Jacques Tourneur Movies

Odd-couple private detective team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam investigate a seemingly-simple infidelity case that leads to murder.

This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was...

The narrator's voice tells of John Dough, who wakes up after a late-night party and prepares to go to work. However, a few interruptions, including...

An American trader disrupts life on a Polynesian island.

After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to...

An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.

This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never...

Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It...

After his Rangers are caught during a raid, a major must infiltrate the French army to save his men.

Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of...

The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris'...

Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry...

This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.

Gérard d'Ormoise, a young millionaire tired of the easy loves that his income earned him, takes the place of a friendly bartender. He marries...

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of...

An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.

Rogers Rangers fight the French & Indians in Canada while searching for a waterway which will lead to this ocean.

Tourneur's first film tells the story of a chemist, Jules Renaudin. He welcomes a young pregnant girl, Claire, who enters his pharmacy in despair one...

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check...

A man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his wife is interned. His brother, needing his signature...