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Actors: James Best, Sherry Jackson, Edgar Buchanan, Lance Fuller, Dub Taylor
Synopsis: Writer-director Montgomery Pittman's final Twilight Zone offering was the bucolic comedy "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank." As the youthful title character (James Best) lies in his coffin during his funeral, the assembled mourners listen to the droning words of the local pastor (William Fawcett) Read More
Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher
Synopsis: Nathan Juran, director of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, tries to make the magic happen again on a much more attenuated budget in Jack the Giant Killer. Torin Thatcher, another Sinbad alumnus, plays a wicked wizard who kidnaps toothsome-princess Judi Meredith. Kerwin Mathews, still another Read More
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
Synopsis: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and Read More
Actors: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury, Shirley Knight
Synopsis: Robert Preston plays the flip side of his eternally ebullient Professor Harold Hill in Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Preston portrays an early 20th-century harness salesman, fully aware that his product is rapidly becoming obsolete. He tries to compensate for his own lack of self-esteem by Read More
Actors: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue
Synopsis: The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) settle in to a beach house on the island where Ken was a young lifeguard twenty years ago. He rediscovers Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), with whom he Read More
Actors: David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young, Rod Taylor, Jim Backus
Synopsis: Viewers know they're in a 1959 comedy film early in the proceedings of Ask Any Girl, when secretary Shirley MacLaine is advised by her new supervisor Jim Backus to wear a sweater "a size too small." But she is a good girl: like Doris Day, she won't offer any carnal favors unless a wedding ring is Read More
Actors: George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith, Virginia Field, Frank de Kova
Synopsis: George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal. The reporter knows that the crook, who has been accused of an ambush murder, is innocent, and he sets about to collar the real Read More
Actors: Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ray Stricklyn, Tom Tully, Suzy Parker
Synopsis: Ten North Frederick is a generally satisfying adaptation of one of John O'Hara's weaker novels. Gary Cooper plays wealthy businessman Joe Chapin, whose politically ambitious wife Edith (Geraldine Fitzgerald) hopes to ramrod into the White House. To this end, Edith donates tons of money to the Read More
Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick
Synopsis: While often regarded as one of America's greatest novelists, William Faulkner produced work that did not always translate well to the screen; it's ironically appropriate that this movie, based on several of Faulkner's short stories, is often regarded as one of the best films based on his work Read More
Actors: John Agar, Penny Edwards, Richard Shannon
Synopsis: Ride a Violent Mile is an economically produced western with a Civil War background. Penny Edwards stars as Susan, a Union spy who poses as a dance-hall girl in a Confederate-friendly frontier town. Susan hopes to prevent the Mexican government from casting its lot with the South, and to do that Read More
Actors: Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Jay C. Flippen, Argentina Brunetti
Synopsis: In this tense murder mystery, a San Francisco traffic officer vows to find the killer of the kindly priest who raised him. Unfortuantely, his superiors assign the case to others. Angrily the cop quits the force and launches his own investigation. The cop's prime suspect is the priest's best Read More
Actors: Jeff Chandler, John Lupton, Joanne Dru, Morris Ankrum, Ronald Howard
Synopsis: Union army major Drango (Jeff Chandler) is assigned to rebuild a ruined Georgian town in the aftermath of the Civil War. Despite his best intentions, Drango has trouble combatting the hatred and resentment of the townsfolk. In particular, Clay Allen (Ronald Howard), the hotheaded son of Judge Read More
Actors: Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Ray Collins, Hillary Brooke, Edgar Buchanan
Synopsis: Every time Republic Pictures head honcho Herbert J. Yates starred his minimally talented wife Vera Ralston in a film, the studio's stockholders began trembling in their boots. Like most of its predecessors, the 1957 Ralston vehicle Spoilers of the Forest just barely made back its cost. Vera plays Read More
Actors: Gloria Castillo, Ross Ford, Edward Byrnes, Ralph Reed, Jan Englund
