Edward PlattFilmography

The Snoop Sisters - Female Instinct

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick

Synopsis: First telecast December 16, 1972, The Snoop Sisters was the pilot for a Richard Levinson/William Link detective series. Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick play a couple of mystery writers who happen to be siblings. With the help of their pragmatic chauffeur (Art Carney), the Snoop Sisters take it Read More

Bewitched: Samantha's Old Man

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Ruth McDevitt

Synopsis: Endora's latest spell transforms Darrin into a 73-year-old man. Thinking quickly when the Tates arrive, Samantha passes off Darrin as his own grandfather, Gordon. But there's even more trouble ahead when Larry Tate tries to match up "Gordon" with Louise's Aunt Millicent (Ruth McDevitt), a Read More

The Man from Button Willow

Actors: Dale Robertson, Howard Keel, Barbara Jean Wong, Herschel Bernardi

Synopsis: An American rancher--who doubles as an undercover agent--is needed in the rescue of a kidnapped senator in this animated adventure. Helping him is his horse Rebel and a good friend named Sorry. The film is distributed by United Screen Arts, the company formed by starring voice Dale Robertson. Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards

Actors: Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Edward Platt, Shirley Mitchell

Synopsis: While Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is teaching Ritchie (Larry Mathews) how to do magic tricks with a deck of marked cards, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) reminds her husband that he hasn't much time to get ready for a little get-together Laura has arranged with their friends and neighbors. As it happens, the Read More

The Outer Limits: Keeper of Purple Twilight

Synopsis: In Volume 44 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, an alien being comes to Earth to cut a deal with a scientist: if the human wills the spaceman all his emotions, the creature will give the professor the equations necessary to finish his invention. Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Hail to the Chief

Synopsis: The President of the United States requires an emergency operation, which must be conducted in secret, after he is injured in a fall. The Seaview is chosen as the safest place for the surgery, but an enemy power has gotten an assassin aboard, as part of the surgical team performing the operation. Read More

The Outer Limits: The Special One

Synopsis: In Volume 28 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the tutor of a group of gifted children is revealed to be an alien spy. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Lost Patrol

Synopsis: The US Army begins conducting maneuvers near the Shady Rest. This proves beneficial to the young GIs, who are naturally attracted to the local "scenic wonders"--namely, the three Bradley girls. Featured in this week's guest cast is Edward C. Platt, the future "Chief" on Get Smart, as General Read More

Shock Treatment

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Lauren Bacall, Roddy McDowall, Olive Deering

Synopsis: In this offbeat melodrama, a crazed gardener is relegated to a mental hospital after he goes berserk and beheads his wealthy boss. The scuttlebutt in the courtroom is that the killer has stolen over a million dollars from his former employer and has hidden it on the estate. A professional actor Read More

Bullet for a Badman

Actors: Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee

Synopsis: Audie Murphy continued to make 1950s-style westerns into the 1960s. In Bullet for a Badman, Logan Keliher (Murphy) is framed for murder by onetime friend Sam Ward (Darren McGavin). Keliher escapes to mete out justice and to reclaim his former wife (Ruta Lee), whom Ward has married. The escapee Read More

Black Zoo

Actors: Michael Gough, Jeanne Cooper, Rod Lauren, Virginia Grey, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: This violent, gore-filled, effective horror tale by director Robert Gordon is about a totally wacko private zoo keeper, Michael Conrad (Michael Gough) whose literal worship of the animals he tends -- especially the cat species -- starkly contrasts with his cold-blooded disregard for human life. Read More

Johnny Shiloh

Synopsis: This made-for-TV Disney effort stars Kevin Corcoran as Johnny, an orphan who becomes a drummer for the Union Army during the Civil War. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Outer Limits: The Man with the Power

Synopsis: The fourth volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series recounts the story of a mousy scientist whose latest creation--a harness for cosmic energy controlled by his mind--wreaks havoc because of his repressed emotions. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Bonanza: The Colonel

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Larkin

Synopsis: "The Colonel" is habitual liar Frank Medford, an old friend of Ben Cartwright. Now a poverty-stricken travelling salesman, Frank is determined to convince everyone that he is as successful as Ben. Thus, Frank tells one of his celebrated whoppers, claming to be a millionaire. It takes the love of a Read More

