Fred ClarkFilmography

Bonanza: A Girl Named George

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Jack Albertson

Synopsis: Though the title of this episode refers to the young lady played by Sheila Wells, the emphasis is on George's father, photographer Enos Blessing (Jack Albertson). Hired to provide an alibi for crooked lawyer Cato Troxell (Gerald Mohr), who plans to murder the judge (Fred Clark) responsible for Read More

Skidoo

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this notorious comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays Tony, a mid-level gangster and former hired killer not very happy with his life. He bickers a lot with his wife Flo (Carol Read More

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

Actors: Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner, Fred Clark, Ellen Janov

Synopsis: Advertising executive Fred Bolton (Dean Jones) is under pressure from his boss Tom Dugan (Fred Clark) to come up with a new ad campaign for a wealthy client. Fred's daughter Helen (Ellen Janov) loves to ride horses, so her father buys her one to tie the equine into the profitable advertisement. Read More

Eve

Synopsis: In this jungle adventure, a downed Yankee flier must make his way alone through the dense Amazon jungle. At one point, he finds himself surrounded by unfriendly natives. He is just about to lose his life when a beautiful white woman, who is revered by the natives as a goddess, swoops down from the Read More

War Italian Style

Actors: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Fred Clark, Martha Hyer, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: This WW II comedy centers upon a hapless German general (played by Buster Keaton in one of his last roles) who is stationed in Italy the night before the Allied invasion. Two Yankee POWs are planning to steal the plans for the Nazi offensive strategy. The Germans anticipate this and replace the Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Granny Retires

Synopsis: Once again, Granny insists upon withdrawing her share of the Clampett fortune (which now amounts to $15 million) from the Commerce Bank, so that she can return home to the Ozarks. Terrified at this prospect, banker Drysdale cooks up another scheme to keep Granny in Beverly Hills. This time around Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Doctors

Synopsis: It must be spring again, else why would Granny be standing in front of the Commerce Bank and giving away free samples of her special spring tonic? Granny's benevolence irritates her old nemesis, Beverly Hills physician Dr. Clyburn (Fred Clark). Hoping to drum Granny out of the medical profession Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: The Second Greatest Con Artist in the World

Synopsis: In the first of three episodes filmed in Hawaii, Jeannie (Barbara Eden) and Tony (Larry Hagman) cross the paths of a clever con artist named Charlie (Milton Berle). Hoping to get his mitts on the valuable King Tut scarab pin in Jeannie's possession, Charlie "trades" the bauble for Diamondhead Read More

F Troop: The Day They Shot Agarn

Synopsis: In the series' second takeoff of the TV western Branded, Cpl. Agarn faces death by firing squad for the murder of Sgt. O'Rourke. As Agarn awaits his fate, flashbacks reveal how all this came about (and though we don't want to spoil the suspence, it can be noted that O'Rourke is still alive and Read More

Spie Vengono dal Semifreddo

Actors: Vincent Price, Fabian, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Laura Antonelli

Synopsis: The Amazing Dr. G is an alternate title for the Italian-American spoof Dr. Goldfoot and His Girl Bombs. Vincent Price repeats his characterization of the megalomaniac Goldfoot from 1965's Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, and also plays a secondary role as a kidnapped US general. This time Read More

Sergeant Deadhead

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hapless Army sergeant's plans to marry are temporarily delayed after he accidentally ends up launched into space with a chimpanzee. Upon his return, he is a changed man and is ultimately sent to prison after he threatens to go public with the mix-up. Meanwhile, suave Sgt. Read More

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

Actors: Terence Morgan, Fred Clark, Ronald Howard, Jeanne Roland, George Pastell

Synopsis: This cheap, but colorful British period horror piece follows an ill-fated archaeological expedition to the cursed tomb of the pharaoh, Ra-Antef, whose sarcophagus the team's leader opts to sell to a smooth-talking American promoter who intends to set it up as part of an exploitive side-show Read More

