Ask Any Girl 1959  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: David Niven, Gig Young, Shirley MacLaine, Rod Taylor, Jim Backus, Elisabeth Fraser, Claire Kelly, Boyd "Red" Morgan, Carmen Phillips, Myrna Hansen
A naive young girl comes to New York and gets help from a motivation researcher in finding a husband.
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The Badlanders 1958  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Alan Ladd, Katy Jurado, Ernest Borgnine, Claire Kelly, Kent Smith, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Emhardt, Anthony Caruso, Adam Williams, Ford Rainey
A Geologist (Alan Ladd) and a rancher (Ernest Borgnine) team up to reclaim a gold mine; however, each tries to beat the other out of his share at every turn.
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Georgy Girl 1966 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Cast: Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling, Bill Owen, Claire Kelly, Rachel Kempson, Denise Coffey, Dorothy Alison
This is Lynn Redgrave before she started doing all those Weight Watchers commercials. She plays chubby Georgy who is being seduced by James Leamington (James Mason). Finally, she succumbs and finds that married life with James is just what she needed all along. Lynn is good–and was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar; Mason was nominated for Best Supporting Actor).
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A Guide for the Married Man 1967 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Carl Reiner, Claire Kelly, Jason Wingreen, Eddie Quillan, Robert Patten, Many Guest Stars
Ed Stander (Robert Morse) finds a willing pupil in Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) who, after 12 years of marriage, wants some extra-marital excitement. Several stars demonstrate Stander's many methods of cheating on one's spouse.
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Party Girl 1958 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly, Patrick McVey, David Opatoshu, Corey Allen, Jack Lambert
Thomas Farrell (Robert Taylor) defends crooks and has been "bought" by the mob. Then he meets a showgirl (Cyd Charisse) and she stimulates him to clean up his act, but it's not easy to free himself of mob boss Rico Angelo (Lee J. Cobb). Cyd performs a couple of great dance numbers.
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Straight on Till Morning 1972  R, 96 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, Tom Bell, Annie Ross, Katya Wyeth, Claire Kelly, James Bolam, Harold Berens, John Clive, Mavis Villiers
Young Brenda (Rita Tushingham) leaves her home in Liverpool and heads to London to find a husband. She meets her "Prince Charming" Peter (Shane Briant) who, in addition to being charming, is a psychotic killer.
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Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice 1969 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Cast: Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock, Joan Huntington, Peter Brandon, Michael Barbera, Peter Bonerz, Richard Angarola, Claire Kelly, Valerie Allen
After Claire (Geraldine Page) is left penniless when her husband dies, she moves to Arizona with a plan to make money: start a pine tree garden, hire a housekeeper who has savings, kill her and bury her under a new pine tree, and take the deceased's savings. But Alice (Ruth Gordon) becomes suspicious when one of her ex-employees is missing and gets a job with Claire as a housekeeper. And the battle of wits begins. The two fine actresses, as expected, are good in their roles in this thriller/black comedy.
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| 1. And Soon the Darkness (1970)
2. Ask Any Girl (1959)
3. The Badlanders (1958)
4. Georgy Girl (1966)
5. A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
6. Party Girl (1958)
7. Straight on Till Morning (1972)
8. Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice (1969)
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