2026-02-01 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) imdb.com
Director: Alfred HitchcockSynopsis: An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
Cast: James Stewart as Dr. Ben McKenna, Doris Day as Jo McKenna, Christopher Olsen as Hank McKenna, Brenda De Banzie as Lucy Drayton, Bernard Miles as Edward Drayton, Daniel Gélin as Louis Bernard, Reggie Nalder as Rien
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| Jo, Bem McKenna arrive in Marrakesh | Louis Bernard, Hank, Jo, Ben McKenna in the bus | Ben, Jo in the restaurant | McKennas, Draytons in the restaurant | The Marrakesh market | |
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| Ben, dying Bernard | Jo with a message to Ben | Ben, Hank threatened | Lucy Drayton | Rien the killer | McKennas in the Embassy |
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2026-02-01 The Wrong Man (1956) imdb.com
Director: Alfred HitchcockSynopsis: In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel 'Manny' Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Cast: Henry Fonda as Manny Balestrero, Vera Miles as Rose Balestrero, Anthony Quayle as Frank D. O'Connor, Esther Minciotti as Mama Balestrero, Richard Robbins as Daniel
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variety.com
rogerebert.com
moviecrashcourse.com
inspirethoughts.livejournal.com
| Nanny, Rose | Nanny arrested | Nanny | Nanny in jail | Mama Balestrero | |
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| With lawyer Frank D. O'Connor | Frank D. O'Connor in court | Daniel, the real robber | With Rose | ||
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2026-01-31 The Trouble with Harry (1955) imdb.com
Director: Alfred HitchcockSynopsis: The trouble with Harry is that he’s dead. In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.
Cast: John Forsythe as Sam Marlowe, Shirley MacLaine as Jennifer Rogers, Edmund Gwenn as Captain Wiles, Mildred Natwick as Miss Gravely, Jerry Mathers as Arnie Rogers, Mildred Dunnock as Mrs. Wiggs, Royal Dano as Calvin Wiggs, Parker Fennelly as Millionaire, Dwight Marfield as Dr. Greenbow, Philip Truex as Harry Worp (uncredited)
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Beginner's Guide
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hitchcockmaster.wordpress.com
| Arnie Rogers, dead Harry | Jennifer Rogers, her son, dead Harry | Captain | ||
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| Miss Gravely | Sam Marlowe, dead Haryy | Dr. Greenbow, dead Harry | Mrs Wiggs, Sam | Captain, Sam bury Harry |
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| Captain, Miss Gravely | Jennifer, Sam | Miss Gravely, Jennifer, Captain | Jennifer, Sam, Miss Gravely, Captain | |
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| Dr. Greenbow | Millionaire, Sam | Calvin Wiggs | |
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2025-11-04 Detective Story (1951) imdb.com
Director: William WylerSynopsis: Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Cast: Kirk Douglas as Det. James McLeod, Eleanor Parker as Mary McLeod, William Bendix as Det. Lou Brody, Cathy O'Donnell as Susan Carmichael, George Macready as Karl Schneider, Gladys George as Miss Hatch, Joseph Wiseman as Charley Gennini, Lee Grant as Shoplifter, Gerald Mohr as Tami Giacoppetti, Frank Faylen as Det. Gallagher, Craig Hill as Arthur Kindred, Pat Flaherty as Desk Sergeant
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Bosley Crowther
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| 21st Precinct | Det. Pat Callahan | Shoplifter | Shoplifter, McLeod | Det. James McLeod, Desk Sergeant |
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| Lewis Abbott, Charley Gennini | Tami Giacoppetti | Kindred, Susan | McLeod, Karl Schneider | |
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| McLeod | McLeod, Miss Hatch | Lt. Monaghan, McLeod | Charley Gennini, McLeod | Lt. Monaghan, Mary McLeod |
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| Mary, James McLeod | Charley Gennini | Gennini confronts the cops | McLeod dead | Det. Lou Brody, Kindred, Susan |
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2025-10-19 Cry Danger (1951) imdb.com
Director: Dick PowellSynopsis: After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
Cast: Dick Powell as Rocky Mulloy, Rhonda Fleming as Nancy Morgan, Richard Erdman as Delong, William Conrad as Louie Castro, Regis Toomey as Gus Cobb, Jean Porter as Darlene LaVonne, Jay Adler as Williams, Gloria Saunders as Cigarette Clerk
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debbimacktoo.wordpress.com
livius1.com
mysteryfile.com
| Rocky, Delong | Delong | Rocky back on LA | Trailer Park | Darlene | |
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| Cigarette Clerk, Rocky | Delong, Rocky, Williams | Rocky, Castro | Castro, Cobb, Nancy, Rocky | ||
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2025-10-19 Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) imdb.com
Director: Felix E. FeistSynopsis: A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
Cast: Ruth Roman as Catherine 'Cay' Higgins, Steve Cochran as Bill Clark / Mike Lewis, Lurene Tuttle as Mrs. Dawson, Ray Teal as Mr. Dawson, Lee Patrick as Janet Higgins, Stuart Randall as Frank Higgins
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Film
tvtropes.org
streamondemandathome.com
Youtube. Eddie Muller's intro
| Cathy, Bill in the dancing hall | Frank Higgins, Janet Higgins, Cathy, Bill | At the car truck | Cathy, Bill on the road | |
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2025-10-17 Ace in the Hole (1951) imdb.com
Director: Billy WilderSynopsis: An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
Cast: Kirk Douglas as Charles Tatum, Jan Sterling as Lorraine, Porter Hall as Jacob Q. Boot, Richard Benedict as Leo Minosa, Ray Teal as Sheriff, John Berkes as Papa Minosa, Gene Evans as Deputy Sheriff, Harry Harvey as Dr. Hilton, Edith Evanson as Miss Deverich (uncredited)
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Bosley Crowther
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theguardian.com
| Tatum | Mr. Wendel, Tatum, Miss Deverich, Boot | Tatum | ||
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| Leo Minosa buried | Tatums' atricle | Dr. Hilton, Tatum | Boot | |
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| Lorraine | Lorraine, Papa Minosa | Tatum, Lorraine | Sheriff | Deputy Sheriff, Papa Minosa |
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2025-10-11 The Sleeping City (1950) imdb.com
Director: George ShermanSynopsis: A young doctor taking a break from work is shot in the head, and the police can't find a clue even as to a possible motive. Inspector Al Gordon (John Alexander) decides that he has to put some men on duty at the hospital, and one of them is Fred Rowan (Richard Conte), a detective with experience as an army medic, masquerading as an intern. What Rowan finds is a high-pressure world in which interns are hopelessly squeezed for time, sleep, energy, and -- most of all -- money, and walk a fine line on the edge of personal and professional disaster.
Cast: Richard Conte as Fred Rowan, Coleen Gray as Ann Sebastian, Richard Taber as 'Pop' Ware, Peggy Dow as Kathy Hall, Alex Nicol as Dr. Steve Anderson, Robert Strauss as Police Lt. Barney Miller
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Film
nytimes.com
laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com
mikestakeonthemovies.com
Youtube. Review
| Bellvue Hospital | Doctor killed | Police Lt. Barney Miller | Fred Rowan interviewed in the hospital | Det. Fred Rowan | Fred Rowan, nurse Ann Sebastian |
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| Fred Rowan, Dr. Steve Anderson | Kathy Hall, Fred Rowan | 'Pop' Ware | |||
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2025-10-10 Hell's Half Acre (1954) imdb.com
Director: John H. AuerSynopsis: A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
Cast: Wendell Corey as Chet Chester, aka Randy Williams, Evelyn Keyes as Donna Williams, Marie Windsor as Rose, Keye Luke as Police Chief Dan, Philip Ahn as Roger Kong
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mikestakeonthemovies.com
laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com
classicfilmnoir.com
| Lida O'Reilly, Donna Williams | Chet, Donna | Donna Williams | ||
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2025-09-10 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) imdb.com
Director: John SturgesSynopsis: Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Cast: Burt Lancaster as Marshal Wyatt Earp, DeForest Kelley as Morgan Earp, John Hudson as Virgil Earp, Kirk Douglas as Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday, Jo Van Fleet as Kate Fisher, Rhonda Fleming as Laura Denbow, John Ireland as Johnny Ringo
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| Wyatt Earp | Doc, Wyatt Earp | Doc | Kate | Laura Denbow, Wyatt Earp | Laura Denbow |
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| Doc | Doc, Wyatt Earp, Kirk Douglas, Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp | Before the gunfight | Doc, Wyatt Earp | ||
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2025-09-08 Hell Drivers (1957) imdb.com
Director: Cy EndfieldSynopsis: An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Cast: Stanley Baker as Tom Yately, Herbert Lom as Gino Rossi, Peggy Cummins as Lucy, Hawlett Trucking Secretary, Patrick McGoohan as C. 'Red' Redman, William Hartnell as Cartley, Hawlett Manager, David McCallum as Jimmy Yately, Tom's brother
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| Tom Yately | Lucy | Cartley | Drivers at work | Gino, Tom | Tom with fellow drivers |
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| Red confronts Tom | Jimmy Yately | Tom's Mother | Tom, Lucy | ||
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2025-08-31 Vertigo (1958) imdb.com
Director: Alfred HitchcockSynopsis: A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Cast: James Stewart as Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson, Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton, Barbara Bel Geddes as Marjorie 'Midge' Wood, Tom Helmore as Gavin Elster
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| Scottie, Midge | Midge | Gavin Elster | Gavin Elster, Scottie | Madeleine Elster / Judie | |
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| Midge with her portrait | In the forest | Scottie, Judy | At the tower | ||
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2025-07-13 The Desperate Hours (1955) imdb.com
Director: William WylerSynopsis: Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Cast: Fredric March as Daniel C. Hilliard, Martha Scott as Eleanor 'Ellie' Hilliard, Mary Murphy as Cynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard, Richard Eyer as Ralph Hilliard, Humphrey Bogart as Glenn Griffin, Dewey Martin as Hal Griffin, Robert Middleton as Sam Kobish
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Play
Bosley Crowther
nitrateglow.wordpress.com
| Daniel, Eleanor Hillard | Eleanor, son | Cyndy, Daniel Hillard | Eleanor | Hal, Sam, Glenn |
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| Hillards | Cindy, Hal, Glenn Griffin, Hillards | Sam, Chuck Wright, Cindy | Eleanor, Glenn Griifin | Hal Griffin, Hillards |
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| Sam Kobish, George Patterson | Daniel Hillard, Glenn Griffin | Griffin | The police siege | |
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2025-07-09 The Wages of Fear (1953) imdb.com
Director: Henri-Georges ClouzotSynopsis: In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Cast: Yves Montand as Mario Livi, Charles Vanel as Mr. Jo, Peter van Eyck as Bimba, Folco Lulli as Luigi, Véra Clouzot as Linda, William Tubbs as Bill O'Brien
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| Town of Las Piedras | Women's protests | Jo arrives | ||
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| Bill O'Brien, Mario, Jo | Mario, Linda | Linda, Mario, Jo | Mario | Maintaining speed |
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| Bimba blows up the rock | Jo, Mario | |||
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| Luigi, Bimba | Night driving | Mario arrives with the explosives | Mario gets his money | |
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2025-01-21 On the Beach (1959) imdb.com
Director: Stanley KramerSynopsis: In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
Cast: Gregory Peck as Dwight Towers, Ava Gardner as Moira Davidson, Fred Astaire as Julian Osborn, Anthony Perkins as Lt. Peter Holmes, Donna Anderson as Mary Holmes, Lola Brooks as Lt. Hosgood, Ken Wayne as Lt. Benson, Kevin Brennan as Dr. King, John Tate as Adm. Bridie
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Novel
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Youtube. Ending
| Lt. Peter Holmes | Lt. Peter Holmes, Mary Holmes | |||
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| Moira, Towers | Towers | Towers, Osborn | Lt. Peter Holmes, Towers, Osborn | In San Diego |
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| Lt. Hosgood, Adm. Bridie | Osborn, Holmes, Towers, Moira | Dr. King, Towers | Osborn | Moira |
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2024-10-23 Murder by Contract (1958) imdb.com
Director: Irving LernerSynopsis: Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.
Cast: Vince Edwards as Claude, Phillip Pine as Marc, Herschel Bernardi as George, Caprice Toriel as Billie Williams
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| Claude training | First job | Claude | Marc, Claude, George | Claude, George, Marc | Marc, George |
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2024-10-22 Rififi (1955) imdb.com
Director: Jules DassinSynopsis: Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Cast: Jean Servais as Tony le Stéphanois, Carl Möhner as Jo le Suedois, Robert Manuel as Mario Ferrati, Janine Darcey as Louise, Pierre Grasset as Louis Grutter aka Louis le Tatoué, Robert Hossein as Rémi Grutter, Marcel Lupovici as Pierre Grutter, Dominique Maurin as Tonio, Marie Sabouret as Mado, Claude Sylvain as Ida Ferrati
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Film
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Youtube. Arrival at the heist scene
Youtube. Heist scene
Youtube. Final scene
| Stéphanois | Mado, Stéphanois | Jo le Suedois | Heist | |
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| Dead Jo le Suedois, Stéphanois | Stéphanois wounded | Louise | Tonio, Stéphanois | |
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2024-10-19 Across the Bridge (1957) imdb.com
Director: Ken AnnakinSynopsis: In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
Cast: Rod Steiger as Carl Schaffner, Noel Willman as Chief of Police, Bernard Lee as Chief Inspector Hadden
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Story summary
Story pdf
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| In the office | Carl Schaffner | In the train | |
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| Carl Schaffner, Mexican Chief of Police | Chief Inspector Hadden, Schaffner, Chief of Police | Evicted from the hotel | With the dog |
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2024-10-17 Plunder Road (1957) imdb.com
Director: Hubert CornfieldSynopsis: A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Cast: Gene Raymond as Eddie Harris, Jeanne Cooper as Fran Werner, Wayne Morris as Commando Munson, Elisha Cook Jr. as Skeets Jonas, Stafford Repp as Roly Adams, Steven Ritch as Frankie Chardo, Harry Tyler as Gas station attendant
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Film
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cultfilmfreaks.com
dennisschwartzreviews.com
lalafilmltd.wordpress.com
Youtube. Full Movie
| Commando Munson | Skeets Jonas, Commando Munson | Skeets Jonas | At the road block | Commando Munson at the gas station |
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| Eddie Harris, Fran Werner, Frankie Chardo | Fran Werner, Eddie Harris, Frankie Chardo | ||
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2024-10-12 If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952) imdb.com
Director: Carlos Hugo ChristensenSynopsis: While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.
