Francis Sayles Movies

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as...

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to...

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang...

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring...

Dave Crockett comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron,...

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night...

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...