Movies by Lewis Milestone
As part of the cast:
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Chalkdust Memories (2007)
Cast: Sal Mineo, Lewis Milestone, James Stewart …
Then, they were a welcome diversion from classroom tedium; now, these educational films are an often hilarious time capsule of an ostensibly simpler time. Learn what to do in case of a…
As a director:
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Marlon Brando gives a nuanced performance as the aristocratic Lt. Fletcher Christian, an officer aboard the HMS &NFi;Bounty&NFi_; who leads a mutiny against the ship's tyrannical Capt.…
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Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Frank Sinatra leads an all-star cast as Danny Ocean, who decides to knock over a few casinos on the Las Vegas Strip with his buddies -- including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and…
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Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Cast: James Edwards, Gregory Peck, Rip Torn …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Based on an ex-soldier's eyewitness essays, this epic film harshly and realistically depicts one of the Korean conflict's bloodiest and most famous battles. With peace negotiations…
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Les Miserables (1952)
Cast: Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Director Lewis Milestone helms this adaptation of the classic Victor Hugo novel about a man who starts anew after a prison stint for stealing a loaf of bread in 18th-century France -- and the…
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Halls of Montezuma (1950)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Assigned to the Pacific, Marine lieutenant Anderson (Richard Widmark) and his men must thwart a Japanese rocket-launching facility in this World War II epic. Ex-schoolteacher Anderson uses…
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The Red Pony (1949)
Cast: Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
The heartbreaking Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred…
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Arch of Triumph (1948)
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
To escape the Nazis, Dr. Ravic (Charles Boyer) flees to Paris, where he practices medicine under an assumed name. When he prevents a depressed nightclub singer named Joan (Ingrid Bergman)…
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
After nearly two decades away, Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) returns to his hometown, sending its preeminent couple -- Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) and her spouse, Walter O'Neil (Kirk…
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers / Kirk Douglas on Film: Double Feature (1946)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone, Ted Newsom
Kirk Douglas makes his screen debut in the 1946 film noir classic The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, playing the weak, alcoholic husband of a powerful heiress (Barbara Stanwyck). The doomed…
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Guest in the House (1944)
Cast: Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon …
Directed by: John Brahm, André De Toth, Lewis Milestone …
In this suspenseful drama, emotionally unstable Evelyn Heath (Anne Baxter) moves into the home of her physician, Dan Proctor (Scott McKay), while he treats her cardiac condition. She soon…
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The Purple Heart (1944)
Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
After Japanese forces shoot down an American bomber in China during World War II, they torture the eight-man crew for information and put them through a rigged trial as war criminals. But the…
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Great WWII Movies: Triple Feature (1943)
Cast: Anne Baxter, Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone, Lev Milstein, Anthony Asquith …
See how war can ravage the men who dare to fight in these three classic World War II movies. Travel through war-torn Italy with Dana Andrews and Lloyd Bridges in A Walk in the Sun. Feel the…
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World War II Movies: The North Star / Commandos / Five for Hell (1943)
Cast: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone, Armando Crispino, Frank Kramer …
This three-pack of movies set against the backdrop of World War II offers a taste of military history with a healthy dose of fiction. A tiny Russian village is invaded by German troops in The…
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A Walk in the Sun (1943)
Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Dana Andrews stars as Sgt. Bill Tyne, an American soldier who leads his platoon through the Italian countryside on a march -- punctuated by sporadic skirmishes -- to capture a Nazi-held…
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Edge of Darkness (1943)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Helmut Dantine, Ann Sheridan …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
In a Norwegian fishing village during World War II, locals anxiously debate whether to take up arms against their Nazi occupiers. Suspecting that something's amiss, commandant Koenig…
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Of Mice and Men (1939)
Cast: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
All that George (Burgess Meredith) and Lennie (Lon Chaney Jr.) want is a home of their own, where they can work for themselves and keep a pen of rabbits. But for the unlikely roommates,…
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The General Died at Dawn (1936)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
American soldier of fortune O'Hara (Gary Cooper) becomes the target of politically ambitious Chinese warlord Gen. Yang (Akim Tamiroff) when the mercenary accepts a dicey assignment to…
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
Cast: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Bumper (Al Jolson) is the happiest hobo in New York. He's just fallen head-over-heels in love with the beautiful young amnesiac (Madge Evans) he's rescued from a park lake. But when…
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Rain (1932)
Cast: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Tough-talking streetwalker Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) lands on Pago Pago after a cholera epidemic grounds her ship. But puritanical, humorless missionary Alfred Davidson (Walter Huston)…
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The Front Page / The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1931)
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone, Preston Sturges
Billionaire tycoon Howard Hughes bankrolled these two zany screwball comedies from 1931 and 1947. In The Front Page, editor Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou) is determined to prevent his star…
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The Front Page (1931)
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Veteran newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien) is about to get married and start a new job. But when his boss, tough-talking editor Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou), gets wind of a…
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Cast: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Teenage German soldiers pass from idealism to despair in this poignant, Oscar-winning depiction of survival on the front lines, adapted from an anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque and…
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The Garden of Eden (1928)
Cast: Lowell Sherman, Charles Ray, Corinne Griffith …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Aspiring opera singer Toni Le Brun (Corinne Griffith) learns that the wardrobe mistress at the cabaret where she works is actually a baroness and her benefactor. Suave bachelor Richard Dupont…
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Two Arabian Knights (1927)
Cast: William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Set during World War I, this quirky silent comedy from director Lewis Milestone (who won an Oscar) chronicles the adventures of incessantly bickering American soldiers W. Dangerfield Phelps…