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Delmer Daves
Director 1904 - 1977

Delmer Daves

San Francisco, California, USA

Delmer Daves was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

18 titles
Spencer's Mountain

Spencer's Mountain

Delmer Daves 1963 1h 58m 7.0

Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia.

Rome Adventure

Rome Adventure

Delmer Daves 1962 1h 59m

A beautiful American schoolteacher vacationing in Rome is courted by two men. Released in 1962, starring Suzanne Pleshette, Troy Donahue, Rossano Brazzi and Angie Dickinson.

The Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree

Delmer Daves 1959 1h 47m 8.8

Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, realising that he can exploit his secret.

A Summer Place

A Summer Place

Delmer Daves 1959 2h 10m 7.0

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

The Badlanders

The Badlanders

Delmer Daves 1958 1h 25m 5.0

Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme.

Kings Go Forth

Kings Go Forth

Delmer Daves 1958 1h 49m 6.0

Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.

Cowboy

Cowboy

Delmer Daves 1958 1h 32m 7.0

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

Delmer Daves 1957 1h 32m 8.2

The Lonesome Whistle of a Train... bringing the gallows closer to a desperado--the showdown nearer to his captor!

The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon

Delmer Daves 1956 1h 39m 7.5

When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.

Jubal

Jubal

Delmer Daves 1956 1h 40m 6.8

A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher's wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.

Drum Beat

Drum Beat

Delmer Daves 1954 1h 51m 5.0

In 1872, Indian fighter Johnny MacKay is appointed peace commissioner for the California and Oregon territory but he faces tough opposition from the renegade Modocs led by their chief Captain Jack.

Demetrius and the Gladiators

Demetrius and the Gladiators

Delmer Daves 1954 1h 41m 6.0

The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping, but the emperor Caligula wants it back to benefit from its powers.

Bird of Paradise

Bird of Paradise

Delmer Daves 1951 1h 40m 5.0

An island Princess falls for a visiting Frenchman, but her people are against it.

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow

Delmer Daves 1950 1h 33m 8.5

Indian scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns (through an uncomfortably close encounter) that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.

The Red House

The Red House

Delmer Daves 1947 1h 40m 6.5

A teenaged girl and her boyfriend suspect there's mysterious secrets being kept at her secluded home in the woods.

Dark Passage

Dark Passage

Delmer Daves 1947 1h 46m 8.0

Bogart is Vincent Parry, a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face. Bacall is Irene Jansen, his lone ally.

Pride of the Marines

Pride of the Marines

Delmer Daves 1945 1h 59m 9.0

Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.

Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo

Delmer Daves 1943 2h 15m 6.0

During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.

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