Alimony 1949  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Zeisler
Cast: Martha Vickers, John Beal, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille, James Guilfoyle, Laurie Linde, Marie Blake, Leonid Kinskey, Ralph Graves, William Ruhl, Harry Lauter, Joseph Crehan
Kitty (Martha Vickers) has found a good money-making job: she talks wealthy men into leaving their wives and marrying her, then brings lawsuits against them (such as adultery), and wins nice alimony settlements. But, a good job is hard to keep.
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The Cat and the Canary 1939   N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery, Gale Sondergaard, Elizabeth Patterson, Nydia Westman, George Zucco, John Wray, Milton Kibbee
This remake of the 1927 classic film is a comedy/mystery that established Bob Hope's film career in a tale involving a group of murdering relatives spending the night in a haunted house awaiting word of who will inherit a fortune.
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Double Wedding 1937 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal, Edgar Kennedy, Sidney Toler, Mary Gordon, Jessie Ralph, Donald Meek, Katharine Alexander
While taking on Cupid's role to promote the wedding of Irene (Florence Rice), artist Charlie Lodge (William Powell) and Irene's sister Margit (Myrna Loy) find their own romance.
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Edge of Darkness 1943 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Judith Anderson, Helmut Dantine, Ruth Gordon, Charles Dingle, John Beal, Monte Blue
Norwegian resistance fighters try to save their nation from Nazi invaders during World War II.
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years 1977  TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Rosemary Murphy, Walter McGinn, Blair Brown, David Healy, Peggy McCay, Donald Moffat, Mark Harmon, John Beal, Priscilla Pointer, Toni Damay, Barbara Conrad, Morgan Farley, Anna Lee
This sequel has most of the same cast and is every bit as good as the first one. It covers FDR's and Eleanor's (Edward Herrmann and Jane Alexander) years in the White House from 1933 to 1945. Told in flashback as Eleanor attends Franklin's funeral, the stories include Eleanor working for social reform, coming to the aid of polio-stricken Franklin, and learning how to deal with Franklin's domineering mother Sara (Rosemary Murphy). The stories also reflect on FDR pulling the country out of the Depression and his "Day of Infamy" speech in which he declares war on Japan. This sequel received Emmys for Best Director and Outstanding Special.
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The Great Commandment 1939  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: John Beal, Maurice Moscovitch, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Cooley, Warren McCollum, Lloyd Corrigan, Ian Wolfe, Olaf Hytten, Anthony Marlowe, Lester Sharpe, Marc Loebell, Harold Minjir, George Rosener
Judean scholar Joel (John Beal) revolts against the Romans, but with the arrival of Jesus of Nazareth, Joel puts down his sword in favor of a higher calling.
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The Little Minister 1934 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Andy Clyde, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare, Dorothy Stickney, Mary Gordon, Frank Conroy, Reginald Denny
A minister (John Beal) arrives in a Scottish town in the 1840s, and, while striving for acceptance, he falls in love with a young gypsy girl (Katharine Hepburn).
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Madame X 1937   N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen, William Henry, Henry Daniell, Philip Reed, Lynne Carver, Emma Dunn, Ruth Hussey
One of the many films based on Alexandre Bisson's weepy story has Gladys George in the role of Jacqueline Fleuriot who, after an affair, leaves her diplomat husband and son. Her life spirals downward into prostitution and beyond. Twenty years later, after killing a man who was out to get her son, she goes on trial and is defended by the son who does not know who she is. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 03/21/2007 | | This is just a wonderful film and I cannot believe that Gladys George wasen't nominated for an academy award for her supurb performance. What were the voters thinking that year.? |
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My Six Convicts 1952 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Hugo Fregonese
Cast: Millard Mitchell, Gilbert Roland, John Beal, Marshall Thompson, Alf Kjellin, Harry Morgan, Regis Toomey, Carleton Young, Russ Conway, Charles Bronson, Frank Mitchell
The realistic setting enhances this story about the lives of a prison psychologist and six of the convicts he treats.
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So Dear to My Heart 1948 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Harold D. Schuster
Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Beulah Bondi, Burl Ives, Luana Patten, Harry Carey, Raymond Bond, Walter Soderling, Matt Willis, John Beal, Daniel Haight
This is a heart-warming story about rural life in the early 1900s. Jeremiah (Bobby Driscoll) enters his beloved lamb, Danny, in the county fair. Good Disney.
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The Sound and the Fury 1959 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman, Ethel Waters, Jack Warden, Albert Dekker, Francoise Rosay, John Beal, Stephen Perry
This is the film adaptation of William Faulkner's novel about the Comptons–a Southern family that has seen better days.
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Ten Who Dared 1960  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: Brian Keith, John Beal, James Drury, R.G. Armstrong, Ben Johnson, L.Q. Jones, Dan Sheridan, David Stollery, Stan Jones, David Frankham
This Disney failure is about the expedition down the Colorado River in the 1860s that is led by John Wesley Powell.
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The Vampire 1957 PG, 74 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi
aka: Mark of the Vampire
Director: Paul Landres
Cast: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey, Lydia Reed, Dabbs Greer, Herb Vigran, Ann Staunton, James Griffith, Paul Brinegar, Budd Buster, Anne O'Neal, Brad Morrow, Mauritz Hugo, Raymond Greenleaf
Scientist/Doctor Paul Beecher (John Beal) received pills from his dying associate who had been conducting experiments on animals to support his work on improving the human brain. Suffering from migraine headaches, he takes his pill to relieve the headache but inadvertently takes the wrong pill. He turns into a killer vampire, and, even worse, the pill is addictive, and he must take it daily–and the killing continues.
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| 1. Alimony (1949)
2. Amityville 3-D (1983)
aka: Amityville III: The Demon
3. Break of Hearts (1935)
4. The Cat and the Canary (1939)
5. Double Wedding (1937)
6. Edge of Darkness (1943)
7. Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
8. The Great Commandment (1939)
9. The Little Minister (1934)
10. Madame X (1937)
11. My Six Convicts (1952)
12. So Dear to My Heart (1948)
13. The Sound and the Fury (1959)
14. Ten Who Dared (1960)
15. The Vampire (1957)
aka: Mark of the Vampire
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