Porter Hall films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 7 films on Boxlist

Known for Double Indemnity, Sullivan's Travels and The Thin Man.

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Starring Porter Hall

Double Indemnity
1944 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect...
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Sullivan's Travels
1941 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a...
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The Thin Man
1934 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Ace in the Hole
1951 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control media circus.
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Make Way for Tomorrow
1937 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's...
His Girl Friday
1940 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his...
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