 Against All Odds 1984  R, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: Taylor Hackford
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods, Alex Karras, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark, Swoosie Kurtz, Dorian Harewood, Saul Rubinek, Pat Corley, Bill McKinney, Allen Williams, Tamara Stafford, Jon St. Elwood, Sam Scarber
Based on the 1947 film "Out of the Past," a love triangle develops when a gambling man, Jake Wise (James Woods), hires injured football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) to track down his missing girlfriend, Jessie (Rachel Ward), in Mexico. Once Terry finds Jessie in Cozumel, he falls in love with her. But, there is more to Jessie than meets the eye, and there's also a lot of plot out there besides the obvious.
|  | |
Billie 1965 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Don Weis
Cast: Patty Duke, Jim Backus, Jane Greer, Warren Berlinger, Billy De Wolfe, Charles(2) Lane, Dick Sargent, Michael Fox, Richard Deacon, Ted Bessell
Talented athlete Billie (Patty Duke) bows to the wishes of parents and others to change her lifestyle from that of tomboy to a "ladylike" young woman.
| | |
The Clown 1952 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Red Skelton, Tim Considine, Jane Greer, Loring Smith, Philip Ober, Charles Bronson, Lou Lubin, Fay Roope, Walter Reed, Eddie Marr
This remake of "The Champ" features Red Skelton in the title role as a comedian who is a loving, but dysfunctional, father to his son (Tim Considine).
| | |
Dick Tracy 1945  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Action / Mystery / Drama / Thriller
aka: Dick Tracy, Detective
Director: William Berke
Cast: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki, Jane Greer, Lyle Latell, Joseph Crehan, Mickey Kuhn, Tommy Noonan, Jason Robards Sr., Trevor Bardette, Morgan Wallace, Milton Parsons, William Halligan
Chester Gould's comic-strip characters come to the screen as Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway) and his partner Pat Patton (Lyle Latell) hunt for serial killer Splitface (Mike Mazurki).
| | |
Down Among the Sheltering Palms 1953 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne, Gloria DeHaven, Billy Gilbert, Jack Paar, Lee Marvin
An army officer, stationed on a South Seas island in the late 1940s, has two love interests: a missionary's daughter (Jane Greer) and a beautiful native (Mitzi Gaynor). Look for Lee Marvin in a bit part.
| | |
The Falcon's Alibi 1946 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Ray McCarey
Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett, Jane Greer, Jason Robards Sr., Elisha Cook Jr., Emory Parnell, Al Bridge, Jean Brooks, Myrna Dell
When jewelry is stolen, Joan (Rita Corday) calls on the Falcon (Tom Conway) to clear her name.
| | |
Just Between Friends 1986 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allan Burns
Cast: Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson, Sam Waterston, Salome Jens, Susan Rinell, Julie Payne, Read Morgan, Jane Greer, Beverly Sanders, Mark Blum, Timothy Gibbs, Diane Stilwell, Castulo Guerra
Holly Davis (Mary Tyler Moore) is a happily married housewife, with no apparent problems, who runs into a big one when she discovers that her new friend Sandy Dunlap (Christine Lahti) and she are in love with the same man: Holly's husband Chip (Ted Danson). Chip dies suddenly, and, in the midst of the tragedy, Holly discovers that Sandy is pregnant and has been trying to keep it a secret. Problems rise to the fore, but Chip's friend Harry Crandall (Sam Waterston) steps in to help.
| | |
Man of a Thousand Faces 1957 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau, Jim Backus, Jeanne Cagney, Robert Evans, Celia Lovsky, Jack Albertson, Philip Van Zandt, Nolan Leary, Roger Smith, Robert Lyden, Troy Donahue, "Snub" Pollard
This film presents the biography of the celebrated silent screen actor Lon Chaney (James Cagney), master of horror and make-up. Although it dwells too much on his troubled private life, and not enough on his successes, it is a well-executed drama with a moving performance by Cagney.
| | |
 Out of the Past 1947  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
aka: Build My Gallows High
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Brodie, Richard Webb, Virginia Huston, Dickie Moore, Frank Wilcox, Mary Field, Paul Valentine, Ken Niles, Oliver Blake, James Bush, John Kellogg
Californian Jeff Markham (Robert Mitchum) is a man with a dubious past who becomes involved with a hood, Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). While helping find Sterling's girlfriend Kathie (Jane Greer) in Acapulco, Markham finds himself accused of a murder that Kathie committed. A good film that was remade in 1984 as "Against All Odds."
