Biography: Jacques Tourneur |
A resident of the United States from the age of ten, Jacques Tourneur became one of America's leading directors of horror and film noir, after a long apprenticeship. The son of the celebrated director Maurice Tourneur, he went to work at MGM as an... more
Find videos of Jacques TourneurFree Jacques Tourneur videos- Movies (31)
- Videos
Cast: Vincent Price
Tags: Sea Adventure Fantasy Adventure Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 85min
This sci-fi fantasy film was supposedly inspired by a line from an Edgar Allen Poe poem. It is also the last film made by distinguished director Jacques Tourneur. The adventure begins when the widowed ruler of a sub-oceanic kingdom spies a woman on...
Cast: Peter Lorre Boris Karloff Jacques Tourneur
Tags: Parody/Spoof Horror Comedy Comedy Horror
Length: 105min
On the verge of bankruptcy, undertaker Vincent Price hits upon a novel method of drumming up business. Together with his cringing assistant Peter Lorre, Price sneaks into the homes of wealthy old men under cover of night and smothers the sleeping...
Tags: Adventure
Length: 91min
This unexceptional adventure yarn by director Jacques Tourneur is set in the French Sudan during the beginning of World War II, when the French Foreign Legion was doing battle with the Tuaregs. In order to bring a halt to the hostilities, a powerful...
Tags: Gothic Film Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 82min
In this film, American Professor Dana Andrews investigates a devil-worshipping cult active in England. The cult has apparently been responsible for more than one death in recent months. When Andrews comes too close to the cult for comfort, the...
Length: 86min
Frontier Rangers doesn't usually show up in the feature-film credits of director Jacques Tourneur for a very good reason: It really isn't a feature film at all. Rather, it is a pastiche of three episodes from the 1958 TV series Northwest Passage,...
Cast: Steve Reeves
Tags: Costume Adventure Adventure Historical Film Sword-and-Sandal
Length: 90min
Rather than telling a dramatized version of the exploits of the Greek runner Phidippides (or Philippides, as used here), this standard Italian costume drama has the great athlete almost single-handedly defeating the Persians. Set in 490 B.C. when the...
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
Cast: Robert Stack Virginia Mayo Raymond Burr
Tags: Western Adventure Action
Length: 92min
When gold is discovered in the Colorado Territory at the start of the Civil War, Confederate Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack) and Union agent Stephen Kirby (Alex Nicol) battle with each other in a struggle to obtain the most gold to give to their...
Cast: Dana Andrews
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 83min
In this drama, a Korean war veteran, a victim of brainwashing while he was a POW, finally goes back to his home in Washington, DC, where he resumes his job at a public relations-opinion research firm. He soon discovers that his company is being run by...
Tags: Gothic Film Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 95min
Based on Montague R. James' classic shiver tale -Casting the Runes, Curse of the Demon (aka Night of the Demon) is an exercise in psychological terror. American Professor Dana Andrews investigates a devil-worshipping cult active in England. The cult...
Cast: Brian Keith Anne Bancroft
Tags: Film Noir Crime Thriller Crime Thriller
Length: 78min
Commercial artist James Vanning (Aldo Ray) and his friend, Dr. Edward Gurston (Frank Albertson), are on a hunting and fishing trip in Wyoming when they stop to help two men whose car has crashed. The pair, John (Brian Keith) and Red (Rudy Bond), turn...
Portions of Content Provided by All Movie Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.© 2009 All Media Guide, LLC.