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Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis, C.B.E. (born Harold Brent Wallis; September 14, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture producer.
Harold Brent Wallis was born in Chicago, his family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department...
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Anne of the Thousand Days
Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 costume drama made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The film tells the story of Anne Boleyn. The screenplay is an...
Initial release date:
- 1969
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Runtime:
- 145 min (87 hs )
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Casablanca
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during World War II, it focuses...
Initial release date:
- 1942
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,039,000 (US$)
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Five Star Final
Five Star Final is a 1931 American crime film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan from the play by Louis Weitzenkorn, and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The movie stars Edward G. Robinson and...
Initial release date:
- Sep 26, 1931
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 89 min (53 hs )
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a pre-Code 1932 crime/drama film in which Paul Muni stars as a wrongfully convicted convict on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott...
Initial release date:
- 1932
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Runtime:
- 93 min (56 hs )
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Filmed in Technicolor, the picture stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.
When Richard the...
Initial release date:
- 1938
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Produced by:
Four Daughters
Four Daughters is a 1938 musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. It stars the Lane...
Initial release date:
- 1938
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Little Caesar
Little Caesar is a 1930 Warner Bros. crime film made during the Pre-Code era, which tells the story of a man who works his way up the ranks of the mob until he reaches its upper heights. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and stars Edward G. Robinson,...
Initial release date:
- 1930
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Runtime:
- 79 min (47 hs )
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) is a biographical musical film about George M. Cohan (pronounced "Coe-Han"), the actor / singer / dancer / playwright / songwriter / producer / theatre owner / director / choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway",...
Initial release date:
- 1942
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Runtime:
- 126 min (75.6 hs )
Sergeant York
Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year.
The movie was adapted by Harry Chandlee, Abem...
Initial release date:
- 1941
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 134 min (80.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,400,000 (US$)
Kings Row
Kings Row is a 1942 drama film, directed by Sam Wood, that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, beset by social pressure, dark secrets, and the challenges and...
Initial release date:
- Feb 2, 1942
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 127 min (76.2 hs )
Produced by:
Watch on the Rhine
Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin. The screenplay by Dashiell Hammett is based on the 1941 play of the same title by Lillian Helman.
In 1940, German-born engineer Kurt Muller, his American wife Sara, and...
Initial release date:
- Aug 27, 1943
Runtime:
- 114 min (68.4 hs )
Produced by:
Dodge City
Dodge City is a Technicolor Western film starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Directed by Hungarian-turned-Hollywood filmmaker Michael Curtiz and based on a story by Robert Buckner, it was filmed in early Technicolor. As a classic western,...
Initial release date:
- Apr 1, 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Boeing Boeing
Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (alternately titled Boeing Boeing) is a 1965 comedy film, based on the 1960 French farce Boeing-Boeing, and starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis. It was released on December 22, 1965 by Paramount Pictures.
Bernard Lawrence ...
Initial release date:
- Dec 22, 1965
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
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True Grit
True Grit is a 1969 Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn. The film is adapted from the 1968 novel, True Grit, by Charles Portis.
After Frank Ross (John Pickard) is killed by his hired-hand,...
Initial release date:
- Jun 11, 1969
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 128 min (76.8 hs )
Produced by:
The Letter
The Letter is a 1940 American film noir directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the 1927 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, originally filmed in 1929.
On a moonlit night in the opening scene, Leslie Crosbie ...
Initial release date:
- Nov 22, 1940
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
Dangerous
Dangerous is a 1935 American drama film directed by Alfred E. Green. The screenplay by Laird Doyle is based on his story Hard Luck Dame.
Don Bellows, a prominent New York architect, is engaged to the beautiful and wealthy Gail Armitage when he meets...
Initial release date:
- Dec 25, 1935
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 79 min (47 hs )
White Banners
White Banners is a 1938 Warner Brothers drama motion picture starring Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, and Kay Johnson.
Directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wallis, the...
Initial release date:
- Jun 22, 1938
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
Now, Voyager
Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty.
Prouty borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold...
Initial release date:
- 1942
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 117 min (70.2 hs )
Produced by:
Love Letters
Love Letters is a 1945 film adapted by Ayn Rand from the novel Pity My Simplicity by Christopher Massie. It was directed by William Dieterle and stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise.
The...
Initial release date:
- Aug 17, 1945
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Sorry, Wrong Number
Sorry, Wrong Number is a classic 1948 suspense film noir which tells the story of a woman who overhears a plot for murder. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson and William Conrad. The film...
Initial release date:
- Sep 1, 1948
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 89 min (53 hs )
Screenplay by:
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (1972) is a Universal Pictures biographical feature film based on the life of Queen Mary I of Scotland. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave as the titular character and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I. The screenplay was written by...