Cast: Néstor Zavarce as Lucio Santana, Blanca del Prado as Madre de Lucio, Floren Delbene as Inspector Santana, María A. Troncoso as Juana, Marta Quintela as Alicia
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Prayer
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mubi.com
| Lucio | Lucio, his father | With the girl | The killer | |
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2024-10-12 Never Open That Door (1952) imdb.com
Director: Carlos Hugo ChristensenSynopsis: A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Cast: Ángel Magaña as Raúl (segment “Alguien al teléfono”), Renée Dumas as Luisa (segment “Alguien al teléfono”), Roberto Escalada as Daniel (segment “El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar”), Norma Giménez as María (segment “El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar”), Luis Otero as Juan (segment “El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar”), Ilde Pirovano as Rosa (segment “El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar”)
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horrorsociety.com
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| 1. Luisa | Luisa, Raúl | Maria, her 'friend' | 2. Rosa | ||
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| Maria, Rosa | Maria | Rosa, Daniel | Daniel | Rosa disarms the criminal | Maria, the criminal |
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2024-10-12 Victims of Sin (1951) imdb.com
Director: Emilio FernándezSynopsis: A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Cast: Ninón Sevilla as Violeta, Tito Junco as Santiago, Rodolfo Acosta as Rodolfo, Rita Montaner as Rita, Ismael Pérez 'Poncianito' as Juanito abandoned, Margarita Ceballos as Rosa
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dance-enthusiast.com
artforum.com
| Rosa, Juanito | Juanito | Rosa, Violeta | Violeta dancing | Violeta fired | |
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| Rodolfo, Violeta | Violeta, client | Violeta in the streets | Santiago, Violeta | Rodolfo is out of jail | Rodolfo kills Santiago |
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| Violeta in the prison | Juanito, Violeta | Juanito | |||
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2024-08-11 Easter Parade (1948) imdb.com
Director: Charles WaltersSynopsis: On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.
Cast: Judy Garland as Hannah Brown, Fred Astaire as Don Hewes, Peter Lawford as Jonathan Harrow III, Ann Miller as Nadine Hale
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Film
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thecinessential.com
18cinemalane.com
loveletterstooldhollywood.blogspot.com
Youtube. A couple of Swells
Youtube. Final Scene
| Don in the toy shop | Nadine, Don | Nadine performing | ||
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2024-08-10 Indiscreet (1958) imdb.com
Director: Stanley DonenSynopsis: Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. She loses her concentration for a moment as she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Cast: Cary Grant as Philip Adams, Ingrid Bergman as Anna Kalman, Cecil Parker as Alfred Munson, Phyllis Calvert as Mrs. Margaret Munson
Links
Film
Play 'Kind Sir'
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filmsite.org
nytimes.com
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2024-06-21 The 400 Blows (1959) imdb.com
Director: François TruffautSynopsis: For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, Claire Maurier as Gilberte Doinel, mother, Albert Rémy as Julien Doinel, stepfather, Patrick Auffay as René, Guy Decomble as French Teacher, Jacques Monod as The Police Commissioner
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| French Teacher, class | Antoine | Antoine, mother, stepfather | |||
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| Antoine, stepfather, Police Commissioner | Fingerprinted | In the cell | On the run | ||
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2024-06-20 Ugetsu (1953) imdb.com
Director: Kenji MizoguchiSynopsis: In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Cast: Machiko Kyō as Lady Wakasa, Kikue Mōri as Ukon, Mitsuko Mito as Ohama, Kinuyo Tanaka as Miyagi, Eitarō Ozawa as Tôbei
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deepfocusreview.com
spacecortezwrites.com
| Tôbei, Genjurô | Genjurô | Old Priest, Genjurô | Ohama at the lake | Ohama |
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| Miyagi | Lady Wakasa, her servant Ukon | Genjurô, Lady Wakasa | ||
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2024-05-14 In a Lonely Place (1950) imdb.com
Director: Nicholas RaySynopsis: A haunting work of stark confessionalism disguised as a taut noir thriller, In a Lonely Place -- Nicholas Ray's bleak, desperate tale of fear and self-loathing in Hollywood -- remains one of the filmmaker's greatest and most deeply resonant features. It stars Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele, a fading screenwriter suffering from creative burnout; hired to adapt a best-selling novel, instead of reading the book itself he asks the hat-check girl (Martha Stewart) at his favorite nightclub to simply tell him the plot. The morning after, the girl is found brutally murdered, and Steele is the police's prime suspect; however, the would-be starlet across the way, Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame), provides him with a solid alibi, and they soon begin a romance in spite of Gray's lingering concerns that the troubled, violent Steele might just be a killer after all. During production, Ray's real-life marriage to co-star Grahame began to crumble, and his own vulnerability and disillusionment clearly inform the picture; the brooding, bitter Steele -- a role ideally suited to Bogart's wounded romanticism -- is plainly a doppelganger for Ray himself (the site of his first Hollywood apartment is even employed as the set for Steele's home), and the film's unflinching examination of the character's disintegration makes for uniquely compelling viewing. - By Jason Ankeny
Cast: Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele, Gloria Grahame as Laurel Gray, Martha Stewart as Mildred Atkinson, Frank Lovejoy as Det. Sgt. Brub Nicolai, Jeff Donnell as Sylvia Nicolai
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Novel
Tim Dirks
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Richard Brody
Bosley Crowther
R.Ebert
| Dixon, Mildred | Investigation starts | Dixon, Laurel, agent | Brub Nicolai, his wife Sylvia |
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2024-04-15 From Here to Eternity (1953) imdb.com
Director: Fred ZinnemannSynopsis: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Cast: Burt Lancaster as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden, Montgomery Clift as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt, Deborah Kerr as Karen Holmes, Donna Reed as Alma 'Lorene' Burke, Frank Sinatra as Pvt. Angelo Maggio, Philip Ober as Capt. Dana Holmes
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| Prew, Milton Warden | Prew | Milton Warden | Prew, Milton Warden, Angelo Maggio |
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2024-04-13 The Killing (1956) imdb.com
Director: Stanley KubrickSynopsis: Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Cast: Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay, Coleen Gray as Fay, Ted de Corsia as Randy Kennan, Marie Windsor as Sherry Peatty, Elisha Cook Jr. as George Peatty, Vince Edwards as Val Cannon, Joe Sawyer as Mike O'Reilly, Dorothy Adams as Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly
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| Johnny Clay | Sterling Hayden | Johnny Clay, Fay | Mike O'Reilly |
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| Mike O'Reilly, Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly | Randy Kennan | Randy Kennan, Mike O'Reilly, George Peatty | |
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| George Peatty, Sherry | Val Cannon, Sherry | Val Cannon | Johnny Clay |
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| Nikki Arcane, sniper | Maurice Oboukhoff | George Peatty | George Peatty dead |
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2024-04-07 Born Yesterday (1950) imdb.com
Director: George CukorSynopsis: Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
Cast: Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn, Broderick Crawford as Harry Brock, Larry Oliver as Congressman Norval Hedges
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| Harry Brock, Billie | Paul, Billie | Billie, Harry Brock, Paul | |
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2024-04-06 Silver Lode (1954) imdb.com
Director: Allan DwanSynopsis: Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
Cast: John Payne as Dan Ballard, Lizabeth Scott as Rose Evans, Dan Duryea as Fred McCarty, Dolores Moran as Dolly, saloon girl, Alan Hale Jr. as Kirk, Stuart Whitman as Wicker
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| Dan Ballard, Rose Evans | Fred McCarty, Dan Ballard | ||||
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| Fred McCarty | Wicker, Fred McCarty, Kirk | Fred McCarty | Dolly | Street fight | |
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2024-04-01 The Wild One (1953) imdb.com
Director: László BenedekSynopsis: The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Cast: Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler, Mary Murphy as Kathie Bleeker, Robert Keith as Sheriff Harry Bleeker, Lee Marvin as Chino
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Hollister Riot
Tim Dirks
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| Cyclists arrive | Johnny Strabler | Johnny, Kathie | ||
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| Johnny beats Chino | Chino, Sheriff Harry Bleeker, Johnny | Johnny | At the police station | |
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2024-03-31 Ben-Hur (1959) imdb.com
Director: William WylerSynopsis: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Cast: Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur, Stephen Boyd as Messala, Hugh Griffith as Scheich Ildirim, Haya Harareet as Esther, Martha Scott as Miriam, Cathy O'Donnell as Tirzah, Sam Jaffe as Simonides, Jack Hawkins as Quintus Arrius, Frank Thring as Pontius Pilatus
Links
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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Youtube. Roman Galleys
Youtube. Battle at Sea
Youtube. The chariot race
| Messala, Judah | Judah, Messala, Miriam, Tirzah | Simonides, Esther, Messala | Judah, Messala | Judah, Tirzah, Esther, Simonidis |
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| Miriam, Judah, Tirzah | Judah, Tirzah | Judah, Esther | Judah | |
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| Scheich Ildirim, Judah | Crucifixtion | Judah on the galleys | The sea battle | Judah, Quintus Arrius, Captain |
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| Quintus Arrius, Judah | The chariot race: Judah on the white horses, Messala on the blacks | Judah, Pontius Pilatus | ||
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2024-03-30 Touch of Evil (1958) imdb.com
Director: Orson WellesSynopsis: When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
Cast: Charlton Heston as Ramon Miguel Vargas, Janet Leigh as Susan 'Susie' Vargas, Orson Welles as Police Captain Hank Quinlan, Akim Tamiroff as 'Uncle' Joe Grandi, Joanna Moore as Marcia Linnekar, Dennis Weaver as Mirador Motel Night Manager, Valentin de Vargas as Pancho, Mort Mills as Al Schwartz - District Attorney's Assistant, Victor Millan as Manelo Sanchez, Michael Sargent as Pretty Boy, Marlene Dietrich as Tana
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Badge of Evil
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popcult.blog
| Susie, Customs officer | Vargas, Susie, Customs Officer | Vargas, Susie | |||
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| Capt. Hank Quinlan, Uncle Joe | Motel Manager | Vargas, Hank | Tana, Captain | ||
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2024-03-22 The Naked Spur (1953) imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Cast: James Stewart as Howard Kemp, Janet Leigh as Lina Patch, Robert Ryan as Ben Vandergroat, Ralph Meeker as Roy Anderson, Millard Mitchell as Jesse Tate
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| Howard Kemp | Roy | Jesse Tate, Ben, Lina, Roy | Ben | |
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| Lina | Lina, Howard Kemp | Howard Kemp, Jesse Tate, Roy Anderson | Ben, Roy |
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2024-03-18 I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) imdb.com
Director: Gordon DouglasSynopsis: A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.
Cast: Frank Lovejoy as Matt Cvetic, Dorothy Hart as Eve Merrick, Philip Carey as Mason, Richard Webb as Ken Crowley, Ron Hagerthy as Dick Cvetic
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Youtube. Full movie
| Matt | Matt, his son Dick | Matt, Eve | ||
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| Matt, Eve at strike scene | Matt, Mason | Mason, Matt | Matt, Mason, Ken Crowley |
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2024-03-10 Ride Lonesome (1959) imdb.com
Director: Budd BoetticherSynopsis: On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.
Cast: Randolph Scott as Ben Brigade, Karen Steele as Mrs. Carrie Lane, Pernell Roberts as Sam Boone, James Best as Billy John, Lee Van Cleef as Frank, James Coburn as Whitt
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Film
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Youtube. Full movie
| Ben Brigade, Bille John | Ben Brigade arrests Billy John | Ben Brigade, Mrs. Carrie Lane | Ben Brigade, Carrie, Sam Boone | Carrie, Billy John |
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2024-03-05 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) imdb.com
Director: Howard HawksSynopsis: Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Cast: Jane Russell as Dorothy Shaw, Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee, Charles Coburn as Sir Francis Beekman (Piggy), Norma Varden as Lady Beekman, Elliott Reid as Ernie Malone
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| Dorothy | Dorothy with sportsmen | Lorelei | Dorothy, Lorelei | |
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| Ernie Malone, Dorothy | Dorothy, Lorelei, Ernie Malone | Ernie Malone | Dorothy, Piggy, Lorelei | Lady Beekman, Lorelei |
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2024-02-10 Sunset Boulevard (1950) imdb.com
Director: Billy WilderSynopsis: A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Cast: William Holden as Joe Gillis, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, Erich von Stroheim as Max von Mayerling, Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer, Jack Webb as Artie Green, Cecil B. DeMille as Cecil B. DeMille
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| Joe Gillis, Norma Desmond with dead monkey | Max, Joe, Norma | Max von Mayerling | Joe, Norma | |
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| Joe, Betty | Norma Desmond, Cecil B. DeMille | Joe shot | Norma arrested for murder | |
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2024-02-04 A Summer Place (1959) imdb.com
Director: Delmer DavesSynopsis: A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Cast: Richard Egan as Ken Jorgenson, Dorothy McGuire as Sylvia Hunter, Arthur Kennedy as Bart Hunter, Constance Ford as Helen Jorgenson, Troy Donahue as Johnny Hunter, Sandra Dee as Molly Jorgenson
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| Sylvia, Johnny, Bart | Sylvia | Helen | Helen, Molly | Molly | Johnny |
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| Ken, Sylvia | Ken, Sylvia, Johnny | Molly, Ken | School for girls | Frank Lloyd Wright House (Clinton-Walker House) |
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2024-02-04 Imitation of Life (1959) imdb.com
Director: Douglas SirkSynopsis: In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
Cast: Lana Turner as Lora Meredith, John Gavin as Steve Archer, Juanita Moore as Annie Johnson, Terry Burnham as Susie (6), Sandra Dee as Susie (16), Karin Dicker as Sarah Jane (8), Susan Kohner as Sarah Jane (18)
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Lana Turner
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| Steve, Sarah Jane, Annie | Annie, Sarah, Jane, Susie, Lora | Steve, Lora | Lora, Steve, Susie | Annie, Susie | Lora |
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2024-02-03 My Son John (1952) imdb.com
Director: Leo McCareySynopsis: In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
Cast: Helen Hayes as Lucille Jefferson, Van Heflin as Stedman, Dean Jagger as Dan Jefferson, Robert Walker as John Jefferson, Frank McHugh as Father O'Dowd, Richard Jaeckel as Chuck Jefferson, James Young as Ben Jefferson
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| Dan Jefferson, his sons leaving for Korea | Father O'Dowd, Dan, Lucille Jefferson, their sons | John Jefferson, his parents | |||
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| Lucille Jefferson under FBI surveillance | Stedman, Lucille, John | John, his mother | Dan, Lucille | John killed by the Communists | |
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2023-11-19 Kiss Me Deadly (1955) imdb.com
Director: Robert AldrichSynopsis: One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that 'something big' is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Cast: Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer, Wesley Addy as Lt. Pat Murphy, Maxine Cooper as Velda, Nick Dennis as Nick, Cloris Leachman as Christina Bailey, Gaby Rodgers as Lily Carver / Gabrielle, Paul Stewart as Carl Evello, Jack Elam as Charlie Max, Jack Lambert as Sugar Smallhouse, Albert Dekker as Dr. G.E. Soberin, Percy Helton as Doc Kennedy
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| Hammer picks up Christina on the road | Hammer recovers after the crash | Hammer, Lt. Pat Murphy | Velda | Velda, Hammer | |
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| Dr. G.E. Soberin | Opening the box | The blast | |
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2023-07-13 Strangers on a Train (1951) imdb.com
Director: Alfred HitchcockSynopsis: A deranged socialite accosts a tennis star with his theory that if two strangers trade murders, they can disguise their motives and avoid suspicion.
