Hume Cronyn — Actor (27)
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The Seventh Cross (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Seventh Cross
director: Fred Zinnemann actor: Spencer Tracy / Signe Hasso …
other title: La settima croce / Das siebte Kreuz …
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.
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A Letter for Evie (1946) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Letter for Evie
director: Jules Dassin actor: Marsha Hunt / John Carroll …
other title: Una carta para Eva / Une lettre pour Evie …
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
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Day One (1989) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Day One
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Brian Manion Dennehy / David Strathairn …
other title: Die Bombe / Day one
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
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Blonde Fever (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Blonde Fever
director: Richard Whorf actor: Philip Dorn / Mary Astor …
other title: Blonde fever
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally, a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye. Delilah strikes back by hiring Sally's boyfriend as a waiter. Sally is initially dismissive of Peter's advances, but when he wins $40,000 in a lottery, she quickly pounces, turning on the charm and eyeing the easy life.
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The John Garfield Story (2003) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The John Garfield Story
director: David Heeley actor: Julie Garfield / Ellen Adler …
This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the rough neighborhoods of New York City provided the perfect background for the tough-guy roles he would play on both stage and screen.
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Impulse (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Impulse
director: Graham Baker actor: Tim Matheson / Meg Tilly …
other title: Impulse - Stadt der Gewalt / Impulso infernal …
After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
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Conrack (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Conrack
director: Martin Ritt actor: Jon Voight / Paul Winfield …
other title: Abschied von einer Insel / Hvor er Amerika?
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
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The Arrangement (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Arrangement
director: Elia Kazan actor: Kirk Douglas / Faye Dunaway …
other title: Il compromesso / Das Arrangement …
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
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Ziegfeld Follies (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ziegfeld Follies
director: Vincente Minnelli / Lemuel Ayers … actor: William Powell / Fred Astaire …
other title: Broadway Melodie 1950
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
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Cocoon: The Return (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban Skybridge WikiData
Cocoon: The Return
director: Daniel Petrie actor: Don Ameche / Wilford Brimley …
other title: Cocoon 2 - Il ritorno / Cocoon: Hjemkomsten …
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?
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The Parallax View (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Parallax View
director: Alan J. Pakula actor: Jim Davis / Warren Beatty …
other title: Perché un assassinio / Zeuge einer Verschwörung …
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
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*batteries not included (1987) [Movie] TMDB Skybridge IMDb
*batteries not included
director: Matthew Robbins actor: Hume Cronyn / Jessica Tandy …
other title: Miracolo sull'8ª strada / Miraklet på 8. gade …
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.