Adventure in Baltimore 1949 N/R, 89 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wallace Cast: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Albert Sharpe, Josephine Hutchinson, John Miljan, Charles Kemper, Johnny Sands, Norma Varden, Charles Smith
Dinah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) is the daughter of a minister (Robert Young) who is a liberated early 1900s' young woman. Dinah expresses her freedom by painting a picture of a man in a loincloth; this, naturally, upsets the community and church members as well.
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Gallant Journey 1946 N/R, 86 min. Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman Cast: Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles, Henry Travers, Arthur Shields, Jimmy Lloyd, Charles Kemper, Willard Robertson, Selena Royle, Chris-Pin Martin
This film is the biography of John J. Montgomery who made the first successful flight in a glider and was one of the pioneers in the emerging field of aviation.
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Intruder in the Dust 1949 N/R, 86 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown Cast: Juano Hernandez, Claude Jarman Jr., David Brian, Elizabeth Patterson, Porter Hall, Charles Kemper, Will Geer, David Clarke, Dan White, Harry Hayden
This is the film adaptation of William Faulkner's novel in which Lucas Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is a black man in Oxford, Mississippi. Beauchamp narrowly escapes lynching for a crime he did not commit when the corpse is exhumed as evidence to clear him.
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On Dangerous Ground 1952 N/R, 82 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Nicholas Ray Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross, Ed Begley, Ian Wolfe, Sumner Williams, Gus Schilling, Frank Ferguson, Olive Carey, Richard Irving
Tough New York City cop Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) is sent upstate to investigate a young girl's murder. While working on the case, Jim meets and falls in love with blind Mary Malden (Ida Lupino). There is one large hitch: Mary's brother Danny (Sumner Williams) is the prime suspect in the case. Mary begs Jim to bring Danny in alive, but problems lie ahead.
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Scarlet Street 1945 N/R, 103 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan, Jess Barker, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Loft, Vladimir Sokoloff, Russell Hicks, Charles Kemper, Lou Lubin, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Cy Kendall, Lee Phelps
An amateur painter, Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), is also the henpecked husband of Adele (Rosalind Ivan). Christopher is a sitting duck for extortion when the seductive Kitty March (Joan Bennett) arrives on the scene with big plans for making money off Christopher's art work. Kitty persuades Cross to embezzle money to pay for her apartment. Meanwhile, what Cross does not know is that Kitty's lover is con man Johnny Prince (Dan Duryea), and he is removing Cross' name from the paintings and replacing them with Kitty's name. Now the art work proves successful, and Johnny claims they are Kitty's and makes money off of them. Cross finally catches on, kills Kitty, and then suffers a mental breakdown. This is a remake of Jean Renoir's classic "La Chienne."
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The Southerner 1945 N/R, 91 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Renoir Cast: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi, Bunny Sunshine, Percy Kilbride, Jay Gilpin, Charles Kemper, Blanche Yurka, Paul Harvey, J. Carrol Naish
Cotton farmer Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott), despite natural and manmade disasters, struggles to make a subsistence living for his family.
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That Hagen Girl 1947 N/R, 83 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Godfrey Cast: Ronald Reagan, Shirley Temple, Rory Calhoun, Lois Maxwell, Dorothy Peterson, Conrad Janis, Harry Davenport, Frank Conroy, Charles Kemper, Penny Edwards, Harry Davenport, Nella Walker
This film is chock-full of sentimentality. It is the story about whether or not Tom Bates (Ronald Reagan) REALLY is Mary Hagen's (Shirley Temple) birth father, and it's really poor.
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A Ticket to Tomahawk 1950 N/R, 90 min. Genre: Western
Director: Richard Sale Cast: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Will Wright, Charles Kemper, Jack Elam, Connie Gilchrist, Marilyn Monroe
In this Comedy/Western, Johnny (Dan Dailey) is a traveling salesman who has the bad luck to be the only passenger on a train derailed by competing stagecoach personnel. Look for Marilyn Monroe as one of the chorus girls backing up Dailey's song.
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Wagon Master 1950 N/R, 86 min. Genre: Western / Drama
Director: John Ford Cast: Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, Ward Bond, James Arness, Charles Kemper, Alan Mowbray, Jane Darwell, Kathleen O'Malley, Russell Simpson, Francis Ford, Jim Thorpe, Mickey Simpson, Ruth Clifford, Fred Libby
A Mormon wagon train, led by Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond), is headed for the Utah territory, and two horse traders–Travis (Ben Johnson) and Sandy (Harry Carey Jr.)–are hired to guide them there. Along the way they are joined by Dr. A. Locksley Hall (Alan Mowbray) and his medicine show troupe. Also joining them are Uncle Shiloh Clegg (Charles Kemper) and his family who have just murdered a clerk while robbing an express office. As if dealing with the outlaw Clegg family was not enough, the wagon train must also contend with the Indians along the trail in this great Ford film.
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Where Danger Lives 1950 N/R, 82 min. Genre: Drama
Director: John Farrow Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Kemper, Ralph Dumke, Philip Van Zandt, Billy House, Harry Shannon
After heading to Mexico to escape a murder charge, Dr. Jeff Cameron (Robert Mitchum) realizes his companion, Margo (Faith Domergue), may have more than a few mental problems.
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Yellow Sky 1948 N/R, 98 min. Genre: Western
Director: William A. Wellman Cast: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, Harry Morgan, James Barton, Charles Kemper, Jay Silverheels, Robert Adler
Outlaws arrive in an Arizona ghost town and are confronted by a woman (Anne Baxter) living there alone with just her prospecting grandfather for company. They have hit gold, don't plan on giving it up easily to the robbers, and the battle begins.
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| 1. Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
2. Gallant Journey (1946)
3. Intruder in the Dust (1949)
4. On Dangerous Ground (1952)
5. Scarlet Street (1945)
6. The Southerner (1945)
7. That Hagen Girl (1947)
8. A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)
9. Wagon Master (1950)
10. Where Danger Lives (1950)
11. Yellow Sky (1948)
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