All Ashore 1953  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Peggy Ryan, Ray McDonald, Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrance, Dick Crockett, Fay Roope, Jean Willes
Three sailors (Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, and Ray McDonald) head off on shore leave but find they are broke.
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 Desire Under the Elms 1958 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton, Pernell Roberts, Anne Seymour, Rebecca Welles, Jean Willes
This story, based on Eugene O'Neill's 19th-century play, is about New England farm life. It stars Sophia Loren as Anna, the ill-fated third wife of Ephraim Cabot (Burl Ives), who drives a further wedge into the already dysfunctional Cabot family.
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 The FBI Story 1959  N/R, 149 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Nick Adams, Diane Jergens, Jean Willes, Parley Baer, Fay Roope, Ann Doran
This film follows the career and federal cases of FBI agent Chip Hardesty (James Stewart) from the Prohibition era through the Cold War.
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 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
Director: Don Siegel
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Carolyn Jones, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Jean Willes, Ralph Dumke, Virginia Christine, Tom Fadden, Kenneth Patterson, Guy Way, Eileen Stevens, Bobby Clark, Beatrice Maude, Jean Andren
Dr. Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) arrives back in town after a medical conference and realizes that his family and neighbors are not behaving in their usual manner. This leads him to discover that they are being taken over by pods from outer space that are draining the people and turning them into zombie-like individuals whose only aim is survival. A sci-fi classic.
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The King and Four Queens 1956 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery / Western
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jo Van Fleet, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols, Sara Shane, Jay C. Flippen, Arthur Shields, Roy Roberts, Florenz Ames, Chuck Roberson
Dan Kehoe (Clark Gable) rides into a ghost town to look for a stolen treasure and runs into the town's only inhabitants: Ma MacDade (Jo Van Fleet) and the wives (Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols, and Sara Shane) of her four outlaw sons. The sons had stolen and hidden a fortune in gold. Kehoe believes the wives hold the key to where the gold is stashed and plays them off against each other to find the gold.
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No Time for Sergeants 1958 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, William Fawcett, Don Knotts, Jean Willes, Will Hutchins, Dub Taylor, Jamie Farr
This is the film version of Ira Levin's Broadway play that also starred Andy Griffith as Will Stockdale. The dialogue is very funny as Georgia farm boy Will "adjusts" to the United States Army after being drafted.
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 Ocean's Eleven 1960  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson, Richard Conte, Cesar Romero, Patrice Wymore, Joey Bishop, Akim Tamiroff, Henry Silva, Ilka Chase, Buddy Lester, Richard Benedict, Jean Willes
Under Danny Ocean's (Frank Sinatra) leadership, veterans of the 82nd Airborne regroup after 15 years to raid five Las Vegas casinos–the Sahara, Flamingo, Riviera, Sands, and Desert Inn–on New Year's Eve. Of course, there are more than a few hurdles to overcome while carrying out their "perfect" plan. This is the "Rat Pack's" first feature film.
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover 1956  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead, Jorja Curtright, Michael Pate, Alan Reed, Eddie Firestone, Jean Willes, Margia Dean
Jane Russell stars in the title role of a saloon singer during World War II who ends up in Hawaii where she learns that there must be a better life–it is back home in Mississippi, and Mamie bids aloha to the islands.
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Salty O'Rourke 1945 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot, Spring Byington, Stanley Clements, Darryl Hickman, Lester Matthews, William Forrest, Jean Willes
A racetrack gambler, Salty O'Rourke (Alan Ladd), is converted to a cleaner life by a beautiful schoolteacher, Barbara Brooks (Gail Russell).
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These Thousand Hills 1959 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens, Stuart Whitman, Albert Dekker, Harold J. Stone, Royal Dano, Jean Willes, Douglas Fowley, Fuzzy Knight, Robert Adler
Cowboy "Lat" Evans (Don Murray) borrows money from dancehall girl Callie (Lee Remick), buys a ranch, moves up in society, and turns his back on past friends–including Callie. But when he is finally faced with choices between ambition and friends, "Lat" steps up and protects Callie from land baron Jehu (Richard Egan) when he physically beats her.
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| 1. All Ashore (1953)
2. Desire Under the Elms (1958)
3. The FBI Story (1959)
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
5. The King and Four Queens (1956)
6. No Time for Sergeants (1958)
7. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
8. The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
9. Salty O'Rourke (1945)
10. These Thousand Hills (1959)
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