The best Raoul Walsh’s movies

Raoul Walsh

Raoul Walsh

11/03/1887- 31/12/1980
Today we present the best Raoul Walsh’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Raoul Walsh’s movies.

The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation
6.1/10
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

It's a Great Feeling

It's a Great Feeling
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/08/1949
  • Character: Raoul Walsh (uncredited)
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.

Sadie Thompson

Sadie Thompson
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/01/1928
  • Character: Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 15/05/2008
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 17/07/2005
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)

The Life of General Villa

The Life of General Villa
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionAdventure
  • Release: 09/05/1914
  • Character: Villa as a young man
Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates both staged scenes and authentic live footage from real battles during the Mexican Revolution.

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