36 Hours 1965  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: George Seaton
Cast: James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Werner Peters, Alan Napier, Celia Lovsky, John Banner, Ed Gilbert, Sig Ruman, Russell Thorson, Oscar Beregi Jr., Karl Held, Martin Kosleck, Marjorie Bennett, Henry Rowland
During World War II, U.S. Army Intelligence Major Jefferson Pike (James Garner) is captured by the Germans shortly before D-Day. In an effort to get information about an Allied invasion, Pike's captors drug him to convince him that the war is long over and that he has suffered from amnesia for the last six years. Pike is also told that he has a wife, but Anna (Eva Marie Saint) is not really married to him. She took this assignment to get away from abuse in her concentration camp. Pike catches on to the ploy, and the game of cat-and-mouse ensues between Pike and the Nazi doctor, Major Walter Gerber (Rod Taylor), who is pumping him for information.
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Guilty of Treason 1950  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Treason
Director: Felix E. Feist
Cast: Charles Bickford, Paul Kelly, Bonita Granville, Richard Derr, Berry Kroeger, Roland Winters, Elisabeth Risdon, John Banner, Morgan Farley, Thomas Browne Henry, Nestor Paiva, Lisa Howard
Hungarian Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty (Charles Bickford) was tried, convicted, and imprisoned for speaking out against Communism after World War II. This anti-Communist film tells his story, including the trial at which it became known that his confession was a result of the use of torture and drugs.
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Hitler 1962 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Richard Basehart, Cordula Trantow, Maria Emo, Martin Kosleck, John Banner, Berry Kroeger, John Mitchum, John Wengraf, Gregory Gaye, Celia Lovsky
This not-so-very insightful biography of the rise and fall of Hitler features Richard Basehart as a not-so-very convincing Adolf Hitler.
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The Juggler 1953  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Paul Stewart, Joey Walsh, Alf Kjellin, Charles(2) Lane, John Banner, Richard Benedict, Beverly Washburn, Oscar Karlweis
One Auschwitz survivor, Hans Muller (Kirk Douglas) has problems adapting in Israel after World War II. Working as a juggler, he makes it across Israel and into a kibbutz where he meets an understanding society.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon 1942 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Harry Scott
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Albert Bassermann, Ferike Boros, Harry Shannon, John Banner, Hans Conried, Emory Parnell
A burlesque queen (Ginger Rogers) is about to marry an important Nazi agent (Walter Slezak) but is rescued from her fate by a radio war correspondent (Cary Grant).
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The Rains of Ranchipur 1955 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield, Michael Rennie, Madge Kennedy, Eugenie Leontovich, Gladys Hurlbut, Argentina Brunetti, John Banner
This film–a remake of 1939's "The Rains Came"–is the story of Lady Edwina Esketh (Lana Turner) who falls in love with an Indian doctor, Major Rama Safti (Richard Burton), while her husband serves his duty tour in India for the British government.
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The Wonderful Country 1959 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert Parrish
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Pedro Armendariz, Jack Oakie, Albert Dekker, Charles McGraw, John Banner, Jay Novello, Victor Manuel Mendoza
Martin Brady (Robert Mitchum) is 1/2 Irish-American and 1/2 Mexican. As a gunrunner for Governor Castro (Pedro Armendariz), he meets and falls for Ellen Colton (Julie London)–the wife of a cavalry officer (Gary Merrill).
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| 1. 36 Hours (1965)
2. The Blue Angel (1959)
3. Guilty of Treason (1950)
aka: Treason
4. Hitler (1962)
5. The Juggler (1953)
6. King Solomon's Mines (1950)
7. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
8. The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
9. The Wonderful Country (1959)
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