Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Henri Letondal
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1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid
Votes: 28,896 | Gross: $12.00M
2. Monkey Business (1952)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Votes: 12,129
3. The Big Clock (1948)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After murdering someone, a magazine tycoon tries to frame an unknown, innocent man for the murder instead, while the innocent man tries to solve the murder himself.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready
Votes: 7,250
4. The Razor's Edge (1946)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Votes: 5,008
5. Royal Wedding (1951)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill
Votes: 4,423
6. The Big Sky (1952)
Approved | 140 min | Drama, Western
The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt
Votes: 3,632
7. Madame Bovary (1949)
Passed | 114 min | Drama, Romance
A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan
Votes: 2,209
8. Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
Trapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou
Votes: 1,692
9. What Price Glory (1952)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, William Demarest
Votes: 1,043
10. Come to the Stable (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 995
11. A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Montreal, a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress, are all involved.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter, George Dolenz
Votes: 835
12. Apartment for Peggy (1948)
Approved | 96 min | Drama
A retired professor rents his attic apartment to pregnant Peggy and her GI-Bill-student husband. The professor ponders if his life is no longer useful while the young couple faces the challenges shared with many WW II veterans' families.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 834
13. Ten Tall Men (1951)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Adventure, War
During the Rif War in Morocco, the French Foreign Legion's outpost of Tarfa is threatened by Khalif Hussein's tribes but Sergeant Mike Kincaid devises a plan of survival until the arrival of French reinforcements.
Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore
Votes: 789
14. On the Riviera (1951)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Musical
An American entertainer impersonates a wealthy aviator and flirts with his lookalike's neglected wife.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 785 | Gross: $2.50M
15. Kind Lady (1951)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter ... See full summary »
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 783
16. Dangerous When Wet (1953)
Approved | 95 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
A young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel.
Directors: Charles Walters, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood
Votes: 782
17. Deep in My Heart (1954)
Approved | 132 min | Biography, Comedy, Musical
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: José Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel, Doe Avedon
Votes: 677
18. The Wild North (1952)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime, and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse, Morgan Farley
Votes: 664
19. South Sea Woman (1953)
Passed | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
AWOL marine Sgt. Jim O'Hearn is court-martialed for a variety of offenses that carry 143 years in the stockade or the death penalty but refuses to aid in his own defense.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Chuck Connors, Arthur Shields
Votes: 621
20. Lovely to Look At (1952)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three Broadway producers struggling to get backing for their show hope one's sudden inheritance of a half interest in a Parisian fashion house is the answer. They travel to Paris only to learn the salon is in debt and requires their help.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge Champion
Votes: 582
21. The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
Passed | 117 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Sir Rex Harrison) buys his way into society, something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn, Victor McLaglen
Votes: 432
22. Please Believe Me (1950)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Alison Kirbe of London, receives a telegram from Texas, that she has inherited a livestock ranch. It is plastered throughout the London newspapers that Alison has become a rich heiress, and... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens, Peter Lawford
Votes: 417
23. Topper (1953–1955)
30 min | Fantasy, Comedy
This series was about a somewhat grumpy and uptight banker, Cosmo Topper, and the ghosts which only he could see or hear, George and Marion Kerby. The Kerbys would often try to get Cosmo to... See full summary »
Stars: Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling, Leo G. Carroll, Buck
Votes: 387
24. Mother Is a Freshman (1949)
81 min | Comedy
In order to afford her daughter's college tuition, a woman enrolls herself at the same school aided by a rare large bursary but they both fall in-love with the same cute English professor.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Loretta Young, Van Johnson, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence
Votes: 276
25. Magnificent Doll (1946)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History
Ginger Rogers is the daughter of boardinghouse owners in Washington, DC who falls in love with Aaron Burr and James Madison.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Burgess Meredith, Peggy Wood
Votes: 274
26. Little Boy Lost (1953)
Approved | 95 min | Drama
A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a ... See full summary »
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin, Christian Fourcade, Gabrielle Dorziat
Votes: 238
27. Desert Legion (1953)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Adventure
Paul Lartal of the Foreign Legion meets the princess of a lost city in the Algerian mountains.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, Arlene Dahl, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 234
28. The Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
On a lecture/vacation visit to Paris, Dr. Ordway drops in on his friend, the Prefecture of Police. He becomes involved in a case involving the stabbing of an old man. The man's son, not all... See full summary »
Director: William Castle | Stars: Warner Baxter, Micheline Cheirel, Roger Dann, Steven Geray
Votes: 172
29. Yankee Pasha (1954)
Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Romance
In 1800, trapper Jason Starbuck falls for Massachusetts girl Roxana but has to rescue her from slavery when sea pirates capture Roxana and sell her to a Moroccan harem.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Rhonda Fleming, Mamie Van Doren, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 166 | Gross: $1.25M
30. The Gambler from Natchez (1954)
Approved | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
In New Orleans, discharged army Captain Vance Colby learns of his father's killing done by three local Creole gents at a card game, and he sets out to punish the killers.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Dale Robertson, Debra Paget, Thomas Gomez, Lisa Daniels
Votes: 127
31. Dangerous Assignment (1952– )
TV-PG | 26 min | Adventure
"The Commissioner" sent US special agent Steve Mitchell to exotic locales where he encounters adventure and international intrigue, all played out using extreme violence.
