How the West Was Won (1962)
Western
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
Starring: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck
Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
There Was a Crooked Man… (1970)
Comedy | Western
A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith, John Randolph
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mister Roberts (1955)
Comedy | Drama | War
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.
Starring: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond
Director: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
The Lady Eve (1941)
Comedy | Romance
A trio of classy card sharks targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him.
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Melville Cooper
Director: Preston Sturges
Warlock (1959)
Romance | Western
A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, Wallace Ford
Director: Edward Dmytryk
On Golden Pond (1981)
Drama
Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman, Christopher Rydell, Doug McKeon
Director: Mark Rydell
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Biography | Drama
A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Kenneth Macgowan, Alice Brady, Richard Cromwell, Marjorie Weaver, Eddie Quillan
Director: John Ford
The Wrong Man (1956)
Drama | Film-Noir
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper, John Heldabrand
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Firecreek (1968)
Drama | Romance | Western
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
Starring: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Jacqueline Scott, Gary Lockwood, Dean Jagger
Director: Vincent McEveety
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Comedy | Family
A widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8 and tries to cope with trying to ever come together as one big happy family.
Starring: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Tom Bosley, Walter Brooke, Tim Matheson
Director: Melville Shavelson
Sometimes a Great Notion (1970)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Paul Newman makes his directorial debut in this sweeping saga. Based on the best-selling novel from author Ken Kesey (ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST), the story focuses on a two-fisted Oregon family that busks their close-knit timber community to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike. In the process, one man is killed, the family patriarch (Henry Fonda) is injured, and the eldest son (Paul Newman) almost loses his wife (Lee Remick) to his half brother (Michael Sarrazin). Filled with complex characters and issues that still resonate today, SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION is an intense and riveting portrait of life set against the rugged backdrop of logging.
Starring: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel, Cliff Potts
Director: Paul Newman
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Drama | Western
When the Clantons steal his family's cattle and kill his brother, Wyatt Earp signs on as sheriff of Tombstone and vows to bring them in.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt
Director: John Ford
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Crime | History | Western
Frank James, the brother of Jesse James, has been laying low, living as a farmer and taking care of Clem, the son of one of the members of the James gang. He gets word that Jesse was killed by Bob and Charlie Ford, he hoped that the law would deal with them but when he learns that the railroad man whom he and Jesse terrorized contracted them to kill Jesse and helped them get off, he goes after them. Clem whom he told to remain on the farm goes with him and when it's impossible for him to do so, Frank has no choice to let him tag along. Now in order to cover their tracks they start telling people that Frank James is dead and that they saw it. Eleanor Stone, a female reporter, who wants to write about it interviews them and they are both taken with each other. But eventually she learns who Frank is from the Pinkerton detective who is tracking them but doesn't turn them in. But eventually Frank learns that his farm hand, Pinky has been arrested as his accomplice and is about to be hung. Now short of knowing who Frank is, he has not done anything to help Frank, so Frank has to decide what is more important getting the Fords or helping Pinky.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg
Director: Fritz Lang
Fort Apache (1948)
Western
A colonel is embittered because he's been assigned to a remote fort after a brilliant war record. His rule-book manners and inability to accept advice of officers experienced with the west and the Indians lead to a tragic massacre for himself and the majority of his command.
Starring: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, George O'Brien, Victor McLaglen
Director: John Ford
War and Peace (1956)
Drama | Romance | War
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families. Filmed in VistaVision.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Herbert Lom, Anita Ekberg, Vittorio Gassman
Director: King Vidor
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Drama | Romance | War | Western
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the REvolutinary War begins.
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, John Carradine, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Shields
Director: John Ford
Midway (1976)
Action | Drama | History | War
A dramatic chronicle of the Battle of Midway, considered the turning point of the war against Japan in the Pacific.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshirô Mifune
Director: Jack Smight
The Boston Strangler (1968)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In 1962, elderly women are being strangled to death in their homes in the metropolitan Boston area. Panic starts to ensue not only in the general population, but also within the police forces in the Boston area, they who start to apprehend and question every known sexual criminal. 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…
Starring: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield, Murray Hamilton
Director: Richard Fleischer
Jezebel (1938)
Drama | Romance
Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern belle who is sure of herself and controlling of her fiancé Preston Dillard, a successful young banker. Julie's sensitive but domineering personality–she does not want so much to hurt as to assert her independence–forces a wedge between Preston and herself. To win him back, she plays North against South amid a deadly epidemic of yellow fever which claims a surprising victim.
Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp
Director: William Wyler
Fail-Safe (1964)
Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
At the height of the Cold War, during the standard investigation of a possible incursion into US airspace by the Soviets, the nuclear bombers that are always in the air are sent towards their "Fail-Safe" points, about which they orbit while waiting to be sent to their targets if a preemptive attack by the USSR is confirmed. The alert turns out to be false and the various flights are recalled, but a technical error occurs, and one flight of 6 aircraft, armed with multiple 20 megaton nuclear weapons, passes beyond its "Fail-Safe" point, and heads towards its assigned target of Moscow. With the World racing towards WWIII, can the US President and Soviet Premier overcome their distrust, and avoid nuclear annihilation?!
Starring: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda
Director: Sidney Lumet