Synopsis: The inherent trashiness of Reform School Girl is redeemed by the sincere performance of Gloria Castillo and the matter-of-fact direction of Edward Bernds. Castillo plays mixed-up teenager Donna Price, who is shipped off to a girl's reformatory when she is involved in a fatal car crash. Actually Read More
Actors: Peggie Castle, Arthur Franz, Marsha Hunt, Don Haggerty, Marianne Stewart
Synopsis: In this routine possession potboiler, Peggie Castle plays a suburban housewife being slowly driven mad by the intrusive, restless spirit of her husband's first wife, whose soul has been tainted by her participation in a Satanic cult headed by high priest Father Renall (Otto Reichow). The woman's Read More
Synopsis: Acting in self defense, Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) is forced to shoot down a rampaging farmer named Stoner (Paul Newlan). Not long afterward, Stoner's vengeance-driven widow (Helen Wallace) offers a $1000 dollar reward for anyone willing to kill the Marshal. With every would-be gunman in Read More
Actors: Rock Hudson, Cornell Borchers, George Sanders, Ray Collins, David Janssen
Synopsis: This emotional drama concerns a WWII medic who marries a German woman but leaves her in a jealous rage, taking their baby with him. They lose touch after she is arrested behind the Iron Curtain after the war. Eight years later, she sees him in a Chicago cafe, rushes across the street to see him Read More
Synopsis: Even though Matt (James Arness) and Chester (Dennis Weaver) have just come across the mutilated remains of a white family murdered by a renegade band of Kiowas, Matt does his best to persuade farmer Sam Fraser (Lew Brown) not to give up on their property and return to Ohio. But Fraser is Read More
Actors: Mickey Rooney, Virginia Welles, James Flavin, Paul Cavanagh, Richard Deacon
Synopsis: Though both star Donald O'Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the "Francis the Talking Mule" series, Universal-International wasn't about to give up on so valuable a property. Thus, Francis in the Haunted House starred Mickey Rooney, with Charles Barton calling the shots. Likewise Read More
Actors: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale, William Demarest
Synopsis: The Untamed West is the reissue title of the Pine-Thomas production The Far Horizons. This romanticized retelling of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803-06 stars Fred MacMurray as Meriwether Lewis and Charlton Heston as Bill Clark. The film doesn't delve much into the real-life animosity Read More
Actors: Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lucy Marlow, Lorne Greene, Katherine Anderson
Synopsis: Tight Spot is based on Leonard Kantor's novel Dead Pigeon, which in turn was obviously inspired by Virginia Hill's appearance before the Kefauver Committee. Ginger Rogers plays hard-boiled model Sherry Conley, who is serving a prison term for a crime she didn't commit. Sherry is offered her Read More
Actors: Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson, Kathleen Hughes, Jack Kelly
Synopsis: Six GIs stationed in Asia secretly photograph the arcane rituals of a group of cobra worshippers. At the climax of the ceremony, the cult members turn themselves into snakes. The high priestess catches the soldiers spying and throws a curse upon them. This off-beat horror film follows what happens Read More
Actors: Mitzi Gaynor, Keefe Brasselle, Jeffrey Hunter, Harvey Stephens, Dan Riss, Michael Ansara
Synopsis: Mitzi Gaynor was contractually awarded with top billing in 20th Century-Fox's Three Young Texans, but the film's true star is Jeffrey Hunter. To prevent his father from being blackmailed into committing a train robbery, Johnny Colt (Hunter) pulls off the theft himself. Our hero and his lady friend Read More
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Kathleen Hughes, Marcia Henderson, Richard Denning
Synopsis: John Forsythe plays a successful television writer, Don Newell, who works on the "Crime of the Week" anthology series. Newell is being blackmailed by one of the program's actresses (Kathleen Hughes), who threatens to tell his wife of their clandestine affair. Arriving at the actress' apartment for Read More
Actors: Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Charles Bickford, Wanda Hendrix, Warner Anderson
Synopsis: After his Oscar win for All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford found himself working out his Columbia contract in a string of rapidly deteriorating films. The Last Posse was a middling western, the sort that the studio sent out as bottom-of-bill attractions for their prestige pictures. The posse Read More
Actors: Loretta Young, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Frances Dee, Alexander Scourby