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Herb Butterfield, Lyle Talbot, Jan Arvan
Votes: 67
32. Fireside Theatre (1949–1955)
30 min | Drama
An anthology series which became the first successful filmed series on American television.
Stars: Gene Raymond, John Warburton, Nolan Leary, Dabbs Greer
Votes: 47
33. Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1952– )
30 min | Drama
Stars: Gloria Swanson, William Boyett, Jim Hayward, Barbara Wooddell
Votes: 40
34. The Star and the Story (1955– )
30 min | Drama
Each show features a different star or stars in this dramatic anthology produced by the successful team by Four Star Productions, there are many young actors that went onto bigger things.
Stars: Henry Fonda, Hugh Sanders, Hillary Brooke, Robin Hughes
Votes: 30
35. Adventures of the Falcon (1954– )
30 min | Adventure
Stories of an Espionage Agent.
Stars: Charles McGraw, James Flavin, G. Pat Collins, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 17
36. The Fortress (1947)
99 min | Drama
Un cocher raconte à deux touristes une « sombre histoire » qui s'est déroulée jadis et que chuchotent encore les forteresses du Vieux-Québec. Il y a bien longtemps, Robert Marchand, ami de ... See full summary »
Director: Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Paul Dupuis, Jacques Auger, Nicole Germain, Henri Letondal
Votes: 14
37. Mayor of the Town (1954– )
30 min | Comedy
Thomas Russell is the gregarious mayor of Springdale whose attention to his electorate extends to their personal lives. He also has his own affairs to attend to, with his housekeeper Marilly certain to offer her opinion.
Stars: Kathleen Freeman, Thomas Mitchell, Jean Byron, Tudor Owen
Votes: 12
38.
Dangerous Assignment (1952– )
Episode:
The Salami Story
(1952)
TV-PG | Adventure
Steve hops on a French train to protect the head of an American plastics corporation who's traveling to a foreign conference. He finds the industrialist shot dead and missing are the man's ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Karn | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Elena Verdugo, Laura Mason, Dan Seymour
Votes: 6
39.
Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1952– )
Episode:
A Chair on the Boulevard
(1954)
30 min | Drama
Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Claude Dauphin, Osa Massen, Henri Letondal
40.
The Star and the Story (1955– )
Episode:
Appearances and Reality
(1956)
30 min | Drama
Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Brian Aherne, Kathleen Crowley, Robin Hughes, Irene Tedrow
41.
Adventures of the Falcon (1954– )
Episode:
Decision in Red
(1954)
30 min | Adventure
The Falcon is sent to Paris to guard a new jet plane, which unfortunately explodes in midair. He sets out to get to the bottom of it.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Charles McGraw, Lawrence Dobkin, John Wengraf, Teresa Tudor
42.
Fireside Theatre (1949–1955)
Episode:
Luxurious Ladies
(1955)
30 min | Drama
A handsome European is on a trial assignment as manager of a hotel for wealthy elderly women. He must call upon his whole store of continental tact and charm if he is to turn the stint into a permanent position.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Stephen Bekassy, Marjorie Bennett, Hillary Brooke, Kathryn Card
43.
Mayor of the Town (1954– )
Episode:
The Cane
(1954)
Comedy
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Stanley Adams, Jean Byron, Suzanne Dalbert, Kathleen Freeman
44.
Fireside Theatre (1949–1955)
Episode:
The Mural
(1954)
30 min | Drama
A priest is helping rebuild a church in France when he recognises the priceless artwork as being stolen.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Suzanne Dalbert, Henri Letondal, Gene Raymond, André Villon
45.
Dangerous Assignment (1952– )
Episode:
The Paris Sewer Story
(1952)
TV-PG | Adventure
Steve tracks down a criminal ring who are using the vast Paris sewers as their headquarters.
Director: Bill Karn | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Carol Thurston, Leonard Penn, Henri Letondal
46.
Topper (1953–1955)
Episode:
Topper Fights a Duel
(1955)
30 min | Fantasy, Comedy
Topper embarks on a business deal involving truffles and winds up in a duel with a French envoy.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling, Leo G. Carroll, Buck