Movies with Henry Fonda
Movies found: 22, viewing from 1 to 20
Sometimes a Great Notion
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Paul Newman, Richard Jaeckel, Roy Jenson, Henry Fonda, Roy Poole, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin
Directors: Paul Newman
Country: USA
Year: 1970
Available Quality: Hi Def
Hank Stamper and his father, Henry Stamper own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to stop, however Hank continues to push his family on cutting more trees. Hank's wife wishes he would stop and hopes that they can spend more time together. When Hank's half trouble making brother Leland comes to work for them, more trouble starts.
12 Angry Men
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Henry Fonda, Jack Warden, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
"12 Angry Men" focuses on a jury's deliberations in a capital murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old Latino accused in the stabbing death of his father, where a guilty verdict means an automatic death sentence. The case appears to be open-and-shut: The defendant has a weak alibi; a knife he claimed to have lost is found at the murder scene; and several witnesses either heard screaming, saw the killing or the boy fleeing the scene. Eleven of the jurors immediately vote guilty; only Juror No. 8 (Mr. Davis) casts a not guilty vote. At first Mr. Davis' bases his vote more so fo...
How the West Was Won
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Starring: Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, James Stewart, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark
Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway
Country: USA
Year: 1962
Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later. On the way they encounter river pirates, and escape with the help of fur trapper Linus Rawlings, who subsequently marries one of their daughters, Eve. The parents are drowned on a foundering raft, and the other daughter Lilith becomes a riverboat singer and catches the eye of a genteel adventurer Cleve Van Valen. They cross the plains together in a wagon train and make and lose a fortune in California; meanwhile Linus has turned farmer and, comes the Civil War, joi...
Fort Apache
Genres: Western
Starring: John Wayne, Ward Bond, Henry Fonda, Guy Kibbee, Anna Lee, Pedro Armendáriz, Jack Pennick
Directors: John Ford
Country: USA
Year: 1948
In John Ford's sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday, who sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, Thursday attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
Once Upon A Time In The West
Genres: Western
Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Woody Strode, Keenan Wynn, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale
Directors: Sergio Leone
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 1968
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Story of a young woman, Mrs. McBain, who moves from New Orleans to frontier Utah, on the very edge of the American West. She arrives to find her new husband and family slaughtered, but by who? The prime suspect, coffee-lover Cheyenne, befriends her and offers to go after the real killer, assassin gang leader Frank, in her honor. He is accompanied by Harmonica on his quest to get even. Get-rich-quick subplots and intricate character histories intertwine with such artistic flair that this could in fact be the movie-to-end-all-movies.
There Was a Crooked Man...
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Arthur O'Connell, Lee Grant, John Randolph, Hume Cronyn, Kirk Douglas, Bert Freed, Burgess Meredith
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Country: USA
Year: 1970
Charm, intelligence and success in criminal career doesn't prevent Paris Pitman Jr. to start doing ten years in prison, in the middle of the Arizona desert. However, those years should pass quickly because of a $500,000 loot previously stashed away. New idealistic warden would only make Pitman think of getting his fortune even sooner. He starts to manipulate everyone to achieve his goal.
Battle of the Bulge
Genres: Action, Drama, War
Starring: Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, James MacArthur, Hans Christian Blech
Directors: Ken Annakin
Country: USA
Year: 1965
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The Battle of the Bulge" shows this conflict from the perspective of an American intelligence officer as well as from a German Panzer Commander.
The Grapes of Wrath
Genres: Drama
Starring: John Qualen, O.Z. Whitehead, Darryl Hickman, Eddie Quillan, John Carradine, Henry Fonda, Charley Grapewin
Directors: John Ford
Country: USA
Year: 1940
Oklahoma in the Thirties is a dustbowl and dispossessed farmers migrate westward to California. After terrible trials en route they become little more than slave labor. Among the throng are the Joads who refuse to knuckle under.
Daisy Kenyon
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Joan Crawford, Nicholas Joy, Art Baker, Dana Andrews, Connie Marshall
Directors: Otto Preminger
Country: USA
Year: 1947
Commercial artist Daisy Kenyon is involved with married lawyer Dan O'Mara, and hopes someday to marry him, if he ever divorces his wife Lucille. She meets returning veteran Peter, a decent and caring man, whom she does not love, but who offers her love and a more hopeful relationship. She marries him... just as Dan gets a divorce.
Sex and the Single Girl
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Stubby Kaye, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Larry Storch
Directors: Richard Quine
Country: USA
Year: 1964
Using Helen Gurley Brown's book as a jump off point, we follow the adventures of a supermarket tabloid editor as he tries to parlay an interview with the author of the book into headlines and sales. Of course, a romantic entanglement ensues.