When the Boys Meet the Girls

Actors: Connie Francis, Harve Presnell, Herman's Hermits, Louis Armstrong, Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs, Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis: Narrative takes a back seat to music in this loose remake of Girl Crazy, as Harve Presnell plays a footloose young millionaire who meets perky Connie Francis and hatches a scheme to save her father's failing Nevada ranch by turning it into a resort for people waiting out their quickie Las Vegas Read More

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Actors: Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart, Jack Mullaney

Synopsis: The great Vincent Price obviously had fun with his characterization of Dr. Goldfoot in this campy spy spoof directed by Norman Taurog. With his henchman Igor (Jack Mullaney), the demented doctor builds a machine that mass-produces an army bikini-clad babes. Goldfoot programs his vixens to seduce Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Black Box

Synopsis: The citizens of Hooterville are excited when a top-secret Air Force camera lands in the yard outside the Shady Rest Hotel. What no one realizes is that the camera has been equipped with a detonation device--set to explode should anyone try to use the device. The role of General Loomis is played by Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Common Cold

Synopsis: Fred Clark returns in the role of Dr. Clyburn, still anxious to prevent Granny from practicing her own brand of mountain medicine. But even Clyburn is impressed when Granny announces that she found a cure for the common cold nearly 50 years ago, with one of her own special potions -- which Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: 100 Terrible Hours

Actors: Carl Reiner, Fred Clark, Dabbs Greer, Howard Wendell, Harry Stanton

Synopsis: During a magazine interview, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) recalls his first job interview with Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) -- which, quite frankly, he can barely remember at all. It seems that, just before the all-important interview, Rob, then a radio DJ, had participated in a stunt wherein he was obliged to Read More

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik. John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna), a former football player, now pilot, sent on a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union, is lost and crash-lands in the Middle Eastern Read More

Move Over, Darling

Actors: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Chuck Connors, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: A man makes the highly unexpected discovery that he has two wives in this romantic comedy. Widower Nick Arden (James Garner) has just set off on his honeymoon with his new wife Bianca (Polly Bergen) when his mother Grace (Thelma Ritter) receives a very unexpected guest -- Nick's late wife Ellen (Doris Day Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Hair-Raising Holiday

Synopsis: In this conclusion of a two-part story arc, the California Medical Board investigates reports that Granny has been practicing her own brand of mountain medicine -- specifically by creating a potion that can grow hair on a billiard ball. Meanwhile, the rest of the Clampetts anxiously await the Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Jed Gets the Misery

Synopsis: Season two of the top-rated sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies began on September 25, 1963, with the episode titled "Jed Gets the Misery." Once again, Granny is threatening to leave Beverly Hills and return to her home in the Ozarks. The reason this time is that there's no one around for Granny to Read More

Boys' Night Out

Actors: Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff, Janet Blair

Synopsis: In this squeaky clean sex comedy (the sort that could only have been made in the early 1960s), Kathy (Kim Novak) is a sociology student preparing her doctoral thesis, "Adolescent Sexual Fantasies in the Adult Suburban Male." She poses as a call girl to gain perspective on the sexual attitudes and Read More

Zotz!

Actors: Tom Poston, Julia Meade, Jim Backus, Fred Clark, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: TV actor Tom Poston stars as Prof. Jonathan Jones in this early feature-film appearance, a standard comedy-fantasy oriented to the youngsters. The good professor has come into possession of "zotz," a coin that has three magical properties. It can either cause intense pain if its bearer points an Read More

Adventures of a Young Man

Actors: Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Paul Newman, Corinne Calvet, Fred Clark, Ricardo Montalban, Dan Dailey

Synopsis: The "official" title of this film is Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man; its screenplay is adapted from semi-autobiographical "Nick Adams" stories written by Ernest Hemingway. Played by Richard Beymer (West Side Story), Nick Adams is a young Michigan boy who sets out in the early 1900s to learn Read More

Risate di Gioia

Synopsis: Also known as The Passionate Thief, this fast-paced crime comedy stars Anna Magnani as the fly in the ointment for a pair of disreputable types. Pickpockets Toto and Ben Gazzara don't want Magnani around while they ply their trade, but she manages to foul up their plans by falling in love with Read More

