 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert, Jane Randolph, Frank Ferguson, Vincent Price, Clarence Straight
This is one of Abbott and Costello's funniest efforts. Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi join in on this satire of their horror shows.
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Andy Hardy Comes Home 1958  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard W. Koch
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Patricia Breslin, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Sara Haden, Joey Forman, Jerry Colonna, Vaughn Taylor, Frank Ferguson, William Leslie, Tom Duggan, Teddy Rooney
Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney), now a West-Coast lawyer and married with children, comes home on business. He wants to arrange for an aircraft factory to be built in his hometown. But, Andy runs into trouble buying land and gets involved in local politics.
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 The Barkleys of Broadway 1949 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Gale Robbins, Jacques Francois, George Zucco, Hans Conried, Clinton Sundberg, Frank Ferguson
After a 10-year separation, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are re-teamed as musical-comedy performers Josh and Dinah Barkley. Although Dinah is the protege of Josh, she is offered a new role as a dramatic actress, and this creates problems in the marriage.
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 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1953  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Eugene Lourie
Cast: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods, Jack Pennick, Lee Van Cleef, Steve Brodie, Ross Elliott, Frank Ferguson, Mary Hill, Michael Fox
Nuclear testing in the Arctic results in the release of a frozen, prehistoric monster (a rhedosaurus), but when Tom Nesbitt (Paul Hubschmid), who saw the creature, tries to warn the people, his warnings fall on deaf ears. People start to believe when the monster heads down the East coast of the U.S. and invades New York from the sea. It is finally dealt with on Coney Island. Good early special effects and a glimmer of what would lie ahead in the monster world (e.g. Godzilla).
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The Big Night 1960  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Randy Sparks, Venetia Stevenson, Dick Foran, Jesse White, Dick Contino, Frank Ferguson, Paul Langton, House Peters Jr., Robert Paget, Marc Cavell, Kay E. Kuter, Anna Lee
Frank (Randy Sparks) and Ellie (Venetia Stevenson) watch as a car being chased by the police crosses a bridge, and one of the passengers tosses a briefcase into the canal. Later, Frank retrieves it and, instead of notifying the police, hides it nearby. He reads about a robbery in which $209,000 was stolen and two robbers were slain but still keeps his secret cache hidden. Problems ensue when the third robber, Carl Farrow (Dick Contino), returns to the scene and finds the case missing. Now, both the police and Farrow set out to find the stolen money
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Boss of Big Town 1943 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Cast: John Litel, Florence Rice, H.B. Warner, Jean Brooks, John Miljan, David Bacon, Mary Gordon, Frank Ferguson, John Maxwell, Paul Dubov, Lloyd Ingraham
Mobsters try to get control of the dairy and produce wholesale market, and they succeed–until the supervisor (John Litel) of the city market finally takes actions that lead police to the gangsters.
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Caught 1949 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Max Ophuls
Cast: James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, Curt Bois, Frank Ferguson, Natalie Schafer, Ruth Brady, Art Smith, Bernadene Hayes, Ann Morrison, Wilton Graff, Barbara Billingsley, Ilka Gruning, Pamela Mason, Jimmy Hawkins
Leonora Eames (Barbara Bel Geddes) is a model who marries millionaire Smith Ohlrig (Robert Ryan) and moves into his luxurious home where boredom and loneliness set in. They fight, separate, get back together, and then separate again. Leonora gets a job as a receptionist for sympathetic psychiatrist Dr. Quinada (James Mason), she does not tell Quinada that she is married, and they fall in love. Complications–including pregnancy–ensue as Leonora tries to come to terms with the difficulties in her life.
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Dynamite 1949 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Action
Director: William H. Pine
Cast: William Gargan, Virginia Welles, Richard Crane, Irving Bacon, Douglass Dumbrille, Mary Newton, Frank Ferguson, Edward Gargan
Gunner and Johnny (William Gargan and Richard Crane), both dynamite experts, work for Jake (Irving Bacon) who runs a dynamite contracting business. Gunner is jealous of the new ideas that Johnny brings to the company and is not happy about the fact that Johnny is interested in Jake's daughter, Mary (Virginia Welles), in whom Gunner is also interested. The explosions are many, climaxing with Johnny being trapped in a tunnel with dynamite about to go off. Will Gunner come to the rescue?
