Movies by Delmer Daves
As a director:
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Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Family patriarch Clay Spencer (Henry Fonda) works hard and drinks even harder. While he toils to feed his large frontier brood, his wife, Olivia (Maureen O'Hara), tends to their home.…
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Rome Adventure (1962)
Cast: Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Disenchanted with her job as a teacher, Prudence Bell (Suzanne Pleshette) abruptly resigns and moves everything she owns to Italy, where she begins working at a neighborhood bookstore and…
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Parrish (1961)
Cast: Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
After moving to a Connecticut farming community with his mother (Claudette Colbert), young Parrish McLean (Troy Donahue) becomes embroiled in a feud involving ruthless tobacco tycoon Judd…
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Susan Slade (1961)
Cast: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
When 17-year-old Susan Slade (Connie Stevens) ends up pregnant as the result of a torrid affair with a mountain climber (Grant Williams), her mother (Dorothy McGuire) plans to pass the child…
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A Summer Place (1959)
Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Richard Egan, Beulah Bondi …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Ken and Helen Jorgenson (Richard Egan and Constance Ford) look forward to a pleasant summer at the shore with daughter Molly (Sandra Dee). When Ken rekindles a torrid 20-year-old affair with…
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Cowboy (1958)
Cast: Vaughn Taylor, Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
A rip-roarin' Western based on a couple of real-life characters, Cowboy stars Jack Lemmon as Frank Harris, a tenderfoot cattleman just arrived from the East to live out his dream, and…
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Kings Go Forth (1958)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
In WW II France, Corporal Britt Harris (Tony Curtis) is assigned to work alongside war-weary Sgt. Loggins (Frank Sinatra), a man he soon rivals for the affections of Monique Blair (Natalie…
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The Badlanders (1958)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine star as Peter Van Hook and John McBain, two ex-convicts who conspire with a prostitute (Katy Jurado) and an explosives expert (Nehemiah Persoff) to steal a…
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3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Cast: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
When the town marshal offers a bounty for outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford), Dan Evans (Van Heflin), a poor rancher hit hard by a crippling drought, takes the job. His wife pleads with him to save…
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Jubal (1956)
Cast: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Good-hearted cowpoke Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) is looking for work after sustaining an injury during a riding accident. Rancher Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine) offers him a job, but before long,…
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The Last Wagon (1956)
Cast: Susan Kohner, Felicia Farr, Richard Widmark …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Seeking vengeance for his wife's untimely death, grieving widower Comanche Todd (Richard Widmark) hunts down her killers and ushers them into an early grave, a crime for which he's…
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Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
Cast: Michael Rennie, Susan Hayward, Anne Bancroft …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
This sequel to The Robe finds freed Greek slave Demetrius forced into gladiatorial combat at the behest of emperor Caligula (Jay Robinson). The depraved Caligula covets Christ's hallowed…
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Broken Arrow (1950)
Cast: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
By the 1870s, the battle between settlers and the Apaches had raged for 10 years. When a chance encounter brings Army scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) into Apache territory, he comes to…
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Dark Passage (1947)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall grace the screen in this classic 1947 thriller about a convict who escapes from San Quentin to hunt down his wife's true killer. To complete his…
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Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
This star-studded morale booster tells the tale of a sailor (Robert Hutton) who stays at the title club on three days' leave. While there, he falls for performer Joan Leslie (as…
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Destination Tokyo (1943)
Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Helmed by Delmer Daves, this suspenseful World War II adventure centers on an American submarine crew -- led by Capt. Cassidy (Cary Grant) -- sent to infiltrate enemy waters to gather…