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Actors: Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters
Synopsis: Based on a story by Hollywood old-timers Seton I. Miller and S. S. Field, Pete's Dragon divides its time between its flesh-and-blood characters and an animated blue dragon. Pete (Sean Marshall), a lonely orphan boy in turn-of-the-century Maine, runs away from his abusive foster family. He stumbles Read More
Synopsis: Former B-western leading man Donald Barry guest stars as Charlie Bishop, an ex-convict who has ended up on skid row. Relaying a message to Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), Charlie begs to sent back to prison--and indicates that he will go to any lengths to land behind bars. Malloy and his Read More
Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner, Malcolm Atterbury
Synopsis: In this gritty and violent period drama set in the depths of the Great Depression, Lee Marvin stars as "A No. 1", the acknowledged King of the Hoboes. A No. 1 is famous among his fellow tramps for his ability to catch a ride on any train, no matter how risky the hop or dangerous the guards. He Read More
Actors: Judith McConnell, Robert Foulk, Jane Connell, Jack Wagner
Synopsis: As the wedding of Eb (Tom Lester) and Darlene (Judith McConnell) approaches, money matters again complicate things. But Eb has got a foolproof scheme to collect free wedding gifts. All he has to do is stage his marriage in the car wash of a department store. Inevitably, Eb's "parents" Oliver (Eddie Albert Read More
Actors: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Cassidy
Synopsis: Would you believe Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine as a pair of free-spirited hippies on a crime spree? That's the premise of this unlikely comedy starring the two Oscar-winning veterans. Bunny O'Hare (Bette Davis) is an elderly woman living in New Mexico who is trying to keep herself afloat Read More
Actors: Susan Clark, James Garner
Synopsis: Skin Game was historically significant as the 2000th film produced by Warner Bros. studios. The film is a comedy western starring James Garner and Louis Gossett Jr. as a pair of clever Antebellum con men. Garner regularly "sells" the black Gossett into slavery for an exalted price, then Read More
Actors: Judith McConnell, Robert Foulk
Synopsis: Despite a severe lack of financial resources, handyman Eb (Tom Lester) persists in his plans to marry his sweetheart Darlene (Judith McConnell). Now Eb wants to get an engagement ring, but of course he hasn't the money to purchase the rock. Generous Lisa (Eva Gabor) offers her own engagement ring Read More
Actors: Judith McConnell, Kristin Nelson, Robert Foulk
Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) must come to the rescue when two of their closest friends get themselves in similar romantic entanglements. It seems that handyman Eb (Tom Lester) has invited both his steady girlfriend Darlene (Judith McConnell) and attractive newcomer Carol (Kris Read More
Actors: Judith McConnell, Robert Foulk, Mona Bruns, Edwin Max, Al Molinaro
Synopsis: Having decided to marry his sweetie Darlene (Judith McConnell), handyman Eb (Tom Lester) decides to buy a house as well. Unfortunately, his "collateral" consists of a turtle, a pocket knife, a bag of marbles, and an autographed picture of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. In his efforts to scare up more Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Dawn Wells
Synopsis: Ben Cartwright hires a new horse trainer named Will Holt (Michael Murphy), who brings with him an Indian bride named Moon (Dawn Wells, fresh from her stint on Gilligan's Island). When the neighbors express vicious bigotry towards the interracial couple, the Cartwrights try to smooth over the Read More
Synopsis: Hoping to improve business in his new restaurant, Jethro decides to hire topless waitresses. No, it's not what you think: Jethro's definition of "topless" is that the waitresses don't wear any caps. But Mr. Drysdale doesn't know that, and he is aghast when the Clampetts put up placards publicizing Read More
Synopsis: Captured by the mysterious Captain Kraspo (Robert Foulk), Penny (Angela Cartwright) is told that she is not a member of the Robinson family, but instead the long-lost Princess Alpha of the planet Beta. As the plot runs along its Anastasia-like course, Penny finds that the duties of royalty also Read More
Actors: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman
Synopsis: A pair of crooks conspire to rob the ticket booth at the Los Angeles Coliseum during a Rams game. Before they can perform the heist, the two must find precisely the right henchmen to join them. Each potential gang member must undergo a rigorous test of skill. Thanks to care and precise planning Read More
Actors: Robert Foulk, J. Pat O'Malley, Skip Young
Synopsis: This episode of Green Acres was cunningly timed to air just before the 1968 presidential elections. Upset over the do-nothing record of incumbent state representative Ben Hanks (J. Pat O'Malley), Oliver (Eddie Albert) angrily declares that there is more to being a good politician than handing out Read More
