Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Ted Post
Cast: Charlton Heston, James Franciscus, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, Linda Harrison, Paul Richards, Victor Buono, James Gregory, Jeff Corey, Natalie Trundy, Thomas Gomez, David Watson, Don Pedro Colley, Tod Andrews, Lou Wagner
This is the first sequel to the popular primate films, and Charlton Heston is back. This time, U.S. astronaut Taylor (Heston) has disappeared while exploring the distant planet that was once ruled by apes. Astronaut Brent (James Franciscus) is sent to rescue him and crash lands on the Planet of the Apes. Taylor's mate Nova (Linda Harrison) rescues Brent and takes him to the ape city where friendly scientists Zira (Kim Hunter) and Cornelius (David Watson) hide them. Adventures abound when they are kidnapped, find Taylor, escape, and then discover the weapon that could prevent the apes from wiping out the world.
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Born Innocent 1974 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Donald Wrye
Cast: Linda Blair, Joanna Miles, Kim Hunter, Richard Jaeckel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Mary Murphy, Janit Baldwin, Nora Heflin, Tina Andrews, Mitch Vogel
Fourteen-year-old Chris Parker (Linda Blair), a habitual runaway, is committed to a reform school. Rather than being helped, the conditions of the school only add to the abuse from her family.
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Cross of Fire 1989  TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: John Heard, Mel Harris, David Morse, Lloyd Bridges, Kim Hunter, George Dzundza, Donald Moffat, Keith Szarabajka, William Schallert, Gilbert Lewis
Originally a two-part TV movie, this is a good biography of the rise and fall of the 1920s KKK Grand Dragon, D.C. Stephenson (John Heard).
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Deadline U.S.A. 1952 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Kim Hunter, Ethel Barrymore, Ed Begley, Paul Stewart, Jim Backus, Warren Stevens, Joe De Santis, Carleton Young, Martin Gabel
Humphrey Bogart plays the honest newspaper editor who fights the evil underworld as his publisher (Ethel Barrymore) struggles to keep the business going.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Don Taylor
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Eric Braeden, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, William Windom, Sal Mineo, Albert Salmi, Harry Lauter, M. Emmet Walsh
After a nuclear disaster, two apes (Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter) have escaped their lost planet and arrive on Earth. Unfortunately, humans greet them warily–afraid that apes will gain control of Earthlings.
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In Search of America 1971  TV, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Bogart
Cast: Carl Betz, Vera Miles, Jeff Bridges, Ruth McDevitt, Renne Jarrett, Howard Duff, Kim Hunter, Michael Anderson Jr., Sal Mineo, Tyne Daly, Glynn Turman, George Wallace
Ben (Carl Betz); his wife Jenny (Vera Miles); and shaggy-haired, college dropout son, Mike (Jeff Bridges)–along with Grandma Rose (Ruth McDevitt)–take off in their 1928 Greyhound bus on a cross-country jaunt to connect with each other and with the realities of the 1960s. They meet interesting people along the way in this made-for-TV film.
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Lilith 1964 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Gene Hackman, Anne Meacham, James Patterson, Jessica Walter, Rene Auberjonois, Olympia Dukakis, Robert Reilly, Harvey Jason, Harry Northup, Alice Spivak, Charles Tyner
Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is an occupational therapist in a mental hospital whose life is ruined when he becomes involved with a patient, Lilith (Jean Seberg). They begin a passionate affair, and then Vincent learns that Lilith is also having an affair with a woman (Anne Meacham). Meanwhile, another patient, Stephen (Peter Fonda), commits suicide because Lilith will not pay attention to him. When Vincent realizes that he is in danger of losing his own sanity, he seeks help from psychiatrists. But, will it be too late? This is Gene Hackman's film debut.
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 A Matter of Life and Death 1946  PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Fantasy / Thriller
aka: Stairway to Heaven
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Richard Attenborough, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kathleen Byron, Bonar Colleano, Abraham Sofaer, Joan Maude, Robert Atkins, Bob Roberts, Edwin Max, Betty Potter
Returning from a World War II bombing run, Squadron Leader Peter Carter (David Niven) realizes his plane will not make it. He talks on his radio to RAF worker June (Kim Hunter) and then jumps, certain that he will die. But a miracle occurs, and Carter awakens in the surf (the angels couldn't find him in the fog, so he didn't die). He and June meet, fall in love, and talk Heaven into waiting.
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 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 1997 R, 154 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Lady Chablis, Alison Eastwood, Irma P. Hall, Jude Law, Jack Thompson, Paul Hipp, Anne Haney, Kim Hunter
New York reporter John Kelso (John Cusack) comes to Savannah to work on a society piece for "Town and Country" magazine. He meets a variety of colorful characters and stays on to cover antiques dealer Jim Williams' (Kevin Spacey) trial for the murder of his gay lover.
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Money, Women and Guns 1958 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Richard Bartlett
Cast: Jock Mahoney, Kim Hunter, Tim Hovey, Gene Evans, Tom Drake, Lon Chaney Jr., James Gleason, Ian MacDonald, William Campbell, Jeffrey Stone
Utilizing the will for evidence, detective Hogan (Jock Mahoney) searches for the killer of a wealthy man by investigating those who would benefit from his death.
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Out of the Cold 1999 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Aleksandr Buravsky
Cast: Keith Carradine, Mia Kirshner, Brian Dennehy, Judd Hirsch, Mercedes Ruehl, Bronson Pinchot, Kim Hunter, Mark Sheppard
Dan Scott (Keith Carradine) is a tap dancer in the 1930s who realizes his career, dating from vaudeville, is over when woman chasing and alcohol became more important. He tours his mother's home in Estonia where he is a star, and things go well–until he gets in trouble with the Nazis and with Russia. Poor.