Initial release date:
- 1972
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 128 min (76.8 hs )
Produced by:
Roustabout
Roustabout (1964) is a Paramount Pictures musical feature film starring Elvis Presley as a singer who takes a job working with a struggling carnival. The film was produced by Hal Wallis and directed by John Rich from a screenplay by Anthony Lawrence...
Initial release date:
- Nov 11, 1964
Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Produced by:
The Petrified Forest
The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film. A predecessor to film noir, it is adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 play of the same name. The screenplay is by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon; it stars Leslie Howard as Alan Squier, Bette Davis as...
Initial release date:
- Feb 6, 1936
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 83 min (50 hs )
Produced by:
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) is a romantic drama film based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I, portrayed by Bette Davis, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, played by Errol Flynn. The film was directed by Michael...
Initial release date:
- Nov 11, 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 106 min (63.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
42nd Street
42nd Street is a 1933 American Warner Bros. musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), and the script was written by Rian James and James Seymour,...
Initial release date:
- 1933
Runtime:
- 89 min (53 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 439,000 (US$)
Dames
Dames is a 1934 Warner Bros. musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright with dance numbers created by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts, and Hugh Herbert. Production numbers and songs...
Initial release date:
- 1934
Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Blue Hawaii
Blue Hawaii is a 1961 musical film set in the state of Hawaii and starring Elvis Presley.
Chadwick Gates (Presley) has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surfboard, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. His...
Initial release date:
- 1961
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Produced by:
The Sea Hawk
The Sea Hawk (1940) is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn in a story about an English privateer defending his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael...
Initial release date:
- Jul 1, 1940
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 127 min (76.2 hs )
Screenplay by:
Rollerball
Rollerball is a 1975 dystopian fiction film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by William Harrison, who adapted his own short story "Roller Ball Murder", which first appeared in 1973 in Esquire magazine.
In the film, the world of 2018 is a...
Initial release date:
- Jun 25, 1975
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 129 min (77.4 hs )
Screenplay by:
Juarez
Juarez is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle. The screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie, John Huston, and Wolfgang Reinhardt is based on the novel The Phantom Crown by Bertita Harding and the play Juarez and Maximilian by...
Initial release date:
- 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 125 min (75 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Jezebel
Jezebel is an American drama film released in 1938 and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, supported by George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Richard Cromwell, and Fay Bainter. The film was adapted by Clements...
Initial release date:
- 1938
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
The Great Lie
The Great Lie is a 1941 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee is based on the novel The Far Horizon by Polan Banks.
When concert pianist Sandra Kovak and her avaiator husband Peter Van Allen discover...
Initial release date:
- 1941
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Saratoga Trunk
Saratoga Trunk is a 1945 film written by Edna Ferber and Casey Robinson, based on Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Florence Bates, and Flora Robson, who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar...
Initial release date:
- Nov 21, 1945
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 135 min (81 hs )
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday about the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. The movie was based on a real event which took place on...
Initial release date:
- 1957
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Runtime:
- 122 min (73.2 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
The Magic Bullet
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet is a 1940 biographical film directed by William Dieterle and starring Edward G. Robinson, based on the true story of the German doctor and scientist Dr. Paul Ehrlich. The film was released by Warner Bros., with some...
Initial release date:
- Feb 23, 1940
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn (also Rooster Cogburn (... and the Lady)) is a 1975 sequel to the 1969 western film, True Grit, and stars John Wayne, in his penultimate film, who reprises his role as U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Katharine Hepburn co...
Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
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Fun in Acapulco
Fun in Acapulco is a 1963 American motion picture starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress.
While some exterior scenes were shot in Acapulco, Mexico, Elvis's scenes were shot in Hollywood. He never went to Acapulco in his lifetime.
Mike works on a...
Initial release date:
- Nov 27, 1963
Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
Produced by:
Scared Stiff
Scared Stiff is a 1953 comedy film starring the team of Martin and Lewis. The musical comedy was released on April 27, 1953 by Paramount and directed by George Marshall.
Larry Todd (Dean Martin), and Myron Mertz (Jerry Lewis), cross paths with a...
Initial release date:
- Apr 27, 1953
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
Produced by:
G.I. Blues
G.I. Blues is a 1960 Elvis Presley musical motion picture played as a romantic comedy. It was filmed while Presley was fulfilling his military service obligation with the United States Army in West Germany during the height of the Cold War. It was...
Initial release date:
- Aug 18, 1960
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Produced by:
Follow that Dream
Follow That Dream is a 1962 musical film starring Elvis Presley. The movie was based on the novel Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard P. Powell. It was filmed in Levy County, Florida. Inglis, Florida and Yankeetown, Florida memorializes his stay in the...
Initial release date:
- Apr 11, 1962
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat.
The film was shot on location in Hawaii.
The soundtrack songs were recorded in March...
Initial release date:
- Nov 21, 1962
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 106 min (63.6 hs )
Produced by:
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Paradise, Hawaiian Style is a 1966 music comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was the third and final motion picture that Presley filmed in Hawaii.