Actors: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett, Joe Flynn
Synopsis: Those who worried that the Disney studio would collapse without the presence of the late Uncle Walt were put at ease when the profits starting rolling in for The Love Bug. The "star" is Herbie, a lovable little Volkswagen with a personality all its own. Abused by a bad guy race-car driver (David Tomlinson Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Nina Foch, Roy Roberts
Synopsis: Nina Foch guest-stars as Clarissa, Ben Cartwright's snooty Eastern cousin. Swooping down upon the Ponderosa, the well-meaning but insufferable Clarissa manages to alienate all of the Cartwrights' friends-and even worse, causes ranch cook Hop Sing to tender his resignation. It has been suggested Read More
Synopsis: Passing through a time warp, the Jupiter 2 crash-lands on Earth in the year 1947, exactly fifty years before the vessel was launched. The locals of Hatfield Corners--who seem to have the collective IQ of a junebug-- assume that the Robinsons are Martians, and as a result Will (Billy Mumy) is Read More
Actors: Marty Robbins, John Ashley, Robert Dornan
Synopsis: Del (John Ashley) is an auto mechanic who leaves his brother Marty (Marty Robbins) to open his own business in this routine action drama. The brothers are kidnapped when Del is chased by federal agents for running moonshine. Marty races stock cars during the day and sings at night. How else could Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Randy Boone, Ann Doran
Synopsis: Fifteen years after Ben Cartwright's testimony sent a man named Preston to the gallows, Preston's son Colter arrives in Virginia City. A self-styled troubador, Colter sings a bitter ballad denouncing Ben and proclaiming his own father's innocence, forcing the authorities to re-open the case. Read More
Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin
Synopsis: As every loyal Green Acres fan knows, Hooterville carpenter Ralph Monroe is, despite her moniker, a bona fide female (played by Mary Grace Canfield). Of course, this fact is hard to ascertain, since Ralph is always dressed in men's overalls and seemingly goes out of her way to be unattractive. Read More
Actors: Reta Shaw, Bert Freed, Beverly Hills, Flip Mark, Evan Pearson
Synopsis: Once again, Lucy (Lucille Ball) has a hankering to see some movie stars close-up. Her first step in this direction is to take over the "maps to the movie stars' homes" kiosk owned by her recently departed neighbor (Reta Shaw). One thing leads to another, and by episode's end Lucy has become an Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Louise Latham, Mark Slade
Synopsis: A ricocheting bullet catches Little Joe Cartwright in his-er-nether regions. Seeking answers to his brother's non-fatal but certainly embarrassing injury, Hoss tries to communicate with world-weady female gunslinger Willie Mae Rikeman (Louise Latham) and her two uncontrollable sons Judd (Mark Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jack Kruschen, Penny Santon
Synopsis: Originally broadcast April 17, 1966, "The Big Shadow on the Land" was the first of three Bonanza episodes focusing on the Rossis, an immigrant Italian family. Headed by bombastic Giorgio Rossi (Jack Kruschen), the family encamps on the Ponderosa, intending to revitalize their winemaking business. Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Sally Kellerman, Hampton Fancher
Synopsis: Bonanza closed out its seventh season on May 15, 1966 with the comic episode "A Dollar's Worth of Trouble." Gypsy palm reader Mme. Adella (Mabel Albertson predicts that Hoss Cartwright's life will soon accommodate a blue-eyed blonde, a moonshiner, and a murderous gunslinger. As these Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Viveca Lindfors, Ron Randell
Synopsis: Written by Dick Carr, "The Spotlight" is a showcase for Viveca Lindfors in the role of long-retired opera diva Angela Drake. Appointed entertainment-committee chairman of the Virginia City anniversary celebration, Ben persuades Angela to come out of retirement for a command performance. Angela is Read More
Synopsis: After purchasing the diary of an alleged suicide victim at an auction, Della (Barbara Hale) is surprised when someone offers her $1000 for the book. Turning down the offer, the intrigued Della begins paging through the diary, ultimately arriving at the conclusion that its author did not kill Read More
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Falk, Bing Crosby
Synopsis: The Rat Pack packed it in after this sprightly musical comedy that owes more than it should to Damon Runyon's stories and Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows's classic musical Guys and Dolls. Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen's bright and snappy score features such songs as "Style", "Bang-Bang" and the Sinatra Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Arthur Hunnicutt