A Ticklish Affair

Actors: Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Red Buttons, Carolyn Jones, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: This light romantic comedy finds a young widow with three young boys investigated by the Navy. Amy Martin (Shirley Jones) has a curious child who inadvertently sends out a distress signal in Morse code by the blinds on his upstairs bedroom window. Commander Weedon (Gig Young) and crew observe the Read More

Bonanza: The Guilty

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Lyle Bettger

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright is an eyewitness when ex-convict Jack Groat (Charles Maxwell shoots down the son of Ben's old friend Lem Partridge (Lyle Bettger). Inasmuch as Groat had previously been thrown in prison for the murder of Lem's wife, Lem cannot understand why Ben did not intervene when Groat Read More

Cape Fear

Actors: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: After an eight-year prison term for rape and assault, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is set free. Immediately making a beeline to Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), the former prosecutor responsible for Cady's conviction, Cady laconically informs Sam that he intends to "pay back" the attorney for his years Read More

The Explosive Generation

Actors: William Shatner, Lee Kinsolving, Patty McCormack, Virginia Field

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, based on a true-story, a high school teacher gets in trouble for having his students write compositions describing their feelings about sex. He is suspended; his students unite to defend him. A confrontation with the prudish school board ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

The Fiercest Heart

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Juliet Prowse, Ken Scott, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Something of a variant on the American western where colonialists face off with Native Americans, The Fiercest Heart by George Sherman is set in 1837 and focuses on a group of Boers (Dutch colonialists in South Africa) and their enemies, the Zulus. Similar to the former portrayals of Native Read More

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Actors: Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, Frank de Kova, John Dall, Jay Novello

Synopsis: Director George Pal is noted as a special effects maestro, both in films for children that feature his "puppetoons" and in sci-fi spectacles like the War of the Worlds. So it is no surprise that this sci-fi yarn about the fabled sunken continent of Atlantis should excel in the special effects Read More

The Twilight Zone: A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

Actors: Cliff Robertson, John Crawford, Evans Evans, Edward Platt, Miranda Jones

Synopsis: After briefly experimenting with the videotape format, The Twilight Zone wisely returned to film with this episode, which originally aired April 7, 1961. The story begins in the California desert in 1847; Chris Horn (Cliff Robertson), leader of a bedraggled wagon train, sets out to search for Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Museum Piece

Synopsis: A skeleton in a museum collection of Native American artifacts catches the eye of a man named Newton Clovis (Myron McCormick). Curator Clay Hollister (Larry Gates) insists that the skeleton is that of an Indian, but Newton suspects otherwise. In flashback, we learn that Newton is absolutely right Read More

Bonanza: The Outcast

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jack Lord

Synopsis: The townspeople of Virginia City turn against Leta Malvet (Susan Oliver when her father and brother are hanged for murder. With nowhere else to turn, Leta latches on to the only person to show her any kindness: Clay Renton (Jack Lord), a "retired" outlaw. Also appearing are Edward C. Platt as Read More

Pollyanna

Actors: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis: Eleanor H. Porter's story of Pollyanna, "The Glad Girl," was first filmed in 1920 by Mary Pickford. While entertaining, the Pickford version tended to reduce the supporting characters to stereotypes. Disney's 1960 remake of Pollyanna wisely offers three-dimensional characterizations, enhancing the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Slandered Submarine

Synopsis: There's intrigue aplenty aboard the USS "Moray" when Navy submarine commander James Page (Hugh Marlowe) accuses seaman Robert Chapman (Jack Ging) of murdering a nightclub singer. Things get worse for Chapman when Cmdr. Page himself is killed. In his efforts to defend Chapman, Perry Mason (Raymond Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Larcenous Lady

Synopsis: Mayor Henderson (Arthur Franz) is up for an appointment to the state crime commission, but he is danger of being sabotaged by his overambitious wife Mona (Patricia Huston), who has been purloining city plans and passing them along to crooked real estate agent Tom Stratton (Edward Platt). Now Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Taffeta Mayor

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to protect John Kellaway, a honest politician running against the dishonest incumbent in an upcoming mayoral race in Colton, Wyoming. Unfortunately, Paladin arrives in Colton too late; Kellaway has already been murdered by his opponent's minions. Grimly determined Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: The Man From Bitter Creek

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) has retired from the Texas Rangers and has set up his own cattle ranch together with his new bride Adeline (Norma Moore). Alas, Slaughter's career as a cattleman may be over before it Read More