Rick Richards (Presley) returns to his home in Hawaii after being fired from his job as an airline...
Initial release date:
- 1966
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
Produced by:
Easy Come, Easy Go
Easy Come, Easy Go is a 1967 musical film starring Elvis Presley.
An extended play record of the same title as the movie was recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California in September 1966 and released in May 1967. It was the final release of...
Initial release date:
- Mar 22, 1967
Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
Produced by:
Desert Fury
Desert Fury is a 1947 Paramount Pictures color film noir drama film starring Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak and Burt Lancaster, with Mary Astor and Wendell Corey.
Directed by Lewis Allen, the story was adapted for the screen by A.I. Bezzerides and...
Initial release date:
- Aug 15, 1947
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 96 min (58 hs )
Produced by:
The Gay Sisters
The Gay Sisters is a 1942 American Warner Bros. drama film starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp and Gig Young, which was based on a novel by Stephen Longstreet. Directed by Irving Rapper.
Fiona, Evelyn and...
Initial release date:
- 1942
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Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
Screenplay by:
Daughters Courageous
Daughters Courageous is a 1939 drama film starring the three Lane Sisters (Lola, Rosemary and Priscilla), with the fourth sister being played by Gale Page. It also starred John Garfield and Claude Rains. Based on the play Fly Away Home by Dorothy...
Initial release date:
- 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 107 min (64.2 hs )
Dark City
Dark City is a 1950 film noir. The casting of Charlton Heston—in his first film appearance—as a petty hood is unusual in light of his subsequent career. The film also features Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, who both went on to co-star in Dragnet. The...
Initial release date:
- Oct 17, 1950
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Runtime:
- 98 min (59 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker is a 1956 film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his play of the same name. The film tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff; however, she falls for...
Initial release date:
- 1956
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Runtime:
- 121 min (72.6 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 crime thriller starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart and Gladys George. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh, and written by Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay and Robert Rossen based on the story "The...
Initial release date:
- Oct 23, 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Produced by:
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a black-and-white film noir released in the United States in 1946, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut. The movie is based on the short story "Love Lies...
Initial release date:
- Jul 24, 1946
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 116 min (69.6 hs )
Produced by:
Virginia City
Virginia City is a 1940 black-and-white movie starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, and Randolph Scott, and featuring a mustachioed Humphrey Bogart in the role of the real-life outlaw John Murrell. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, who also...
Initial release date:
- May 16, 1940
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 121 min (72.6 hs )
Produced by:
Fighting 69th
The Fighting 69th (1940) is an American war film starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and George Brent. The plot is based upon the actual exploits of New York's 69th Infantry Regiment during the First World War. The regiment was first given that...
Initial release date:
- 1940
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Screenplay by:
They Drive by Night
They Drive by Night (1940) is a black-and-white film noir starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart.
Joe (George Raft) and Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) are Wildcat or, independent truck drivers who have their own small...
Initial release date:
- Jul 27, 1940
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
Blues in the Night
Blues in the Night (1941) is musical film released by Warner Brothers, directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorf, Betty Field, Lloyd Nolan, Elia Kazan, and Jack Carson. The project began filming with the working title Hot...
Initial release date:
- Nov 15, 1941
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 88 min (53 hs )
Each Dawn I Die
Each Dawn I Die is a 1939 gangster film featuring James Cagney and George Raft in their only movie together as leads, although Raft had made an unbilled appearance in a 1932 Cagney vehicle called Taxi! in which he won a dance contest against Cagney,...
Initial release date:
- Jul 22, 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
Screenplay by:
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Love Is on the Air
Love is on the Air is a 1937 film directed by Nick Grinde. The film stars Eddie Acuff, Robert Barrat, Raymond Hatton, Willard Parker and Ronald Reagan in his first film debut.
Initial release date:
- 1937
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 59 min (35 hs )
The Furies
The Furies (1950) is a Western film directed by Anthony Mann and featuring Walter Huston in his last performance.
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over the man's choice for a new bride. Things get worse when the elder man...
Initial release date:
- Aug 16, 1950
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
Produced by:
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 spy thriller and the first blatantly anti-Nazi film produced by a major Hollywood studio prior to World War II. The film stars Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, and a large cast of German actors...
Initial release date:
- 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,500,000 (US$)
G Men
G Men is a 1935 Warner Bros. film starring James Cagney and Ann Dvorak that is based on the mythologized origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. The film's significance is less in its cinematic merits than as a...
Initial release date:
- Apr 18, 1935
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 85 min (51 hs )
Screenplay by:
Red Sky at Morning
Red Sky at Morning is a 1971 film based on the 1968 Richard Bradford novel of the same name, and starring Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, and Desi Arnaz, Jr.
The film follows Josh Arnold (Thomas), whose family relocates to Corazon Sagrado, New...
Initial release date:
- 1971
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 112 min (67.2 hs )