Synopsis: One of the best-remembered and best-loved Bonanza episodes, "Any Friend of Walter's" first aired on March 24, 1963. While travelling to visit his sweetie Bessie Sue (Katie Sue), Hoss Cartwright is forced to take shelter in the shack occupied by scroungy prospector Obie (Arthur Hunnicutt) and Read More
Synopsis: Scheming Frances Walden (Constance Ford) hopes to use the "gossip grapevine" in the small farming town of Palmetto to break up the marriage of her brother Martin (Robert Bray) and his wife Andrea (Diane Brewster). Frances goes so far as to pay her own nephew Roy (a pre-Lost in Space Mark Goddard) Read More
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
Synopsis: The millionaire Clampetts are astonished to learn that their bank account is overdrawn to the amount of 34 dollars and 70 cents. It turns out that there's been a mix-up in the bank records; the hillbillies have received a bank statement intended for J.D. Clampett (King Donovan), an unemployed Read More
Actors: Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda, MacDonald Carey, Beulah Bondi, Margaret Lindsay
Synopsis: This time around, Tammy, played by Sandra Dee, becomes a nurse's aid to care for an old rich woman and causes a commotion. Since she is charming and warm, everyone likes her--especially Dr. Mark Cheswick (Peter Fonda)--who is warned by boss Dr. Bentley (MacDonald Carey) of the consequences of his Read More
Actors: Tommy Noonan, Peter Marshall, Barbara Eden, Connie Gilchrist, Carol Christensen
Synopsis: Bungling courier Freddie Merkel (Tommy Noonan) dreams of creative success but always manages to botch things up at crucial moments. Shortly after destroying his motorcycle, he decides to become a songwriter. This gives con man Duke (Peter Marshall) the perfect opportunity for his latest scam, one Read More
Actors: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Walter Slezak, Barbara Eden, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, Buddy Hackett
Synopsis: This long, 135-minute feature is divided into four different segments, three highlighting fairy tales and the first introducing the two Brothers Grimm. Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) is the dreamer, and Jacob (Karl Boehm) is the practical one, and between them, some marvelous fairy tales develop. Read More
Actors: Arthur Hunnicutt, Jeanette Nolan, Titus Moede, Orville Sherman, Charles Seel
Synopsis: Originally telecast January 26 1962, this episode was the first of several Twilight Zone scriptwriting assignments for Earl Hamner, Jr., future creator of The Waltons. Arthur Hunnicutt stars as backwoodsman Hyder Simpson, who despite the dire predictions of his superstitious wife Rachel (Jeanette Nolan Read More
Actors: Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell
Synopsis: This is the third time around for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The action takes place in urban Texas instead of the traditional setting in rural Iowa. This film version contains five extra songs written exclusively by Richard Rodgers. Box office results were adequate at best, and movie Read More
Synopsis: When a storm at sea threatens to sink the freighter "Janeel Trader", first officer Jerry Griffin orders a million dollars' worth of cargo to be dumped overboard, taking full responsibility for what he regards as a life-saving act. But when returns to shore, Jerry must face charges brought by a Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Arnold Stang
Synopsis: In this comic episode, mail-order huckster Gideon Flinch (Ian Wolfe), alias Homer T. Cranston, fleeces ornery Bullethead Burke (Harry Swoger) of 5,000 dollars. When Bullethead shows up in Virginia City seeking revenge, Gideon's quick-thinking niece Jennifer (Sue Anne Langdon) convinces the surly Read More
Synopsis: Robert Colbert makes his first appearance as Brent Maverick, yet another cousin of frontier gambler Bart Maverick Jack Kelly) (Colbert sports the same costume worn by former series regular James Garner, a rather blatant move by Warner Bros. to create a "new" Bret Maverick). Riding into the town of Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Lloyd Nolan
Synopsis: Lloyd Nolan guest-stars as New Orleans police inspector Charles Leduque, a man who harbors a deep and festering grudge against Ben Cartwright. On the eve of Ben's gubernatorial campaign, Leduque shows up in town bearing a warrant for Ben's arrest -- on a charge of murder. Though it appears that Read More
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson
Synopsis: During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off four Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Playboy Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) joins in the scheme because he's sick Read More
Synopsis: In the fourth episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries The Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) has captured outlaw leader Mrs. Barko (Beverly Garland) who, though she faces the gallows, refuses to explain why she was trying to join forces with another notorious bandit, Dan Read More