| | |
The Outfit 1974 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Flynn
Cast: Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker, Karen Black, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey, Richard Jaeckel, Sheree North, Marie Windsor, Jane Greer, Henry Jones
When his brother is killed by the Mob, Macklin (Robert Duvall) avenges the murder by attacking Mafia financial operations.
| | |
 The Prisoner of Zenda 1952 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern, Jane Greer, Lewis Stone, Robert Douglas, Robert Coote, James Mason, Peter Brocco, Francis Pierlot, Jay Adler, Kathleen Freeman, John Goldsworthy, Forbes Murray, Thomas Browne Henry
In this remake of the 1937 film, Stewart Granger stars in the Ronald Colman role of an Englishman, Rudolf Rassendyll, who vacations in Romania where it is discovered that he has a surprising resemblance to Romania's Prince Rudolph (also played by Granger). The Prince's brother Michael, Duke of Strelsau (Robert Douglas) plans to usurp the throne and drugs the Prince the night before his coronation. Because he looks so much like the Prince, Rudolf is asked to impersonate the Prince during the coronation and foil the plot of his evil brother. Once he catches on to the subterfuge, the brother imprisons the real Prince, and now Rudolf, while carrying out the ruse, begins to fall in love with the Prince's fiancee Princess Flavia (Deborah Kerr).
| | |
The Shadow Riders 1982  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Ben Johnson, Katharine Ross, Geoffrey Lewis, Harry Carey Jr., Gene Evans, Jane Greer, Jeff Osterhage, Dominique Dunne
Following the kidnapping of their family by Confederate soldiers, two brothers, Mac and Dal Traven (Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott) are determined in their search to find their missing kin in this story based on a Louis L'Amour Western.
| | |
Sinbad the Sailor 1947 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Adventure / Romance
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Anthony Quinn, George Tobias, Jane Greer, Mike Mazurki, Sheldon Leonard, Alan Napier, John Miljan, Brad Dexter, Paul Guilfoyle, Glenn Strange, Ben Welden
Sinbad (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) sails off in search of the lost treasure of Alexander the Great and tries to win the heart of beautiful Shireen (Maureen O'Hara).
| | |
Station West 1948 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Tom Powers, Burl Ives, Gordon Oliver, Steve Brodie, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Raymond Burr, Regis Toomey
Haven (Dick Powell) is an undercover military intelligence officer out to uncover who murdered two soldiers guarding a gold shipment. The hunt leads him to Charlie's (Jane Greer) saloon/gambling hall where he finds that she is involved in the crime scene. A good flick.
| | |
Sunset Pass 1946 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Berke
Cast: James Warren, Nan Leslie, John Laurenz, Jane Greer, Robert Barrat, Harry Woods, Robert Clarke, Steve Brodie, Harry Harvey, Clem Fuller, Artie Ortego
This film, based on a Zane Grey novel, follows the adventures of railroad officer Rocky (James Warren) and sidekick Chito (John Laurenz) who are assigned to bring a train-robbing gang to justice. One fly in the ointment: Rocky's love interest Jane's (Nan Leslie) brother is one of the bad guys.
| | |
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.
| | |
Where Love Has Gone 1964  N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton, Anne Seymour, Jane Greer, George Macready, DeForest Kelley, Willis Bouchey, Ann Doran
When Danielle (Joey Heatherton) kills her mother Valerie's (Susan Hayward) lover, Danielle's father (Michael Connors) returns to help work some sanity into the tragic situation.
| | |
 You're in the Navy Now 1951 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Gary Cooper, Millard Mitchell, John McIntire, Harry von Zell, Jack Webb, Jane Greer, Eddie Albert, Ray Collins, Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson
Not one of Gary Cooper's best films, but this comedy about the U.S.S. Teakettle and its captain (Cooper) and crew is fun to watch.
| | |
| 1. Against All Odds (1984)
2. The Big Steal (1949)
3. Billie (1965)
4. The Clown (1952)
5. Dick Tracy (1945)
aka: Dick Tracy, Detective
6. Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)
7. The Falcon's Alibi (1946)
8. Immediate Family (1989)
9. Just Between Friends (1986)
10. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
11. Out of the Past (1947)
aka: Build My Gallows High
12. The Outfit (1974)
13. The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
14. The Shadow Riders (1982)
15. Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
16. Station West (1948)
17. Sunset Pass (1946)
18. They Won't Believe Me (1947)
19. Where Love Has Gone (1964)
20. You're in the Navy Now (1951)
In The News
|
