James Stewart

Five years into the talkie revolution, Hollywood was overcompensating. The Murder Man features enough dialogue for three movies, drowning a great performance from Spencer Tracy.

Urbane Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) return home to San Francisco and investigate a missing husband.

Jimmy Stewart’s terrific performance makes up for some overhanded direction by Frank Capra.

A man (Cary Grant) sneaks a pair of tabloid reporters (James Stewart and Ruth Hussey) into his stuffy ex-wife’s (Katharine Hepburn) upcoming society wedding.

Jimmy Stewart opens as the owner of a struggling music store who ends up having to give away one-thousand dollars of his wealthy uncle’s money every week on a nationwide radio show.

A selfless man (James Stewart) contemplating suicide glimpses a world where he’d never been born, courtesy of a second-class angel, Clarence (Henry Travers).

Two well-off young men (John Dall and Farley Granger) kill an acquaintance for the thrill, then throw a party and serve drinks off the trunk containing the corpse.

Harvey is a charming movie with a rough beginning.

Hitchcock’s utterly engrossing thriller puts us in a sweltering apartment with Stewart, a daredevil photojournalist stuck in a wheelchair nursing a broken leg. We share in his guilty pleasure as he watches his neighbors through a telephoto lens, but what starts as a pastime quickly turns to obsession as we begin to suspect one of the neighbors of murder.

James Stewart and Doris Day play a married couple who find their son kidnapped to keep them quiet after they unwittingly learn of an assassination plot.

The Spirit of St. Louis is the rare bio-pic/true story film that really works. At least for me.

In director Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal mystery, James Stewart plays John “Scottie” Ferguson, a former San Francisco detective who left the force feeling that his latent acrophobia played a part in the death of a fellow officer.

A witch (Kim Novak) casts a love spell on her publisher neighbor (James Stewart).

Two Rode Together is a passable western from director John Ford that echoes his earlier film, The Searchers.

An idealistic tenderfoot lawyer confronts the fiercest outlaw in a small western town.

A banker tries to relax with his wife by the seashore despite a myriad of distractions.

An epic look at one family’s trials and tribulations over the course of four generations as they seek their fortune in the American west through the middle of the 19th century.

Despite teaming James Stewart and Dean Martin, Bandolero may be one of the reasons the Western died.

In 1901 Nevada, an old gunfighter (John Wayne) rooms with a widow (Lauren Bacall) after learning he has a terminal cancer.

While investigating a blackmail case, a private investigator finds pornography and murder.