The Untouchables: Little Egypt

Synopsis: "Little Egypt" is what they call the town of Morraine, Illinois, which is ruled with an iron hand by Major Charlie Byron, a former military officer turned mob boss. Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) sends his fellow "Untouchable" Cam Allison (Anthony George) undercover to get the goods on Byron, and to Read More

Bells Are Ringing

Actors: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy, Jr., Jean Stapleton

Synopsis: Judy Holliday re-creates her Broadway role of flibbertigibbet telephone operator Ella Peterson in Bells are Ringing. Ella works for Susanswerphone, a hole-in-the-wall answering service run by her cousin Sue (Jean Stapleton). Our girl Ella can't help but become involved in the lives of her Read More

Visit to a Small Planet

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Fred Clark, John Williams

Synopsis: When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to visit the blue planet. Once there the alien (Jerry Lewis) encounters a nice family who kindly take him in. The father is a news commentator. Ironically, just prior to Read More

The Twilight Zone: A Most Unusual Camera

Actors: Fred Clark, Jean Carson, Adam Williams, Marcel Hillaire

Synopsis: Having just robbed a pawnshop, two-bit crooks Chester and Paula Diedrich (Fred Clark, Jean Carson) have only one "prize" to show for their troubles -- a cheap-looking camera. By accident, Chester and Paula discover that the camera has the ability to take pictures of things that haven't happened Read More

The Mating Game

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark, Una Merkel

Synopsis: George Marshall directed this breezy romantic comedy starring Tony Randall and Debbie Reynolds. Randall plays Lorenzo Charlton, a stuffy tax investigator sent to the farm of Pop Larkin (Paul Douglas) and Ma Larkin (Una Merkel) to find out why they haven't been paying taxes. He discovers that the Read More

It Started with a Kiss

Actors: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Gabor, Gustavo Rojo, Fred Clark

Synopsis: George Marshall directed this mild sex comedy about a showgirl who marries a U.S. Air Force sergeant and puts his love to the test by decreeing her body off-limits to him for a 30-day period (usually something built up to in the course of a marriage over a period of years). Debbie Reynolds plays Read More

Auntie Mame

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith

Synopsis: Auntie Mame began as a novel by Patrick Dennis (aka Ed Fitzgerald), then was adapted into a long-running Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. This 1958 film version permits Rosalind Russell to recreate her stage role as Mame Dennis, the flamboyant, devil-may-care aunt of young Read More

Mardi Gras

Actors: Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands, Sheree North, Gary Crosby

Synopsis: The only reason for the existence of the colorful musical 3DMardi Gras3D is the star power of Pat Boone. The plot is set in motion when a group of Virginia Military Institute cadets organize a raffle: the "prize" is French movie star Michelle Marton (Christine Carere), queen of the New Orleans Read More

Joe Butterfly

Actors: Audie Murphy, George Nader, Keenan Wynn, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Based on a play by Evan Wylie and Jack Ruge, Joe Butterfly also bears the influence of Teahouse of the August Moon. The title character, played by Burgess Meredith, is a wily Japanese wheeler-dealer who offers his services as interpreter to the American GIs occupying postwar Tokyo (where the film Read More

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

Actors: Jane Russell, Keenan Wynn, Ralph Meeker, Fred Clark, Una Merkel, Benay Venuta

Synopsis: Coproduced by actress Jane Russell and her husband Robert Waterfield, The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown represented Russell's final starring film of the 1950s--and her last movie appearance until 1964. Decked out in an unbecoming blonde wig, Jane is cast as Hollywood starlet Laurel Stevens. On the eve of Read More

Don't Go Near the Water

Actors: Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis, Earl Holliman, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Obviously inspired by such service comedies as Mister Roberts and Operation Mad Ball, Don't Go Near the Water is a tribute to those "unsung heroes" of WW2: the men and women of the Navy's Public Relations Department. Thousands of miles away from the shooting war, Lt. Max Siegel (Glenn Ford) and Read More