Cast: Farley Granger as Guy Haines, Robert Walker as Bruno Antony, Ruth Roman as Anne Morton, Leo G. Carroll as Sen. Morton, Patricia Hitchcock as Barbara Morton, Kasey Rogers as Miriam Joyce Haines, Marion Lorne as Mrs. Antony, John Brown as Prof. Collins
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| Guy, Miriam | Guy, Bruno meet | Guy | Bruno in the amusement park | |
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| Bruno kills Miriam | Anne, Guy | Senator Morton, Guy, Anne, Barbara | Guy, Prof. Collins | Bruno, Anne |
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| Sen. Morton, Anne, Bruno | Bruno, Mrs. Antony | Bruno | Accident in the amusement park | Guy, Bruno |
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2023-07-09 The Cranes Are Flying (1957) imdb.com
Director: Mikhail KalatozovSynopsis: Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
Cast: Tatyana Samoylova as Veronika, Aleksey Batalov as Boris Fyodorovich Borozdin, Vasili Merkuryev as Fyodor Ivanovich Borozdin, Aleksandr Shvorin as Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin, Svetlana Kharitonova as Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina, Valentin Zubkov as Stepan, Antonina Bogdanova as Varvara Kapitanova, Boris and Irina's Grandmother
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Youtube. Leaving for the front
| Cranes flying | Boris, Veronika | Veronika, Mark | ||
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| Irina | Fyodor Ivanovich | Grandmother, Fyodor Ivanovich, Boris | Boris leaves for the front | Veronika, Grandmother |
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2023-06-18 State Secret (1950) imdb.com
Director: Sidney GilliatSynopsis: Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Dr. John Marlowe, Glynis Johns as Lisa Robinson, Jack Hawkins as Colonel Galcon, Herbert Lom as Karl Theodor, Walter Rilla as General Niva
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| Gen Niva | Col Galcon, Dr. Marlowe | Gen Niva | Dr. Malowe | ||
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2023-02-15 I Vitelloni (1953) imdb.com
Director: Federico FelliniSynopsis: Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
Cast: Franco Interlenghi as Moraldo Rubini, Alberto Sordi as Alberto, Franco Fabrizi as Fausto Moretti, Leopoldo Trieste as Leopoldo Vannucci, Riccardo Fellini as Riccardo, Leonora Ruffo as Sandra Rubini, Jean Brochard as Francescco Moretti, Claude Farell as Olga, Lída Baarová as Giulia Curti
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nytimes.com
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| Fausto, Sandra's wedding | Fausto, Sandra | Francesco, Sandra with child | Alberto, Moraldo | Moraldo |
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| Crying Sandra, Fausto | Riccardo, Alberto, Leopoldo looking for Sandra | Francesco, Fausto | Guido | Moraldo leaves the town |
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2022-10-26 The Prowler (1951) imdb.com
Director: Joseph LoseySynopsis: Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.
Cast: Van Heflin as Webb Garwood, Evelyn Keyes as Susan Gilvray
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2022-10-19 The Sniper (1952) imdb.com
Director: Edward DmytrykSynopsis: Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
Cast: Adolphe Menjou as Frank Kafka, Arthur Franz as Eddie Miller, Marie Windsor as Jean Darr, Frank Faylen as Anderson, Richard Kiley as James G. Kent, Mabel Paige as Landlady
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| Miller | Landlady | Jean Darr | Miller, Jean Darr | Miller shooting | |
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2022-10-18 Storm Warning (1951) imdb.com
Director: Stuart HeislerSynopsis: On the way to her new job, Marsha Mitchell takes the opportunity to visit her sister Lucy, whom she has not seen in a few years. There she not only meets her husband for the first time, but also the Ku Klux Klan.
Cast: Ginger Rogers as Marsha Mitchell, Ronald Reagan as Burt Rainey, Doris Day as Lucy Rice, Steve Cochran as Hank Rice
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NYT. Bosley Crowther
| On the way to town | Marsha watches the lynching | Marsha at the Recreation Center | Marsha, her sister Lucy | Hank, Lucy, Marsha | Burt Rainey, Marsha at the court |
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2022-08-28 The Marrying Kind (1952) imdb.com
Director: George CukorSynopsis: 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 times they have had hoping that the marriage can be saved.
Cast: Judy Holliday as 'Florrie' Keefer, Aldo Ray as 'Chet' Keefer, Madge Kennedy as Judge Anne B. Carroll, Sheila Bond as Joan Shipley
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2022-08-18 Guilty Bystander (1950) imdb.com
Director: Joseph LernerSynopsis: A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
Cast: Zachary Scott as Max Thursday, Faye Emerson as Georgia, Mary Boland as Smitty, Sam Levene as Captain Tonetti, J. Edward Bromberg as Varkas, Kay Medford as Angel, Jed Prouty as Dr. Elder
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dennisschwartzreviews.com
noiroftheweek.com
| Max Thursday | Max, Georgia | Max, Captain Tonetti | With Dr. Elder | With Angel | |
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| Max, Varkas | With Smitty | Max | In the metro | With Georgia, found son | |
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2022-07-15 Scandal (1950) imdb.com
Director: Akira KurosawaSynopsis: A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Cast: Toshiro Mifune as Ichirô Aoye, Yoshiko Yamaguchi as Miyako Saijo, Yôko Katsuragi as Masako Hiruta, Noriko Sengoku as Sumie, Takashi Shimura as Attorney Hiruta, Sugisaku Aoyama as Dr. Kataoka
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sensesofcinema.com
| Ichirô Aoye | Ichirô Aoye, Miyako Saijo | Ichirô Aoye, Sumie | ||
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| Friendly witnesses at the court | Attorney Hiruta | Hiruta, Sumie, Miyako Saijo, Ichirô Aoye | Ichirô Aoye, Miyako Saijo | Dr. Kataoka |
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2022-06-24 The White Sheik (1952) imdb.com
Director: Federico FelliniSynopsis: In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as 'The White Sheik'. While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.
Cast: Alberto Sordi as Fernando Rivoli - il sceicco bianco, Brunella Bovo as Wanda Giardino Cavalli, Leopoldo Trieste as Ivan Cavalli, Ugo Attanasio as Uncle of Ivan, Elettra Zago as Aunt of Ivan, Giulietta Masina as Cabiria - La prostituta, Fanny Marchiò as Marilena Vellardi, Ernesto Almirante as Dottore Fortuna, Gina Mascetti as Rita Rivoli, White Sheik's wife, Antonio Acqua as Commissario
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| Ivan on the phone | Ivan in panic | Ivan with his uncle and aunt | Commisario | Ivan with prostitutes |
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2021-10-25 The Sound of Fury (1950) imdb.com
Director: Cy EndfieldSynopsis: A man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal.
Cast: Frank Lovejoy as Howard Tyler, Kathleen Ryan as Judy Tyler, Lloyd Bridges as Jerry Slocum
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| Donald killed | Gil Stanton, Velma | With Hazel | In jail | The lynching mob | |
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2021-10-24 Side Street (1950) imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals money from the office of a shady lawyer - with catastrophic consequences.
Cast: Farley Granger as Joe Norson, Cathy O'Donnell as Ellen Norson, James Craig as Georgie Garsell, Edmon Ryan as Victor Backett
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2021-10-19 Naked Alibi (1954) imdb.com
Director: Jerry HopperSynopsis: A chief of police detectives fired for brutality, tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
Cast: Sterling Hayden as Chief Joe Conroy, Gloria Grahame as Marianna, Gene Barry as Al Willis
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2021-10-18 City That Never Sleeps (1953) imdb.com
Director: John H. AuerSynopsis: Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.
Cast: Gig Young as Johnny Kelly, Paula Raymond as Kathy Kelly, Mala Powers as Sally Connors, Chill Wills as Sgt. Joe, the 'Voice of Chicago', William Talman as Hayes Stewart, Edward Arnold as Penrod Biddel, Marie Windsor as Lydia Biddel
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| Biddel, his wife Lydia | Stuart, Biddel | Stuart | Lydia, Stuart | |
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| Golden Nugget | Stuart shooting | Gregg | Lydia dead | Johnny, Stuart |
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2021-04-08 Baby Doll (1956) imdb.com
Director: Elia KazanSynopsis: Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton was the basis for this steamy sex seriocomedy. Karl Malden stars as the doltish owner of a Southern cotton gin. He is married to luscious teenager Carroll Baker, who steadfastly refuses to sleep with her husband until she reaches the age of 20. Her nickname is "Baby Doll", a cognomen she does her best to live up to by lying in a crib-like bed and sucking her thumb. Enter crafty Sicilian Eli Wallach (who, like supporting actor Rip Torn, makes his film debut herein), who covets both Malden's wife and business. Malden's jealously sets fire to Wallach's business, compelling Wallach to try to claim Baby Doll as "compensation." Heavily admonished for its supposed filthiness in 1956 (it was condemned by the Legion of Decency, which did more harm to the Legion than to the film), Baby Doll seems a model of decorum today--so much so that it is regularly shown on the straight-laced American Movie Classics cable service. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Karl Malden as Archie Lee Meighan, Carroll Baker as Baby Doll Meighan, Eli Wallach as Silva Vaccaro, Mildred Dunnock as Aunt Rose Comfort
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| Baby Doll in her crib | Archie Lee yellls at Baby Doll | Archie Lee at the doctor's office | Archie Lee, Baby Doll | Aunt Rose | Archie Lee, Baby Doll, Silva Vaccaro |
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| Archie Lee, Baby Doll | Archie Lee, Vaccaro | Vaccaro, Archie Lee, Baby Doll | Enjoying Aunt Rose's meal | Archie Lee arrested | |
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2020-11-28 The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) imdb.com
Director: Robert SiodmakSynopsis: A serial killer strikes again during WWII in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer. But justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.
Cast: Claus Holm as Inspector Axel Kersten, Annemarie Düringer as Helga Hornung, Hannes Messemer as SS-Gruppenfuehrer Rossdorf, Werner Peters as Willi Keun, Mario Adorf as Bruno Luedke, Rose Schafer as Anna Hohmann
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| Willi Keun, Lucy Hansen | Bruno Luedke | Anna Hohmann, Luedke | Inspector Axel Kersten, Helga Hornung | Axel Kersten, SS-Gruppenfuehrer Rossdorf | Luedke arrested |
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2020-11-21 Four Ways Out (1951) imdb.com
Director: Pietro GermiSynopsis: Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida as Daniela, Renato Baldini as Paolo Leandri, Fausto Tozzi as Luigi Girosi, Cosetta Greco as Lina Girosi
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2020-11-15 Razzia (1955) imdb.com
Director: Henri DecoinSynopsis: Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy ...
Cast: Jean Gabin as Henri Ferré dit 'Le Nantais', Lino Ventura as Roger le Catalan, Magali Noël as Lisette, Lila Kedrova as Léa
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2019-12-23 The Holly and the Ivy (1952) imdb.com
Director: George More O'FerrallSynopsis: Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne, this moving British drama centers on a recently widowed, aging country vicar who hosts a family Christmas and learns a valuable lesson about keeping his own homefires alight before spending too much time tending the fires of others. Those coming for the holiday include his sister, his late wife's sister, and her cousin. The vicar's free-spirited youngest daughter and his son, a furloughed soldier, also show up. The preacher's eldest daughter lives with him and together they welcome their guests. The vicar is a good man and a caring fellow who spends considerable time caring for and counseling his parishioners, perhaps too much time, for he does not recognize the troubles of his own clan. His devoted oldest daughter quietly deals with a terrible dilemma. She is about to marry an engineer who has just found a long-term job overseas. She wants desperately to be with him, but will not leave her beloved father who seems to need her so much. Her little sister also has trouble. While in the city she fell in love with a soldier. He impregnated her, returned to the war, and was killed. Later the child died and she has become an alcoholic, something she eventually tells her brother and sister. Meanwhile the young people's aunts, learning of the situation, ask the youngest to return home to care for her father so the eldest can marry. Unfortunately, the young woman refuses and heads off to get drunk with her brother. When the vicar learns about his daughter's troubles, he and she have an emotional reconciliation. He then moves on to make peace with the rest of his family. - By Sandra Brennan
Cast: Ralph Richardson as Rev. Martin Gregory, Celia Johnson as Jenny Gregory, Margaret Leighton as Margaret Gregory, Denholm Elliott as Michael 'Mick' Gregory, John Gregson as David Patterson, Margaret Halstan as Aunt Lydia, Maureen Delaney as Aunt Bridget
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2019-10-23 Nightfall (1956) imdb.com
Director: Jacques TourneurSynopsis: Commercial artist James Vanning (Aldo Ray) and his friend, Dr. Edward Gurston (Frank Albertson), are on a hunting and fishing trip in Wyoming when they stop to help two men whose car has crashed. The pair, John (Brian Keith) and Red (Rudy Bond), turn out to be escaped bank robbers, on the run with 350,000 dollars in stolen cash after a clean getaway, and they don't plan on leaving any witnesses -- Gurston is shot dead by Red, using Vanning's hunting rifle, but Vanning survives by accident, knocked cold but alive. He awakens to discover the stolen money, accidentally left behind, and runs with it from the returning killers -- he gets away but loses the bag in the blizzard that hits. He manages to make it to the nearest town, but not before the doctor's body is found, with a bullet in it from Vanning's rifle. Now the prime suspect in the murder, Vanning takes it on the lam, hiding out for months -- unbeknowst to him, however, he's been under observation for most of that time by Ben Fraser (James Gregory), an investigator from the insurance company whose policy covered the bank that was robbed; and has been found by John and Red -- and all of them think that Vanning can lead them to the missing money. But John and Red are perfectly prepared to torture and even maim Vanning to get the money, and they get their chance when he lets his guard down one night to talk to Marie Gardner (Anne Bancroft), a young model he meets in a bar. He manages to get away from his captors after a fierce struggle and makes his way to her place; after convincing her that it's not the police he's running from (which is not entirely true), they take off together, with Fraser and the two hoods only a half-step behind, headed to Wyoming and the spring thaw so he can hunt for the bag and the missing money and prove his innocence. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Aldo Ray as James Vanning, Brian Keith as John, Anne Bancroft as Marie Gardner, James Gregory as Ben Fraser, Insurance Investigator, Frank Albertson as Dr. Edward Gurston, Rudy Bond as Red
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| James, Marie | Red, Doc, John, James | Red attacks James | James, Marie | |
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2019-10-22 Deadline U.S.A. (1952) imdb.com
Director: Richard BrooksSynopsis: An abundance of subplots are expertly woven together by screenwriter/director Richard Brooks in Deadline - USA. Humphrey Bogart stars as crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, whose newspaper is on the verge of closing thanks to the machinations of the mercenary daughter (Audrey Christie) of Mrs. Garrison (Ethel Barrymore), the paper's owner. Though he and his staff will all be out of work within a few days, Hutcheson intends to go out with a bang, exposing the criminal activities of "untouchable" gang boss Rienzi (Martin Gabel). Despite numerous disappointments and setbacks, Hutcheson achieves a pyrrhic victory as the film draws to a close. Throughout the story, the many pressures brought to bear upon a big-city newspaper--political, commercial, etc.--are realistically detailed, as is the relationship between Hutcheson and his ex-wife Nora (Kim Hunter). The cast of Deadline USA is uniformly excellent, from featured players Warren Stevens, Jim Backus, Paul Stewart Fay Baker and Ed Begley to such unbilled performers as Tom Browne Henry, Raymond Greenleaf, Tom Powers, and Kasia Orzazewski (essentially reprising her unforgettable characterization in Call Northside 777). - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Humphrey Bogart as Ed Hutcheson, Ethel Barrymore as Mrs. Garrison, Kim Hunter as Nora Hutchinson, Paul Stewart as Thompson, Martin Gabel as Rienzi, Joe de Santis as Herman Schmidt
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2019-10-18 The Crimson Kimono (1959) imdb.com
Director: Samuel FullerSynopsis: Crimson Kimono stars Glenn Corbett and James Shigeta as Korean War army buddies, working side by side with the LA homicide squad. When stripper Gloria Pall is murdered, Corbett and Shigeta are sent to investigate. Both are smitten by the lovely Victoria Shaw, who is implicated in the crime. Corbett becomes jealous of Shigeta, who is deeply hurt, feeling that Corbett's animosity is borne of racism. Their friendship, and the central romance, is resolved after the detectives bring the murderer to heel in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo. Samuel Fuller's love of oriental exotica is never more pronounced than in the climactic sequences, staged before the backdrop of the Japanese New Year celebration. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Victoria Shaw as Christine Downs, Glenn Corbett as Detective Sgt. Charlie Bancroft, James Shigeta as Detective Joe Kojaku, Gloria Pall as Sugar Torch
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| Sugar Torch | Charlie, Joe | Charlie, Christine | Christine's sketch | |
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2019-10-17 Pushover (1954) imdb.com
Director: Richard QuineSynopsis: Undercover cop falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run and together they double-cross the hood and the cops.