Synopsis: Fans of Loretta Young were rather taken aback by the early scenes of Because of You, wherein Young is seen as brash, uninhibited bleach-blonde Christine Carroll. On the verge of marrying gangster Mike Monroe (Alex Nicol), Christine is arrested by the cops, and sent to prison on the strength of Read More
Synopsis: Insane doctor H.L. Orr (Peter Brocco) is convinced that he can control Superman (George Reeves) with a mind-altering drug. Before long, Orr and his henchman Rausch (Larry Blake) have kidnapped Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) and Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) to lure Superman into a trap. Once he is Read More
Actors: Frankie Laine, Billy Daniels, Charlotte Austin, Arthur Franz, Ida Moore
Synopsis: In this musical, a determined young woman with stars in her eyes defies her auntie and heads for Hollywood where she gets a messenger job at a major studio in hope of being discovered. Her dreams are soon realized and she is signed to appear in an upcoming film. Her snooty aunt is appalled and Read More
Actors: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Lynn Bari
Synopsis: Douglas Sirk directed this frothy musical comedy set in the 1920s starring Charles Coburn as Samuel Fulton, an elderly man with a multi-million dollar fortune. With no family of his own to whom he can leave his money, Fulton is pondering what to do with his estate. Years ago, he was in love with a Read More
Actors: Penny Edwards, Robert Clarke, Ross Ford, Roy Barcroft, John Eldredge
Synopsis: The title Street Bandits refers to the crooked slot machines peddled by racketeer Monk Walter (Roy Barcroft). Struggling attorney Fred Palmer (Robert Clarke), in need of ready money, aligns himself with Walter. This sits not at all well with Palmer's partner Tom Reagan (Ross Ford), nor with his Read More
Actors: Richard Grayson, Margaret Field, Marta Mitrovich, Harold J. Kennedy, Helen Wallace
Synopsis: Richard Grayson and Margaret Field (the mother of actress Sally Field) play a young married couple beset with woe. They lose their baby, have extreme difficulty adopting another, and end up accused of stealing. They are saved from prison at the finale, but no such reprieve is given the couple's Read More
Actors: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, Barry Kelley, David Wolfe
Synopsis: Eliot Ness may have gotten lots of publicity (especially long after the fact) for breaking the Capone mob, but as Joseph H. Lewis' The Undercover Man reminds us, it was the accountants and the numbers-crunchers that brought down Capone and his mob. Frank Warren (Glenn Ford) started out as an Read More
Actors: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Rex Ingram
Synopsis: All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring innumerable beatings and other humiliations as a boy because his father was a murderer who died on the gallows. He finds it not much better as an adult, living with his aunt in Read More
Actors: Jimmy Lydon, Lois Collier, Marc Lawrence, Richard Travis, Robert Emmett Keane
Synopsis: Former "Henry Aldrich" James Lydon acquits himself nicely in a serious role in Republic's Out of the Storm. Lydon plays Donald Lewis, a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring Read More
Actors: Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris, Kent Smith
Synopsis: John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all likelihood, stars Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan were both second choices. Reagan is a returning GI who falls in love with Parker, an ingenuous young actress. Circumstances Read More
Actors: Shirley Temple, Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Peterson, Rory Calhoun, Charles Kemper
Synopsis: A young girl is adopted into a small town family, but instead of finding happiness, she finds her life a living nightmare due to neighbors' constant speculation as to he father's identity. The scuttlebutt is that she is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent lawyer and former resident (Ronald Read More
Actors: Martha Wentworth, Trevor Bardette, Tom London
Synopsis: Marshal of Cripple Creek was the last of seven Republic "Red Ryder" westerns starring Allan "Rocky" Lane. This time, Red Ryder (Lane) rides into a gold-mining town, where an outlaw gang is operating unmolested. It's not that the local sheriff is corrupt; it's simply that the villains are too Read More
Actors: Gene Autry, Lynne Roberts, Sterling Holloway, Richard Lane, Ralph Sanford
Synopsis: In his first film after four-years of military duty, Gene Autry returns to a familiar setting: a modern western musical-comedy with accent on music and comedy. Crooning Jimmie Hodges' lilting "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You", cattle rancher Gene Autry is discovered by Hollywood talent scouts Read More
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