Miracle in the Rain

Actors: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Eileen Heckart, Fred Clark, Peggie Castle

Synopsis: The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an ordinary-looking secretary's (Jane Wyman) lonely life. Other than working and spending some free time with a spinster (Eileen Heckart), who is her best friend, the woman Read More

The Birds and the Bees

Actors: George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner, Fred Clark

Synopsis: This comedy is a remake of 1941's The Lady Eve, and tells the story of the vegetarian son of a prominent meat packer who is sailing back from an African safari when he meets and falls in love with a con-artist's lovely daughter. Posing as a military officer, the card-sharp and his boys have come Read More

The Solid Gold Cadillac

Actors: Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark, John Williams, Neva Patterson, Hiram Sherman, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: The Solid Gold Cadillac was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann Broadway hit of the same. Both the play and film were predicated upon the notion of a humble ten-share stockholder triumphing over a corrupt big-business board of directors, but there was one significant difference. In Read More

Back from Eternity

Actors: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, Phyllis Kirk, Keith Andes

Synopsis: Director John Farrow's Back From Eternity is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of Farrow's 1939 film Five Came Back. The earlier film is the better of the two, if only because it is 22 minutes shorter. The plot concerns a small passenger plane that crashlands in South America, square in the heart Read More

How to Be Very, Very, Popular

Actors: Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was based on a play by Howard Lindsay. Betty and Sheree North star as a couple of striptease "artistes" who have the bad luck to witness a murder. Hoping to evade the killer Read More

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Fred Clark, Lynn Bari, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Mack Sennett, Hank Mann

Synopsis: The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous outing Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Set in 1912, the film casts Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as a couple of New Yorkers who are swindled out of their Read More

The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell

Actors: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts Mitchell's efforts to prove the viability of a strong air force. The hidebound military higher-ups refuse to finance aviation any further, figuring that the strength of the Read More

Daddy Long Legs

Actors: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark

Synopsis: This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron. Fragments of the basic plot remain: American millionaire Astaire is the unknown benefactor of French orphan girl Caron, financing the girl's Read More

Living It Up

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark

Synopsis: The 1954 Martin-and-Lewis romp Living It Up is an amusing remake of the 1937 comedy classic Nothing Sacred. More specifically, it is the film version of the Broadway musical Hazel Flagg, which was based on Nothing Sacred. The heroine of the original undergoes a sex change to become feckless Homer Read More

The Buick-Berle Show [TV Series]

The Stars are Singing

Actors: Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Lauritz Melchior, Tom Morton

Synopsis: Not only are stars Anna Maria Alberghetti and Rosemary Clooney singing, but also a medium-sized roster of "special guest stars." Alberghetti plays an illegal Polish alien, while Clooney is a dewey-eyed showbiz aspirant who protects the refugee girl. The two ladies pin their hopes on a TV talent Read More

Here Come the Girls

Actors: Bob Hope, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl, Rosemary Clooney, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: Originally intended as a 3D film, this standard-issue Bob Hope musical comedy was released "flat." The 50-year-old Hope plays over-aged chorus boy Stanley Snodgrass, whose attempts to get ahead in the early 20th-century theatre world always come acropper. His luck suddenly changes when he's Read More

How to Marry a Millionaire

Actors: Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: A remake of 1933's The Greeks Had a Word for Them, as well as a retread of 20th Century-Fox's favorite plotline, How to Marry a Millionaire was the first Hollywood comedy to be lensed in Cinemascope. Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe play three models of modest means who rent an Read More

The Caddy

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed, Barbara Bates, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Martin and Lewis tee each other off on a PGA tour in The Caddy. Harvey Miller (Jerry Lewis) is an expert with his golf club, except when he tries to play in front of a crowd -- then he completely loses control. With his mind set on getting into the PGA one way or another, he latches onto Joe Read More

Three for Bedroom C

Actors: Gloria Swanson, James Warren, Fred Clark, Hans Conried, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: An aging movie star and her precocious daughter hide out in the train berth of a scientist during a cross-country journey from New York to LA in this romantic comedy. The whole mess begins when the actress receives an urgent wire demanding that she immediately return to Hollywood to star in a new Read More