Cast: Fred MacMurray as Paul Sheridan, Phil Carey as Rick McAllister, E.G. Marshall as Lt. Carl Eckstrom, Allen Nourse as Paddy Dolan, Kim Novak as Lona McLane, Dorothy Malone as Ann Stewart
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| Sheridan | Sheridan evesdropping Lona | Lt. Carl Eckstrom | Rick | Paddy Dolan | |
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2019-10-16 The Well (1951) imdb.com
Director: Leo C. Popkin, Russell RouseSynopsis: A small, racially mixed American town succumbs to violence and utter mayhem after a white man, who is suspected of kidnapping a missing black girl, is released by the white authority.
Cast: Richard Rober as Sheriff Ben Kellogg, Harry Morgan as Claude Packard, Barry Kelly as Sam Packard
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| The girl plays near the well | Sheriff with kids-witnesses | Claude Packard detained | The street riots | |
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2019-10-13 The File on Thelma Jordon (1949) imdb.com
Director: Robert SiodmakSynopsis: No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up in the office of happily married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey) to seek help in solving the string of robberies at her wealthy aunt's estate. Before Cleve can stop himself, he and Thelma are involved in an illicit affair. But Thelma is a mysterious woman, and Cleve can't help wondering if she is hiding something. His suspicions are confirmed when Thelma confesses to him that she is married to Tony Laredo, though she swears that she never wants to see him again. When Thelma's aunt is found murdered, Cleve's suspicions are aroused once again, but he is too love-struck to keep himself from being drawn into the complicated series of events that ultimately lead to his ruination. Siodmak directs with his usual skill and polish, but the film really belongs to Barbara Stanwyck who is magnificent as Thelma. Unlike the usual cold, passionless femme fatale of film noir, Thelma has a heart and a conscience. She comes to love Cleve, and has concern for his life and his future. However, despite her wish that her life could be different, she realizes that she belongs in Tony's world, and despite her attempts to sacrifice herself to save Cleve, he is doomed, by his love for her and by his own weaknesses. The File on Thelma Jordan is a romantic, unusual mystery, with a great performance and superior direction. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck as Thelma Jordon, Wendell Corey as Cleve Marshall, Paul Kelly as Miles Scott, Richard Rober as Tony Laredo
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2019-10-12 Pickup on South Street (1953) imdb.com
Director: Samuel FullerSynopsis: Samuel Fuller scarcely used Dwight Taylor's source material, a languid courtroom romance, in crafting this pugnacious potboiler. Pickup on South Street is strictly Fuller film noir -- lean and wicked straight to its core. Barely out of prison, loner and pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) quietly helps himself to the contents of a woman's purse. His beautiful victim, Candy (Jean Peters), turns out to be an unwitting courier for the communist underground; McCoy's booty is actually microfilmed U.S. government secrets, formerly en route to Moscow. Both the FBI and Candy's employers are desperate to retrieve the film. The apolitical and arrogant McCoy has a plan to play both ends against the middle and come up ahead. However, dealing with the authorities may mean life in the clink, and the sadistic communists would rather kill McCoy than pay him off. He quickly becomes embroiled with Candy, who will risk everything to right her wrongs, and eventually even more to save her new man. When McCoy loses a cohort and Candy is almost killed, the cocksure pickpocket finds a stronger motivation than personal gain. - By Aubry Anne D'Arminio
Cast: Richard Widmark as Skip McCoy, Jean Peters as Candy, Thelma Ritter as Moe, Murvyn Vye as Capt. Dan Tiger, Richard Kiley as Joey, Willis B. Bouchey as Zara
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| Candy, Skip in the subway | Det. Zara in the subway | Moe investigated by Tiger, Zara | Joey |
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2019-08-10 The Blob (1958) imdb.com
Synopsis: A misunderstood teen fights to save his town from a gelatinous monster from outer space.Cast: Steve McQueen as Steve Andrews , Aneta Corsaut as Jane Martin
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2019-07-05 Gun Crazy (1950) imdb.com
Director: Joseph H.LewisSynopsis: A well meaning crack shot husband is pressured by his beautiful marksman wife to go on an interstate robbery spree, where he finds out just how depraved and deadly she really is.
Cast: Peggy Cummins as Annie Laurie Starr, John Dall as Bart Tare
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2019-06-30 Sweet Smell of Success (1957) imdb.com
Director: Alexander MackendrickSynopsis: Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About Tomorrow." This in turn was adapted by Lehman and Clifford Odets into the sharp-edged, penetrating feature film Sweet Smell of Success. Burt Lancaster stars as J. J. Hunsecker, a Walter Winchell-style columnist who wields his power like a club, steamrolling friends and enemies alike. Tony Curtis co-stars as Sidney Falco, a sycophantic press agent who'd sell his grandmother to get an item into Hunsecker's popular newspaper column. Hunsecker enlists Falco's aid in ruining the reputation of jazz guitarist Steve Dallas (Martin Milner), who has had the temerity to court Hunsecker's sister Susan (Susan Harrison). Falco contrives to plant marijuana on Dallas, then summons corrupt, sadistic NYPD officer Harry Kello (Emile Meyer), who owes Hunsecker several favors, to arrest the innocent singer. The real Walter Winchell, no longer as powerful as he'd been in the 1940s but still a man to be reckoned with, went after Ernest Lehman with both barrels upon the release of Sweet Smell of Success. Winchell was not so much offended by the unflattering portrait of himself as by the dredging up of an unpleasant domestic incident from his past. While Success was not a success at the box office, it is now regarded as a model of street-smart cinematic cynicism. The electric performances of the stars are matched by the taut direction of Alex MacKendrick, the driving jazz score of Elmer Bernstein, and the evocative nocturnal camerawork of James Wong Howe. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Burt Lancaster as J.J. Hunsecker, Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, Susan Harrison as Susan Hunsecker, Martin Milner as Steve Dallas, Jeff Donnell as Sally
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| Manhattan view | Falco, Sally | Falco, JJ | Susan, Dallas |
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2018-11-23 The Narrow Margin (1952) imdb.com
Director: Richard FleischerSynopsis: The Narrow Margin is generally considered a "model" B picture; some film buffs go farther than that, labelling this 1952 RKO suspenser as the best low-budget studio production ever made. Nail-hard detective Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) is assigned to protect gangster's widow Mrs. Neall (Marie Windsor) as she rides the train from Chicago to LA, en route to testifying at a grand jury. There's no love lost between the ill-tempered Neall and Brown, especially since Brown's partner (Don Beddoe) was killed by mobsters while shielding Neall from harm. On the train, Brown makes the acquaintance of a likeable woman (Jacqueline White) and her playful young son. He also comes in contact with a rather secretive fat man (Paul Maxey), who may well be a mob assassin. Not long before the train pulls into California, Brown is approached by small-time crook (Peter Brocco), who offers the detective a great deal of money if he'll permit Neall to be silenced. Brown appears to be tempted, but this is only a smokescreen to throw the crooks off the trail. The Narrow Margin was remade (and unnecessarily padded and attenuated) in 1990. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Charles McGraw as Walter Brown, Marie Windsor as Mrs. Neall, Jacqueline White as Ann Sinclair, David Clarke as Kemp, Peter Virgo as Densel, Don Beddoe as Gus Forbes, Paul Maxey as Jennings
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2018-10-20 Roadblock (1951) imdb.com
Director: Harold DanielsSynopsis: An insurance investigator, a dame with a yen for the finer things in life and a mail robbery gone horribly wrong are the ingredients in this low-budget but highly engrossing film noir. Charles McGraw and Louis Jean Heydt are tough insurance agents but their partnership comes in for some rough sailing when he former falls head over heels for Joan Dixon, a lady apparently not averse to letting herself be wined and dined by an obvious gang leader (Lowell Gilmore). In an attempt to win the lady's favors, McGraw concocts a plan to rob a mail train insured by his own company. Too late does he discover that the girl is perfectly willing to accept him as he is. - By Hans J. Wollstein
Cast: Charles McGraw as Joe Peters, Joan Dixon as Diane, Lowell Gilmore as Kendall Webb, Louis Jean Heydt as Harry Miller
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2018-10-20 The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) imdb.com
Director: Felix E.FeistSynopsis: Lee J.Cobb stars as Ed Cullen, a San Francisco police lieutenant, embroiled in a clandestine romance with married socialite Lois Frazer (Jane Wyatt). When Lois kills her husband Howard (Harlan Warde), the flustered Cullen vows to cover for her. He arranges the evidence to suggest that Howard was shot during a robbery. Things get sticky when Cullen is assigned to investigate the case, together with his more honest younger brother Andy (John Dall). How can Cullen escape detection without destroying his brother's standing with the force? Man Who Cheated Himself is worth seeing if only to watch Jane Wyatt play against her established screen image. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Lee J.Cobb as Ed Cullen, John Dall as Andy Cullen, Jane Wyatt as Lois Frazer, Lisa Howard as Janet
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| Ed, Lois, killed husband | Ed, Lois take killed husband out | Ed | Andy | Ed, Andy's wife Janet |
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2018-09-05 On the Waterfront (1954) imdb.com
Director: Elia KazanSynopsis: This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) rules the waterfront with an iron fist. The police know that he's been responsible for a number of murders, but witnesses play deaf and dumb ("plead D & D"). Washed-up boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) has had an errand-boy job because of the influence of his brother Charley, a crooked union lawyer (Rod Steiger). Witnessing one of Friendly's rub-outs, Terry is willing to keep his mouth shut until he meets the dead dockworker's sister, Edie (Eva Marie Saint). "Waterfront priest" Father Barry (Karl Malden) tells Terry that Edie's brother was killed because he was going to testify against boss Friendly before the crime commission. Because he could have intervened, but didn't, Terry feels somewhat responsible for the death. When Father Barry receives a beating from Friendly's goons, Terry is persuaded to cooperate with the commission. Featuring Brando's famous "I coulda been a contendah" speech, On the Waterfront has often been seen as an allegory of "naming names" against suspected Communists during the anti-Communist investigations of the 1950s. Director Elia Kazan famously informed on suspected Communists before a government committee -- unlike many of his colleagues, some of whom went to prison for refusing to "name names" and many more of whom were blacklisted from working in the film industry for many years to come -- and Budd Schulberg's screenplay has often been read as an elaborate defense of the informer's position. On the Waterfront won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Brando, and Best Supporting Actress for Saint. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, Karl Malden as Father Barry, Rod Steiger as Charley Malloy, Pat Henning as "Kayo" Dugan, Eva Marie Saint as Edie Doyle
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2018-08-05 The Country Girl (1954) imdb.com
Director: George SeatonSynopsis: A director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.