One Step Beyond: The Burning Girl

Synopsis: Every time the family of teenager Alice Denning (Luana Anders) moves to a new town, mysterious fires begin breaking out. Circumstantial evidence would suggest that Alice is responsible for these fires, even though she is never anywhere near the flames. Can it be that the girl is demonically Read More

North by Northwest

Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a Read More

The Rebel Set

Actors: Gregg Palmer, Kathleen Crowley, Edward Platt, John Lupton, Ned Glass, Don Sullivan

Synopsis: A standard crime story with a dash of a disillusioned generation of men thrown in for good measure, The Rebel Set, also known as Beatsville, is about an armored car hold-up. Mr. Tucker (Edward Platt) is the man who comes up with the idea and plan of how to carry out the robbery, and he recruits Read More

Cash McCall

Actors: James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: In this routine business-story-cum-romantic-comedy, James Garner is Cash McCall, a wheeling and dealing tycoon, and Natalie Wood is Lory Austen, the daughter of failing businessman Grant (Dean Jagger). McCall's expertise lies in acquiring businesses about to go belly up, attaching them to Read More

They Came to Cordura

Actors: Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Michael Callan

Synopsis: Gary Cooper stars in one of his final roles in They Came To Cordura, Robert Rossen's moody study of the thin dividing line between heroism and cowardice. Cooper plays Major Thomas Thorn, a U.S. Army officer in the expedition into Mexico against Pancho Villa. Because he hesitated during a moment of Read More

Inside the Mafia

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Elaine Edwards, Robert Strauss, Jim L. Brown, Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: Thanks to the notorious gangland conference in Appalachian, New York, the word "Mafia" was on everyone's lips in 1959. Rushing to capitalize on this fact was the low-budget expose Inside the Mafia. Grant Richards plays a Lucky Luciano type who is about to return to the US after several years' Read More

Gunman's Walk

Actors: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Mickey Shaughnessy

Synopsis: The highly variable Tab Hunter delivers his best film performance in the grim western Gunman's Walk. Hunter plays Ed Hackett, the son of gunslinger-turned-land baron Lee Hackett (Van Heflin). Out of respect (and fear) of his father, the hotheaded Ed is given a wide berth by the resentful Read More

Summer Love

Actors: John Saxon, Molly Bee, Rod McKuen, Judi Meredith, Jill St. John, Fay Wray

Synopsis: Summer Love is a sequel to 1957's Rock Pretty Baby, with John Saxon repeating his role as aspiring musician Jim Daley. When his band is hired to perform at a summer resort, Jim falls in love with two girls: sweet Joan Wright (Judy Meredith) and not-so-sweet Erica Landis (Jill St. John). Meanwhile Read More

Damn Citizen

Actors: Keith Andes, Maggie Hayes, Gene Evans, Lynn Bari, Jeffrey Stone

Synopsis: This biographical drama, chronicles the patriotic exploits of World War II hero Colonel Francis C. Grevemberg, who fought a tough battle against crime and corruption in his home state, Louisiana. He got his chance to serve the state when he was appointed the superintendent of state police by the Read More

The Gift of Love

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Evelyn Rudie, Lorne Greene, Anne Seymour

Synopsis: The Gift of Love is a remake of 1946's Sentimental Journey, with Lauren Bacall in the role originated by Maureen O'Hara. Upon learning that she hasn't long to live, Bacall, the devoted wife of Robert Stack, adopts young Evelyn Rudie so that her husband will never be lonely. After his wife's death Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Ambush at Laredo

Synopsis: In the second episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, newly installed Texas ranger Slaughter (Tom Tryon) has succeeded in rounding up the last members of Frank Davis' outlaw gang. Unfortunately, Davis (Robert Middleton) has been released on bail and has fled to Read More

Oregon Passage

Actors: John Ericson, Lola Albright, Toni Gerry, Edward Platt, Judith Ames

Synopsis: Oregon Passage proves that even out west, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. John Ericson plays idealistic young Cavalry lieutenant Niles Ord, who hopes to peacefully capture renegade Shoshone chief Black Eagle (H. M. Wynant). Ord is convinced that his knowledge and understanding of Read More

The Last of the Fast Guns

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Gilbert Roland, Linda Cristal, Eduard Franz, Lorne Greene

Synopsis: When a millionaire discovers that he is going to lose half of his business if his missing brother isn't found to keep it out of the ruthless hands that want it, he sends the "last of the fast guns" out in search of him. Finding him won't be the hard thing for our gunfighter, however. Keeping him Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Texas John Slaughter