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 03

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

Dreamboat

Actors: Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis, Jeffrey Hunter, Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis: Dreamboat stars Clifton Webb as Thornton Sayre, the perfectionist professor of literature at a sedate Midwestern university. Widowed and with a pretty daughter (Anne Francis), Sayre has given no clue to his previous life before becoming a teacher. But thanks to television, everyone discovers that Read More

Meet Me After the Show

Actors: Betty Grable, MacDonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Delilah and Jeff (Betty Grable and MacDonald Carey) are a successful show-business team, but less successful as husband and wife. Finding that her producer hubby is unfaithful, musical-comedy star Delilah walks out on him, heading for Miami, where she got her start. In the process, Delilah feigns Read More

A Place in the Sun

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Keefe Brasselle, Anne Revere, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a Read More

The Lemon Drop Kid

Actors: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with Lee Tracy paid more than lip service to the original Runyon story. The second version, filmed in 1951, was completely retooled to accommodate the talents of Bob Hope. Known far Read More

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 02

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

Hollywood Story

Actors: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film capital. The story concerns a long-unsolved homicide case involving several silent-film stars (an echo of the William Desmond Taylor scandal of 1922). Producer Richard Conte Read More

The Eagle and the Hawk

Actors: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Dennis O'Keefe, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Paramount producing team William H. Pine and William Thomas weren't known as the "Two Dollar Bills" for nothing. Like their medium-budget adventure yarns of the 1940s, their "A" western The Eagle and the Hawk proved a moneyspinner for Paramount's distribution channels. In his first western, John Payne Read More

Dynamite Pass

Actors: Tim Holt, Lynne Roberts, Robert Shayne, Don C. Harvey

Synopsis: Tim Holt and Richard Martin, RKO's resident western good guys, are back in Dynamite Pass. Usually cast as cowpunchers, Holt and Martin are construction workers Ross and Chito this time out. Someone is trying to prevent honest road builder Dan (Regis Toomey) from completing his job, and that Read More

The Jackpot

Actors: James Stewart, Barbara Hale, Natalie Wood, James Gleason, Fred Clark, Patricia Medina, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks up the phone one day, answers a simple question, and suddenly finds himself the recipient of a radio quiz-show jackpot. Tons of prizes are shipped to Lawrence's house, to the Read More

Treasure Island

Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea

Synopsis: The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best live-action films of the '50s, and one of the best family-oriented adventures ever filmed. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young cabin boy who battles the pirate Long John Silver Read More

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

Actors: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Dorothy Malone, Phyllis Kirk, Fred Clark

Synopsis: In their never-ending efforts to create a movie series to match the success of "The Thin Man," MGM came up with the fast-paced programmer Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone. Based on characters created by Craig Rice, the film stars James Whitmore as lawyer and part-time sleuth John J. Malone (this Read More

Return of the Frontiersman

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Julie London, Rory Calhoun, Jack Holt, Fred Clark

Synopsis: With Return of the Frontiersman, Warner Bros. continued to test the acting abilities of their singing star Gordon MacRae. While he does get to warble two songs, MacRae plays it straight for the most part in his role as Logan Barrett, the son of hard-bitten sheriff Sam Barrett (Jack Holt). Villain Read More

Sunset Boulevard

Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of Read More

The Younger Brothers

Actors: Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Robert Hutton

Synopsis: The story of the outlaw Younger Brothers is duly Hollywoodized in this Technicolor western. Wayne Morris, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton and James Brown star as Cole, Jim, Johnny and Bob Younger, who as the film begins have just been released from jail. They try hard to follow the straight and Read More

Flamingo Road

Actors: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gertrude Michael, Gladys George

Synopsis: The fourth of Joan Crawford's Warner Bros. vehicles, Flamingo Road doesn't hold up as well as her earlier Mildred Pierce or Humoresque, but there's plenty to please the eye and ear. Sideshow kootch-dancer Lane Bellamy (Crawford), stranded in a backwater town, gets a job as a waitress. Lane begins Read More