Cast: Bing Crosby as Frank Elgin, Grace Kelly as Georgie Elgin, William Holden as Bernie Dodd
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2018-07-29 The Moon is Blue (1953) imdb.com
Director: Otto PremingerSynopsis: This is the story of a chaste young TV-commercial actress (Maggie McNamara) who is romanced by a playboy architect (William Holden). Despite all sorts of temptations, the girl refuses the architect's invitation to become his mistress, holding out for marriage or nothing. Meanwhile, middle-aged rake David Niven tries to move in on the girl himself, with an equal lack of success. So why was this harmless little comedy so controversial? It seems that director Otto Preminger decided to film the play as written, retaining such words as "virgin," "seduce," and "mistress" in the script. The antediluvian Motion Picture Production Code refused to approve the film so long as those naughty words remained in the dialogue; thus, Preminger released the picture minus the Code's seal of approval. Rather than hurt the film's chances at the box office, Preminger's bold move resulted in a major financial success -- not to mention the beginning of the end for the ancient, wheezy Production Code. However, in the meantime, troubles piled up; the Jersey City Municipal Court -- at the hands of Secaucus' Justice George King -- fined Alfred Manfredonia, manager of the Stanley Theatre, 100 dollars for screening the film (declaring him guilty of violating a city ordinance), and a ban was imposed on the picture by the Maryland State Board of Motion Picture Censors. While The New York Times' Bosley Crowther dismissed the accusations of prurience, he blithely observed, "The Moon is Blue is not outstanding, either as a romance or as a film...at times, it gets awfully tedious...Its charm...will depend on how much one delights in its choice of words." - By Hal Erickson
Cast: William Holden as Don Gresham, David Niven as David Slater, Maggie McNamara as Patty O'Neill, Tom Tully as Michael O'Neill, Dawn Addams as Cynthia Slater
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2018-07-22 The Turning Point (1952) imdb.com
Synopsis: Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city, and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship for John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.Cast: William Holden as Jerry McKibbon, Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Conroy, Alexis Smith as Amanda 'Mandy'Waycross
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| Jerry McKibbon | Johnny Conroy | Johnny, Amanda | McKibbon, Conroy | Jerry confronts Conroy Sr. |
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2018-07-21 Union Station (1950) imdb.com
Director: Rudolph MatéSynopsis: Union Station is a tense crime thriller in the tradition of The Naked City that unfolds in Los Angeles. William Holden plays railroad worker Lt. William Calhoun. Calhoun goes into action when Lorna Murchison (Allene Roberts), the sightless daughter of millionaire Henry Murchison (Herbert Heyes), is kidnapped by ruthless Joe Beacon (Lyle Bettger). The abduction is witnessed by Joyce Willecombe (Nancy Olson), Murchison's secretary. Using the handful of clues provided by Joyce, Calhoun and his associate, Inspector Donnelly (Barry Fitzgerald) do their best to second-guess the kidnapper. The film's most harrowing scene finds Beacon abandoning the blind and helpless Lorna in a deserted car barn in the deepest recesses of the titular station. Jan Sterling co-stars as Marge, Beacon's conscience-stricken moll. Former cinematographer Rudolph Mate does a nice, neat job as director, seamlessly matching location shots with studio mockups. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: William Holden as Lt. William Calhoun, Nancy Olson as Joyce Willecombe, Barry Fitzgerald as Inspector Donnelly, Lyle Bettger as Joe Beacom, Jan Sterling as Marge Wrighter, Allene Roberts as Lorna Murchison
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2018-07-16 Killer's Kiss (1955) imdb.com
Director: Stanley KubrickSynopsis: Stanley Kubrick's second feature film, Killer's Kiss was made on a budget of $40,000, all raised by Kubrick's relatives. The black-and-white drama was shot principally at night in a variety of seedy Manhattan locations. The plot, told in an extended flashback, covers two days in the life of boxer Davy Gordon (Jamie Smith) -- he meets nightclub dancer Gloria Price (Irene Kane); the two fall in love, and decide to make their futures somewhere other than New York City. But Gloria is lusted after by her ex-employer, Vince Rapallo (Frank Silvera), who not only won't take "no" for an answer but has no intention of losing her to a two-bit boxer. His machinations lead to murder, a police manhunt, and revenge in the best film noir fashion -- the very best, in fact, as Kubrick's use of real New York settings (and very ominous and sleazy New York settings at that) gives the action here a startling verisimilitude, as though we're watching a documentary, or the unfolding of actual events. The violence escalates as Davy and Rapallo find themselves going one-on-one, to the death if need be, with a climax in a warehouse filled with department store mannequins and their various component parts. Director-writer-photographer-editor Kubrick wasn't pleased with the studio-imposed ending added by its distributor (United Artists), but that compromise was a lot more logical and satisfying than the filmmaker's intended denouement. Irene Kane, who played the female lead, subsequently achieved success as TV commentator and journalist Chris Chase; also appearing in the film is Kubrick's then-wife Ruth Sobotka. And Frank Silvera, who plays the villain, was among the most prominent black actors working in theater and films during the 1950s, and eventually achieved stardom on television a dozen years later with his role on the NBC series The High Chapparal. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Frank Silvera as Vincent Rapallo, Jamie Smith as Davy Gordon, Irene Kane as Gloria Price
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2018-07-15 Born Yesterday (1950) imdb.com
Director: George CukorSynopsis: Garson Kanin's Broadway hit was transferred to the screen with only a few passing nods to the stricter censorship required by films. Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her portrayal of Billie Dawn, a strident, dim-bulbed ex-chorus girl who is the mistress of millionaire junk tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford). In Washington to put a few senators and congressmen in his pocket (the better to lay the groundwork for an illegal cartel), the rude-and-crude Brock realizes that the unrefined Billie will prove an embarrassment. Thus he hires idealistic but impoverished Paul Verrell (William Holden) to pump some intelligence and "class" into Billie. Paul does his job too well; by awakening Billie's social and political consciousness, he turns the girl into Brock's most formidable foe in his efforts to buy influence in DC. Along the way Paul and Billie fall in love. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Broderick Crawford as Harry Brock, Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn, William Holden as Paul Verrall, Howard St. John as Jim Devery
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2018-06-10 The Wonderful Country (1959) imdb.com
Director: Robert ParrishSynopsis: Although a mood of melancholy or worse pervades this excellent western, it remains an honest and hard-hitting look at the realistic adventures of Martin Brady (Robert Mitchum -- who produced). Brady fled to Mexico while still quite young in order to avoid prison in the U.S. -- he had killed his father's murderer. After years spent working as a gunman for a wealthy "padron," he hates white Americans but has to go north to get weapons. Once on the wrong side of the border, he gets into trouble with U.S. Army for not helping them hunt down Apaches. But the people he meets in a small town, one a European immigrant, begin to change his black-and-white view of the world. Meanwhile, he and Ellen Colton (Julie London), the unhappy wife of an army major, begin to fall in love. Several more adventures and a tragedy or two affect the unlikely couple's future -- ultimately for the better. Baseball hero "Satchel" Paige shows up in a cameo role, leading an Afro-American unit of the U.S. army. Mexican star Pedro Armendariz is Brady's boss, Governor Castro. - By Eleanor Mannikka
Cast: Robert Mitchum as Martin Brady, Julie London as Ellen Colton, Gary Merrill as Maj. Stark Colton, Pedro Armendáriz as Gov. Cipriano Castro, Albert Dekker as Capt. Rucker
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2018-05-19 The Lusty Men (1952) imdb.com
Director: Nicholas Ray, Robert ParrishSynopsis: The titular Lusty Men are rodeo riders in this modern-day western, assembled with a touch of the offbeat by director Nicholas Ray. Former rodeo star Robert Mitchum, disabled by a series of accidents, hobbles back to his Oklahoma hometown in hopes of replenishing his bank account. Aspiring bronco-buster Arthur Kennedy hires Mitchum to train him for an upcoming rodeo, promising that they'll split the winnings. It doesn't take a crystal ball to predict that Mitchum will soon fall hard for Kennedy's wife Susan Hayward; she can take Mitchum or leave him, but decides to take him so that he'll continue to train Kennedy. After a falling out, Mitchum quits his job and enters the rodeo himself, hoping to win the prize from the arrogant Kennedy. He proves he still has what it takes, but does so at the price of his life. The Lusty Men was co-adapted by one-time cowboy David Dotort from a Life magazine story by Claude Stannish. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Susan Hayward as Louise Merritt, Robert Mitchum as Jeff McCloud, Arthur Kennedy as Wes Merritt
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2018-05-14 Two Men in Manhattan (1959) imdb.com
Director: Jean-Pierre MelvilleSynopsis: The primary protagonists in this routine drama are two French journalists, Delmas (Pierre Grasset) and Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville, the director), and also the city of New York at night. The two journalists are on the trail of a story -- a French diplomat has disappeared from the U.N. for no apparent reason. As they wander through the city tracking down the reason for the disappearance, the journalists eventually discover that the diplomat has met with foul play. Now the two men have a serious disagreement. Delmas wants to take photos of what happened and use them to create sensational headlines and plenty of attention, but Moreau wants them both to cover up what they have found and bury what they know. Given the setting for this tale, both English and French are spoken throughout the film. - By Eleanor Mannikka
Cast: Jean-Pierre Melville as Moreau, Pierre Grasset as Delmas, Jean Lara as Aubert, chief editor of AFP, Christiane Eudes as Anne, Ginger Hall as Judith Nelson, actress
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2017-11-26 Funny Face (1957) imdb.com
Director: Stanley DonenSynopsis: This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's "visual consultant"), who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a "new face". It doesn't take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn, who does her own singing), an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk. Acting as Pygmalion to Jo's Galatea, Dick whisks the wide-eyed girl off to Paris and transforms her into the fashion world's hottest model. Along the way, he falls in love with Jo, and works overtime to wean her away from such phony-baloney intellectuals as Professor Emile Flostre (Michel Auclair). The Gershwin tunes include the title song, "S'wonderful", "How Long Has This Been Going On" and "He Loves and She Loves"; among the newer numbers is Kay Thompson's energetic opener "Think Pink". For years available only in washed-out, flat prints, Funny Face was eventually restored to its full Technicolor and VistaVision glory. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Audrey Hepburn as Jo Stockton, Fred Astaire as Dick Avery, Kay Thompson as Maggie Prescott, Michel Auclair as Prof. Emile Flostre
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2017-10-22 Born to Be Bad (1950) imdb.com
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Joan Fontaine as Christabel Caine Carey, Robert Ryan as Nick Bradley, Zachary Scott as Curtis Carey, Joan Leslie as Donna Foster
| Choosing jewelry for Donna. Curtis, Christabel | Donna accepts the gift | Curtis, Donna | Christabel, Nick | Donna leaves |
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2017-04-09 Paths of Glory (1957) imdb.com
Director: Stanley KubrickSynopsis: Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his troops to seize the heavily fortified "Ant Hill" from the Germans. General Mireau (George MacReady) knows that this action will be suicidal, but he will sacrfice his men to enhance his own reputation. Against his better judgment, Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) leads the charge, and the results are appalling. When, after witnessing the slaughter of their comrades, a handful of the French troops refuse to leave the trenches, Mireau very nearly orders the artillery to fire on his own men. Still smarting from the defeat, Mireau cannot admit to himself that the attack was a bad idea from the outset: he convinces himself that loss of Ant Hill was due to the cowardice of his men. Mireau demands that three soldiers be selected by lot to be executed as an example to rest of the troops. Acting as defense attorney, Colonel Dax pleads eloquently for the lives of the unfortunate three, but their fate is a done deal. Even an eleventh-hour piece of evidence proving Mireau's incompetence is ignored by the smirking Broulard, who is only interested in putting on a show of bravado. A failure when first released (it was banned outright in France for several years), Paths of Glory has since taken its place in the pantheon of classic war movies, its message growing only more pertinent and potent with each passing year (it was especially popular during the Vietnam era). - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Kirk Douglas as Col. Dax, Adolphe Menjou as Gen. Broulard, George Macready as Gen. Mireau, Christiane Kubrick as German Singer
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2016-11-06 Susana (1951) imdb.com
Director: Luis BuñuelSynopsis: Having recently escaped from a reformatory for troubled, a voluptuous young delinquent is taken in by a wealthy Spanish family and methodically proceeds to undermine their conservative religious household through seduction and intimidation. Acclaimed Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel directs this lurid and slightly absurd melodrama starring Rosita Quintana. - By Jason Buchanan
Cast: Matilde Palou as Dona Carmen, Rosita Quintana as Susana, Luis Lopez Somoza as Alberto, Fernando Soler as Don Guadalupe
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2016-11-05 The Young and the Damned (1950) imdb.com
Director: Luis BunuelSynopsis: A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others...
Cast: Roberto Cobo as El Jaibo, Alfonso Mejia as Pedro, Mario Ramirez as Little Eyes, the lost boy, Miguel Inclan as Don Carmelo, the blind man, Stella Inda as Pedro's Mother
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2016-11-04 El Bruto (1953) imdb.com
Director: Luis BuñuelSynopsis: A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
Cast: Pedro Armendariz as Pedro - El Bruto, Katy Jurado as Paloma, Andres Soler as Andres Cabrera
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2016-10-30 This Strange Passion (1953) imdb.com
Director: Luis BunuelCast: Arturo de Csraordova as Francisco Galvan de Montemayor, Delia Garces as Gloria Milalta
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| In the church | Gloria, Fransisco married | Fransisco, Gloria unhappy | Fransisco | Fransisco threatens Gloria | Fransisco tries to strangle sleeping Gloria |
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2016-10-23 Young Man with a Horn (1950) imdb.com
Director: Michael CurtizSynopsis: The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk Douglas plays the Beiderbecke character, here named Rick Martin. An ace trumpter player, Martin is one of the few white musicians to flourish in the black-dominated jazz scene of the 1920s. Chafing against the dullness of the "respectable" orchestras for whom he works, Martin finds at least two kindred spirits in the forms of torch singer Jo Jordan (Doris Day) and piano player Smoke Willoughby (Hoagy Carmichael). He rises to popularity with his own group, and along the way falls under the spell of wealthy jazz patroness Lauren Bacall. After marrying Bacall, Martin begins neglecting his music and turns more and more to alcohol. When he skips one of her fancy parties to attend the funeral of his mentor Juano Hernandez, Bacall angrily smashes all his jazz records, effectively ending what was never a very solid relationship. Crawling into a bottle, Martin loses his touch with the trumpet-a heartbreaking sequence, in which he goes to pieces in the middle of the pop standard "With a Song in My Heart". Unlike the real Beiderbecke, who died of alcoholism at the age of 28, Rick Martin is rescued by his faithful friends Day and Carmichael. Kirk Douglas' trumpeteering in Young Man With a Horn was effectively dubbed by Harry James, while jazz pianists Buddy Cole and Jimmy Zito make uncredited soundtrack contributions. The film was adapted by Carl Foreman and Edmund H. North from a novel by Dorothy Baker. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Kirk Douglas as Rick Martin, Lauren Bacall as Amy North, Doris Day as Jo Jordan, Hoagy Carmichael as Smoke Willoughby, Juano Hernandez as Art Hazzard
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2016-10-21 The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) imdb.com
Director: Vincente MinnelliSynopsis: Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the film's industry's most interesting glimpses at itself. Actress Gloria Lorrison (Lana Turner), director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell) are invited to a meeting at a Hollywood sound stage at the request of producer Harry Pebbel (Walter Pidgeon). Pebbel is working with studio chief Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas), whose studio is in financial trouble and needs a blockbuster hit. If these three names will sign to a new project, he's convinced that there's no way he can lose. But there's a rub -- all three of these Hollywood heavyweights hate Shields's guts. He dumped Gloria for another woman, he double-crossed Fred out of a plum directing assignment, and he was responsible for the death of James Lee's wife. All three are ready to tell Pebbel to forget it, until they hear the voice of Shields, calling from Europe to discuss the project by phone. The Bad and the Beautiful won five Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Gloria Grahame. - By Mark Deming
Cast: Kirk Douglas as Jonathan Shields, Lana Turner as Georgia Lorrison, Barry Sullivan as Fred Amiel, Dick Powell as James Lee Bartlow, Gloria Grahame as Rosemary Bartlow, Gilbert Roland as Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