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The Furies 1950 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Romance
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Albert Dekker, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka, John Bromfield, Louis Jean Heydt, Frank Ferguson, Charles Evans
Cattle baron T.C. Jeffords (Walter Huston) and his daughter, Vance (Barbara Stanwyck), become estranged and fight over his New Mexico Territory ranch, "The Furies." Vance joins forces with her lover Rip Darrow (Wendell Corey) in a powerful psychological struggle between two strong personalities that leads to tragic results.
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal? 1952 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau, Lynn Bari, Larry Gates, William Reynolds, Skip Homeier, Paul Harvey, Frank Ferguson, Forrest Lewis, Gloria Holden, Fred Nurney, Helen Wallace, James Dean
Aging millionaire Samuel Fulton (Charles Coburn) has no family of his own and wants to leave his fortune to the Vermont family of the woman who long ago turned down his marriage proposal. But first, he wants to test them. He poses as a poor artist, rents a room from them, and anonymously gifts the family $100,000. The mother, Harriet (Lynn Bari), wants to move the family to a mansion and tells her daughter Millicent (Piper Laurie) that she should break up with her boyfriend Dan (Rock Hudson) and find a wealthy man. They run into problems along the way, but, by story's end, lessons are learned, and the family regains its senses and returns to its old lifestyle. Playing a customer at the drug store, James Dean makes his first film appearance.
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964  N/R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Victor Buono, Mary Astor, Bruce Dern, George Kennedy, Cecil Kellaway, Wesley Addy, William Campbell, Frank Ferguson, Dave Willock, John Megna
Haunted by memories of her murdered fiance, Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) has only her housekeeper Velma (Agnes Moorehead) for company. When she learns that her decaying Southern mansion is slated for demolition, she calls her cousin Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) for help. Miriam arrives on the scene with the family doctor (Joseph Cotten) to help, but he causes even more problems, and now Charlotte fights for her sanity as her Southern lifestyle is about to disintegrate, and Miriam tries to drive her crazy. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actress (Agnes Moorehead).
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 The Light in the Forest 1958 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Cast: Fess Parker, Joanne Dru, Wendell Corey, James MacArthur, Jessica Tandy, John McIntire, Joseph Calleia, Carol Lynley, Rafael Campos, Frank Ferguson
After being kidnapped as a young boy and raised by the Delaware Indians, Johnny (James MacArthur) is released and returns to his family where he learns to re-adapt to his white culture. Disney. 1 User Review
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| | Disney´s great movie | david d. 05/26/2007 | | Disney´s great movie. "the light in the forest" is a very interesting and beautiful movie. James Macarthur is wonderful. Great interpretation of a white boy who has lived with the Indians and returns with his white parents. My Disney´s favorite movie |
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Man of the West 1958 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell, Jack Lord, John Dehner, Royal Dano, Robert J. Wilke, Frank Ferguson, Emory Parnell, Guy Wilkerson, Chuck Roberson, Tom London, Dick Elliott, Tina Menard
While on a train to Fort Worth, the train is robbed, and Link Jones (Gary Cooper), saloon singer Billie Ellis (Julie London), and Sam Beasley (Arthur O'Connell) are stranded. Link leads them to his uncle's cabin where they learn that Link is a former outlaw and nephew of the gang's leader, Dock Tobin (Lee J. Cobb). Now a bank heist is planned. Will Link revert back to his former lifestyle and again enter the world of outlaws?
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The McConnell Story 1955 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Alan Ladd, June Allyson, James Whitmore, Frank Faylen, Robert Ellis, Willis Bouchey, Sarah Selby, Gregory Walcott, Frank Ferguson, Perry Lopez
This is a fictionalized biography of Captain Joseph McConnell Jr., a jet pilot who returned from the Korean War as a hero but lost his life while performing as a test pilot.
