Direction: Raoul Walsh

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Raoul Walsh. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


White Heat

1949 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Virginia Mayo · Edmond O'Brien · Margaret Wycherly

Synopsis Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma', Cody is a volatile, violent, and eccentric leader. Cody's top henchman wants to lead the gang and attempts...

8.1

11K votes

8.1

11K votes

The Roaring Twenties

1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Priscilla Lane · Humphrey Bogart · Gladys George

Synopsis After WWI, three war veterans, Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), and George Hally (Humphrey Bogart), go back to their lives in the United States but they find themselves struggling to get a good job. So they get...

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8.0

6K votes

8.0

6K votes

High Sierra

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ida Lupino · Alan Curtis · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on...

7.7

5K votes

7.7

5K votes

Gentleman Jim

1942 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Alexis Smith · Jack Carson · Alan Hale

Synopsis Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880's San Francisco, wealthy and influential members of the prestigious Olympic Club vow to make the sport a "gentlemanly" one. They sponsor a brash, extroverted young bank clerk named...

7.6

1K votes

7.6

1K votes

Colorado Territory

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Joel McCrea · Virginia Mayo · Dorothy Malone · Henry Hull

Synopsis Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

The World in His Arms

1952 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gregory Peck · Anthony Quinn · Ann Blyth · John McIntire

Synopsis Roistering sea captain Jonathan Clark, who poaches seal pelts from Russian Alaska, meets and woos Russian countess Marina in 1850 San Francisco. Events separate them, but after an exciting sea race to the Pribilof Islands they meet again; now, both...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

The Thief of Bagdad

1924 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Julanne Johnston · Anna May Wong · Sojin

Synopsis Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s. As the thief of Baghdad, his movements are dance-like -- nothing like the athletics he performed in most of his other...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

The Enforcer

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Bretaigne Windust · Raoul Walsh

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Zero Mostel · Ted de Corsia · Everett Sloane

Synopsis After years of pursuit, Assistant D.A. Martin Ferguson has a good case against Murder, Inc. boss Albert Mendoza. Mendoza is in jail and his lieutenant Joseph Rico is going to testify. But Rico falls to his death and Ferguson must...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

They Drive by Night

1940 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast George Raft · Ann Sheridan · Ida Lupino · Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to make ends meet in the face of corrupt businessmen and intense competition. They are forced...

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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

Along the Great Divide

1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Kirk Douglas · Virginia Mayo · John Agar · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Kirk Douglas stars as a taciturn marshall who must bring a highly lynchable cattle rustler (and accused murderer) to trial, fending off the mob that dogs their trail through the desert, as tensions mount on all sides.

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Tall Men

1955 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Clark Gable · Jane Russell · Robert Ryan · Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis Ben Allison and his brother Clint journey to Montana in search of gold. They come upon wealthy businessman Nathan Stark who talks them into becoming partners with him on a cattle drive to Montana. As they travel to Texas, they...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Captain Horatio Hornblower

1951 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gregory Peck · Virginia Mayo · Robert Beatty · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis This swashbuckling high-seas drama, set in the early 1800s, finds its hero caught up in the shifting political tensions between Spain and England and in his own growing relationship with Lady Barbara Wellesley.

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Pursued

1947 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Teresa Wright · Robert Mitchum · Judith Anderson · Lane Chandler

Synopsis Set in New Mexico around the turn of the century and told in flashback, the film tells the story of Jeb (Mitchum) whose entire family was slaughtered when he was a young boy. The vision haunts him into adulthood, but...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Objective Burma!

1945 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · James Brown · William Prince · George Tobias

Synopsis A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken...

7.2

9K votes

7.2

9K votes

The Big Trail

1930 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast John Wayne · Marguerite Churchill · El Brendel · Tully Marshall

Synopsis In this sweeping pioneer adventure, a courageous young scout (John Wayne) leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs, through brutal snowstorms, Indian attacks and buffalo stampedes to their destiny out west. Along the way he loses his heart to a...

7.1

726 votes

7.1

726 votes

A Distant Trumpet

1964 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Troy Donahue · Suzanne Pleshette · Diane McBain · James Gregory

Synopsis Lt. Hazard (Troy Donahue), fresh out of West Point, arrives in Arizona Territory at hot, dusty, Fort Delivery. Appalled by the lax discipline of its troops, he restricts their privileges and subjects them to arduous drills. At the same time,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Jane Russell · Richard Egan · Joan Leslie · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis Set in the early '40s and directed by Raoul Walsh, The Revolt of Mamie Stover stars Jane Russell as Mamie, a San Francisco prostitute who is run out of town just as the second world war has begun to intensify....

7.0

208 votes

7.0

208 votes

Manpower

1941 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marlene Dietrich · George Raft · Alan Hale

Synopsis Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One night Hank and Johnny meet Fay Duval in a clip...

6.9

319 votes

6.9

319 votes

What Price Glory

1926 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edmund Lowe · August Tollaire · Mathilde Comont · Sammy Cohn

Synopsis U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course,...

6.9

58 votes

6.9

58 votes