John Houseman Movies

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he...

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from...

Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds...

A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.

Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and...

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation...

A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.

A young poet gets the brilliant idea to live in a department store, hiding by day, and courting his muse by night where it's quiet, and he can have...

Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from...

The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people,...

A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.

This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William...

After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague...

A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.

Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.

Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.

A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.