TV Guide: Online Video Guide Irving Pichel

Torture Ship

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:58:41 -0500

(1939) Irving Pichel, Lyle Talbot, Wheeler Oakman, Russell Hopton, Skelton Knaggs. UNCUT! At 57 minutes, our version is seven minutes longer than other releases. A scientist lures wanted criminals aboard his mysterious yacht and subjects them to unorthodox experiments with disastrous results. From a nice 16mm original print.

Torture Ship

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:58:41 -0500

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:48:33 -0500

Starring Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward, Barry Sullivan, Beulah Bondi, Cecil Kellaway, Grant Mitchell, Helen Mack Directed by Irving Pichel Print: black/white Runtime: 86 min. Genre: drama Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?

An American Tragedy (1931)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:48:33 -0500

Starring Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton Directed by Josef von Sternberg Print: black/white Runtime: 96 min. Genre: drama Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's the passenger in a car that kills a little girl, Clyde fears he'll be arrested and flees town. His wealthy uncle Samuel Griffiths (Frederick Burton) gets Clyde a job at a shirt factory in upstate New York where the young man soon becomes foreman of a department that employs only young women. He is attracted to Roberta Alden (Sylvia Sidney), known as "Bert," and though company policy forbids them to fraternize, they begin secretly dating on weekends. Eventually, Clyde seduces the smitten Bert, even though he has already become attracted to Sondra Finchley (Frances Dee), the daughter of a wealthy family. Clyde and Sondra fall in love, and she p

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:48:33 -0500

An American Tragedy (1931)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:48:33 -0500

How Green Was My Valley: Trailer

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:34:54 -0500

The story is told through the eyes, and with the voice-over narration of Huw Morgan (Roddy McDowall), now a middle-aged man leaving the mining town of Cwm Rhondda, recalling the events that most impressed his younger self. The boy Huw is played by Roddy, but the voice-over is that of actor Irving Pichel, who is never seen in the film. His first memories are of the marriage of his brother, Ivor (Patric Knowles), and the burgeoning, unspoken, and ill-fated romance of his sister, Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) with the new preacher, Mr. Gruffydd (Walter Pidgeon). Because of the forbidden nature of the romance, Angharad marries another man, whom she later divorces, and Mr. Gruffydd leaves his church in disgust after being subjected to untrue town gossip - his romance with Angharad is never consummated, nor do they ever marry. Still too young to work in the local coal mine like his father, Gwilym (Donald Crisp), and his five older brothers, Huw senses the seriousness of an imminent strike by the

The Fighting Phantom (The Mysterious Ri...: Trailer

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:29:54 -0500

Based on the works of Zane Grey, The Mysterious Rider follows a cowboy helps homesteaders who were cheated out of money they put down for land.

Quicksand -- (Movie Clip) Money Talks

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:17:27 -0500

Mechanic Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) takes a phone call then a threat from arcade owner Nick (Peter Lorre) in this critical scene from director Irving Pichel's Quicksand, 1950.