Lewis Milestone
Director, Actor
- All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray…
- Landmark film looks at WW1 from the enemy's point of view. It remains brilliant and quite moving after all these years. Academy Award winner for Best…
- Rain (1932)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Joan Crawford, Walter Huston
- A turbulent adaptation of Somerset Maugham's short story 'Miss Thompson' set on a Samoan island quarantine station during the rainy season.
When a…
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan…
- Freewheeling musical comedy set (and made) during the Great Depression, with Al Jolson playing a hobo in New York who falls in love with the mayor's…
- Of Mice and Men (1939)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Burgess Meredith, Betty Field…
- A mentally–challenged giant and his level–headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in this adaptation of John Steinbeck's…
- Edge of Darkness (1943)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston…
- Taut account of Resistance activities in Norway during WWII, has extra–good camerawork of Erroll Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Walter Huston in some…
- Purple Heart, The (1944)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger…
- Watchable flag–waver from WW2 depicts the show trial of a crew of American airmen (led by Andrews) who are shot down over Tokyo in 1944. Has…
- Walk in the Sun, A (1945)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne…
- Absorbing character study of men at war set in WW2 North Africa.
- Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin…
- Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
- Halls of Montezuma (1950)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Karl Malden…
- Unflashy and well–cast war film, that follows the US Marines into action on a Pacific island. Makes a fairly gung–ho contrast to dir.…
- They Who Dare (1953)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Bonus film with SLEEPING TIGER is a Dirk Bogarde WWII actioner that details a commando raid on German–controlled Aegean air fields.