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2016-07-18 Men in War (1957) imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: Anthony Mann, best known for his intelligent Westerns and hard-boiled crime films, directed this unflinching look at the realities of war set against the backdrop of the Korean conflict. Lt. Mark Benson (Robert Ryan) is the leader of a platoon that has just been given orders to advance to Hill 465, where they are to join awaiting troops and advance on the territory. While Benson and his men are weary, they have little choice but to comply. Needing a transport for their weapons, Benson and his men commandeer a truck, only to discover that it's not empty -- Sgt. "Montana" Williamette (Aldo Ray) has been ordered to escort a colonel (Robert Keith) suffering from extreme battle fatigue to a field hospital for examination and treatment. While Benson's loyalty is to his troops and his mission, Montana refuses to turn over the truck; the colonel is one of the only men he's been able to rely on during his stretch in the Army, and he is determined to stand by him in his time of need. Either way, the men find themselves frequently confronted by danger, and their numbers are decimated when they're ambushed by enemy troops. The supporting cast includes L.Q. Jones, Nehemiah Persoff, and Vic Morrow, who five years later would confront the dark side of war on a weekly basis as star of the TV series Combat. - By Mark Deming
Cast: Robert Ryan as Lt. Mark Benson, Aldo Ray as Sgt. Joseph (Montana) Williamette, James Edwards as Sgt. Killian
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2016-06-02 Forbidden Planet (1956) imdb.com
Director: Fred WilcoxSynopsis: MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. In the 23rd century, Cmdr. J.J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) guides United Planets cruiser C-57-D on a rescue mission to faraway planet Altair-4. Twenty years earlier, Earth ship Bellerophon disappeared while en route to Altair-4. Only the ship's philologist, Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), survived; in the intervening decades, Morbius has created an Edenlike world of his own, for the benefit of himself and his nubile young daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis). His private paradise is zealously guarded by Robby the Robot, a piece of technology far in advance of anything on Earth. When Adams and his crew land on Altair-4, Morbius announces that he has no intention of being rescued and returned to Earth. When Adams attempts to contact home base, he finds that his radio equipment has been smashed by some unseen force. Holding Morbius responsible, Adams confronts the scientist, who decides to tell all. At one time, according to Morbius, Altair-4 was populated by the Krel, a wise, intellectually superior race. Using leftover Krel technology, Morbius has doubled his intellect and gained the ability to shape a new world to his own specifications. Forbidden Planet was a big influence on future sci-fi outer-space efforts, especially Star Trek. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Edward Morbius, Anne Francis as Alta Morbius, Leslie Nielsen as Commander John J.Adams, Frankie Darro as Robby the Robot
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2015-10-29 The Underworld Story (1950) imdb.com
Director: Cy Raker EndfieldSynopsis: Written by murder-mystery specialist Craig Rice, The Underworld Story concerns a corrupt newspaperman (Dan Duryea), who is in the pocket of a gangster (Howard da Silva). When he's fired by a big-city paper, the newsman buys an interest in a small-town weekly. It is while thus occupying that man reforms, devoting himself to clearing a black woman falsely accused of murder. Gale Storm co-stars as Duryea's assistant, who helps him expose an intricate and insidious conspiracy of silence. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Dan Duryea as Mike, Herbert Marshall as Stanton, Gale Storm as Cathy, Howard Da Silva as Gangster Durham, Mary Anderson as Molly
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2015-10-24 Circle of Danger (1951) imdb.com
Director: Jacques TourneurSynopsis: Circle of Danger stars Ray Milland as an American at large in London, Wales and Scotland. During World War 2, Milland's brother had died in a commando raid. The details of his death were somewhat murky, and Milland would like to know the truth. The truth is murder in every sense of the word, though rather disappointingly, Milland himself is never in any peril. While Circle of Danger was produced by longtime Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison, the Master's touch is noticeably absent. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Ray Milland as Clay Douglas, Patricia Roc as Elspeth Graham, Marius Goring as Sholto Lewis, Hugh Sinclair as Hamish McArran, Marjorie Fielding as Mrs. McArran
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2015-10-17 Woman On The Run (1950) imdb.com
Director: Norman FosterSynopsis: Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), a window-dresser and struggling artist, accidentally witnesses a mob-related rub-out of a witness (Thomas P. Dillon), while out walking his dog one night -- after being shot at for his trouble, he's approached by the police, who want to put him into protective custody. But before they can do that, he runs out, and it's up to Inspector Ferris (Robert Keith) to find him before the killer does. He approaches Johnson's wife, Eleanor (Ann Sheridan), only to discover that not only were they the most distant -- nearly estranged -- couple he's ever encountered, but that she doesn't want to help find him, or care if he is found. Then she learns that he has a potentially serious heart condition that he never told her about, and that he has no medication -- she decides to try and find him to give him help, dodging the police with help from a pushy reporter named Leggett (Dennis O'Keefe), covering his job and all of his old haunts; and in the process, she discovers a man that she never really bothered to know or understand, one who not only wanted to love her but does love her, despite the way their marriage has gone, and discovers that there may still be a marriage worth saving. But to do that she's got to find him to head off not only a potentially fatal heart seizure but also save him from the killer who, unbeknownst to her, is just a step behind her and has already started covering her trail and murdering potential witnesses. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Ann Sheridan as Eleanor Johnson, Dennis O'Keefe as Danny Leggett, Ross Elliott as Frank Johnson, Robert Keith as Inspector Ferris
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2015-05-16 Marty (1955) imdb.com
Director: Delbert MannSynopsis: Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama originated as a live 1953 broadcast directed by Delbert Mann on The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse starring Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand. The Hecht-Lancaster movie version, also directed by Mann, replaces the two leads with Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair (as well as featuring several soon-to-be-familiar faces, including Jerry Paris, Frank Sutton, and Karen Steele, plus Joe Mantell, Nehemiah Persoff, and Betsy Palmer from the TV version). But it remains otherwise intact, telling of 24 very important hours in the lives of two lonely people. Marty is a bittersweet, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, and always realistic comedy-drama about Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine), a 34-year-old Bronx butcher. Approaching middle-age as a burly, somewhat overweight man who has no illusions about himself or his attractiveness to women, Marty looks forward to just one thing in life -- buying his boss's butcher shop and trying to make a success in business -- and he's even uncertain about that. A gentle, good-natured man, he lives with his mother (Esther Minciotti), a kind but emotionally smothering woman, in a too-large house and spends his time a small circle of dead-end friends (Joe Mantell, Frank Sutton). One Friday night, Marty's mother convinces him to go to the Stardust Ballroom, where he meets a plain-looking schoolteacher named Clara (Betsy Blair), whose life appears to mirror his own -- she lives with her father, and is frightened about the one prospect she has for advancement in her job. Meeting her after witnessing a humiliating rejection by her blind date, Marty acts on his best impulses and asks Clara to dance, and soon they are actually enjoying each other's company. She is as drawn to him as he is to her, but both are so uncertain about putting themselves at risk emotionally, that the evening almost ends badly when he tries to kiss her -- but they agree to go to talk on the phone and go to a movie the next night. But whatever good feelings he has about Clara are soon threatened by his friends' put-downs of her, and his mother's hostility, driven by her sudden panic that if Marty marries, she'll be left living alone. Marty spends the next day alone and never does call Clara, seemingly having decided that it's best to leave well enough alone. That is, until he takes a good long look at his life, and a listen to his friends -- and he suddenly makes the decision to try for true happiness, wherever it leads. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Ernest Borgnine as Marty Pilletti, Betsy Blair as Clara Snyder, Esther Minciotti as Mrs. Pilletti
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2015-04-26 Giant (1956) imdb.com
Director: George StevensSynopsis: George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious drama for its 210-minute running time, making it one of the few epics of its era that continues to hold up as engrossing entertainment across the decades. Giant opens circa 1922 in Maryland, where Texas rancher Jordan "Bick" Benedict (Rock Hudson) has arrived to buy a stallion called War Winds from its owner, Dr. Horace Lynnton (Paul Fix). But much as Bick loves and knows horses, he finds himself even more transfixed by the doctor's daughter, Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor), and after some awkward moments, she has to admit that she's equally drawn to the shy, laconic Texan. They get married and Leslie spends her honeymoon traveling with Jordan to his ranch, Reata, which covers nearly a million acres of Texas. Once there, however, she finds that she has to push her way into her rightful role as mistress of the house, past Bick's sister, Luz (Mercedes McCambridge), who can't accept her brother's marriage or the changes it means in the home they share. Also working around Reata is the laconic ranch hand Jett Rink (James Dean) -- from a family as rooted in Texas as the Benedicts but not nearly as lucky (or "foxy"), Jett is dirt-poor and barely educated at all, and he fairly oozes resentment at Bick for his arrogance, although Luz likes him and for that reason alone Bick is obliged to keep him on. One thing Jett does have in common with his employer is that he is in awe of Leslie's beauty; another is his nearly total contempt for the Mexican-Americans who work for them -- Jett and Bick may have contempt for each other, but either one is just as likely to dismiss the Mexican-Americans around them as a bunch of shiftless "wetbacks." Luz feels so threatened with a loss of power and control that she decides to assert herself with War Winds, yet another "prize" that Bick brought back from Maryland that resists her authority -- then decides to ride the stallion despite being warned that no one but Leslie is wholly safe on him, and spurs him brutally in an effort to break him, which ends up destroying them both in the battle of wills she starts.
After Luz's death, Jett learns that she left him a tiny piece of land for his own, on Reata, which he refuses to sell back to Bick, preferring to keep it for his own and maybe prospect for oil on it. Meanwhile, Leslie and Bick have their own problems -- Leslie can't abide the wretched conditions in which the Mexican families who work on Reata are allowed to live, taking a special interest in Mr. and Mrs. Obregon and their baby, Angel; but Bick doesn't want his wife, or any member of his family, concerning themselves with "those people." Leslie's humanity and her independence push their marriage to the limit, but Bick comes to accept this in his wife, and in four years of marriage they have three handsome children, a boy and two girls, and a loving if occasionally awkward home life. Meanwhile, Jett strikes oil on his land -- which he's named Little Reata -- and in a couple of years he's on his way to becoming the richest man in Texas, getting drilling contracts on all of the land in the area (except Reata) and making more money than the Benedicts ever saw from raising cattle. Bick is almost oblivious to the way Jett grows in power and influence across the years and the state, mostly because he's got his own family to worry about, including a son, Jordan III (Dennis Hopper), who doesn't want to take over the ranch from him, but wants instead to be a doctor; an older daughter, Judy (Fran Bennett), who wants to study animal husbandry and marry a local rancher (Earl Holliman) and start a tiny spread of her own; and a younger daughter, Luz (Carroll Baker), who's just a bit man-crazy and star-struck by the movies.
The American entry into the Second World War and the resulting need for oil forces Bick to go into business with Jett and allow him to drill on Reata, and suddenly the Benedicts are wealthy enough to be part of Jett Rink's circle, which includes the governor of the state and at least one United States senator at his beck and call -- and Luz develops a serious crush on Jett, who likes his women young and is especially attracted to her, as Bick's and Leslie's daughter. Young Jordan marries {%Juana}, a Mexican-American nursing student (Elsa Cardenas), and his father accepts it begrudgingly, with help from Leslie. The war kills {%Angel Obregon} (Sal Mineo), a death that even affects Bick, but the Benedict family gets through it wealthier than ever and grows some more with the birth of {%Jordan IV} to {%Jordie} and {%Juana}. When the family attends a gala opening of Jett Rink Airport, which concludes with a dinner honoring Jett's success, however, young Jordan's wife is humiliated by Jett's racist edicts, and he is beaten up by Jett's men after punching the oil baron. Seeing this, Bick challenges his old rival to the fight that's been brewing for a quarter of a century and wins by default, Jett being too drunk to defend himself or to hit; he's also too drunk to make the grand speech that was to climax the celebration, and he ends up alone in the ballroom. The Benedicts have it out with each other, young Jordan accusing his father of being as much a racist as Jett, and Leslie caught in the middle between her husband and her son. It looks like the Benedicts may lose each other, until an encounter with a racist diner owner forces Bick to stand up and get knocked down (more than once) defending his daughter-in-law and his grandson.
Seen today, Giant seems the least dated of any of James Dean's three starring films, in part because it addresses issues that remain relevant more than 50 years later, and also because it has the best all-around acting and the best script of any of the three. Taken in broader terms, it's even better, with two of the best performances that Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson ever gave, and perhaps the second best of Hudson's whole career (after Seconds) -- the only unfortunate element at modern theatrical screenings is the tendency of younger viewers, who only know him in terms of the revelations late in his life of his being gay, to laugh and snicker at elements of Hudson's characterization; but his work is so good that the titters usually fade after the first 30 minutes or so. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor as Leslie Lynnton, Rock Hudson as Bick Benedict, James Dean as Jett Rink, Carroll Baker as Luz Benedict II, Mercedes McCambridge as Luz Benedict, Dennis Hopper as Jordan Benedict III, Fran Bennett as Judy Benedict
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2015-01-01 D.O.A (1950) imdb.com
Director: Rudolph MateCast: Edmond O'Brien as Frank Bigelow, Pamela Britton as Paula Gibson, Beverly Campbell as Miss Foster, Lynne Baggett as Mrs. Philips, Laurette Luez as Marla Rakubian, William Ching as Halliday
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2014-05-08 Shane (1953) imdb.com
Director: George StevensSynopsis: The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) is impressed by the way Shane handles himself when facing down the hostile minions of land baron Emile Meyer, though he has trouble placing his complete trust in the stranger, as his Marion (Jean Arthur) is attracted to Shane in spite of herself, and his son Joey (Brandon De Wilde) flat-out idolizes Shane. When Meyer is unable to drive off the homesteaders by sheer brute strength, he engages the services of black-clad, wholly evil hired gun Jack Wilson (Jack Palance). The moment that Wilson shows he means business by shooting down hotheaded farmer Frank Torrey (Elisha Cook Jr.) is the film's most memorable scene: after years of becoming accustomed to carefully choreographed movie death scenes, the suddenness with which Torrey's life is snuffed out -- and the force with which he falls to the ground -- are startling. Shane knows that a showdown with Wilson is inevitable; he also knows that, unintentionally, he has become a disruptive element in the Starrett family. The manner in which he handles both these problems segues into the now-legendary "Come back, Shane" finale. Cinematographer Loyal Griggs imbues this no-frills tale with the outer trappings of an epic, forever framing the action in relation to the unspoiled land surrounding it. A.B. GUTHRIE JR.'s screenplay, adapted from the Jack Schaefer novel, avoids the standard good guy/bad guy clichs: both homesteaders and cattlemen are shown as three-dimensional human beings, flaws and all, and even ostensible villain Emile Meyer comes off reasonable and logical when elucidating his dislike of the "newcomers" who threaten to divest him of his wide open spaces. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Alan Ladd as Shane, Jean Arthur as Marion Starrett, Van Heflin as Joe Starrett, Brandon de Wilde as Joey Starrett, Jack Palance as Jack Wilson, Emile G.Meyer as Rufe Ryker
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2014-05-06 The Tin Star (1957) imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: Taciturn marshal-turned-bounty hunter Henry Fonda rides into a small town where greenhorn deputy Anthony Perkins is sole representative of the law. Sensing that the boy could use some seasoning, Fonda makes it his mission to teach Perkins how to protect himself against the criminal element. Though diametrically opposed in personality, the older Fonda and the younger Perkins find they are kindred spirits in their dedication to their work. Using the lessons taught him by Fonda, Perkins is able to prove his worth by taking on town hothead Neville Brand. Directed with a minimum of slack and flab by Anthony Mann, The Tin Star was later spun off into the TV series The Deputy, which starred Henry Fonda and Allen Case. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Henry Fonda as Morgan Hickman, Anthony Perkins as Sheriff Ben Owens, Betsy Palmer as Nora Mayfield, Michael Ray as Kip Mayfield, John McIntire as Dr. McCord, Mary Webster as Millie Parker
