Jacques Tourneur Movies

After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to...

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works...

Aftermath was the pilot for an unsold TV series called "The Code of Jonathan West"; it aired as part of The General Electric Theater. The film takes...

The narrator's voice tells of John Dough, who wakes up after a late-night party and prepares to go to work. However, a few interruptions, including...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for...

During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involves stopping the Confederate supply line on the...

Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a...

Marion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She instantly makes a rival of Betty, who's also interested...

This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never...

Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It...

An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship encounters a mysterious young man who she falls in love with.

Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.

A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.

Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the...

Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of...

This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.

Tourneur's first film tells the story of a chemist, Jules Renaudin. He welcomes a young pregnant girl, Claire, who enters his pharmacy in despair one...

A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.