Actors: Carol Morris, Vera Vague, Hugo Haas, Dick Kallman, Jacqueline Fontaine
Synopsis: Director Hugo Haas reprises the theme of romantic love in this routine yet innocent story of matchmaking. The setting is an overcrowded tenement building in which the residents seem to live beyond the reach of muggers or drug dealers or trigger-happy gangs because they mingle and mix in the halls Read More
Actors: Audie Murphy, Terry Moore, John Dehner
Synopsis: A troubled saddletramp with a penchant for drinking away his pain inherits a ranch from the man who may have been his father. This western follows the young rider's attempts to reform. His efforts are ultimately challenged when his old rivals come to town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Alan Freed, Ritchie Valens
Synopsis: Go, Johnny, Go! was second and last of a proposed trio of jukebox movies built around and co-produced by DJ Alan Freed. He plays himself in this rags-to-riches tale, told in flashback, of a young rock & roll singer named Johnny Melody (Jimmy Clanton), whose rise from life in an orphanage where no Read More
Synopsis: Rather than pay a gambling debt owed to Bret Maverick (James Garner), notorious gunslinger Henry Arnett (a pre-Batman Adam West) skips town when Bret shows up. Impressionable Smoky Vaughn (Gary Vinson) incorrectly assumes that Arnett was afraid of Bret's gun, and spreads the word that there's a Read More
Actors: Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon, John Ericson, Robert Middleton, Marie Windsor
Synopsis: Fred MacMurray is the beleagured hero of the Universal western Day of the Badman. MacMurray plays circuit judge Jim Scott, who rides into town to pass sentence on convicted killer Jake Hayes (Lee Van Cleef). Unfortunately, it doesn't look as though Hayes will stay in jail long enough for the Read More
Synopsis: Dr. Blane (Don Beddoe) asks Perry (Raymond Burr) for advice in dealing with his scapegrace son-in-law Jack Hardisty (Fredd Wayne), who has already embezzled thousands of dollars from the doctor and intends to blackmail the poor man out of even more money. Perry decides to confront Hardisty and Read More
Actors: Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Vic Morrow, Maurice Manson, Robert Foulk
Synopsis: Hell's Five Hours begin ticking away when Nash (Vic Morrow), a disgruntled employee of a rocket-fuel manufacturing plant, goes berserk. Wielding a home-made bomb, Nash threatens to blow himself, his hostages and the plant to smithereens. Nash's supervisor Mike (Stephen McNally) takes it upon Read More
Actors: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, Hurd Hatfield, James Congdon, James Best
Synopsis: The Left Handed Gun was adapted by Gore Vidal from his own TV play, The Death of Billy the Kid. 33-year-old Paul Newman stars as 21-year-old William Bonney, the hotheaded gunslinger known as Billy the Kid. Avoiding the usual Hollywood glamourization of this controversial character, Newman portays Read More
Actors: Steve Cochran, Leo Gordon, Diane Brewster, Gale Robbins, Will Wright
Synopsis: The oft-told tale of controversial Southern-sympathizing outlaw Quantrill is recounted again in this low-budget western. Leo Gordon, possessor of one of the meanest faces in the movies, plays Quantrill, but top billing is bestowed upon Steve Cochran as Westcott, a Confederate officer assigned to Read More
Actors: June Allyson, David Niven, Jesse Royce Landis, Robert Keith, Eva Gabor
Synopsis: The Depression-New Deal subtext of the original 1936 My Man Godfrey was understandably dispensed with in this so-so 1957 remake. David Niven steps into the old William Powell role as hobo-turned-butler Godfrey, while June Allyson does her best in the Carole Lombard part as Irene Bullock, the Read More
Synopsis: Bret (James Garner) befriends a charming young couple, Molly Gleason (Karen Steele) and Ralph Jordan (a pre-Mannix Michael Connors). Alas, what Molly and Ralph currently have in mind is not so charming. The two lovebirds intend to use the trusting Bret as the fall guy for a bank robbery --and the Read More
Actors: Don Burnett, Mamie van Doren, Lori Nelson, John Russell, Eddie Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
Synopsis: Untamed Youth is a camp classic, so stupefyingly awful that it's actually festive. The villains are cotton grower Tropp (John Russell) and corrupt female judge Mrs. Steele (Lurene Tuttle), who conspire between them to ship female convicts to work on Tropp's farm for starvation wages. Two of the Read More
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin
Synopsis: Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role model, but it still proved a moneyspinner for MGM. Elizabeth Taylor stars as a spoiled Southern belle who falls in love with pacifistic Indiana youth Montgomery Clift. Though Clift Read More
Actors: George Montgomery, James Best, Douglas Kennedy, Keith Larsen, Robert Foulk