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2014-05-04 Winchester '73 imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: Lin McAdam (James Stewart) and his friend High-Spade (Millard Mitchell) arrive in Dodge City for a shooting contest, in which the prize is a perfectly manufactured Winchester repeating rifle, referred to as "One of a Thousand" -- a gun so fine that Winchester won't sell it. Lin runs across Dutch Henry Brown (Stephen McNally) in a saloon and the two would kill each other right there but for the fact that town marshal Wyatt Earp (Will Geer) has everyone's guns. Lin wins the rifle in an extraordinary marksmanship match-up with Brown, but the latter steals the prize from him and sets out across the desert. Thus begins a battle of wits and nerves, and a pursuit to the death. The roots and raw psychological dimensions of that chase are only exposed gradually, across a story arc that includes references to Custer's Last Stand, run-ins with marauding Indians, a heroic stand with a a shady but well-intentioned grifter (Charles Drake), and a meeting with murderous sociopath named Waco Johnny Dean (Dan Duryea), plus a romantic encounter with a young, golden-hearted frontier woman (Shelley Winters). All of these story lines eventually get drawn together neatly and gracefully by director Anthony Mann, who balances the violence of the events with a lyrical, almost poetic visual language. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: James Stewart as Lin McAdam, Shelley Winters as Lola Manners, Dan Duryea as Waco Johnny Dean, the Kansas Kid, Stephen McNally as Dutch Henry Brown, Charles Drake as Steve Miller, Millard Mitchell as High-Spade, Will Geer as Wyatt Earp
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2014-04-22 Viva Zapata! (1952) imdb.com
Director: Elia KazanSynopsis: Produced by Darryl F.Zanuck and directed by Elia Kazan, this film follows the life of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) from his peasant upbringing, through his rise to power in the early 1900s, to his death. The film presents an interesting but fictionalized picture of Zapata. Zapata, the child of tenant-farmers, was joined by Pancho Villa in his rebellion against tyrannical President Porfirio Diaz. The film romanticizes Zapata and in doing so unfortunately distorts the true nature of the wars he waged. Zapata fought, not to conquer Mexico but to free the land for the peasants of Morelos and other southern provinces. The Oscar-nominated screenplay by John Steinbeck ignores some historical details in order to focus on the corruptive influence of power. Marlon Brando won an Academy Award nomination for his work, as did Anthony Quinn, who took home the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his headstrong, hard-fighting, hard-drinking, intensely romantic character who does not hesitate to die for love. The film also features a beautiful score by Alex North, who also received an Academy Award nomination. - By Linda Rasmussen
Cast: Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata, Jean Peters as Josefa Espejo, Anthony Quinn as Eufemio Zapata, Harold Gordon as Don Francisco Madero, Florenz Ames as Senor Espejo, Fay Roope as Diaz
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2014-04-14 3:10 to Yuma (1957) imdb.com
Director: Delmer DavesCast: Glenn Ford as Ben Wade, Van Heflin as Dan Evans, Felicia Farr as Emmy, Leora Dana as Alice Evans
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2014-03-09 Panic in the Streets (1950) imdb.com
Director: Elia KazanSynopsis: Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from the U.S. Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague. The carrier was an illegal alien, murdered by criminals Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. When local officials note the strange condition of the corpse, they fear that the germs will spread to epidemic proportions, and thus summon Reed to wrest control of the situation. At first facing opposition from rule-bound police captain Paul Douglas, Widmark is finally able to work hand-in-glove with Douglas in tracking down Palance and Mostel, who have themselves become plague carriers. Many of the actors in Panic in the Streets are local nonprofessionals, selected by director Elia Kazan because of their "rightness" within the framework of the story; the rest of the cast is peopled by such film veterans as Barbara Bel Geddes, Tommy Cook, Emile Meyer and H.T. TSIANG. Widmark's son is played by an uncredited Tommy Rettig, four years before he starred on the Lassie TV series. Though Elia Kazan liked to claim that much of Panic in the Streets was improvised, there was a script, adapted by Richard Murphy and Daniel Fuchs from a story by Edward Anhalt and Edna Anhalt. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, Paul Douglas as Police Capt. Tom Warren, Barbara Bel Geddes as Nancy Reed, Jack Palance as Blackie, Zero Mostel as Fitch
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2014-02-23 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) imdb.com
Director: Elia KazanSynopsis: In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards Blanche's aristocratic affectations as a royal pain but also thinks she's holding out on inheritance money that rightfully belongs to Stella. On the fringes of sanity, Blanche is trying to forget her checkered past and start life anew. Attracted to Stanley's friend Mitch (Karl Malden), she glosses over the less savory incidents in her past, but she soon discovers that she cannot outrun that past, and the stage is set for her final, brutal confrontation with her brother-in-law. Brando, Hunter, and Malden had all starred in the original Broadway version of Streetcar, although the original Blanche had been Jessica Tandy. Brando lost out to Humphrey Bogart for the 1951 Best Actor Oscar, but Leigh, Hunter, and Malden all won Oscars. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois, Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski, Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski, Karl Malden as Harold "Mitch" Mitchell
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2014-01-12 The Caine Mutiny (1954) imdb.com
Director: Edward DmytrykSynopsis: Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly-minted ensign assigned to the destroyer/minesweeper U.S.S. Caine during World War II. Soon after his arrival, the ship gets a new captain, Lt. Comdr. Philip Francis Queeg Humphrey Bogart, a tough, no-nonsense veteran officer who tries to turns the crew into proper sailors and the Caine into a tight ship, engendering resentment from some of the men and several of his officers. A veteran of difficult years of service for too long, Queeg has insecurities about himself, his command, and his career that begin to manifest themselves as spells of temper over small details that cause him to make mistakes. Lt.Keefer (Fred MacMurray), the glib-tongued communications officer, begins making suggestions to the ship's sincere but overburdened first officer, Lt. Steve Maryk (Van Johnson), that Queeg may have mental problems. Maryk initially rejects these suggestions, and tries to support the captain, but conditions deteriorate to the point where Maryk is forced to relieve Queeg of command, and is charged -- along with Keith, who supported him -- with mutiny. Enter Lt. Barney Greenwald (Jose Ferrer), a lawyer in civilian life, who reluctantly agrees to help them, mostly out of sympathy for the impossible predicament in which Maryk has found himself trapped. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Philip Francis Queeg, José Ferrer as Lt. Barney Greenwald, Van Johnson as Lt. Steve Maryk, Fred MacMurray as Lt. Tom Keefer, Robert Francis as Ensign Willie Keith, May Wynn as May Wynn, Tom Tully as Capt. DeVriess
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2014-01-05 The Man from Laramie (1955) imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: Anthony Mann directed this brilliant psychological Western reminiscent of Shakespeare's King Lear. James Stewart plays Will Lockhart, who is obsessed with finding the man who sold automatic rifles to the Apaches, resulting in the death of his brother. Will enters the town of Coronado, NM, ruled by the blind and aging patriarch Alec Waggoman (Donald Crisp). Unaware that he is trespassing on Waggoman's land, he finds himself accosted by Alec's sociopathic son, Dave (Alex Nicol), who brutally beats Will and is ready to kill him. But Will is rescued at the last minute by Waggoman's adopted son, Vic Hansbro (Arthur Kennedy). Will finds that Waggoman has become increasingly concerned over who will inherit his vast empire. - By Paul Brenner
Cast: James Stewart as Will Lockhart, Arthur Kennedy as Vic Hansbro, Donald Crisp as Alec Waggoman, Cathy O'Donnell as Barbara Waggoman, Alex Nicol as Dave Waggoman, Aline MacMahon as Kate Canaday, Wallace Ford as Charles O'Leary
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2013-12-23 White Christmas (1954) imdb.com
Director: Michael CurtizSynopsis: White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full of oldie-but-goodie Irving Berlin tunes are woven into the film's simplistic plotline, along with a handful of new songs, of which "What Can You Do With a General?" is the least memorable. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye (replacing an ailing Donald O'Connor) play nightclub entertainers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, while Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen are cast as singing-sister act Betty and Judy. The foursome travel to Vermont to visit Bob and Phil's WII commanding officer, General Waverly (Dean Jagger, who looks and sounds like Dwight D. Eisenhower!), who now runs a rustic old inn. Discovering that the general is in dire financial straits, the four entertainers secretly make plans to bail the old guy out with a big musical show, enlisting the aid of Bob and Phil's army buddies. Corny in the extreme, White Christmas evidently struck a responsive note with film fans; it was the high-grossing picture of 1954, and a decade later proved to be a ratings bonanza when it was given its network-TV premiere. Of the four stars, Crosby comes off best, especially when singing the title song at the beginning and end of the film; Kaye is a bit overshadowed this time out, though he's quite funny camping it up in a "drag" version of Irving Berlin's "Sisters." Still a big favorite on the home-video circuit, White Christmas may not be the best Bing Crosby musical on the market, but it's certainly one of the most heartwarming. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Bing Crosby as Bob Wallace, Danny Kaye as Phil Davis, Rosemary Clooney as Betty, Vera-Ellen as Judy, Dean Jagger as Gen. Waverly, Mary Wickes as Emma
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Youtube. The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing
Youtube. Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me
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2013-12-08 The Court Jester (1956) imdb.com
Director: Norman Panama, Melvin FrankSynopsis: Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful place as leader of the British Empire, his rule is usurped by Roderick (Cecil Parker), an evil pretender to the throne. Brave rebel leader The Black Fox (Edward Ashley) intends to remove Roderick from the palace and bring the crown back to its true owner, but in the meantime the baby king needs to be looked after, which is the job of a man named Hawkins (Kaye). The Black Fox travels with the little king and his rebels as they search for the key to a secret tunnel that will allow them passage into the castle. Maid Jean (Glynis Johns), one of the rebels, meets a man en route to the Castle who is to be Roderick's new jester. The rebels quickly hatch a plan: detain the jester and send Hawkins in his place; the king can then find the key and initiate the overthrow. Hawkins is able to persuade Roderick and his men that he is indeed a jester, but his espionage work gets complicated when Princess Gwendolyn (Angela Lansbury) falls in love with him, and he runs afoul of Sir Ravenhurst (Basil Rathbone), the evil genius behind Roderick. Court Jester features Kaye's famous "Pellet with the Poison" routine. - By Mark Deming
Cast: Danny Kaye as Hawkins, Glynis Johns as Maid Jean, Basil Rathbone as Sir Ravenhurst, Angela Lansbury as Princess Gwendolyn, Cecil Parker as King Roderick, Mildred Natwick as Griselda, Edward Ashley as Black Fox
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2013-12-04 The Hitch-Hiker (1953) imdb.com
Director: Ida LupinoSynopsis: Two men on a fishing trip pick up a psychopathic fugitive with an intense hatred of humanity in this relentlessly suspenseful thriller directed by Ida Lupino and written by Daniel Mainwaring (Invasion of the Body Snatchers). Ray Collins (Edmund O'Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy) are on their way to a relaxing weekend on the lake when they make the fateful mistake of giving a ride to Emmett Myers (William Tallman), a ruthless killer on the run from the cops. As a young child Myers was severely abused, and now he's determined to make the world suffer for the atrocities committed against him. An unrepentant sadist, Myers repeatedly uses his faulty eye (which is permanently open) to trick his two terrified victims into believing they have gained the upper hand in the tense stand-off, only to turn the tables on them at the last second. Inspired by the horrific crimes of real life mass murderer William Cook, who was eventually executed in San Quentin. - By Jason Buchanan
Cast: Edmond O'Brien as Ray Collins, Frank Lovejoy as Gilbert Bowen, William Talman as Emmett Myers
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2013-11-05 Hell Drivers (1957) imdb.com
Director: Cy Raker EndfieldSynopsis: In this efficient British crime drama, Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-con looking for honest work. He thinks he's found it when he takes a job as a truck driver, but he soon discovers that the trucking firm he's signed on with is not playing by the rules. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company's best driver, and Cartley (William Hartnell), the manager, have created five fictional drivers who have been added to the payroll. The other staff drivers are given the shifts that the phony drivers are supposed to be working, while Red and Cartley divide their pay packets. When Tom attempts to expose the corruption at the trucking firm, he soon discovers that he's taken his life in his hands in the process. Keep an eye peeled for a supporting performance by a young Sean Connery (it was only his fifth screen role); the cast also includes Herbert Lom, Jill Ireland, Peggy Cummins, and David McCallum. - By Mark Deming
Cast: Stanley Baker as Tom Yately, Herbert Lom as Gino, Peggy Cummins as Lucy, Patrick McGoohan as Red
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2013-08-03 Pork Chop Hill (1959) imdb.com
Director: Lewis MilestoneSynopsis: Pork Chop Hill was based on the eyewitness essays of ex-soldier S. L. A. Marshall. The film is set during the Korean "police action." While diplomats argue pointlessly over the shape of the negotiation tables at Panmunjon, United Nations troops bleed and die. Lieutenant Gregory Peck leads a 135-man unit on the attack of the Chinese-held Pork Chop Hill. When reinforcements finally arrive, only 25 of Peck's men survive (and they aren't the usual survivors we've come to expect from earlier, cliché-ridden war films). Among the American troops are such dependable performers as Harry Guardino, Woody Strode, Rip Torn, Barry Atwater, George Peppard, Robert Blake and Martin Landau. Former cowboy-star Bob Steele also shows up briefly as an American general. According to director Lewis Milestone, Pork Chop Hill was cut by nearly twenty minutes because the wife of star Gregory Peck felt that her husband made his first entrance too late into the picture. True or not, the film does show signs of post-production tampering, with flashes of several excised scenes showing up under the main title credits. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Gregory Peck as Lt. Joe Clemons
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2013-06-24 The Searchers (1956) imdb.com
Director: John FordSynopsis: If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle like such Ford classics as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) and a film about one man's troubling moral codes, a big-screen adventure of the 1950s that anticipated the complex themes and characters that would dominate the 1970s. John Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a former Confederate soldier who returns to his brother Aaron's frontier cabin three years after the end of the Civil War. Ethan still has his rebel uniform and weapons, a large stash of Yankee gold, and no explanations as to where he's been since Lee's surrender. A loner not comfortable in the bosom of his family, Ethan also harbors a bitter hatred of Indians (though he knows their lore and language well) and trusts no one but himself. Ethan and Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), Aaron's adopted son, join a makeshift band of Texas Rangers fending off an assault by renegade Comanches. Before they can run off the Indians, several homes are attacked, and Ethan returns to discover his brother and sister-in-law dead and their two daughters kidnapped. While they soon learn that one of the girls is dead, the other, Debbie, is still alive, and with obsessive determination, Ethan and Martin spend the next five years in a relentless search for Debbie -- and for Scar (Henry Brandon), the fearsome Comanche chief who abducted her. But while Martin wants to save his sister and bring her home, Ethan seems primarily motivated by his hatred of the Comanches; it's hard to say if he wants to rescue Debbie or murder the girl who has lived with Indians too long to be considered "white." John Wayne gives perhaps his finest performance in a role that predated screen antiheroes of the 1970s; by the film's conclusion, his single-minded obsession seems less like heroism and more like madness. Wayne bravely refuses to soft-pedal Ethan's ugly side, and the result is a remarkable portrait of a man incapable of answering to anyone but himself, who ultimately has more in common with his despised Indians than with his more "civilized" brethren. Natalie Wood is striking in her brief role as the 16-year-old Debbie, lost between two worlds, and Winton C. Hoch's Technicolor photography captures Monument Valley's savage beauty with subtle grace. The Searchers paved the way for such revisionist Westerns as The Wild Bunch (1969) and McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), and its influence on movies from Taxi Driver (1976) to Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Star Wars (1977) testifies to its lasting importance. - By Mark Deming
Cast: John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, Jeffrey Hunter as Martin Pawley, Vera Miles as Laurie Jorgensen, Ward Bond as Capt. Reverend Clayton, Natalie Wood as Debbie Edwards, older, Henry Brandon as Chief Scar, Harry Carey, Jr. as Brad Jorgensen, Lana Wood as Debbie Edwards, younger, Walter Coy as Aaron Edwards, Dorothy Jordan as Martha Edwards
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Youtube. Before the Indian attack
| Ethan, Aaron, Martha Edwards | The funeral of Edwards family | The search of the Comanches | Brad, Martin, Ethan | Laurie, Martin | Ethan, Martin in winter |
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2013-02-14 Vera Cruz (1954) imdb.com
Director: Robert AldrichSynopsis: A mission to escort a beautiful Mexican countess (Denise Darcel) to the port of Vera Cruz unites Ben, a Civil War veteran (Gary Cooper), and Joe, a man on the run (Burt Lancaster). The genteel Ben and fast-talking Joe make an unlikely team as they dodge a band of outlaws and their leader (Ernest Borgnine). But once the two discover they're escorting a fortune in gold, it's every man for himself.
