All My Sons 1948  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Louisa Horton, Howard Duff, Arlene Francis, Harry Morgan, Elisabeth Fraser, Frank Conroy, Lloyd Gough
This is the screen adaptation of Arthur Miller's powerful play about greed inherent in capitalism. After their son dies in a World War II incident, the family realizes that the father is indirectly responsible because he knew that military equipment was faulty but sold it for the sole interest of profit.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 1947 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport, Irving Bacon, Don Beddoe, Johnny Sands, Veda Ann Borg, Lillian Randolph, Dan Tobin, Ransom M. Sherman, William Bakewell, Ian Bernard
Teenager Sharon (Shirley Temple) is so infatuated with 40-year-old playboy artist Dick Nugent (Cary Grant) that she sneaks into his apartment one night hoping to model for him. When this is discovered by Sharon's older sister, Judge Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy), she threatens Dick with jail if he does not agree to date Sharon for one week to help Sharon get over her infatuation with him. Dick agrees to take Sharon out, but as the week progresses, it is he and Margaret who discover mutual interests in each other.
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 The Big Street 1942  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette, Hans Conried, Agnes Moorehead, Sam Levene, Ray Collins, George Cleveland, Marion Martin
Henry Fonda plays a nightclub busboy who is in love with a beautiful singer (Lucille Ball). She ignores him until she experiences a crippling accident and must rely on his attentions in this comedy/drama.
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Crack-Up 1946 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins, Wallace Ford, Tommy Noonan, Ellen Corby, Dean Harens, Damian O'Flynn, Erskine Sanford
While trying to regain his own memory, amnesia victim George Steele (Pat O'Brien) attempts to get to the bottom of a series of suspected forgeries at his museum.
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A Date with the Falcon 1941  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Mona Maris, Victor Kilian, Frank Moran, Hans Conried, Edward Gargan, Alec Craig
A stolen formula for synthetic diamonds and its murdered inventor are the bases of this case for the Falcon (George Sanders).
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Enchantment 1948 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger, Jayne Meadows, Leo G. Carroll, Shepperd Strudwick, Gigi Perreau, Melville Cooper, Henry Stephenson
Years ago, during another war, General Sir Roland Dane (David Niven) lost his chance for love with Lark Ingoldsby (Teresa Wright). Now he encourages ambulance driver Grizel Dabe (Evelyn Keyes) not to make this same mistake with pilot Pax Masterson (Farley Granger).
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The Falcon Takes Over 1942 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: George Sanders, James Gleason, Helen Gilbert, Edward Gargan, George Cleveland, Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Allen Jenkins, Ward Bond, Hans Conried
This entry in the "Falcon" series is one of the best as the Falcon (George Sanders) is helped by a reporter (Lynn Bari) to find a missing woman.
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The Four Poster 1952  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer
Various events in the long marriage of John (Rex Harrison) and Abby Edwards (Lilli Palmer) are portrayed (all take place around their four-poster bed) in this successful film adaptation of the Broadway play. The musical version, both play and movie, is titled "I Do! I Do!"
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The Gay Falcon 1941 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, Anne Hunter, Gladys Cooper, Edward Brophy, Arthur Shields, Turhan Bey, Hans Conried, Damian O'Flynn
The Falcon gets to the bottom of a case involving jewel thieves and a phony insurance plot in this, the first of a series of Falcon films.
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New Mexico 1951 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Hutton, Andy Devine, Raymond Burr, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Corrigan, Verna Felton, Ted de Corsia, John Hoyt, Donald Buca, Robert Osterloh, Ian MacDonld, William Tannen, Hans Conried
U.S. Cavalry Captain Hunt (Lew Ayres) is stationed in Indian Territory and is sympathetic to the plight of the Native Americans. In fact, he has become friends with Chief Acoma (Ted de Corsia) and was instrumental in getting a peace treaty signed by Acuma and President Lincoln (Hans Conreid). But after Lincoln is assassinated, the relationship with the Native Americans deteriorates, and war breaks out. Now, Capt. Hunt sets out to avert all-out war.
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Roseanna McCoy 1949  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Charles Bickford, Raymond Massey, Richard Basehart, Gigi Perreau, Aline MacMahon, Marshall Thompson, Hope Emerson, Arthur Franz
Family feuds stand in the way of romance for Roseanna McCoy (Joan Evans) and Johnse Hatfield (Farley Granger), but love wins out in the end.
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Three Husbands 1951 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Letter to Three Husbands
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Kames, Emlyn Williams, Billie Burke, Louise Erickson, Jonathan Hale, Jane Darwell, Benson Fong, Frank Cady, Dorothea Wolbert
When playboy Maxwell Bard (Emlyn Williams) arrives in Heaven, he is granted one last wish. His request is to watch from above the reactions of his three poker playing pals (Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, and Robert Kames) after they read the letters he left for them when he died. The letters tell about his affairs with each of their wives (Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, and Vanessa Brown), and the letters result in amusing reactions from the husbands.
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| 1. All My Sons (1948)
2. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
3. The Big Street (1942)
4. Crack-Up (1946)
5. A Date with the Falcon (1941)
6. Enchantment (1948)
7. The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
8. The Four Poster (1952)
9. The Gay Falcon (1941)
10. New Mexico (1951)
11. Roseanna McCoy (1949)
12. Three Husbands (1951)
aka: Letter to Three Husbands
13. Weekend for Three (1941)
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