Atlantis, The Lost Continent 1961  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: George Pal
Cast: Sal Ponti, Joyce Taylor, Frank DeKova, John Dall, Jay Novello, Edward Platt, Berry Kroeger, Keith Andes, Paul Frees, William Smith, Edgar Stehli, Wolfe Barzell
A Greek fisherman faces danger as he leads a revolt in the doomed city. Don't expect the usual great special effects from George Pal in this–one of his weakest films.
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Backlash 1956  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell, John McIntire, Barton MacLane, Harry Morgan, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Platt, Jack Lambert, Roy Roberts
Jim Slater (Richard Widmark) is searching for the truth about what happened to his father during and after an Apache raid in post-Civil War Arizona. He runs across Karyl (Donna Reed) who is on a similar mission after her husband was killed in the same raid. They join forces, and, to Jim's regret, his father is the thief he was accused of being and had sold out his fellow thieves. John McIntire does his usual good job, this time in the role of Jim's father. Other than that, this expensive film, though beautifully shot, is not at the level of Sturges' other Western sagas such as "Bad Day at Black Rock" and "Gunfight at O.K. Corral".
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Cape Fear 1962  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, John McKee, Edward Platt, Will Wright, Barrie Chase, Paul Comi, Page Slattery, Ward Ramsey, Joan Staley
When ex-con Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is released from an eight-year prison term for rape and assault, he vows to get even with the Georgia lawyer, Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), who had testified against him. He arrives in town and intends to get revenge by raping Bowden's wife Peggy (Polly Bergen) and daughter Nancy (Lori Martin). Police Chief Dutton (Martin Balsam) tries to help, but his hands are tied. Finally, to escape Cady, Bowden moves Peggy and Nancy to a houseboat on the river–where a showdown awaits.
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Cash McCall 1960  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E.G. Marshall, Henry Jones, Otto Kruger, Roland Winters, Edward Platt, Edgar Shehli, Linda Watkins, Parley Baer, Dabbs Greer, Nicky Blair, Gregory Gaye
Corporate raider Cash McCall (James Garner) buys failing businesses and uses them as a tax relief for thriving firms' profits. When McCall sets out to buy Grant Austen's (Dean Jagger) failing business, he hopes that the purchase will impress Austen's daughter Lory (Natalie Wood). But, business conflicts will play a big role in McCall's chance for a successful romance with Lory.
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Designing Woman 1957 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Sam Levene, Mickey Shaughnessy, Chuck Connors, Tom Helmore, Jesse White, Edward Platt, Alvy Moore
George Wells won the Oscar for Best Story or Screenplay for this tale about a sports writer, Mike (Gregory Peck), who falls in love with and marries a fashion designer, Marilla (Lauren Bacall). After the excitement of courtship ends, Mike and Marilla realize that they face problems combining their very different worlds of sports and fashions.
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The Great Man 1956 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jose Ferrer
Cast: Jose Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London, Joanne Gilbert, Ed Wynn, Jim Backus, Lyle Talbot, Edward Platt, Russ Morgan
Reporter Joe Harris (Jose Ferrer) investigates the life of a recently departed and much beloved radio star and comes up with the story of a not-so-lovable character.
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The Helen Morgan Story 1957 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Ann Blyth, Richard Carlson, Paul Newman, Gene Evans, Alan King, Cara Williams, Virginia Vincent, Walter Woolf King, Dorothy Green, Edward Platt, Warren Douglas, Sammy White, Peggy de Castro, Cherie de Castro, Babette de Castro
Bootlegger Larry Maddux (Paul Newman) discovers Helen Morgan (Ann Blyth) while she is performing in a carnival and helps her rise to stardom on Broadway. But, Larry is using Helen for his own good, and Helen is torn between Larry and married lawyer Russell Wade (Richard Carlson). Helen turns to alcohol and, after the Stock Market crash in 1929, ends up in Bellevue Hospital. But, Helen rises above her problems and regains her stardom. Songs include "Sunny Side of the Street" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man." (sung by Gogi Grant).
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The High Cost of Loving 1958 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jose Ferrer
Cast: Jose Ferrer, Gena Rowlands, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Bobby Troup, Philip Ober, Edward Platt, Charles Watts, Werner Klemperer
In this satire on modern-day life, Gina Rowlands makes her film debut as Virginia Fry, who learns of her pregnancy just as her husband, Jim (Jose Ferrer), is told that his job is in jeopardy.
