Movies by Raoul Walsh
As part of the cast:
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Sadie Thompson (1928)
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Frederici …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
To escape her sordid past as a prostitute, Sadie (Gloria Swanson) attempts to start a new life on a remote South Sea island. After falling in love with Tim (Raoul Walsh), a Marine, Sadie…
As a director:
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Esther and the King (1960)
Cast: Joan Collins, Sergio Fantoni, Denis O'Dea …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh, Mario Bava
After deciding to take a new wife from within his kingdom, Persian King Ahasuerus (Richard Egan) selects Jewish slave Esther (Joan Collins) from a group of beautiful women. As the new Queen…
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Jayne Mansfield Collection: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1959)
Cast: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Henry Hull …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Jayne Mansfield plays a saloon owner who helps a genteel Englishman tame unruly cowboys and marauding Indians in this lighthearted Western. When British traveling salesman Jonathan Tibbs…
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A Private's Affair (1959)
Cast: Sal Mineo, Barbara Eden, Jim Backus …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Sal Mineo stars as Luigi Maresi, a troubled Army grunt who's also a talented but frustrated musician. After he and his buddies come up with the catchy tune "It's the Same Old Army,"…
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Band of Angels (1957)
Cast: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Screen icon Clark Gable stars in this adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Civil War novel as Hamish Bond, a wealthy landowner who falls in love with a Southern belle turned slave (Yvonne…
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The King and Four Queens (1956)
Cast: Clark Gable, Jo Van Fleet, Eleanor Parker …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
When con man Dan Kehoe (Clark Gable) ends up in a nearly deserted town, he tries to woo and convince four women -- Birdie (Barbara Nichols), Oralie (Sara Shane), Sabina (Eleanor Parker) and…
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Battle Cry (1955)
Cast: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
A richly textured movie (filmed in 1955) about a group of American Marines trained for combat in the Pacific. Van Heflin is their commander who pulls strings to get them a tough combat…
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Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men (1955)
Cast: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Clark Gable finds adventure and romance during a rugged cattle drive in this picturesque Western. In need of some quick cash after the Civil War, brothers Ben and Clint Allison (Gable and…
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Saskatchewan (1954)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
After rising up against his superior, Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police leads his men and their cache of confiscated weapons to a safer spot in the…
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Gun Fury (1953)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Philip Carey …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Ben Warren (Rock Hudson) and his fiancée, Jennifer Ballard (Donna Reed), meet with trouble aboard their California-bound stagecoach when outlaw Frank Slayton (Philip Carey) and his…
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Sea Devils (1953)
Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
The high seas seize with passion in this swashbuckling period adventure when a handsome smuggler (Rock Hudson) welcomes an alluring countess (Yvonne De Carlo) with murky loyalties aboard his…
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The Lawless Breed (1953)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
After serving 16 years in prison for murder, notorious gunman John Wesley Hardin (Rock Hudson) is determined to go straight and relates his story to a local publisher in this loosely…
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Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)
Cast: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
In this swashbuckling 17th century costume adventure, the conniving Edward Maynard is trying desperately to prove that reformed pirate Sir Henry Morgan is still dabbling in his old trade --…
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The World in His Arms (1952)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Fleeing an arranged marriage to the wretched Prince Semyon (Carl Esmond), Russian countess Marina Selanova (Ann Blyth) falls in love with American seal hunter Jonathan Clark (Gregory Peck),…
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The Enforcer (1951)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh, Bretaigne Windust
A crusading district attorney (Humphrey Bogart) tries to crack a ring of organized killers, but just when victory is imminent -- after four arduous years -- a key witness is murdered, and…
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Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Gregory Peck stars as Horatio Hornblower, the swashbuckling British naval captain of the HMS Lydia, as he navigates the waters around Latin America to thwart Napoleon's Spanish allies in…
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Distant Drums (1951)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Ray Teal …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
After attacking a Seminole Indian fort, a U.S. Army captain (Gary Cooper) and his men seek safety in the Everglades, where they await their chance to capture the tribe's rebellious…
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Kansas Raiders / The Lawless Breed (1950)
Cast: Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman …
Directed by: Ray Enright, Raoul Walsh
Two classic Westerns take a trip to the wrong side of the law. In Kansas Raiders, Jesse James (Audie Murphy) falls in with a band of outlaws but is repelled by the violence that comes with a…
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White Heat (1949)
Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