The Boston Strangler
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Jeff Corey, Carolyn Conwell, George Kennedy, Henry Fonda, Murray Hamilton, George Voskovec, Tony Curtis
Directors: Richard Fleischer
Country: USA
Year: 1968
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
The Cheyenne Social Club
Genres: Comedy, Western
Starring: Shirley Jones, James Stewart, Dabbs Greer, Henry Fonda, Robert Middleton, Elaine Devry, Richard Collier
Directors: Gene Kelly
Country: USA
Year: 1970
John is working as a cow poke for very little money with his friend Harley when he gets word his brother, DJ, has left him The Cheyenne Social Club. He and Harley ride for nearly a thousand miles to his inheritance only to find he is now the owner of a first class brothel.
Meteor
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi
Starring: Roger Robinson, Sean Connery, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Henry Fonda, Martin Landau, Richard Dysart
Directors: Ronald Neame
Country: USA
Year: 1979
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Advise & Consent
Genres: Drama
Starring: Lew Ayres, Don Murray, Frank Sinatra, Burgess Meredith, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Inga Swenson
Directors: Otto Preminger
Country: USA
Year: 1962
Robert Leffingwell is the president's candidate for Secretary of State. Prior to his approval, he must first go through a Senate investigation to determine if he's qualified. Leading the Senate committee is idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, who soon finds himself unprepared for the political dirt that's revealed, including Leffingwell's past affiliations with a Communist organization. When Leffingwell testifies about his political leanings, he proves his innocence. Later, however, Anderson learns that he lied under oath and even asks the president to withdraw Leffingwell for consideration, especially after the young senator begins receiving b...
Midway
Genres: Action, Drama, History
Starring: Charlton Heston, Cliff Robertson, Robert Mitchum, James Coburn, Hal Holbrook, Robert Wagner, Glenn Ford
Directors: Jack Smight
Country: USA
Year: 1976
The summer of 1942 brought Naval stalemate to the Pacific as the American and Japanese fleets stood at even numbers each waiting for the other to begin a renewed offensive. "Midway" tells the story of this historic June battle where a Japanese carrier force, in an attempt to occupy Midway island and lure the American fleet to destruction, was meet valiently by US forces operating off of three aircraft carriers and numerous escort ships. It was the first battle in which naval air power was extensivly used, and at its conclusion the Japanese Carrier force had been completly destroyed which lead the way for the US 1943 and 44 offensives which wo...
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Beulah Bondi, Samuel S. Hinds, Robert Barrat, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Nigel Bruce
Directors: Henry Hathaway
Country: USA
Year: 1936
Three seems to be a lucky number for this romantic tear jerker. Not only was it the third adaptation of a much loved novel it was also the third film to be shown in colour both of which still stand up today.Set in the Appalachian Mountains we meet two feuding families whove been killing each other for over thirty years, only to have a businessman with plans for a rail road to wander in amongst it all as well as a love triangle that will both cause a massive change for both families.Dated as it is, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine still has a strong enough romance element to keep some interest thanks to Sylvia Sidney as the innocent June T...
On Golden Pond
Genres: Drama
Starring: Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Dabney Coleman, Doug McKeon, Christopher Rydell, William Lanteau
Directors: Mark Rydell
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1981
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate at last?
Young Mr. Lincoln
Genres: Drama
Starring: Ward Bond, Eddie Quillan, Henry Fonda, Donald Meek, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan
Directors: John Ford
Country: USA
Year: 1939
Ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln, before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois, to begin his law practice. He defends two men accused of murder in a political brawl, suffers the death of his girlfriend Ann, courts his future wife Mary Todd, and agrees to go into politics.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Western
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, John Qualen, Burgess Meredith, Henry Fonda
Directors: Fielder Cook
Country: USA
Year: 1966
As the biggest high-stake poker game in the West begins, compulsive gambler turned homesteader, Meredith, is drawn into the game. With the entire family fortune at stake, he suffers a heart attack when delt a winning hand. Mary, his pluck penny-pinching, long-suffering wife, steps in. As she plays the hand, she assails her rivals with fortitude and guts. Each is transformed into a model of sensitivity. But a twist ending reveals Mary has had more than fortitude up her sleeve all along.
Spencer's Mountain
Genres: Family, Drama
Starring: Whit Bissell, Dub Taylor, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur, Donald Crisp, Wally Cox
Directors: Delmer Daves
Country: USA
Year: 1963
Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he and Clay get into a bit of trouble. If he has one dream in life it's to build his wife Olivia a beautiful house on a piece of land he inherited on Spender's mountain. When his eldest son, Clayboy, graduates at the top of his high school class and has the opportunity to go to college, Clay has only one option left to him.