California (1947)
Romance | Western
Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.
Starring: Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Fitzgerald, George Coulouris, Albert Dekker, Anthony Quinn
Director: John Farrow
The Sea Wolf (1941)
Adventure | Drama
Humphrey van Weyden, a writer, and fugitives Ruth Webster and George Leach have been given refuge aboard the sealer "Ghost," captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen. The crew mutinies against Larsen's many crimes, and though van Weyden, Ruth, and George try to escape Larsen's clutches, they find themselves drawn inexorably back to him as the "Ghost" sails toward disaster.
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart, Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Michael Curtiz
The Quiet Man (1952)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love.
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick
Director: John Ford
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Drama | War
British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Edmund Goulding
The Naked City (1948)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence.
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Don Taylor, Ted de Corsia, Dorothy Hart
Narrator: Mark Hellinger
Director: Jules Dassin
And Then There Were None (1945)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Rene Clair's adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic. Ten people are invited to a distant mansion by a mysterious host. When the host fails to appear, they settle down to dinner and find themselves all accused of murder by a disembodied voice on a gramophone player. Then a guest turns up dead, then another, and another, and as the surviving accused struggle to discover which among their number is responsible for the killings, the corpses continue to surface with disarming regularity.
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Roland Young, Louis Hayward, June Duprez, Mischa Auer
Director: René Clair
Going My Way (1944)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Musical
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy, but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he knows he made the right choice. After joining a parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of kids looking for direction and handle the business details of the church-building fund, winning over his aging, conventional superior, Father Fitzgibbon.
Starring: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown, Gene Lockhart, Jean Heather, Porter Hall, Fortunio Bonanova
Director: Leo McCarey
Union Station (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Secretary Joyce Willecombe grows suspicious of two men boarding her train and is referred to 'Tough Willy' Calhoun, head of the Union Station police. The all-seeing, no-nonsense Calhoun is initially skeptical, but the men (who escape) prove to be involved in a kidnap case. Calhoun calls in equally tough police Inspector Donnelly, but the ruthless kidnapper's precision planning stays one jump ahead of them. Most of the action centers around bustling Union Station.
Starring: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald, Lyle Bettger, Jan Sterling
Director: Rudolph Maté
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Comedy | Romance
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard "Baby."
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Catlett, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Howard Hawks
