Mitchell Leisen Movies

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's daughter. He wins an appointment to the Academy...

After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon...

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

Peter Olsen, a young social outcast who lives alone on a rundown farm and raises vegetables for a living, finds his only consolation in liquor,...

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...

Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

This documentary on the nightlife of Las Vegas was filmed primarily at the Topicana and Dunes Hotels, respectively, in 1962-63. Musical numbers...

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the...

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet...

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep...

An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a...

Tonight We Sing is a 1953 musical biopic film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the life and career of the celebrated impresario Sol Hurok. It...

In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved...

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her...

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.