Africa Screams 1949  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure
Director: Charles Harton
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Max Baer, Buddy Baer, Shemp Howard, Clyde Beatty, Joe Besser, Frank Buck, Burt Wenland, Bill Walker, Martin Wilkins
While on an African safari, Buzz Johnson (Bud Abbott) and Stanley Livingston (Lou Costello) look in all the wrong places for a rumored diamond mine and encounter cannibals, a hungry lion, and other assorted challenges. This is one of their better films.
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A Kiss Before Dying 1956  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Director: Gerd Oswald
Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, Mary Astor, George Macready, Robert Quarry, Howard Petrie, Bill Walker, Molly McCart, Marlene Felton, Robert Ivers
Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) is a college student who needs money and finds added stress when his girlfriend from a wealthy family, Dorothy (Joanne Woodward), tells him that she is pregnant. Bud's solution: kill Dorothy and make it look like a suicide. He accomplishes the murder and then meets Dorothy's sister Ellen (Virginia Leith) who is suspicious of her sister's death but doesn't know about her relationship with Bud. Ellen and Bud begin a romantic relationship, but when Ellen investigates circumstances behind Dorothy's death, Bud zeroes in on Ellen as his next victim. This film was remade in 1991.
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Kisses for My President 1964  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Polly Bergen, Arlene Dahl, Edward Andrews, Eli Wallach, Donald May, Harry Holcombe, Bill Walker, Adrienne Marden
Roles are reversed in this comedy about Doris Reid (Polly Bergen) who is elected the first woman President of the United States, and her husband Thad (Fred MacMurray) must adapt to his new role in the public arena.
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Queen Bee 1955 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ranald MacDougall
Cast: Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Fay Wray, Tim Hovey, William Leslie, Lucy Marlow, Bill Walker, Olan Soule
Eva Phillips (Joan Crawford) rules the roost at her Southern mansion as she drives her husband (Barry Sullivan) to alcohol and his sister (Betsy Palmer) to suicide–then, her former lover (John Ireland) plots to end her evil reign in the only way possible: MURDER.
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Shadow on the Land 1968  TV, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Cast: Jackie Cooper, John Forsythe, Gene Hackman, Carol Lynley, Marc Strange, Janice Rule, Michael Margotta, Bill Walker, Scott Thomas, Myron Healey
In the near future the U.S. is ruled by a tyrant. But fear not–freedom-loving rebels are out to restore democracy. 1 User Review
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| | Very Timely | BLKTEXAN 06/24/2009 | | This is one of my all time favorites. This movie is very timely and should be given much more "facetime". |
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| 1. Africa Screams (1949)
2. A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
3. Kisses for My President (1964)
4. Queen Bee (1955)
5. Riot (1969)
6. Shadow on the Land (1968)
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