 Butterfield 8 1960  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Mann
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field, Susan Oliver, Jeffrey Lynn, Kay Medford, George Voskovec
Elizabeth Taylor won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance as a high-priced call girl. The story is pure soap, but it is glitzy, and Elizabeth Taylor's acting is impressive.
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Ensign Pulver 1964  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Tommy Sands, Millie Perkins, Kay Medford, Larry Hagman, James Farentino, James Coco, Jack Nicholson
This is a disappointing sequel to "Mr. Roberts," despite the good cast of current and future stars.
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A Face in the Crowd 1957  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick, Walter Matthau, Rip Torn, Percy Waram, Rod Brasfield, Kay Medford, Charles Irving
Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) rises from small-time entertainer to television star. Along the way, he becomes involved in greed and corruption.
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A Fine Madness 1966 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Jean Seberg, Joanne Woodward, Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst, Clive Revill, Werner Peters, John Fiedler, Kay Medford, Jackie Coogan
Samson Shillito (Sean Connery) is a non-conformist poet whose wife, Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), talks him into visiting Dr. West (Patrick O'Neal) for psychiatric treatment to get his life back on track. After bedding down with West's wife (Jean Seberg), the good doctor seeks retaliation through a lobotomy for his patient.
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Fire Sale 1977  PG, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Arkin
Cast: Alan Arkin, Rob Reiner, Vincent Gardenia, Anjanette Comer, Kay Medford, Sid Caesar, Barbara Dana, Alex Rocco, Richard Libertini
The Fikus family owns a retail business and has opted for the crime of arson to collect insurance money on their store. Anything worse than Bomb? If so, here it is.
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 Funny Girl 1968 G, 151 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Lee Allen, Mae Questel, Gerald Mohr, Frank Faylen, John Harmon, Mittie Lawrence, Gertrude Flynn, Penny Santon, Thordis Brandt, Bettina Brenna
Barbra Streisand's talent was discovered by the world during the run of her Broadway performance in her role as Fanny Brice. The story is about comedian Fanny Brice's turbulent marriage to Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), which coincided with her rise to fame. Fanny Brice, "I'm a bagel on a plate of onion rolls." Streisand carried away an Oscar for Best Actress.
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The Rat Race 1960 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Oakie, Kay Medford, Don Rickles, Joe Bushkin, Marjorie Bennett, Norman Fell, Lisa Drake, Hal K. Dawson
A naively optimistic musician (Tony Curtis) arrives in New York City ready to hit it big and rents the apartment just vacated by a down-on-her-luck waitress (Debbie Reynolds). Realizing that she has nowhere else to go and no money, he offers to share the apartment with her.
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Twinky 1969 PG, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Lola
Statutory Affair
London Affair
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Honor Blackman, Lionel Jeffries, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, Orson Bean, Kay Medford
A writer of pornographic books in his late 30s (Charles Bronson) marries a 16-year-old girl in this weak drama that reflects the social changes happening in the 1960s.
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The Undercover Man 1949 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, Barry Kelley, Howard St. John, Leo Penn, David Wolfe, Angela Clarke, Anthony Caruso, Kay Medford
United States Treasury Agent Frank Warren (Glenn Ford) investigates, and finds proof of tax evasion, on the part of a racketeer who has controlled his section of the city. This film marked James Whitmore's screen debut.
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| 1. Butterfield 8 (1960)
2. Ensign Pulver (1964)
3. A Face in the Crowd (1957)
4. A Fine Madness (1966)
5. Fire Sale (1977)
6. Funny Girl (1968)
7. The Rat Race (1960)
8. Twinky (1969)
aka: Lola
aka: Statutory Affair
aka: London Affair
9. The Undercover Man (1949)
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