Apache Country 1952  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Western
Director: George Archainbaud
Cast: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Francis X. Bushman, Harry Lauter, Mickey Simpson, Carolina Cotton, Gregg Barton, Mary Scott, Sydney Mason, Iron Eyes Cody, Tom London, Byron Foulger
Gene Autry sets out to discover who is illegally giving alcohol to the Apaches.
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The Bad and the Beautiful 1952  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, Elaine Stewart, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll, Vanessa Brown, Paul Stewart, Sammy White, Ivan Triesault, Francis X. Bushman, William Tannen
This story is told from the perspectives of actress Gloria Lorrison (Lana Turner), writer James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell), and director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan) who go to a movie studio to listen to a pitch from producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) whose studio is troubled financially. Shields wants them to work on a new project, but all three have had bad experiences in the past with Shields that will make them think twice about signing with him. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress (Gloria Grahame for her role as Rosemary Bartlow), and Kirk Douglas received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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 Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ 1925 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Ben-Hur
Director: Fred Niblo
Cast: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Frank Currier, Myrna Loy, Claire McDowell, Nigel De Brulier, Betty Bronson, Kathleen Key, Carmel Myers, Mitchell Lewis, Leo White, Charles Belcher, Dale Fuller, Winter Hall
Judah Ben-Hur (Ramon Novarro) is falsely accused of a crime by his childhood friend, Massala (Francis X. Bushman), and is imprisoned. Later, Ben-Hur returns to seek vengeance but, instead, becomes a Christian and takes Christ as his savior in this excellent film that took years in the making.
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 David and Bathsheba 1951  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore, James Robertson Justice, Jayne Meadows, John Sutton, Francis X. Bushman, George Zucco, Dennis Hoey, Teddy Infuhr, Gwen Verdon
This Old Testament saga is about King David's (Gregory Peck) seduction by Bathsheba (Susan Hayward).
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Dick Tracy 1937 N/R, 290 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Mystery
Director: Alan James, Ray Taylor
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Carleton Young, Kay Hughes, Lee Van Atta, Smiley Burnette, Francis X. Bushman, John Holland, John Dilson, John Picorri, Richard Beach, Fred Hamilton, Wedgwood Nowell, Byron Foulger, Ed "Oscar" Platt, Lou Fulton
In this, the first of four serials, Ralph Byrd plays Dick Tracy who is on the trail of a mysterious criminal, "The Spider." The Spider has captured Tracy's brother (Carleton Young) and tries to turn the brother against Tracy. This film contains some good action sequences in its 15 episodes.
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The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini 1966  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Don Weis
Cast: Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Aron Kincaid, Quinn O'Hara, Nancy Sinatra, Claudia Martin, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Francis X. Bushman, Patsy Kelly
This final "Beach Party" movie has our wholesome group of surfers holed up in a haunted house where they meet some bizarre characters from past horror films. Some old-timers make it watchable for film buffs.
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Hollywood Story 1951 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Castle
Cast: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull, Fred Clark, Jim Backus, Paul Cavanagh, Houseley Stevenson, Francis X. Bushman, Joel McCrea
A movie director was murdered 20 years ago. Now, Larry O'Brien (Richard Conte) comes to Hollywood to make a movie about the crime and uncovers the real story behind the murder.
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The Phantom Planet 1961 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: William Marshall
Cast: Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter, Dolores Faith, Francis X. Bushman, Richard Weber, Al Jarvis, Dick Haynes, Mel Curtis, Richard Kiel
An astronaut, Captain Frank Chapman (Dean Fredericks), is sent to discover the cause of two missing missions when problems cause a forced landing on an asteroid. When he breathes the atmosphere, he shrinks to six inches and finds that the asteroid is populated by like-sized people. He helps defeat the terrible monsters out to feast on them, and then, again breathing oxygen, he is able to fly away.
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Sabrina 1954 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Walter Hampden, John Williams, Martha Hyer, Joan Vohs, Francis X. Bushman, Marcel Dalio, Nella Walker, Marcel Hillaire, Ellen Corby, Marjorie Bennett, Emory Parnell, Nancy Kulp
Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur. Unsophisticated Sabrina falls in love with David Larrabee (William Holden) who does not return her affections–until she returns from a Paris cooking school and has become a sophisticated woman. In addition to an Academy Award for Costume Design, the film received five nominations, including Best Actress (Hepburn) and Director.
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Wilson 1944 N/R, 154 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Sidney Blackmer, Eddie Foy Jr., Francis X. Bushman, Ruth Nelson
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, five of which were winners, this is the biography of President Woodrow Wilson (Alexander Knox) who dreamed of world peace through the League of Nations. The story follows his professional life from president of Princeton, to governor, to president as well as his personal defeats and accomplishments. Geraldine Fitzgerald gains high marks for her depiction of Wilson's second wife, Edith. The nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Knox), and Director.
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| 1. Apache Country (1952)
2. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
3. Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ (1925)
aka: Ben-Hur
4. David and Bathsheba (1951)
5. Dick Tracy (1937)
6. The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
7. Hollywood Story (1951)
8. The Phantom Planet (1961)
9. Sabrina (1954)
10. Wilson (1944)
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