Synopsis: Last of the Badmen gets started in 1880 Chicago, as detective Dan Barton (George Montgomery) prepares to head westward. Barton intends to round up a gang of stagecoach bandits, whose modus operandi is to spring criminals from jail in return for their services. In order to infiltrate the Read More
Actors: Howard Duff, Gloria McGhee, Dick Foran, John Hoyt, Barton MacLane
Synopsis: Shortly before committing himself to the TV sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, Howard Duff starred in the dust-caked western Sierra Stranger. After rescuing Sonny Grover (Ed Kemmer) from a brutal beating, well-meaning Jess Collins (Duff) discovers that Sonny is the town no-good. The far-from-grateful Read More
Actors: Johnny Longden, Hazel Longden, Robert Foulk, Jesslyn Fax, Sandra Gould
Synopsis: Jockey Johnny Longden and his wife, Hazel Longdon, appear as themselves in this episode, in which Ricky (Desi Arnaz) is chosen to present a loving cup to Longden at a dinner for the National Turf Association. Having been chided for purchasing what Ricky regards as a ridiculous-looking hat, Lucy (Lucille Ball Read More
Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running series, The Bowery Boys must help their leader after he becomes hypnotized by an unscrupulous mesmerizer who sends him back in time to the swashbuckling days of Blackbeard the pirate. There he is to find a buried treasure. The lad finds it, but upon awakening, he Read More
Actors: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Ansara, Whit Bissell
Synopsis: Joel McCrea essays the title role in this moody little western. McCrea is a Union officer wounded in battle, who joins up with a wagon train heading westward. He is ostracized by those passengers who'd fought on the Confederate side, though leading lady Virginia Mayo welcomes his presence. McCrea Read More
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
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
Actors: Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia, Mikhail Rasumny
Synopsis: If Hot Blood is remembered at all today, it is for its ludicrous advertising blurb "Jane Russell shakes her tambourines and drives Cornel Wilde!" Set in the gypsy community of contemporary Los Angeles, the film stars Wilde as aspiring dancer Stephen Torino, who is tricked by his brother Marco Luther Adler Read More
Actors: Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Arthur Kennedy
Synopsis: In this western, an adventurous gambler goes on the lam when he is falsely accused of a riverboat killing. He hides out for three years before returning to prove his innocence, and to find the girl he loves. Unfortunately, the girl is involved with a gambler, the ringleader of the gang responsible Read More
Synopsis: A derelict named Goodfellow (Robert Newton) comes into possession of an IOU written by Ralph Cowell (Phillip Reed) to his principal creditor. As luck would have it, Goodfellow has also witnessed the murder of said creditor at the hands of Mr. Cowell. Thus it is that Goodfellow and a fellow bum Read More
Synopsis: In this sequel to the second-season episode "Panic in the Sky", Clark Kent's friend Gary Allen (Robert Lowery) has been missing ever since the night Kent's alter ego Superman (George Reeves) prevented a huge meteor from crashing into Metropolis. When Gary resurfaces, he is just as invulnerable and Read More
Synopsis: Little Timmy Wyatt (Peter Votrian) is known for stretching the truth, so no one believes him when he weaves an outrageous story of witnessing a series of weird robberies, beatings and murders, occuring at a blockhouse in the dead of night. The boy's most incredible claim is that the killer Read More
Actors: Bill Williams, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Montoya, Adele August, Tex Ritter
Synopsis: Longtime B-western favorites Tex Ritter and Ray "Crash" Corrigan are among the supporting players of the Columbia oater Apache Ambush. Star of the proceedings is Bill Williams, cast as Indian scout James Kingston. In the last days of the Civil War, President Lincoln (James Griffith) selects Read More
Actors: Greer Garson, Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith, Walter Hampden
Synopsis: Greer Garson's first non-MGM starring vehicle was the stylish western Strange Lady in Town. That lady is Julia (Garson), who arrives in 1880 New Mexico to set up practice as a doctor. The townsfolk are not only resistant to the notion of a lady sawbones, but they become downright hostile when Read More
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
Actors: Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Vic Morrow
Synopsis: In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an assignment at a boys high school in inner-city New York. However, he soon discovers the school is overrun by delinquents, led by Artie West (Vic Morrow), an insolent hood who Read More
Actors: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John McIntire
