Russell Hoyt

Movies8

• Movie5.6

  ActionWar

  Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

  Guadalcanal Diary

  1943 · 22 votes

• Movie7.1

  DramaWar

  Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.

  This Land Is Mine

  1943 · 72 votes

• Movie5.9

  ComedyRomance

  A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

  The Gang's All Here

  1943 · 42 votes

• Movie6.0

  WarDrama

  Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.

  A Bell for Adano

  1945 · 14 votes

• Movie5.7

  DramaWar

  A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.

  Bombardier

  1943 · 21 votes

• Movie7.4

  ComedyCrime

  Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

  Lucky Jordan

  1942 · 5 votes

• Movie5.4

  ThrillerAction

  After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?

  Seven Miles from Alcatraz

  1942 · 6 votes

• Movie4.0

  DramaCrime

  An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that her father is secretly the mob's leader.

  Secrets of a Co-Ed

  1942 · 3 votes