Henry King
Director, Actor
- In Old Chicago (1937)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche…
- Lavish disaster movie based on the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which almost completely destroyed the original city in a huge fireball. Although the…
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche…
- Irving Berlin contributes over two dozen songs as well as the screenplay for this rousing story of the history of (white) jazz music from ragtime to…
- Jesse James (1939)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
- Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda play the legendary James brothers in this somewhat romanticised version of their fable. Sequel: THE RETURN OF FRANK…
- Black Swan, The (1942)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara
- Premium pirate hokum with a spirited assortment of heroes and villains and a plot that never lulls.
- Song of Bernadette, The (1943)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Jennifer Jones, Vincent Price, Charles Bickford…
- Religious melodrama set in 19th century rural France, where Jones controversially has visions of the Virgin Mary. Over–lavish (and long), this…
- A Bell For Adano (1945)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix…
- Hodiak plays an army major assigned to restore order in a small Italian town in this gentle–natured drama. The luminous –and blonde…
- Captain from Castile (1947)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero…
- Extravagant technicolour epic set in the early years of the 16th century, recounting the adventures of a young nobleman (Tyrone Power) who flees…
- Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck
- Gregory Peck is at his peak as a General brought in to restore morale to a squadron engaged in daily bombing raids over Germany. One of the great…
- Gunfighter, The (1950)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell…
- Right up there with the best cowboy flicks is this bleak yet brilliant tale of a retiring gunfighter (Gregory Peck) who is challenged by a young punk…
- David and Bathsheba (1951)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey…
- The Hollywood romance as Biblical epic, with Gregory Peck as an adulterous King David who falls for the foxy Bathsheba (Hayward) – nevermind…
- Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (1952)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward
- One of the more convincing attempts to adapt Ernest Hemingway for the screen, this follows the deathbed reverie of an American writer (Peck) from his…
- Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing (1955)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. William Holden, Jennifer Jones
- Romantic splendour set in Hong Kong at the time of the Korean war about a married US war correspondent who embarks on a forbidden love affair.
- Carousel (1956)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell
- Rodgers and Hammerstein carnival musical has some of their best songs. A darker than usual storyline – possibly partly why it wasn't such a…
- Bravados, The (1958)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Lee Van Cleef…
- Peck sets out on the grim task of annihilating the rapists and killers of his wife in this taut, if occasionally obvious Western. As Peck works his…