Synopsis: One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take on the ruthlessness of the frontier. Set in the Yukon, Stewart and his friends are driving cattle to market from Wyoming to Canada, where the boom towns pay top dollar for Read More
Actors: June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern, Angela Lansbury, John Beal
Synopsis: June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. The victim is Allyson's wealthy uncle, and since she can't account for her actions at the time of the crime, Our Heroine is the principal suspect. The real Read More
Actors: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan
Synopsis: Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei Lee, whose philosophy is "diamonds are a girl's best friend." Together with her best human friend Dorothy (top-billed Jane Russell), showgirl Lorelei embarks upon a boat Read More
Actors: John Ireland, Richard Denning, Suzanne Dalbert, Robert Foulk
Synopsis: U.S. security agent John Ireland suspects that someone is smuggling atomic devices into America. When he makes his report, Ireland is assured by his superiors that nothing untoward is going on. In fact, the higher-ups have had the wool pulled over their eyes by a clever Communist saboteur, who is Read More
Actors: Christine Larson, Robert Foulk, Steven Ritch, Nelson Leigh
Synopsis: Valley of the Headhunters was number eleven in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. Johnny Weissmuller returns as Jim, while his leading lady on this safari is Christine Larson. Things get under way when Jim is assigned to help a government representative attain the mineral rights to a tribal valley. Read More
Actors: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney
Synopsis: Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal young woman, recently released from a mental institution. She doesn't mention this on her resumé when she takes a baby-sitting job in a posh hotel. Jed Towers (Richard Widmark Read More
Actors: Richard Widmark, Joanne Dru, Audrey Totter, George Winslow, Regis Toomey, Joan Banks
Synopsis: Gus (George Winslow) is the young son of divorced industrialist Dave Jennings (Richard Widmark). Unable to cope with Gus' mischievous streak, Jennings places the boy in a day-care center. Gus' teacher Lydia Marble (Joanne Dru) manages to curb the boy's prankishness, and along the way falls in love Read More
Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Frank Faylen
Synopsis: The "regeneration" of blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk was expedited when he was hired by producer Stanley Kramer to helm the location-filmed melodrama The Sniper. In the interests of political expediency, Dmytrk was required to direct Adolphe Menjou, one of the most virulent Red-baiters of the Read More
Actors: Adam Williams, Meg Randall, Edward Binns, Harlan Warde, John Maxwell
Synopsis: Adam Williams is frighteningly effective as the "psycho next door" in Without Warning. Normally a quiet, unobtrusive fellow, Carl Martin (Williams) is pushed over the edge when his blonde wife cheats on him. Thereafter, he uses a pair of garden shears to kill every blonde female with whom he comes Read More
Actors: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid, Paul Stewart
Synopsis: The tougher postwar screen image of James Stewart is given a good workout in the fact-based Carbine Williams. In 1952, the world at large knew Marsh Williams as the developer of the US Army's M-1 carbine rifle. The film builds up to this event by detailing Williams' previous existence as a Read More
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Eddie Albert, Miriam Hopkins, Basil Ruysdael
Synopsis: Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat and precise screenplay by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Jennifer Jones stars as Carrie, who leaves her go-nowhere small town for the wicked metropolis of Chicago. Here she becomes Read More
Actors: Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Blackmer, Richard Erdman, Florence Bates
Synopsis: Joel McCrea plays 19th-century miner Rick Nelson in The San Francisco Story. The year is 1856, and Frisco is a wide-open town. To stem the activities of crooks and con artists, newspaper editor Jim Martin (Onslow Stevens) organizes a group of peace-keeping vigilantes. Nelson, an old friend of Read More
Actors: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr, Otto Waldis
Synopsis: In this anti-Communist film, a journalist goes on vacation to a small town and is surprised by the coldness of the residents. This makes him curious. His resulting investigation reveals the commies are planning to use the town as the launch pad for a biological warfare campaign. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More
Actors: John Derek, Donna Reed, Sidney Blackmer, Alexander Knox, Elliott Lewis
Synopsis: John Derek plays a Polish-American immigrant who excels in high school sports. Though no great shakes academically, Derek wins a scholarship at an exclusive Southern university. Sidney Blackmer is a wealthy alumnus who sees to it that Derek is allowed to coast in his classes so that he can play Read More