Synopsis: Of the many TV miniseries produced by Walt Disney for his various weekly anthologies of the '50s and '60s, only Tales of Texas John Slaughter came close to matching the "Davy Crockett" programs in popularity and longevity. Based on fact, the 17-episode saga of Texas Ranger-turned-rancher John Read More

The High Cost of Loving

Actors: José Ferrer, Gena Rowlands, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Edward Platt, Bobby Troup

Synopsis: After a string of such serious projects as The Shrike and I Accuse, director-star Jose Ferrer lightens up a bit with the frothy comedy The High Cost of Loving. Ferrer plays purchasing executive Jim Fry, who has doubts about his financial future when his company is taken over by a conglomerate. Read More

The Helen Morgan Story

Actors: Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson, Gene Evans, Alan King

Synopsis: Ann Blyth plays famed "torch singer" Helen Morgan, from her humble beginnings as a carnival dancer to the height of her nightclub fame in the 1920s. Helen spends most of her spare time anguishing over the on-and-off affections of her boorish boyfriend (Paul Newman), who had discovered Helen during Read More

Designing Woman

Actors: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Sam Levene, Tom Helmore

Synopsis: Vincente Minnelli directed this sophisticated comedy, which owes a debt to Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn vehicles. Sportswriter Mike Hagen (Gregory Peck) and fashion designer Marilla (Lauren Bacall) are New Yorkers who meet while both are vacationing in California. It's love at first sight, and Read More

Omar Khayyam

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Raymond Massey, John Derek

Synopsis: Frank Freeman Jr., son of the longtime head of Paramount Pictures, made his debut as producer with the opulent but empty Omar Khayyam. Cornel Wilde stars as the legendary Persian poet, here depicted as not only a philosopher but a scientist, politician and great lover. As the Persians gear up for Read More

The Tattered Dress

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson, Gail Russell, Elaine Stewart, George Tobias

Synopsis: Jeff Chandler plays big-city lawyer James Gordon Blane, who heads to a small Nevada town to defend a playboy (Phillip Reed) accused of murder. Blane wins the case, but is then himself charged with accepting bribes. The man behind this accusation is vindictive town sheriff Nick Hoak (Jack Carson) Read More

House of Numbers

Actors: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt

Synopsis: House of Numbers might have worked better as a farce comedy than a deadly serious melodrama, but everyone involved tries hard not to raise a chuckle. Jack Palance plays a dual role, as an imprisoned gangster and the gangster's twin brother. During a visit to the gangster, the brother switches Read More

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

Actors: Tom Ewell, Sheree North, Rita Moreno, Rick Jason, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: Frank Tashlin directed this comedy about a man whose marriage hits the skids when his wife gets caught in the draft. Gregory Whitcomb (Tom Ewell) served with distinction in the Army during WWII, but he now makes his living as a television writer. Gregory's wife Katy (Sheree North), several years Read More

The Proud Ones

Actors: Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Middleton, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: A small Kansas town braces itself for the arrival of the first Texas trail herd. The marshal (Robert Ryan) expects trouble from the herd drivers, who'll be thirsty and lascivious after months on the trail. The town's saloon owner (Robert Middleton), anticipating a business boom, wants to remove Read More

Reprisal!

Actors: Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant, Michael Pate, Edward Platt

Synopsis: In this western, the tables are turned and the Indians get revenge on the whites. The story centers around a man, who is part Indian, as he buys a cattle ranch in Oklahoma. Unfortunately, the local whites hate all Indians, especially his neighbors, three brothers who recently were tried and found Read More

Rock, Pretty Baby

Actors: Sal Mineo, John Saxon, Luana Patten, Edward Platt, Fay Wray

Synopsis: A must-see for students of 1950s pop culture, Rock, Pretty Baby was Universal-International's earliest acknowledgement of the rock 'n' roll craze. John Saxon plays 18-year-old high schooler Jimmy Daley, who intends to pursue a musical career despite the objections of his physician father (Edward Read More

Written on the Wind

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith

Synopsis: Perhaps the definitive Douglas Sirk production, Written on the Wind is based on the novel by Robert Wilder. The story revolves around the Hadleys, a wealthy but thoroughly debauched family of Texas oil millionaires. Robert Stack is self-destructive alcoholic Kyle Hadley, while Dorothy Malone won Read More

The Great Man

Actors: José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London, Joanne Gilbert

