Movies by Tom Gries

The Migrants
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.

Breakheart Pass
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.

The Glass House
Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. The film follows the three newcomers, it records the grim, terrifying, sometimes fascinating events that occur.

Hell's Horizon
The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather.

Lady Ice
An insurance investigator romances a wealthy young beauty when he suspects she may be involved in fencing stolen jewels.

Will Penny
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start deve...

Fools
A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.

The Healers
The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.