Movies with James Whitmore
Movies found: 19, viewing from 1 to 19
Battle Cry
Genres: Romance, Drama, War
Starring: Raymond Massey, James Whitmore, Anne Francis, Dorothy Malone, Aldo Ray, Perry Lopez, Nancy Olson
Directors: Raoul Walsh
Country: USA
Year: 1955
In 1942, a group of young men join the Marines, leaving loved ones behind. Primed for battle, they are frustrated by many non-combat assignments, as we follow their wartime romances, especially Andy Hookens' involvement with Pat, a New Zealand widow. Andy and Pat have just decided that war requires them to 'live for the moment' when, in 1944, our team finally goes into a real battle...
Black Like Me
Genres: Drama
Starring: James Whitmore, Clifton James, Roscoe Lee Browne, Heywood Hale Broun, Will Geer, John Marriott, Stanley Brock
Directors: Carl Lerner
Country: USA
Year: 1964
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man. John Horton takes treatments to darken his skin and leaves his home in Texas to travel throughout the South. At one stop, Horton encounters a black shoe shine man, Burt Wilson, who befriends him and shows him how to "act right" so that he can fit more easily into the African American culture. It is through Wilson that Horton learns the art of shining shoes. Most of his encounters with whites are quite degrading and disturb him. As a hitchhiker, John meets several white men who refer to black men and women in disparaging ways which angers John. Throu...
Battleground
Genres: Action, Drama, War
Starring: James Whitmore, Richard Jaeckel, Van Johnson, Marshall Thompson, Bruce Cowling, Herbert Anderson, Douglas Fowley
Directors: William A. Wellman
Country: USA
Year: 1949
We follow a band of American soldiers as they engage the Germans in a snowy, foggy winter near Bastogne in World War II. They're low on fuel, rations, and ammunition; the Germans are constantly encouraging their surrender via radio and leaflets, and most importantly, the pervasive thick fog makes movement and identification difficult and prevents their relief by Allied air support. This film focuses much more on the psychology and morale of the soldiers than on action footage and heroics.
Because You're Mine
Genres: Comedy, Musical
Starring: James Whitmore, Don Porter, Spring Byington, Eduard Franz, Jeff Donnell, Curtis Cooksey, Celia Lovsky
Directors: Alexander Hall
Country: USA
Year: 1952
Opera singer superstar Renato Rossano is drafted into the U.S. Army. His Sergeant, "Bat" Batterson is an opera fan who admires Rossano and wishes Rossano to appraise his sister's singing voice. The rest of his platoon as well as the company commander disapproves of Batterson's showing favourtism to Rossano by excusing him from normal training. Rossano also schemes to have Master Sgt Batterson allow him to go to New York supposedly to have his manager appraise Batterson's sister, Brigit's singing voice but in reality allowing him to do a performance.
The Asphalt Jungle
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe, James Whitmore, Marc Lawrence, John McIntire, Sam Jaffe, William 'Wee Willie' Davis
Directors: John Huston
Country: USA
Year: 1950
'Doc' Riedenschneider, legendary crime 'brain' just out of prison, has a brilliant plan for a million-dollar burglary. To pull it off, he recruits safecracker Louis, driver Gus, financial backer Emmerich, and strong-arm man Dix Handley. At first the plan goes like clockwork, but little accidents accumulate and each partner proves to have his own fatal weakness. In the background is a pervasive, grimy urban malaise.
The Harrad Experiment
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Bruno Kirby, James Whitmore, Michael Greene, Robert Middleton, Tippi Hedren, Don Johnson, Elliott Street
Directors: Ted Post
Country: USA
Year: 1973
At Harrad College, where controversial coed living situations are established, the students are forced to confront their sexuality in ways that society previously shunned. Part of the experiment is to pair incompatible members of the opposite sex as roommates in order to make them shun the traditional concept of monogamy. The film's primary two "couples" are the sex-crazed Stanley and ultra-timid Sheila, and insecure Harry and liberated Beth. In charge of the "experiment" are Prof. Philip Tenhausen and his wife, Margaret, who seem to enjoy the tension they instigate, as well as the graphic sexual episodes that unfold.
Oklahoma!
Genres: Musical, Romance, Western
Starring: Jay C. Flippen, James Whitmore, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger, Virginia Bosler, Eddie Albert
Directors: Fred Zinnemann
Country: USA
Year: 1955
A couple of young cowboys win the hearts of their sweethearts in the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the century. Despite the interference of an evil ranch hand and a roaming peddler.
