Movies starring Claire Trevor

Stagecoach (1939)

96 mins Action , Drama, Romance, Western

To fully appreciate, to truly understand exactly how good and how important John Ford's "Stagecoach" is you really need to have watched the westerns which came in the years before. You see prior to "Stagecoach" westerns had b...

The First Rebel (1939)

81 mins Adventure , Western

The combination of Claire Trevor and John Wayne is thankfully enough to make "The First Rebel", also known as "Allegheny Uprising" worth watching. There is some fire between them which makes their various scenes together ente...

Dark Command (1940)

94 mins Western

"Dark Command" is loosely based on the real life Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill but as with many movies it mixes fact with fiction to create this entertaining movie all about rivalry and jealousy as well as de...

Texas (1941)

93 mins Comedy, Western

As a child one of the TV shows I would watch was "Camberwick Green". Now you might be wondering why I am mentioning "Camberwick Green" in a review of an old western from 1941. Well "Camberwick Green" had a character called Wi...

The Desperadoes (1943)

87 mins Western

"The Desperadoes" was to be Columbia Studios first Technicolor movie and you get a sense that they were determined to make it a success with a good cast and a western storyline full of popular elements. And to be honest "The ...

Farewell My Lovely (1944)

95 mins Crime, Drama, Thriller

If you are a fan of "film noir" and Raymond Chandler stories then I am pretty sure "Farewell My Lovely" or "Murder, My Sweet" as it is also known will score highly, it is dark, convoluted, moody and pretty much what you could...

Johnny Angel (1945)

79 mins Crime, Drama

"Johnny Angel" starts of surprisingly good, we have the image of the abandoned boat in the fog and a few scenes later when Johnny searches the ship in dock there is great use of light and shadow to make for some great film-no...

Crack-Up (1946)

93 mins Crime, Drama

Crack-Up (1946) Pat O'Brien stars as the art curator who finds himself being made to think he is cracking up when he believes he was involved in a train wreck...

Born to Kill (1947)

92 mins Crime, Drama

"Born to Kill" which is also known as "Lady of Deceit" is one of those movies which garner praise from those who adore film-noir. That's fair enough as each to their own but as someone who isn't fussed by film-noir what I wat...

The Velvet Touch (1948)

100 mins Drama, Thriller

Whilst "The Velvet Touch" starts with the accidental murder of Gordon the entire first half of the movie is a flashback, focusing on how things got so heated between Valerie and Gordon. It is interesting enough as we have var...

Borderline (1950)

88 mins Crime, Drama, Romance

Why is it that any movie which is in black & white and features a crime story with a dangerous gangster has to be called film noir? It is one of my pet hates as if that was the case a lot of movies made before 1960 would be c...

Best of the Badmen (1951)

84 mins Western

"Best of the Badmen" is the sort of cliche western which as a western fan you watch for what it is but it leaves no lasting impression. Now what that means is that we have another western which whilst serving up characters wi...

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)

83 mins Western

If you are looking for a western as a basis for judging all other westerns by then "The Stranger Wore a Gun" could be just that movie as it is as middle of the western road as you can get. There is nothing wrong with it but t...

The High and the Mighty (1954)

141 mins Action , Adventure , Disaster, Drama

When you think of airplane orientated disaster movies the chances are you will think of "Airport" and most likely the disaster spoof "Airplane" but the chances are you wont think of "The High and the Mighty" starring John Way...

Man Without a Star (1955)

89 mins Western

Movie review "Man Without a Star" � Kirk Douglas stars as banjo playing wanderer Dempsey Rae who along with Jeff Jimson (William Campbell) who he saves from a hanging find work as the ranch of Reed Bowman (Jeanne Crain). But ...

* This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name Claire Trevor as one of the principle cast members.