Actors: Clifton Webb, Anne Francis, Charles Bickford, William Lundigan, Reginald Gardiner
Synopsis: In this romance, an industrial designer is bitterly disappointed when he discovers that upon graduation his daughter decides to elope with her psychology professor rather than pursue a career. The professor's family is also not pleased by the union. Both families, who despise each other, try to Read More
Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle, Lewis Stone
Synopsis: Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek (Keefe Brasselle) of a murder rap. When it's all over, however, Rudi lets slip a careless comment which leads Mason to believe that his client was guilty after all. Using the evidence at Read More
Actors: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley, Neville Brand, Otto Hulett, Ernest Borgnine, Matt Crowley
Synopsis: Broderick Crawford plays Johnny Damico, a detective who suddenly finds himself up to his neck in trouble and his career on the line. Going home in the rain one night, he finds himself just a few feet from a shooting on a dark street, where the gunman claims to be a detective from another precinct Read More
Actors: Paul Douglas, Joan Bennett, Linda Darnell, Don DeFore
Synopsis: The title character (Paul Douglas) is a pro football player of the early 1940s at the end of his career. Douglas is offered a coaching job, but he stubbornly turns it down in hopes of making a comeback. Day after day he sits in his den watching movies of his past gridiron triumph, much to the Read More
Actors: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Karl Malden, Tom Tully
Synopsis: Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) as a murder suspect, Dixon subjects Paine to the third degree -- and accidentally kills him. In disposing of the Read More
Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson
Synopsis: Blonde good-time girl Vivian Heldon (Jan Sterling), who lives in a cheap rooming house in a working-class section of Boston, run by the inquisitive and neurotic Mrs. Smerrling (Elsa Lanchester), goes out one night after a phone conversation with her boyfriend, proclaiming that she's got big plans Read More
Actors: Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka, Gale Robbins
Synopsis: Between Midnight and Dawn is a solid, no-frills detective drama from the Columbia studio mills. Mark Stevens and Edmond O'Brien star as police officers Barnes and Purvis, who tool around in their prowl car in the wee hours of the morning. Vengeful gangster Ritchie Garris (Donald Buka) would like Read More
Actors: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Eduard Franz, Barbara O'Neil
Synopsis: In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret kleptomania seeks help from a unscrupulous hypnotist David Korvo (Jose Ferrer). Although she is married to a successful psychiatrist (Richard Conte), and has no need to steal the Read More
Actors: Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, John McIntire
Synopsis: In Johnny Stool Pigeon, the title character's name is really Johnny Evans (Dan Duryea). Evans is an imprisoned crook whose wife died as a result of a vicious narcotics ring. Federal agent Howard Duff works out a deal with Evans, who agrees to help the agent infiltrate the gang. After making Read More
Actors: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell
Synopsis: Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who returns from WWII to find that his father Yanko (Morris Carnovsky), a produce trucker, has lost the use of both legs because of a fight with crooked truck driver Mike Read More
Actors: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez
Synopsis: A Christmastime TV perennial, Come to the Stable is the gentle saga of two French nuns (Celeste Holm with accent, Loretta Young without) who come to America in hopes of raising funds for a children's hospital. Travelling to a small New England town presciently named Bethlehem, the nuns befriend Read More
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
Actors: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Reginald Gardiner, Gene Lockhart, Arleen Whelan, Lucile Watson
Synopsis: That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the Betty Grable musical Sweet Rosie O'Grady). Tyrone Power repeats his role from the 1937 film as a handsome reporter who targets a flighty heiress (Gene Tierney, taking over Read More
Actors: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, O.Z. Whitehead
Synopsis: Richard Widmark plays the borderline-psycho owner of a combination road house and bowling alley. Widmark's singer, Ida Lupino, begins exhibiting an interest in his manager, Cornel Wilde. To get even with Wilde, Widmark frames him on a robbery charge, then has the unlucky fellow released in his Read More
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