke out a brighter future for his family.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur, Donald Crisp
Votes: 3,212
4. Dames (1934)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
A multimillionaire decides to boycott "filthy" forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows.
Directors: Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 2,430
5. Flirtation Walk (1934)
Passed | 97 min | Musical
Musical-romance with Powell as private in Hawaii involved with general's daughter Keeler. Break up to avoid scandal but reunite years later when he produces play at West Point starring her.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander
Votes: 872
6. Stranded (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Romance
A construction engineer with a heart of steel courts a social worker with a heart of gold, while fighting a protection racketeer that tries to derail the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis, Donald Woods
Votes: 554
7. The Petrified Forest (1936)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Thriller
A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
Votes: 14,937
8. The Go Getter (1937)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
Billy Austin served on the crew of the USN airship Macon until it crashed at sea during a storm. In the hospital, the captain has given him a watch with the motto of the crew 'It Shall Be ... See full summary »
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: George Brent, Anita Louise, Charles Winninger, John Eldredge
Votes: 247
9. The Singing Marine (1937)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Bob Brent (Dick Powell) recruit from Arkansas is a marine who is shy, reserved and modest. Despite these handicaps, he is a big help to his corps buddies. On moonlit nights and sun-kissed ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Doris Weston, Lee Dixon, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 301
10. Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Passed | 124 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Bette Davis, John Garfield, The Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny
Votes: 2,529
11. Pride of the Marines (1945)
Approved | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely
Votes: 1,643
12. To the Victor (1948)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance
After serving bravely in World War II, American Paul remains in France and becomes a black marketeer. He meets Christine, an attractive French girl whose husband is in jail for ... See full summary »
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Victor Francen, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 120
13. A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
An exhausted concert pianist learns he is the owner of an apartment building; after being advised to move there to rest, he becomes involved in the lives of his eccentric tenants.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: David Niven, Jane Wyman, Victor Moore, Wayne Morris
Votes: 617
14. Task Force (1949)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, War
As he is retiring, Jonathan L. Scott "Scotty" reminisces about his long Navy career and the development of the role of the aircraft carrier from the early 20s.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,188
15. Drum Beat (1954)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Western
In 1872, Indian fighter Johnny MacKay is appointed peace commissioner for the California and Oregon territory but he faces tough opposition from the renegade Modocs led by their chief Captain Jack.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan, Robert Keith
Votes: 1,139
16. The Hanging Tree (1959)
Approved | 107 min | Western
Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.
Directors: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
Votes: 4,755
17. A Summer Place (1959)
Approved | 130 min | Drama, Romance
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 3,853
18. Parrish (1961)
Passed | 138 min | Drama
In the Connecticut River Valley, Parrish McLean and his mother are newly employed by the Sala Post tobacco farm that is engaged in a competition war with the neighboring Judd Raike tobacco corporation.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Troy Donahue, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger
Votes: 1,208
19. Susan Slade (1961)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a 10-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 944
20. Youngblood Hawke (1964)
Unrated | 137 min | Drama
Arthur Hawke works as a coal truck driver in Kentucky, he in the process trying to protect his widowed mother Sarah Hawke's property rights against his wealthy and cutthroat paternal uncles... See full summary »
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Eva Gabor
Votes: 443
21. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
PG | 111 min | Drama, Romance
An English mother leaves husband and two children to follow her Italian lover to a lakeside villa. Her children follow her, intent in breaking up her affair.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd, Phyllis Calvert
Votes: 302
22. Jubal (1956)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher's wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French
Votes: 4,397
23. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana
Votes: 21,656
24. Cowboy (1958)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Western
An idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 3,477
25. Broken Arrow (1950)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael
Votes: 9,685
26. Love Affair (1994)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two people meet on a flight to Sydney. Although both are engaged to others, they fall in love during their evacuation after a forced landing, and agree to meet in New York City three months later if the attraction lasts.
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron | Stars: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn, Garry Shandling
Votes: 5,112 | Gross: $18.25M
27. Love Affair (1939)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman
Votes: 6,426
28. An Affair to Remember (1957)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson
Votes: 33,081
29. The Last Wagon (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Western
Wagon train survivors of an Apache attack entrust the sheriff's prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, with their lives despite his wanted-for-murder status.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 3,676
30. White Feather (1955)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, History, Western
In 1877 Wyoming, during the peace negotiations between the Cheyenne and the USA, an Indian girl falls in love with a land surveyor, causing the ire of her Cheyenne fiance.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund, Debra Paget
Votes: 1,174
31. Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure
In the 18th century France, Jean-Paul, who was cheated out of his inheritance, land and titles by his uncle, decides to go to Guatemala in search of a famed Mayan treasure.
Directors: Delmer Daves, Otto Preminger | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, Walter Hampden
Votes: 544
32. Bird of Paradise (1951)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An island Princess falls for a visiting Frenchman, but her people are against it.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan, Jeff Chandler, Everett Sloane
Votes: 523
33. The Red House (1947)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun
Votes: 4,951
34. The Very Thought of You (1944)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance, War
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson
Votes: 702
35. You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom
Votes: 4,087 | Gross: $0.67M
36. The Night of January 16th (1941)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Nils Asther, Clarence Kolb
Votes: 148
37. Unexpected Uncle (1941)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama
A feisty retiree plays peacemaker for a young couple.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Anne Shirley, James Craig, Charles Coburn, Ernest Truex
Votes: 277
38. Safari (1940)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, Tullio Carminati, Lynne Overman
Votes: 85
39. The Farmer's Daughter (1940)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Broadway producer Nickie North, and his press agent Scoop Trimble, land a backer for a new show, but their "angel" requires that they rehearse the show out-of-town and star Clarice Sheldon,... See full summary »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Martha Raye, Charles Ruggles, Richard Denning, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 74
40. So This Is College (1929)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Elliott Nugent, Robert Montgomery, Cliff Edwards, Sally Starr
Votes: 284
41. Return of the Texan (1952)
Approved | 88 min | Drama
During the 1950s, after many years in Kansas City, widower Sam Crockett, his 2 children and his grandpa return to their abandoned family farm in Texas and face many difficulties.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Dale Robertson, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Richard Boone
Votes: 175
42. Never Let Me Go (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn
Votes: 903
43. Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History
In first-century Rome, Christian slave Demetrius is sent to fight in the gladiatorial arena and Emperor Caligula seeks Jesus' robe for its alleged magical powers.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget
Votes: 4,266 | Gross: $26.00M
44. Kings Go Forth (1958)
Approved | 109 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana
Votes: 1,810
45. The Badlanders (1958)
Approved | 85 min | Western
Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly
Votes: 1,688
46. The Bishop Murder Case (1929)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the body of a man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range along with a chess bishop as a clue, Philo Vance investigates.
Directors: David Burton, Nick Grinde | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 856
47. Rome Adventure (1962)
Approved | 119 min | Drama, Romance
Under fire for giving a student her copy of a romance novel, Prudence resigns from her teaching position and sails for Italy.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Rossano Brazzi, Angie Dickinson
Votes: 1,426
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