The Lady Takes a Sailor

Actors: Jane Wyman, Dennis Morgan, Eve Arden, Robert Douglas, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Though she may have won an Oscar in 1948, Jane Wyman still had a Warner Bros. contract to fulfill, even if it meant appearing in frivolities like The Lady Takes a Sailor. It all begins when Jennifer (Wyman), the head of an oceanographic research institute, claims to have made a fascinating Read More

Task Force

Actors: Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan, Julie London

Synopsis: In pageant-like fashion, Warner Bros.' Task Force traces the history of the American aircraft carrier, as experienced by a group of naval air aces. Gary Cooper plays Admiral Jonathan L. Scott, who on the verge of retirement remembers his struggle to win recognition of the importance of aircraft Read More

White Heat

Actors: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran, Margaret Wycherly

Synopsis: In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own performance, he tended to dismiss the picture as a "cheap melodrama." Seen today, White Heat stands as one of the classic crime films of the 1940s, containing perhaps Cagney's best Read More

Contact Man

Actors: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, Geraldine Wall, George Macready

Synopsis: This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants to become governor. Blocked by corrupt political forces, Foster would practically have to make a deal with the Devil to reach his goal. Enter Nick Beal (Ray Milland), a Read More

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Actors: William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey, Andrea King, Clinton Sundberg

Synopsis: Something seems fishy when a married man finds new adventure and romance in this comic fantasy. Arthur Peabody (William Powell) is a slightly stuffy businessman from Boston who after turning fifty finds himself suffering from a full-fledged midlife crisis. On the advice of his doctor, Peabody and Read More

Fury at Furnace Creek

Actors: Robert Adler, Griff Barnett, Harlan Briggs, Harry Carter, Fred Clark

Synopsis: In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is accused of conspiring with the Indians and is forced to resign. To prove his innocence, the men use terribly different methods. The older one, an adventurer, approaches suspects Read More

Hazard

Actors: Paulette Goddard, MacDonald Carey, Fred Clark, Stanley Clements, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom

Synopsis: Chronic gambler Ellen Crane (Paulette Goddard) indulges in games of chance to compensate for the loss of her boyfriend during WW2. Heavily in debt to gambling czar Lonnie Burns (Fred Clark), Ellen promises to marry him to clear her financial slate, but in the cold light of day she rethinks her Read More

Two Guys from Texas

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone, Penny Edwards, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a Texas dude ranch. Comic mayhem ensues as they cope with time in jail, a rodeo, and eventually love. They also help save the ranch from two greedy thugs trying to force the Read More

Cry of the City

Actors: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Debra Paget, Betty Garde

Synopsis: The opening scene of Robert Siodmak's grim film noir depicts police lieutenants Candella (Victor Mature) and Collins (Fred Clark) observing wounded cop killer Martin Rome (Richard Conte) receive last rites. Though Rome recovers, he still must elude Candella and Collins in his desperate attempt to Read More

The Unsuspected

Actors: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Fred Clark, Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis: Director Michael Curtiz masterfully tells the fictional story of radio host Alexander Grandison (Claude Rains) as derived from a novel by Charlotte Armstrong. Grandison spookily recites murder mysteries on his radio show, with intimate and excruciating details. The reason he's so good and popular Read More

Ride the Pink Horse

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Thomas Gomez, Rita Conde, Iris Flores, Fred Clark, Andrea King, Art Smith

Synopsis: Robert Montgomery directed and starred in this exotic film noir set during a New Mexico fiesta. Montgomery plays a secretive ex-GI who plans to extort money from a prominent gangster (Fred Clark) as retribution for the death of Montgomery's best friend. An FBI man (Art Smith) would like the Read More

Ever Since Eve

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Marion Davies, Patsy Kelly, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim specs and tweed suits, she finds that she is actually able to get some work done. She begins working as a writer's secretary to help him make his deadline. When the writer Read More