Ruth Gordon Movies

From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and...

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living...

One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.

George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter...

A sorority house mother enters her girls in a mud-wrestling contest.

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table...

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.

A lonely widow who frequents Central Park becomes emotionally involved with two orphaned youngsters who have built an oasis for themselves there...

Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good...

In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not...

An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.

A sex education teacher falls for a construction worker with a gambling problem.

A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.

A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that...

Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.

This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and...

Adaptation of the Noel Coward play.