George Tobias
18 titles
Filmography
18 results

Objective, Burma!
(1945)Film about American paratroopers who land in Burma and attempt to take out a strategic Japanese outpost.

The Set-Up
(1949)An aging heavyweight boxer is ordered by gangsters to throw his last fight, but he refuses to give up—even as his wife begs him to stop.

This Is the Army
(1943)In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank

Sergeant York
(1941)Recruited to fight in World War I, a Tennessee farmer with deep pacifist beliefs is driven to take up arms when his unit is overwhelmed by Germans.

Mission to Moscow
(1943)True story of US Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' attempts to forge a wartime alliance with the Soviet Union.

Air Force
(1943)The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Out of the Fog
(1941)A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman's daughter.

The Glenn Miller Story
(1954)James Stewart and June Allyson light up the screen in this tribute to the legendary big-band leader whose humble beginnings led to fame as a best-selling recording artist.

Captains of the Clouds
(1942)James Cagney stars in this WWII adventure about mail flyer who joins the Canadian Air Force for fun but finds himself having to prove his worth when he goes to war.

Sinbad the Sailor
(1947)An ocean of adventure awaits as Sinbad (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) seeks the fabled lost treasure of Alexander the Great. With Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak, Anthony Quinn.

The Strawberry Blonde
(1941)James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Rita Hayworth sparkle in this comedy about a man who wonders if he should have married his wife or his former girlfriend, The Strawberry Blonde.One Sunday afternoon at the turn of the 20th century, Hugo Barnstead (Jack Carson) walks into the office of dentist Biff Grimes (Academy Award winner Cagney--Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Roaring Twenties). Hugo doesn't suspect that Biff--with good reason--intends to murder him. Biff's memory wanders back to the events years before when his partner, Hugo, set him up for a prison term then married his girlfriend, Virginia Brush (Hayworth--Gilda, Pal Joey). But as Biff imagines what his life would have been were he married to Virginia, he realizes that he is much happier wed to Amy (Academy Award winner de Havilland--Gone with the Wind, The Adventures of Robin Hood) and lets his intended victim leave with nothing more than a very sore jaw.

The Bride Came C.O.D.
(1941)
Silk Stockings
(1957)"Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse star in Cole Por When a beautiful Soviet commissar (Charisse) is sent to Paris to bring a Russian composer home, the American Broadway producer (Astaire) who wants the composer for his next show tries to seduce her with """"decadent"""" Western music and fashion. Despite their initial disdain for each other's politics, the commissar and the producer find their o...

Nobody Lives Forever
(1946)Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after the war, only to find heartache and betrayal. Heading west, Nick hooks up with fellow con men Pop (Walter Brennan) and Doc (George Coulouris), who need a Romeo to sweep recently widowed Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine Fitzgerald) off her feet and out of her sizable inheritance. But it's Nick who starts falling, and now that he wants out of the scam, will that fall turn into a dive? Or will Gladys pay the price for Nick's change of heart? Garfield is his usual astonishing self, it's Fitzgerald who proves a revelation, as she stabs at the heart of noir's darkness by perfectly impersonating pure innocence. Faye Emerson plays the fatale, as Nick's sultry ex.

Bullet for a Badman
(1964)
Passage to Marseille
(1944)Devil's Island escapees join up with the Allies during World War II.

City for Conquest
(1940)A truck driver turned boxer risks his eyesight en route to the welterweight championship while taking a backseat to his girlfriend’s dancing career.

Torrid Zone
(1940)Academy Award winner James Cagney stars as the manager of a Caribbean banana plantation who would do anything to get away from the tropics and his underhanded boss--until he meets a woman hot enough to keep him in the Torrid Zone.Torrid Zone: the region of the earth between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn. Plantation owner Steve Case (Pat O'Brien) ruthlessly uses every lie, plo...