W.S. Van Dyke Movies

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is...

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich....

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king...

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an...

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.

Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as...

A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.