Mary Servoss

Movies16

• Movie7.6

  CrimeDrama

  A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

  Mildred Pierce

  1945 · 464 votes

• Movie5.9

  WarDrama

  During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.

  So Proudly We Hail

  1943 · 26 votes

• Movie6.4

  Drama

  When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

  A Stolen Life

  1946 · 58 votes

• Movie6.9

  DramaRomance

  An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.

  In This Our Life

  1942 · 58 votes

• Movie5.7

  Drama

  It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.

  Summer Storm

  1944 · 12 votes

• Movie6.4

  CrimeDrama

  Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.

  High Wall

  1947 · 29 votes

• Movie6.0

  DramaRomance

  In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

  Mrs. Parkington

  1944 · 20 votes

• Movie7.3

  DramaRomance

  Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.

  My Reputation

  1946 · 22 votes

• Movie6.7

  Thriller

  Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

  Conflict

  1945 · 83 votes

• Movie5.8

  RomanceThriller

  In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.

  Experiment Perilous

  1944 · 38 votes

• Movie6.0

  CrimeDrama

  After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.

  Danger Signal

  1945 · 16 votes

• Movie6.7

  WarDrama

  In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.

  Uncertain Glory

  1944 · 27 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaThriller

  Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.

  Beyond the Forest

  1949 · 54 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyMystery

  Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.

  The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

  1940 · 10 votes

• Movie7.0

  RomanceComedy

  Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.

  The Postman Didn't Ring

  1942 · 1 votes

• Movie4.5

  Drama

  The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.

  Youth Runs Wild

  1944 · 11 votes