The Next Voice You Hear...
Genres: Drama
Starring: James Whitmore, Jeff Corey, Lillian Bronson, Art Smith, Nancy Davis, Gary Gray, Tom D'Andrea
Directors: William A. Wellman
Country: USA
Year: 1950
"Joe Smith, American" lives in a Los Angeles suburb and works at an aircraft plant. One night Joe hears a voice cut in on a radio program: "This is God. I'll be with you for the next few days." It turns out, everyone in the world listening to any radio heard the same thing. More messages come; some people react positively, others negatively.
Who Was That Lady?
Genres: Comedy
Starring: James Whitmore, John McIntire, Janet Leigh, Dean Martin, Simon Oakland, Tony Curtis, Larry Storch
Directors: George Sidney
Country: USA
Year: 1960
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
The Shawshank Redemption
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Gil Bellows, Larry Brandenburg, James Whitmore, William Sadler, Mark Rolston
Directors: Frank Darabont
Country: USA
Year: 1994
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Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.One HD 1080p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE
Planet of the Apes
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Mystery
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, Linda Harrison
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
Country: USA
Year: 1968
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Taylor and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Taylor is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so that he is silent and cannot communicate with the apes.
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: James Whitmore, Fernando Rey, Joe Don Baker, Reni Santoni, George Kennedy, Bernie Casey, Michael Ansara
Directors: Paul Wendkos
Country: USA
Year: 1969
The Magnificent Seven ride again in this "fast-moving follow-up" (Variety) to one of the greatest Western sagas in film history. Academy AwardÂ(r) winner* George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke) and James Whitmore (The Shawshank Redemption) take the reins for a bold, sweeping adventure that delivers nonstop excitement! When notorious desperado Chris Adams (Kennedy) is offered a huge reward to free a young Mexican revolutionary from prison, he must first assemble a cutthroat team of frontier warriors. Together, these daring gunslingers embark on the adventure of their livesand discover a cause worth more than a fortune in gold.
Crime in the Streets
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Mark Rydell, James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Virginia Gregg, Peter Miller, Malcolm Atterbury, Peter J. Votrian
Directors: Don Siegel
Country: USA
Year: 1956
Social worker tries to befriend local slum gang.
Them!
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Mary Alan Hokanson, James Arness, Fess Parker, Onslow Stevens, Don Shelton
Directors: Gordon Douglas
Country: USA
Year: 1954
Nuclear tests in the desert result in the growth of gigantic mutant ants who menace cities in the American south-west as a team of investigators and the army search for a way to control their spread in this Cold War-era monster film.
Nuts
Genres: Drama
Starring: Paul Benjamin, Eli Wallach, James Whitmore, Leslie Nielsen, Karl Malden, Dakin Matthews, Castulo Guerra
Directors: Martin Ritt
Country: USA
Year: 1987
A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is very disruptive during her court hearings.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: James Whitmore, E.G. Marshall, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Wesley Addy, Leon Ames
Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku
Country: USA, Japan
Year: 1970
Available Quality: iPod
In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbour. American intelligence is breaking the Japanese diplomatic messages but few high-ups are prepared to believe that an attack is likely, let alone where or how it might come.
The Relic
Genres: Thriller, Horror
Starring: James Whitmore, Tom Sizemore, Constance Towers, Lewis Van Bergen, Clayton Rohner, John Kapelos, Robert Lesser
Directors: Peter Hyams
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Japan, New Zealand
Year: 1997
A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt. Vincent D'Agosta who enlists the help of Dr. Margo Green at the museum - she has taken an interest in the contents of her colleague's crates. Unknown to both there is a large creature roaming the museum which is gearing itself up for a benefit reception which the ...
Chuka
Genres: Western
Starring: James Whitmore, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Taylor, Michael Cole, John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, Victoria Vetri
Directors: Gordon Douglas
Country: USA
Year: 1967
Throughout the West, one name means action: Chuka! Tension builds for soldiers guarding a besieged prairie fort against Indian attacks. Their nerves are frayed and their spirits are dying. But there's a glimmer of hope: the lone gunfighter who's come to help them is the man called Chuka!
Madigan
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: James Whitmore, Richard Widmark, Bert Freed, Warren Stevens, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino
Directors: Don Siegel
Country: USA
Year: 1968
Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.