Cast: Montgomery Clift

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Marlene Dietrich

Synopsis Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) unfolds three years after the major Nazi leaders faced justice. This legal drama centers around four judges who exploited their positions to enforce Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. The formidable task of presiding over this trial...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Montgomery Clift · Ralph Richardson · Miriam Hopkins

Synopsis The Heiress (1949) follows the life of Catherine Sloper, a reserved and introverted young woman residing with her father, Dr. Austin Sloper, in the bustling city of New York during the year 1849. Catherine's mother, remembered as a radiant and...

Direction Howard Hawks · Arthur Rosson

Cast John Wayne · Montgomery Clift · Walter Brennan · Joanne Dru

Synopsis Red River (1948) follows the journey of Tom Dunson (John Wayne), who establishes a vast cattle empire alongside his adopted son, Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift). The two embark on an extensive cattle drive, aiming to transport their herd from Texas...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Burt Lancaster · Montgomery Clift · Deborah Kerr · Frank Sinatra

Synopsis From Here to Eternity (1953) follows the story of Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift), who is reassigned to a military base in Hawaii. Captain Holmes (Philip Ober), aware of Prewitt's boxing prowess, attempts to persuade him to join the boxing team,...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Montgomery Clift · Elizabeth Taylor · Shelley Winters · Anne Revere

Synopsis A Place in the Sun (1951) follows George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), a young man who, despite being the nephew of wealthy industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), finds himself on the fringes of his family's fortune and influence. George secures a...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Montgomery Clift · Anne Baxter · Karl Malden · Brian Aherne

Synopsis I Confess (1953) follows the story of Otto Kellar and his wife Alma, who serve as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. During a botched robbery at a residence where Otto occasionally works as a gardener, he...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Montgomery Clift · Katharine Hepburn · Albert Dekker

Synopsis Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) unfolds in the sultry atmosphere of 1937 New Orleans, where Dr. John Cukrowicz, a physician at the state-run Lion's View Mental Institution, is pioneering a controversial new treatment for severe mental illness: lobotomy. The institution, plagued...

Direction John Huston

Cast Clark Gable · Marilyn Monroe · Montgomery Clift · Eli Wallach

Synopsis The Misfits (1961) follows the story of Roslyn Tabor, portrayed by Marilyn Monroe, who forms a bond with three cowboys during her stay in Reno to finalize her divorce. Her newfound friendship is tested when she discovers their intention to...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Montgomery Clift · Lee Remick · Jo Van Fleet · Albert Salmi

Synopsis Wild River (1960) follows the journey of a dedicated Tennessee Valley Authority official, Chuck Glover, portrayed by Montgomery Clift, who is sent to a rural Tennessee community in the early 1930s. His mission is to oversee the evacuation of residents...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Marlon Brando · Montgomery Clift · Dean Martin · Maximilian Schell

Synopsis The Young Lions (1958) follows the intertwined journeys of two soldiers during the tumultuous period of World War II. The narrative centers around Christian, a German officer who gradually becomes disillusioned with the war, and Ackerman, an American GI who...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Montgomery Clift · Aline MacMahon · Wendell Corey · Jarmila Novotna

Synopsis The Search (1948) follows the journey of a mute nine-year-old Czech boy who has endured the horrors of Auschwitz. Escaping from a refugee camp in post-war Germany, he is discovered by an American soldier. Concurrently, the boy's mother, the last...

Direction John Huston

Cast Montgomery Clift · Susannah York · Larry Parks · Susan Kohner

Synopsis Freud (1962) offers a fictionalized account of a pivotal five-year period in the life of the renowned Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud, spanning from 1885 onwards. During this era, many of Freud's contemporaries dismiss hysterical patients, deeming their symptoms as mere...

Direction Richard Schickel

Cast Howard Hawks · Lauren Bacall · Humphrey Bogart · Walter Brennan

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Jennifer Jones · Montgomery Clift · Gino Cervi · Richard Beymer

Synopsis Terminal Station (Indiscretion of an American Wife) (1953) follows the emotional turmoil of a married American woman who finds herself entangled in an affair with another man while visiting family in Rome. As she contemplates ending the relationship and returning...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Montgomery Clift · Elizabeth Taylor · Eva Marie Saint · Nigel Patrick

Synopsis Raintree County (1957) unfolds as a lavish narrative set against the backdrop of the Civil War, focusing on a determined southern belle who descends into madness due to her apprehension about her potential African American heritage.

Direction Vincent J. Donehue

Cast Montgomery Clift · Robert Ryan · Myrna Loy · Dolores Hart

Synopsis Lonelyhearts (1958) follows the story of Adam White (Montgomery Clift), a young man who secures a job as an advice columnist for a newspaper, hoping to advance his journalistic career. His editor, Shrike (Robert Ryan), is a cruel and manipulative...

Direction George Seaton

Cast Montgomery Clift · Paul Douglas · Cornell Borchers · Bruni Löbel

Synopsis The Big Lift (1950) is set in 1948, during the tense period when the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on the Allied sectors of Berlin, aiming to seize control of the entire city. This semi-documentary film delves into the Berlin...

Direction Raoul Lévy

Cast Montgomery Clift · Hardy Krüger · Roddy McDowall · Macha Méril

Synopsis The Defector (1966) follows Montgomery Cliff in his final cinematic appearance as James Bower, an American physicist on a visit to West Germany. Bower is approached by a dubious CIA operative, Adam, who enlists his help in facilitating the defection...

Direction Robert Anderson Clift · Hillary Demmon

Cast Judy Balaban · Patricia Bosworth · Brooks Clift · Eleanor Clift

Synopsis Making Montgomery Clift (2018) delves into the life of the renowned film star and queer icon, Montgomery Clift, whose legacy has often been overshadowed by narratives of tragedy and self-destruction. However, when his nephew embarks on a journey through the...