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Planet of the Apes 1968 G, 112 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, Linda Harrison, Woodrow Parfrey, Robert Gunner, Norman Burton, Lou Wagner, Jeff Burton, Buck Kartalian, Wright King, Paul Lambert
Astronauts land on a newly discovered planet where apes rule, and humans are their servants. The space crew, led by George Taylor (Charlton Heston), trudges through a forest and finds a tribe that resembles Stone Age humans. Then, apes on horses appear clad in uniforms and start shooting, and the inarticulate, uncivilized humans scatter. The astronauts learn that the apes can walk upright and talk and are far more sophisticated that the humans. When the leader of the apes, Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans), learns that Taylor can also talk, he orders him killed. Now, two apes–scientist Cornelius (Roddy McDowell) and Dr. Zira (Kim Hunter)–help Taylor escape and, in the process, Taylor uncovers the secret of the planet.
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A Price Above Rubies 1998 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Boaz Yakin
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fitzgerald, Allen Payne, Julianna Margulies, Kathleen Chalfant, Edie Falco, John Randolph, Kim Hunter
Sonia (Renee Zellweger) and her husband are Hasidic Jews. But Sonia finds problems adhering to the restrictions imposed on her by the Orthodox sect, and her actions lead to public humiliation.
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The Seventh Victim 1943 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Horror
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Hugh Beaumont, Evelyn Brent, Erford Gage, Ben Bard, Chef Milani, Marguerita Sylva, Mary Newton, Milton Kibbee
After nuns at her boarding school tell Mary (Kim Hunter) that her sister, Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), is missing, Mary heads for NYC's Greenwich Village to find answers, and, in the process, is drawn into a coven of witches who are also looking for Jacqueline.
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Storm Center 1956 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Taradash
Cast: Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly, Kathryn Grant, Edith Evanson, Joe Mantell, Edward Platt, Howard Wendell, Kevin Coughlin
Blacklisting of the communications media in the 1950s is the focus of this film about a librarian (Bette Davis) who will not take a certain book about communism out of circulation.
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 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Richard Garrick, Mickey Kuhn, Marietta Canty, Wright King, Charles Wagenheim, Ann Dere, Edna Thomas, Mickey Kuhn
Southern belle Blanche Dubois (Vivien Leigh) visits her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in New Orleans and is confronted by her sister's brute of a husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando). The results are tragic in this Tennessee Williams story of the Old South losing out to the contemporary world. Stanley's plea: "Stella! Hey, Stella!" Vivien Leigh carried away a Best Actress Oscar for her performance, as did Kim Hunter and Karl Malden for their supporting roles. Other nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Marlon Brando), and Director.
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The Swimmer 1968 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Perry
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Kim Hunter, Charles Drake, Marge Champion, Janet Landgard, Tony Bickley, Bill Fiore, Joan Rivers, Rose Gregorio
This is the film adaptation of John Cheever's dream-like, insightful story of Neddy Merrill (Burt Lancaster) who swims home via his neighbors' swimming pools and learns something about his own existence in each pool.
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah 1985 TV, 170 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Leacock
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Kim Hunter, Will Lyman, Phyllis Thaxter, Patrick McGoohan, Shay Duffin, Ronald Hunter, Daniel von Bargen, John Dukakis, Donald Symington
This made-for-TV miniseries revolves around the 1690s' witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Vanessa Redgrave plays one of three sisters, Sarah Cloyce, who survived while her siblings were found guilty and burned. Sarah now sues the Massachusetts Bay Colony judiciary system to prove her family's innocence and to clear their names.
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Two Evil Eyes 1990 R, 120 min.
Genre: Horror / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Dario Argento, George A. Romero
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Ramy Zada, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, Bingo O'Malley, Martin Balsam, Kim Hunter, Sally Kirkland, John Amos, Jeff Howell, Holter Graham, Tom Atkins, Jonathan Adams
European horror master Dario Argento teams up with George A. Romero ("Night of the Living Dead") to present two adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's tales: "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" and "The Black Cat." The latter is the better of the two, though both reduce the stories to plenty of gore. Previously made by Roger Corman in 1962 ("Tales of Terror" with Vincent Price).
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When Strangers Marry 1944 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Betrayed
Director: William Castle
Cast: Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum, Neil Hamilton, Lou Lubin, Milton Kibbee, Rhonda Fleming, Marta Mitrovich, Byron Foulger, Edward Keane
Millie (Kim Hunter) suspects that her new husband is a murderer, and she enlists the aid of a friend to help.
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| Oscar: Best Supporting Actress for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
1. Anything Can Happen (1952)
2. Bad Ronald (1974)
3. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
4. Born Innocent (1974)
5. Cross of Fire (1989)
6. Deadline U.S.A. (1952)
7. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
8. In Search of America (1971)
9. The Kindred (1987)
10. Lilith (1964)
11. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
aka: Stairway to Heaven
12. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
13. Money, Women and Guns (1958)
14. Out of the Cold (1999)
15. Planet of the Apes (1968)
16. A Price Above Rubies (1998)
17. The Seventh Victim (1943)
18. Storm Center (1956)
19. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
20. The Swimmer (1968)
21. Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985)
22. Two Evil Eyes (1990)
23. When Strangers Marry (1944)
aka: Betrayed
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