Cast: Stanley Ridges
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Stanley Ridges. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 48
To Be or Not to Be
1942 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges
Synopsis Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to meet in her dressing room during the play they are...
8.5
34K votes
8.5
34K votes
The Suspect
1944 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Charles Laughton · Ella Raines · Henry Daniell · Rosalind Ivan
Synopsis In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall meets young Mary Gray, who is unemployed and depressed. Their deepening friendship, though physically innocent, is discovered by Philip's wife who threatens him with exposure and scandal.
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
They Died with their Boots On
1941 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Arthur Kennedy · Charley Grapewin
Synopsis The film follows the life of George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) from attending West Point, wooing of Elizabeth Bacon (Olivia de Havilland), the American Civil War, and the Battle of Little Big Horn. In the film, the battle is blamed...
7.3
16K votes
7.3
16K votes
Sergeant York
1941 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · George Tobias · Joan Leslie
Synopsis True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. The Valley of the 3 Forks of the Wolf, located in the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee, is the home of the Yorks,...
7.3
3K votes
7.3
3K votes
The Sea Wolf
1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ida Lupino · John Garfield · Alexander Knox
Synopsis An odd group of people find themselves aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner captained by the hard taskmaster, Wolf Larson. George Leach is the on the run from the police as is Ruth Webster who has escaped from a women's...
7.0
742 votes
7.0
742 votes
The File on Thelma Jordon
1949 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Wendell Corey · Paul Kelly · Joan Tetzel
Synopsis Thelma Jordon, late one night, shows up in the office of married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall. Before Cleve can stop himself, he and Thelma are involved in an illicit affair. But Thelma is a mysterious woman, and Cleve can't help...
6.9
511 votes
6.9
511 votes
Possessed
1947 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Curtis Bernhardt
Cast Joan Crawford · Raymond Massey · Van Heflin · Geraldine Brooks
Synopsis A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she's taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David and the complex story...
6.9
587 votes
6.9
587 votes
Union Pacific
1939 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Akim Tamiroff · Robert Preston
Synopsis This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union Pacific is completed and arrives at its destination in Ogden...
6.9
659 votes
6.9
659 votes
Each Dawn I Die
1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley
Cast James Cagney · George Raft · Jane Bryan · George Bancroft
Synopsis Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. While his friends at the newspaper try to find out who framed him, Frank gets hardened by prison life and his optimism turns into bitterness....
6.8
301 votes
6.8
301 votes
Canyon Passage
1946 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Dana Andrews · Brian Donlevy · Susan Hayward · Patricia Roc
Synopsis In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire, his friend's fiancée, back home to remote Jacksonville, Oregon; in the course of the hard journey, Lucy is attracted to Logan, whose heart seems to belong to another. Once arrived in...
6.8
724 votes
6.8
724 votes
Let Us Live
1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction John Brahm
Cast Maureen O'Sullivan · Henry Fonda · Ralph Bellamy · Alan Baxter
Synopsis Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.
6.7
65 votes
6.7
65 votes
The Big Shot
1942 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Irene Manning · Richard Travis · Susan Peters
Synopsis Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. His attorney's wife Lorna, Berne's old sweetheart, keeps him from it but he goes to jail anyway. Duke and Lorna get some time together again...
6.6
156 votes
6.6
156 votes
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Gary Cooper · Laraine Day · Signe Hasso · Dennis O'Keefe
Synopsis As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or...
6.5
709 votes
6.5
709 votes
If I Were King
1938 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Ronald Colman · Basil Rathbone · Frances Dee · Ellen Drew
Synopsis In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. But there are traitors in Paris, and King Louis goes undercover to find one, thereby meeting...
6.4
110 votes
6.4
110 votes
Air Force
1943 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast John Ridgely · Gig Young · Arthur Kennedy · Charles Drake
Synopsis The Mary Ann, a B-17 Flying Fortress, takes off from California for Hawaii on a routine training flight on December 6, 1941. En route, they learn of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Subsequently the crew mans the Mary Ann...
6.4
266 votes
6.4
266 votes
An Act of Murder
1948 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Fredric March · Edmond O'Brien · Florence Eldridge · Geraldine Brooks
Synopsis A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
6.4
40 votes
6.4
40 votes
Eyes in the Night
1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Edward Arnold · Ann Harding · Donna Reed · Stephen McNally
Synopsis Blind detective Duncan Maclain is visited by old friend Norma Lawry, looking for help in getting rid of one of her old beaus, who is courting Norma's 17-year old step-daughter. When the old beau is found murdered, Norma is the...
6.4
48 votes
6.4
48 votes
Internes Can't Take Money
1937 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Lloyd Nolan · Stanley Ridges
Synopsis In a fantastically art-deco hospital, young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who's been in prison and can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern...
6.3
38 votes
6.3
38 votes
Wilson
1944 · Movie · 154 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Alexander Knox · Ruth Nelson · Charles Coburn · Geraldine Fitzgerald
Synopsis The political career of Woodrow Wilson chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States (1913-1921). During his terms in...
6.2
134 votes
6.2
134 votes
Crime Without Passion
1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Ben Hecht · Charles MacArthur
Cast Claude Rains · Margo · Whitney Bourne · Stanley Ridges
Synopsis Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.
6.2
33 votes
6.2
33 votes