Cast: Gary Cooper as Benjamin Trane, Burt Lancaster as Joe Erin, Denise Darcel as Countess Marie Duvarre, Cesar Romero as Marquis de Labordere, Sarita Montiel as Nina
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2012-12-14 Thunder Road (1958) imdb.com
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Youtube. Car chase
Robert Mitchum as Lucas Doolin, Jacques Aubuchon as Carl Kogan, Keely Smith as Francie Wymore, Sandra Knight as Roxanna Ledbetter, James Mitchum as Robin Doolin
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2012-11-02 The Breaking Point (1950) imdb.com
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John Garfield as Harry Morgan, Patricia Neal as Leona Charles, Phyllis Thaxter as Lucy Morgan, Juano Hernández as Wesley Park, Wallace Ford as F.R. Duncan
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2012-10-15 Rio Grande (1950) imdb.com
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John Wayne as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, Maureen O'Hara as Kathleen Yorke, Claude Jarman Jr. as Trooper Jeff Yorke
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2012-10-12 The Quiet Man (1952) imdb.com
Director: John FordSynopsis: Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet Man. Irish-American boxer John Wayne, recovering from the trauma of having accidentally killed a man in the ring, arrives in the Irish village where he was born. Hoping to bury his past and settle down to a life of tranquility, Wayne has purchased the home of his birth from wealthy local widow Mildred Natwick, a transaction that has incurred the wrath of pugnacious squire Victor McLaglen, who coveted the property for himself. By and by, Wayne falls in love with McLaglen's beautiful, high-spirited sister Maureen O'Hara. Her insistence that Wayne conduct his courtship in a proper Irish manner-with puckish matchmaker Barry Fitzgerald along for the ride as "chaperone"--is but one obstacle to their future happiness: the other is McLaglen, who spitefully refuses to give his consent to his sister's marriage, or to honor the tradition of paying a dowry to Wayne. Wayne could care less about dowries, but the tradition-bound Maureen refuses to consummate her marriage until McLaglen pays up. Under any other circumstances, Wayne would have punched out the bullying McLaglen long ago, but ever since his tragedy in the ring he has been reluctant to fight. Local priest Ward Bond conspires with several locals to trick McLaglen into paying his due. They intimate that widow Natwick, for whom McLaglen carries a torch, will marry the old brute if he'll give his consent to the marriage and fork over the dowry. But McLaglen finds he's been tricked and the situation remains at a standoff, with the frustrated Wayne locked out of his wife's bedroom. When Maureen accuses him of being a coward and walks out on him, our hero can stand no more. He marches Maureen to McLaglen's home, indicating that he plans to whale the tar out of both brother and sister. As a huge and appreciative crowd gathers the cornered McLaglen truculently tosses the money in Wayne's direction. Big John hands the bills to Maureen, just as she knew he would, and she ceremoniously destroys the money, just as he knew je would. Having proven their love for each other, there is nothing left for Wayne and Maureen to do but head home and perform their nuptual duties. But first there's the matter of giving McLaglen the thrashing he deserves....and it is this spectacular donnybrook, which covers several acres of land and at least two "pit stops" so that the combatants can quench their thirst, which convinces Natwick that the defeated McLaglen is truly worthy of her love (her logic is on a par with everyone else's in the film!) Though it tends to perpetuate the myth that all true Irishmen live only to fight, drink and make love, The Quiet Man is grand and glorious fun, enacted with gusto by a largely Hibernian cast and directed with loving care by a master of his craft. Written by Frank Nugent and graced with a lilting musical score by Victor Young, the film won Oscars for Archie Stout's Technicolor photography and for John Ford's direction-a real coup for "poverty row" Republic Pictures. If you haven't already luxuriated in this wonderful film, be sure to catch in on the tube next St. Patrick's Day. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: John Wayne as Sean Thornton, Maureen O'Hara as Mary Kate Danaher, Victor McLaglen as Red Will Danaher
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Youtube. Bing Crosby - Isle Of Innisfree
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2012-09-26 The Big Heat (1953) imdb.com
Director: Fritz LangSynopsis: Fritz Lang directed this gritty drama of gangland murder and police corruption, which was considered quite violent in its day. Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) is a scrupulously honest police detective who learns that one of his fellow officers has committed suicide. Bannion is told by the officer's wife, Bertha (Jeanette Nolan), that he was severely depressed after being told he was diagnosed with a terminal illness. But the cop's mistress, a barmaid named Lucy (Dorothy Green), has another tale to tell. She claims that he left behind a suicide note detailing a complex trail of corruption in the department, leading to mob boss Mike Lagana (Alexander Scourby), and now Bertha plans to use the note to blackmail Lagana. When Lucy is found dead beside an abandoned road, with her body showing obvious signs of torture, Bannion is convinced that her story was true, and he goes after Lagana. When he threatens to expose Lagana's dealings, the gangster orders Bannion killed. But the car bomb meant to finish Bannion off instead kills his wife Katie (Jocelyn Brando). The police take Bannion off the case, but, convinced his peers are trying to cover their tracks, Bannion follows the case alone, determined to get revenge. Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame shine in key supporting roles. - By Mark Deming
Cast: Glenn Ford as Det. Dave Bannion, Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh, Jocelyn Brando as Katie Bannion, Alexander Scourby as Mike Lagana, Lee Marvin as Vince Stone
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2012-07-14 Flying Leathernecks (1951) imdb.com
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John Wayne as Maj. Daniel Kirby, Robert Ryan as Capt. Carl "Griff" Griffin
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2012-07-07 Bitter Victory (1957) imdb.com
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Richard Burton as Capt. Leith, Curd Jürgens as Maj. David Brand, Ruth Roman as Jane Brand, Raymond Pellegrin as Mekrane
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2012-06-23 Moby Dick (1956) imdb.com
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Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, Leo Genn Leo Genn as Starbuck, Friedrich von Ledebur as Queequeg
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2012-06-17 Johnny Guitar (1954) imdb.com
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Youtube. Posse comes to Vienna's
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2012-05-26 On Dangerous Ground (1952) imdb.com
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Ida Lupino as Mary Malden, Robert Ryan as Jim Wilson
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2012-05-20 East of Eden (1955) imdb.com
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Julie Harris as Abra, James Dean as Cal Trask, Raymond Massey as Adam Trask, Burl Ives as Sam the Sheriff, Richard Davalos as Aron Trask
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2012-04-16 Rebel Without a Cause (1955) imdb.com
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James Dean as Jim Stark, Natalie Wood as Judy, Sal Mineo as John 'Plato' Crawford, Jim Backus as Frank Stark, Ann Doran as Mrs. Carol Stark, Corey Allenas Buzz Gunderson
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2012-04-03 Operation Pacific (1951) imdb.com
George Waggneren.wikipedia.org
John Wayne as Lt Cmdr. Duke E. Gifford, Patricia Neal as Lt. Mary Stuart
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| In the church | Duke Gifford, Mary Stuart | In the hospital with the baby | With the sailor | Reconciliation |
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2012-03-27 His Kind of Woman (1951) imdb.com
John Farrowen.wikipedia.org
classicfilmguide.com
Robert Mitchum as Dan Milner, Jane Russell as Lenore Brent, Vincent Price as Mark Cardigan
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2012-03-14 Rio Bravo (1959) imdb.com
Howard Hawksen.wikipedia.org
R.Ebert
youtube.com
John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance, Dean Martin as Dude ('Borrachón'), Ricky Nelson as Colorado Ryan, Angie Dickinson as Feathers, Walter Brennan as Stumpy, Ward Bond as Pat Wheeler, John Russell as Nathan Burdette, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez as Carlos Robante
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| Patroling the street | Confrontation with Burdette's men | Feathers | |
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2012-03-08 High Noon (1952) imdb.com
Fred ZinnemannWiki
Tim Dirks
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Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane, Katy Jurado as Helen Ramírez, Grace Kelly as Amy Fowler Kane,
| Kane, Ami wed | Leaving town | Ami persuading to leave |
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2012-01-25 Some Like It Hot (1959) imdb.com
Billy Wilderen.wikipedia.org
Tim Dirks
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| Tony Curtis as Joe, Jack Lemmon as Jerry, Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk | ||
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2011-10-22 Loophole (1954) imdb.com
Harold D. Schusteren.wikipedia.org
zimbio.com
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Barry Sullivan as Mike Donovan, Dorothy Malone as Ruthie Donovan, Charles McGraw as Gus Slavin
| With insurance investigtor | With wife |
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2011-08-28 Raintree County (1957) imdb.com
Edward Dmytryken.wikipedia.org
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2011-07-21 Suddenly (1954) imdb.com
Lewis Allenfilm.u-net.com
classicfilmguide.com
Frank Sinatra as John Baron, Sterling Hayden as Sheriff Tod Shaw, James Gleason as Pop Benson, Nancy Gates as Ellen Benson, Kim Charney as Peter Benson III - 'Pidge'
| In the store | FBI team arrives | Gangsters at Ellen's house | With Baron | |
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2011-07-16 Death of a Cyclist (1955) imdb.com
Juan Antonio Bardemcriterion.com
criterionconfessions.com
classicfilmguide.com
| Lucia Bosé as María José de Castro, Alberto Closas as Juan Fernandez Soler | |
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2011-07-10 Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) imdb.com
Joseph L. Mankiewiczen.wikipedia.org
movies.nytimes.com
9.epinions.com
youtube.com
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| Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly, Katharine Hepburn as Violet Venable, Montgomery Clift as Dr. John Cukrowicz | ||
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2011-04-12 The Bad Seed (1956) imdb.com
Mervyn LeRoyWiki. Film
Wiki. Novel
Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark, Nancy Kelly as Christine, Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Daigle, Henry Jones as LeRoy
Youtube. Shoes scene
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2011-04-09 Girlfriends (1955) imdb.com
Michelangelo AntonioniA.O.Scott
J. Hoberman
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In the train
2011-04-06 Blackboard Jungle (1955) imdb.com
Richard Brooksen.wikipedia.org
san.beck.org
Youtube. Trailer
Youtube. Artie West/Mr. Dadier
| Glenn Ford as Richard Dadier, Sidney Poitier as Gregory W. Miller, Vic Morrow as Artie West | ||
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2011-02-13 Sabrina (1954) imdb.com
Billy Wilderen.wikipedia.org
J.Berardinelli
homecinema.thedigitalfix.co.uk
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youtube.com
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| Humphrey Bogart as Linus Larrabee, Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina Fairchild, William Holden as David Larrabee | |||
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2010-11-02 Nightfall (1957) imdb.com
Jacques Tourneuren.wikipedia.org
| Aldo Ray as James Vanning, Frank Albertson as Dr. Edward Gurston | Aldo Ray as James Vanning, Anne Bancroft as Marie Gardner | Anne Bancroft as Marie Gardner | ||
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2010-10-31 The Steel Trap (1952) imdb.com
Andrew L.StoneNYT
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2010-10-24 Cry Danger (1951) imdb.com
Robert Parrishnoiroftheweek.com
slantmagazine.com
thestopbutton.com
berkeleydailyplanet.com
Dick Powell as 'Rocky' Mulloy
Picture gallery
2010-05-02 A Face in the Crowd (1957) imdb.com
Elia Kazanen.wikipedia.org
Youtube youtube.com
sfgate.com
villagevoice.com
Andy Griffith as Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes, Patricia Neal as Marcia Jeffries
2010-04-17 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952) imdb.com
Orson Wellesen.wikipedia.org
R.Ebert
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2009-08-04 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) imdb.com
Richard BrooksWiki.film
Wiki.play
monstersandcritics.com
modernsandclassics.blogspot.com
Elizabeth Taylor as Margaret 'Maggie the Cat' Pollitt, Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt images
Big Daddy's birthday
Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt, Burl Ives as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Judith Anderson as Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt, Elizabeth Taylor as Margaret 'Maggie the Cat' Pollitt
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2009-06-26 An Affair to Remember (1957) imdb.com
Leo McCareyCary Grant as Nickie Ferrante, Deborah Kerr as Terry McKay
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2009-03-07 La Ronde (1950) imdb.com
Max Ophuls Schnitzler's Play moviediva.com Youtube 1 Youtube 2 Youtube 3 Youtube 4 Youtube 5 Youtube 6 Youtube 7 Youtube 8 Youtube 92008-12-25 The Furies (1950) imdb.com
Anthony MannStephen_Murray
David Phelps
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Barbara Stanwyck as Vance
stmedia.startribune.com
auteursnotebook.s3.amazonaws.com
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2008-10-31 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) imdb.com
David Leanwiki
R.Ebert
altfg.com
img5.allocine.fr
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youtube.com
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2008-06-26 Sudden Fear (1952) imdb.com
David MillerA.H. Weller in the New York Times
filmfanatic.org
Youtube
Joan Crawford as Myra Hudson
Jack Palance as Lester Blaine, Gloria Grahame as Irene Neves
2008-06-22 Run Silent Run Deep (1958) imdb.com
Robert Wisewww0.epinions.com
Youtube
Burt Lancaster as Lt. Jim Bledsoe, Clark Gable as Cmdr. 'Rich' Richardson
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Burt Lancaster as Lt. Jim Bledsoe
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2008-04-12 The Night of the Hunter (1955) imdb.com
Charles LaughtonR.Ebert
Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell
2008-04-05 All About Eve (1950) imdb.com
Joseph L. MankiewiczTim Dirks
iimdb photos
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Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, Bette Davis as Margo, Marilyn as Miss Casswell, George Sanders as Addison DeWitt
Youtube youtube.com
2008-03-16 The Big Country (1958) imdb.com
William WylerWiki
dvdbits.com
Ggegory Peck as James McKay
Jean Simmons as Julie Maragon
Carroll Baker as Patricia Terrill
2007-07-14 The Asphalt Jungle (1950) imdb.com
John Hustonen.wikipedia.org
Tim Dirks
Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley, Jean Hagen as Doll
Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley
Marc Lawrence as "Cobby", Louis Calhern as Alonzo Emmerich
2007-07-04 Rio Bravo (1959) imdb.com
Howard Hawksen.wikipedia.org
apolloguide.com
John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance
Angie Dickinson as Feathers
Dean Martin as Dude ('Borachon')
Ricky Nelson as Colorado Ryan
2007-05-26 Summer with Monika (1953) imdb.com
Ingmar Bergmanen.wikipedia.org
gracchii.blogspot.com
Harriet Andersson as Monika, Lars Ekborg as Harry
Harriet Andersson as Monika bp2.blogger.com
2007-05-06 Earrings of Madame de... (1953) imdb.com
Max OphulsR.Ebert
Charles Boyer as General Andre de..., Danielle Darrieux as Comtesse Louise de...
Ashes and Diamonds (1958) imdb.com
Andrzej WajdaInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) imdb.com
Don Siegelepinions.com
classic-horror.com
gadflyonline.com
Looking at the double
Emerging double
Pods delivered
Pods burned
Runaways sergioleone.net
My Uncle (1958) imdb.com
Jacques TatiNorth by Northwest (1959) imdb.com
Alfred HitchcockTim Dirks
Wiki on North by Northwest
Cary Grant as Roger O.Thornhill, Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall
Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall
The train scene
The crop duster scene
The fake shooting scene moviebadgirls.com moviebadgirls.com moviebadgirls.com
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) imdb.com
Ingmar BergmanThe African Queen (1951) imdb.com
John HustonTim Dirks
epinions.com
Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer, Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut
Picture gallery
The Hidden Fortress (1958) imdb.com
Akira KurosawaThe Road (1954) imdb.com
Federico FelliniThe Seventh Seal (1957) imdb.com
Ingmar BergmanR.Ebert