23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A blind American writer living in London stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy involving kidnapping and extortion.
Starring: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Maurice Denham, Isobel Elsom, Estelle Winwood
Director: Henry Hathaway
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | War
A dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge, becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. Ted Randall, guiding Randall through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her devotion to Sandidge's memory.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore, Barry Nelson, Esther Williams
Director: Victor Fleming
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
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Drama | History | War
The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the personal account by Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory – badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible – launch 16 fully loaded bombers from an aircraft carrier! Remarkable in its accuracy, this movie even uses film footage from the actual raid.
Starring: Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock, Don DeFore, Herbert Gunn, Phyllis Thaxter, Stephen McNally, John R. Reilly, Robert Mitchum, Scott McKay
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Eagles Over London / La battaglia d'Inghilterra (1969)
Drama | War
In this World War II action-thriller, the British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies form a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
Nine years before his WWII classic 'Inglorious Bastards', Enzo Castellari virtually invented the 'Macaroni Combat' genre with this over-the-top saga of valor, vengeance and machine- gun mayhem. Hollywood legend Van Johnson ('The Caine Mutiny') and Frederick Stafford (Hitchcock's 'Topaz') star as military officers pursuing a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs through war-ravaged London, featuring Castellari's jaw-dropping recreations of the evacuation of Dunkirk, the Battle Of Britain and more. Francisco Rabal ('Nightmare City'), Ida Galli ('The Psychic') and Luigi Pistilli ('The Good, the Bad & the Ugly') co-star in this explosive epic – also known as 'Battle Squadron' – now restored on Blu-ray for the first time ever in the U.S!
Starring: Frederick Stafford, Van Johnson, Francisco Rabal, Ida Galli, Luigi Pistilli
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Battleground (1949)
Action | Drama | War
A squad of the 101st Airborne Division copes with being trapped in the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore
Director: William A. Wellman
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Drama | Romance | War
A captain of a US Navy destroyer during World War II begins to crack under pressure, expressing odd behavior and is forcibly relieved by his second in command, but then a trial ensues to uncover who was in the right.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, May Wynn, Tom Tully
Director: Edward Dmytryk
