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George Marshall
Director 1891 - 1975

George Marshall

Chicago, Illinois, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was a prolific American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of movie history. Relatively few of Marshall's films... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

31 titles
Hook, Line and Sinker

Hook, Line and Sinker

George Marshall 1969 1h 31m 5.0

Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

George Marshall 1966 1h 39m 6.0

Tom Meade mistakenly dials the gorgeous European film star Didi at her Oregon hotel. Didi, who has escaped Hollywood to avoid being typecast as a bombshell, takes up Meade's offer to hide away at his backwoods cabin.

Papa's Delicate Condition

Papa's Delicate Condition

George Marshall 1963 1h 38m

A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

John Ford, George Marshall 1962 2h 44m 7.2

Hollywood's most celebrated luminaries - behind the camera as well as in front of it - combine talents to present this epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

The Happy Thieves

The Happy Thieves

George Marshall 1961 1h 28m

We confess! They did it! But it's how they did it that makes it so delightful!

The Gazebo

The Gazebo

George Marshall 1959 1h 40m 7.0

TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.

The Sheepman

The Sheepman

George Marshall 1958 1h 25m 6.0

A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

George Marshall 1957 1h 22m

Union Army deserter, Lt. Hewitt, trains a ragtag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath.

Pillars of the Sky

Pillars of the Sky

George Marshall 1956 1h 35m 6.0

First Sergeant Emmett Bell (Jeff Chandler) faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin (Michael Ansara) in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.

Red Garters

Red Garters

George Marshall 1954 1h 31m

A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon.

Duel in the Jungle

Duel in the Jungle

George Marshall 1954 1h 42m 6.0

In Rhodesia, the accidental death of a diamond broker raises suspicions with his American insurer, which sends a claims investigator to clarify the matter.

Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff

George Marshall 1953 1h 48m 6.0

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...

Money from Home

Money from Home

George Marshall 1953 1h 40m 5.0

Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that it does not run. He intends to trick his animal-loving cousin Virgil, an apprentice veterinarian, into helping him. Of course, he doesn't tell Virgil what he is really up to.

Houdini

Houdini

George Marshall 1953 1h 46m 6.5

By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.

My Friend Irma

My Friend Irma

George Marshall 1949 1h 43m 5.0

A scatterbrained Brooklynite and her wheeler-dealer fiancé interfere in her level-headed roommate's love life.

Lust for Gold

Lust for Gold

George Marshall, S. Sylvan Simon 1949 1h 30m 6.0

A Dutch miner (Glenn Ford) and an Old West couple (Ida Lupino, Gig Young) die fighting over an Arizona gold mine lost in an earthquake.

Tap Roots

Tap Roots

George Marshall 1948 1h 49m 6.0

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman.

Variety Girl

Variety Girl

George Marshall 1947 1h 33m

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

The Perils of Pauline

The Perils of Pauline

George Marshall 1947 1h 36m 4.0

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials.

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia

George Marshall 1946 1h 39m 6.8

This film noir stars Alan Ladd as a war veteran framed for the murder of his own wife and follows his search for the real murderer. Veronica Lake plays the sultry femme fatale who provides unexpected help.

Murder, He Says

Murder, He Says

George Marshall 1945 1h 31m 6.0

Professional pollster Pete Marshall gets more than he bargained for when he heads deep into the Ozarks to investigate the disappearances of several of his colleagues.

Incendiary Blonde

Incendiary Blonde

George Marshall 1945 1h 53m 6.0

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"

Hold That Blonde!

Hold That Blonde!

George Marshall 1945 1h 16m 6.0

A kleptomaniac falls in love with a woman who is member of a gang of jewel thieves, although he's initially unaware of her true occupation.

Pot o' Gold

Pot o' Gold

George Marshall 1941 1h 26m

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices.

When the Daltons Rode

When the Daltons Rode

George Marshall 1940 1h 21m 7.7

Fictionalized story of how the Dalton brothers were wronged by a crooked development company and became outlaws when the corrupt local courts offered them no justice.

The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers

George Marshall 1940 1h 25m 6.5

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle.

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

George Marshall, Edward F. Cline 1939 1h 16m 6.0

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.

Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again

George Marshall 1939 1h 34m 7.4

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.

365 Nights in Hollywood

365 Nights in Hollywood

George Marshall 1934 1h 17m 4.0

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school.

Towed in a Hole

Towed in a Hole

George Marshall 1932 21m 7.0

Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.

Their First Mistake

Their First Mistake

George Marshall 1932 21m 6.0

Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says that she is through if Ollie goes out with Stan again. Stan suggests that Ollie adopts a baby, which he does.

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