Synopsis: Based on a novel by television producer Al Morgan, The Great Man is a Citizen Kane-style look at the private life of a public figure. The Great Man is a beloved radio and television personality who dies suddenly. Jose Ferrer (who also directed) plays a writer/commentator who has a chance to break Read More

Storm Center

Actors: Bette Davis, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly, Kevin Coughlin

Synopsis: Trouble brews when a widowed, small town librarian takes a stand against censorship. The trouble begins when the town fathers ask that she remove a book from the shelf because they deem it a pro-communist tract and fear it will taint susceptible young minds. She sees the idiocy of their request Read More

The Unguarded Moment

Actors: Esther Williams, George Nader, Les Tremayne, John Saxon, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: Esther Williams essays her first dramatic, nonswimming role in The Unguarded Moment. Written by actress Rosalind Russell, the film is a remarkably prescient tale of sexual harassment at the workplace. Williams plays high-school music-teacher Lois Conway, who inadvertently arouses the libido of Read More

Backlash

Actors: Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell, John McIntire, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: The breathtakingly beautiful Technicolor cinematography of Irving Glassberg is but one of the many small pleasures of the big-budget western Backlash. Set in post-Civil War Arizona, the film stars Richard Widmark as Jim Slater, who hopes to prove that his down-and-out father (John McIntire) was Read More

The Steel Jungle

Actors: Perry Lopez, Beverly Garland, Walter Abel, Ted de Corsia, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: The Steel Jungle is the prison where most of this film takes place. Perry Lopez heads the cast as two-bit bookie Ed Novak, who goes to jail rather than squeal on his Syndicate higher-ups. Novak's silence exacts a toll on his wife Frances (Beverly Garland), who is expecting a child. The longer he Read More

Serenade

Actors: Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sarita Montiel, Vincent Price, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Loosely based on a novel by James M. Cain, this romantic drama centers on the struggles of a humble vineyard worker (real-life opera star Mario Lanza) who rises to become a renowned opera star. In the original book, Damon, the protagonist, has a homosexual relationship with the patron who boosts Read More

Illegal

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: Once again Edward G. Robinson takes a script from the trash bin and makes it into a palatable movie. A remake of The Mouthpiece, this is the story of a district attorney with a conscience. When he discovers that a man he's sent to the electric chair was innocent, he takes to the bottle. His Read More

The McConnell Story

Actors: Alan Ladd, June Allyson, James Whitmore, Frank Faylen, Robert Ellis

Synopsis: Alan Ladd plays real-life air force hero Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. in this inspirational biopic, while June Allyson does her usual as McConnell's anxious, waiting-nervously-at-home wife. Assigned to the medical corps during WWII, McConnell takes private flying lessons so that he'll qualify for Read More

Gunsmoke: Smoking Out the Nolans

Synopsis: Matt (James Arness) is caught in the middle of a small but violent range war when wealthy Rancher Clay Young (John Larch), accusing the Nolan family of being worthless squatters, tries to force them off their land. Josh Nolan (Ainslee Pryor) insists that the land is theirs and theirs alone Read More

Rebel Without a Cause

Actors: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Corey Allen, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical disciplines, telling all within a 24-hour period. Teenager Jimmy Stark (James Dean) can't help but get into trouble, a problem that has forced his appearance-conscious parents (Jim Backus and Ann Doran) to move Read More

The Shrike

Actors: José Ferrer, June Allyson, Joy Page, Kenneth Clark

Synopsis: Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play The Shrike was brought to the screen by its original director/star, Jose Ferrer. Most of the film takes place in a state hospital, where theatrical director Jim Downs (Ferrer) is convalescing after a suicide attempt. Downs' wife Ann (June Read More

The Private War of Major Benson

Actors: Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, Tim Hovey, William Demarest, Nana Bryant, Tim Considine

Synopsis: A too-tough Army major gets himself sent to run an ROTC program at a Santa Barbara military school after he calls unwanted attention to the military by mouthing off to a prominent news magazine. When he arrives to his new post, the major is shocked to find it run by nuns and that his new troops Read More

Sincerely Yours

Actors: Liberace, Joanne Dru, Dorothy Malone, Alex Nicol, William Demarest

Synopsis: At the height of his TV fame, flamboyant pianist Liberace starred in the lavish Warner Bros. production Sincerely Yours. A remake of the old George Arliss vehicle The Man Who Played God, the film casts "Mr. Showmanship" as famed concert pianist Anthony Warren, who at the height of his popularity Read More