"Made it, Ma, top of the world!" James Cagney is riveting as homicidal gangster Cody Jarrett (complete with an "insane mother" complex) in this hard-boiled movie that costars Virginia Mayo as…
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Pursued (1947)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
This Western drama tells the story of two families, the Rands and the Callums, who have a long-standing rivalry. When a Callum kills all the Rands save one -- a boy the Callums adopt and…
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Objective, Burma! (1945)
Cast: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
In veteran director Raoul Walsh's classic World War II drama, Errol Flynn shines as the commander of a contingent of American paratroopers dropped into the Burmese jungle to wipe out a…
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Uncertain Glory (1944)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Nazi forces threaten to execute 100 French prisoners unless a certain saboteur surrenders himself. Aided by shrewd Inspector Bonet (Paul Lukas), condemned French criminal Jean Picard (Errol…
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Northern Pursuit (1943)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Helmut Dantine, Julie Bishop …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
In Canada's Hudson Bay region, courageous Mountie Steve Wagner (Errol Flynn) feigns allegiance to Germany during World War II in order to win the trust of Nazi spy Hugo von Keller…
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Desperate Journey (1942)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Big-screen swashbuckler Errol Flynn stars in this classic wartime tale concerning a squadron of Allied pilots who are shot down behind enemy lines and forced to battle back to England through…
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Gentleman Jim (1942)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn stars as Irish-American boxer James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, a bank clerk-turned-prizefighter who became the world's first heavyweight champion and helped elevate the…
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High Sierra (1941)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart stars as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle in this 1941 classic. Pardoned after a lengthy stint in prison, Roy looks forward to his newfound freedom, but it seems his release was brokered…
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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
This account of Gen. George Custer takes liberties, but there isn't a more dashing on-screen Custer than Errol Flynn. The film follows Custer from his West Point days to his death as he…
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Dark Command (1940)
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
In the early days of the Civil War, a tall and likable Texan (John Wayne) defeats the local schoolteacher (Walter Pidgeon) to become the new Kansas City marshal. But when they clash again…
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They Drive by Night (1940)
Cast: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
George Raft and Humphrey Bogart star as Joe and Paul, brothers who are trying to make a living as truck drivers during the debilitatingly bleak Depression era, until they catch the ire of a…
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Cast: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
On the drift after mustering out of the Army at the end of World War I, Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) becomes an opportunistic bootlegger and then a racketeer during Prohibition ... and it…
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The Big Broadcast of 1938 / College Swing (1938)
Cast: Bob Hope, Gracie Allen, Dorothy Lamour …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh, Mitchell Leisen
Bob Hope makes two of his first feature-film appearances in these classic musicals, crooning the Oscar-winning tune "Thanks for the Memory" in The Big Broadcast of 1938 and "How'dya Like…
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Wings in the Dark / Big Brown Eyes (1935)
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh, James Flood
Silver-screen icon Cary Grant is doubly dashing in this vintage pair of romances: Wings in the Dark (1935), in which Grant plays a blinded pilot; and Big Brown Eyes (1936), in which he's…
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The Big Trail (1930)
Cast: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler
John Wayne rides tall in this 1930 Raoul Walsh-directed Western, one of the earliest to showcase the sophisticated technology of cinematic sound. Charting the progress of a band of courageous…
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In Old Arizona (1928)
Cast: Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess …
Directed by: Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh
Warner Baxter (who won a Best Actor Academy Award) portrays the Cisco Kid -- the "Robin Hood of the West." The Kid and his rival, Sgt. Mickey Dunne (Edmund Lowe), vie for the fetching (and…
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Sadie Thompson (1928)
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Frederici …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
To escape her sordid past as a prostitute, Sadie (Gloria Swanson) attempts to start a new life on a remote South Sea island. After falling in love with Tim (Raoul Walsh), a Marine, Sadie…
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
This Arabian Nights fantasy-adventure was one of the great productions of the 1920s and remains hugely entertaining today. Douglas Fairbanks stars as carefree Ahmed the Thief. What he wants,…
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Regeneration / Young Romance (1915)
Cast: Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, Carl Harbaugh …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh, George Melford
Director Raoul Walsh's gripping saga about Irish-American life and George Melford's social commentary on love and class struggle, both released in 1915, combine for a potent double…
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Regeneration (1915)
Cast: John McCann, James Marcus, Anna Q. Nilsson …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
After his mother's untimely death, Owen Conway (Rockliffe Fellowes) is forced to grow up on the hardscrabble streets of New York City and later becomes the leader of a Bowery district…