Ada 1961   N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Mann
Cast: Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ralph Meeker, Martin Balsam, Frank Maxwell, Mary Treen, Ford Rainey, Charles Watts, Larry Gates
Ada (Susan Hayward) has political aspirations for her husband (Dean Martin). Together, they plan to reach the top of state politics and work for reform. 2 User Reviews
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| | Hayward at full throttle | movie-dahl 02/04/2008 | | Susan Hayward chews up the scenery in a highly entertaining film. That is good enough, folks. |
| | FilmFiend 05/24/2007 | I'm a big Susan Hayward fan, but this is one of her films that was beneath her talent. I noticed that her film company, along with her second husband, Chalkmar, was involved in the production of this flick. I think at that time in her life, when she was happy in her second marriage and no longer lusting after an Academy Award (which she received for her excellent work in 1958 in I Want to Live), she was interested in occasional work which would afford her and her husband the opportunity to travel.
Most of her post-I Want to Live films were inferior, sad to say, including not only Ada, but the awful I Thank a Fool. While Back Street wasn't much better, at least she got to wear very nice fashions. The Honey Pot was a better film, but her role was small.
However, I'm such a big fan of hers, I still watch the clunkers, too. |
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The Haunted Palace 1963 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank Maxwell, Leo Gordon, Elisha Cook Jr., John Dierkes, Milton Parsons, Harry Ellerbe, I. Stanford Jolley
This story is about a warlock who was killed by residents of a New England town and has now cast an evil spell on the town's present inhabitants. The story was remade in 1991 as "The Resurrected."
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The Intruder 1961  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: I Hate Your Guts!
Shame
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt, Jeanne Cooper, Leo Gordon, Charles Beaumont, Charles Barnes, George Clayton Johnson, Bo Dodd
Following the Supreme Court's "Brown v. the Board of Education" ruling to integrate U.S. schools, a racist (William Shatner) travels to towns in the South inciting residents to riot against the new law.
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Lonelyhearts 1958  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Dolores Hart, Maureen Stapleton, Frank Maxwell, Jackie Coogan, Mike Kellin, Frank Overton, Onslow Stevens
Based on Nathaniel West's novel, this is a fair representation of his story about Adam White (Montgomery Clift) who takes on the "Miss Lonelyhearts" column for his newspaper. Maureen Stapleton received an Oscar nomination for Supporting Actress.
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Madame X 1966 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Keir Dullea, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett, John Van Dreelen, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens, Carl Benton Reid, Teddy Quinn, Frank Maxwell, Kaaren Verne, Joe De Santis, Bing Russell
In the sixth version of this story since 1909, Lana Turner plays the role of Holly Parker who is talked into disappearing in order to protect the career of her politician husband (John Forsythe). Subsequently, she is tried for murder and is defended by her (unknowing) son (Keir Dullea).
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Mr. Majestyk 1974 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo, Alejandro Rey, Taylor Lacher, Frank Maxwell, Jordan Rhodes, Bert Santos
A poor farmer who grows melons, Vince Majestyk (Charles Bronson), is involved in a labor dispute, and the battle for his very survival results when the mob has eyes on his land.
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| 1. Ada (1961)
2. The Haunted Palace (1963)
3. The Intruder (1961)
aka: I Hate Your Guts!
aka: Shame
4. Lonelyhearts (1958)
5. Madame X (1966)
6. Mr. Majestyk (1974)
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