The Benny Goodman Story 1956  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Valentine Davies
Cast: Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten, Herbert Anderson, Robert F. Simon, Hy Averback, Dick Winslow, Jack Kruschen, Harry James, Wilton Graff, Sammy Davis Jr., Martha Tilton, Barry Truex, Shepard Menken, David Kasday
Great music is part of this biography of the famous bandleader Benny Goodman (Steve Allen) that includes his days of growing up in Chicago as well as his romance with and marriage to society debutante Alice Hammond (Donna Reed). Guest performers include Harry James, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Sammy Davis Jr., and Martha Tilton.
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Embryo 1976  PG, 104 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Created to Kill
Director: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Rock Hudson, Diane Ladd, Barbara Carrera, Roddy McDowall, Anne Schedeen, John Elerick, Vincent Baggetta, Jack Colvin, Dick Winslow, Joyce Brothers
Dr. Paul Holliston (Rock Hudson) takes science into his own hands with no regard for the consequences when he injects a growth hormone into a human fetus–and suffers the horrifying results of his hubris.
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 King Creole 1958  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Paul Stewart, Jan Shepard, Dick Winslow, Raymond Bailey, Liliane Montevecchi, Brian G. Hutton, Jack Grinnage
Based on Harold Robbins' novel, "A Stone for Danny Fisher," this story is set in New Orleans. Aspiring young singer Danny Fisher (Elvis Presley) is a delinquent and high-school dropout who becomes involved with a ruthless gangster (Walter Matthau) and his alcoholic moll (Carolyn Jones). Will Danny figure out how to escape a life of crime, find employment as a singer, and gain the love of Nellie (Dolores Hart)? Many good Elvis songs include "Hard Headed Woman."
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Tom Sawyer 1930 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Clara Blandick, Jackie Searl, Ethel Wales, Dick Winslow, Jane Darwell
Mark Twain's classic is given good treatment in this, the first "talkie" version of the story, with more to follow. The same starring cast (Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, and Clara Blandick) took the same roles the following year in "Huckleberry Finn."
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| 1. The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
2. Do Not Disturb (1965)
3. Embryo (1976)
aka: Created to Kill
4. King Creole (1958)
5. Tom Sawyer (1930)
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