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 Illegal 1955 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Allen
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Dekker, Ellen Corby, DeForest Kelley, Howard St. John, Robert Ellenstein, Edward Platt
Edward G. Robinson plays an attorney who was once a district attorney and then changed his stance to provide defenses for the Mob. Now, he puts everything on the line to defend his former assistant (Nina Foch) in a murder case. This is a remake of "The Mouthpiece."
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 North by Northwest 1959  N/R, 136 min.
Genre: Adventure / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis, Philip Ober, Josephine Hutchinson, Edward Platt, Les Tremayne, Adam Williams, Robert Ellenstein, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Ken Lynch
A Madison Avenue businessman (Cary Grant) is pursued by foreign agents who mistakenly think he is a spy. He has a torrid affair with a stranger (Eva Marie Saint) during a train ride while eluding the agents. The chase takes place from New York City, through Midwest corn fields, and culminates at the top of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills. One of Hitchcock's and filmdom's greats. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Film Editing, and Writing.
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The Proud Ones 1956 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert D. Webb
Cast: Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Middleton, Walter Brennan, Arthur O'Connell, Ken Clark, Rodolfo Acosta, Edward Platt, Whit Bissell
Outlaws zero in on a Kansas town and the Marshal, Cass (Robert Ryan), must overcome handicaps to rid the town of the illegal elements.
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The Rebel Set 1959 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Beatsville
Director: Gene Fowler
Cast: Gregg Palmer, Kathleen Crowley, Edward Platt, John Lupton, Don Sullivan, Ned Glass, Vikki Dougan, I. Stanford Jolley, Gene Roth, Robert Shayne, Collette Lyons, Byron Foulger
After an L.A. coffee bar owner and con man, Mr. T (Edward Platt), coerces three losers–John, Ray, and George (Gregg Palmer, John Lupton, and Don Sullivan)–into robbing an armored car in Chicago, double crossing and murder lie ahead.
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 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Nick Adams, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Virginia Brissac, Marietta Canty, Jack Grinnage, Ian Wolfe, Edward Platt
A new kid in town, troubled teenager Jim (James Dean), cannot reconcile himself to his parents' middle-class lifestyle and is befriended by two high-school classmates Judy and Plato (Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo). However, as the friendship develops, and they get involved in a "chicken" race of cars speeding toward a cliff, tragedy ensues. Mineo and Wood received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress.
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Serenade 1956  N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sarita Montiel, Vincent Price, Joseph Calleia, Vince Edwards, Frank Puglia, Harry Bellaver, Edward Platt, Mario Siletti
A California vineyard worker, Damon Vincenti (Mario Lanza), becomes an opera star and women worship him.
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Storm Center 1956 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Taradash
Cast: Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly, Kathryn Grant, Edith Evanson, Joe Mantell, Edward Platt, Howard Wendell, Kevin Coughlin
Blacklisting of the communications media in the 1950s is the focus of this film about a librarian (Bette Davis) who will not take a certain book about communism out of circulation.
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They Came to Cordura 1959 N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Michael Callan, Dick York, Robert Keith, Jim Bannon, Edward Platt
Set during World War I, this is the story of Major Thomas Thorn's (Gary Cooper) mission into Mexico where he leads his men in pursuit of Pancho Villa and becomes involved with a politician's daughter (Rita Hayworth).
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Written on the Wind 1956 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Platt, Harry Shannon, John Larch
The Hadleys are a wealthy oil family beset by troubles–son Kyle (Robert Stack) is an alcoholic and daughter Marylee (Dorothy Malone) is a nymphomaniac. Dorothy Malone won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Robert Stack was nominated for Supporting Actor in this soaper that is saved by good acting.
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| 1. Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961)
2. Backlash (1956)
3. Cape Fear (1962)
4. Cash McCall (1960)
5. Designing Woman (1957)
6. The Great Man (1956)
7. The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
8. The High Cost of Loving (1958)
9. House of Numbers (1957)
10. Illegal (1955)
11. North by Northwest (1959)
12. The Proud Ones (1956)
13. The Rebel Set (1959)
aka: Beatsville
14. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
15. Serenade (1956)
16. Storm Center (1956)
17. They Came to Cordura (1959)
18. Written on the Wind (1956)
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