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Miracle of the Bells 1948  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Philip Ahn, Charles Meredith, Harold Vermilyea, Jim Nolan, Frank Ferguson, Frank Wilcox
A miracle occurs when the body of actress Olga Treskouna (Valli) is brought back to her hometown for burial.
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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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Pilot #5 1943 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Alan Baxter, Dick Simmons, Frank Puglia, Steven Geray, Howard Freeman, Frank Ferguson
This World War II film features Franchot Tone as an anti-Fascist who dive bombs his own airplane into a Japanese carrier to help defeat the Japanese war effort.
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Rachel and the Stranger 1948 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Loretta Young, William Holden, Gary Gray, Robert Mitchum, Tom Tully, Sara Haden, Frank Ferguson, Walter Baldwin, Regina Wallace, Frank Conlan
Big Davey (William Holden) buys a new bride, Rachel (Loretta Young), but he does not appreciate her until after an Indian raid and Jim (Robert Mitchum) shows an interest in her.
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State Department File 649 1949 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguson, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Raymond Bond, Milton Kibbee, Harlan Warde, Victor Sen Yung, Nana Bryant, H.T. Tsiang
U.S. Foreign Service officer Kenneth R. Seeley (William Lundigan) is among several American citizens who face execution by a Chinese warlord and his gang of Mongolian rebels.
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That Wonderful Urge 1948 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Reginald Gardiner, Arleen Whelan, Lucile Watson, Gene Lockhart, Chill Wills, Hope Emerson, Porter Hall, Lloyd Gough, Richard Gaines, Taylor Holmes, Al Bridge, Lane Chandler, Frank Ferguson
Tyrone Power repeats his starring role in this remake of "Love Is News." This time, Gene Tierney takes the role of heiress Sara Farley who decides to get back at reporter Thomas Jefferson Tyler (Power) who has been printing non-flattering stories about her. Sara gets even by announcing to the press that she and Tyler are secretly married, and their love/hate relationship results in more than a few misadventures.
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They Won't Believe Me 1947  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers, Don Beddoe, Frank Ferguson, George Tyne, Harry Harvey, Wilton Graff
When his unfortunate wife (Jane Greer) and plotting lover (Susan Hayward) are both killed in a car accident, police close in and arrest Lawrence Ballantine (Robert Young) for the double murder.
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 This Gun for Hire 1942 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Tully Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Pamela Blake, Mikhail Rasumny, Harry Shannon, Frank Ferguson
Based on Graham Greene's novel, "A Gun aor Sale," this is a stark drama that launched Alan Ladd's career. He plays a paid gunman who sets out to avenge a double-cross.
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The West Point Story 1950 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Alan Hale Jr., Roland Winters, Wilton Graff, Jerome Cowan, Frank Ferguson
After agreeing to direct the annual West Point cadet revue, Elwin Bixby (James Cagney) learns what it means to live life on the Hudson as a West Point cadet.
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The Winning Team 1952 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Miller, Russ Tamblyn, James Millican, Gordon Jones, Hugh Sanders, Frank Ferguson, Walter Baldwin
This film is loosely based on the biography of baseball great, Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan). The story emphasis is on Alexander's marriage to Aimee (Doris Day) and his problems with alcohol.
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 Young at Heart 1954 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Alan Hale Jr., Frank Ferguson, Elisabeth Fraser, Lonny Chapman
Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day) finds love and romance when Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) comes to her small town to help in writing a musical.
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| 1. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
2. Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)
3. The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
4. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
5. The Big Night (1960)
6. Boss of Big Town (1943)
7. Caught (1949)
8. Dynamite (1949)
9. The Furies (1950)
10. Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
11. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
12. The Light in the Forest (1958)
13. Man of the West (1958)
14. The McConnell Story (1955)
15. Miracle of the Bells (1948)
16. On Dangerous Ground (1952)
17. Pilot #5 (1943)
18. Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
19. Raymie (1960)
20. State Department File 649 (1949)
21. That Wonderful Urge (1948)
22. They Won't Believe Me (1947)
23. This Gun for Hire (1942)
24. The West Point Story (1950)
25. The Winning Team (1952)
26. Young at Heart (1954)
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