Above and Beyond 1952  N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates, Marilyn Erskine, Jim Backus, Stephen Dunne, Robert Burton, Hayden Rorke, Lawrence Dobkin, Dick Simmons, Jeff Richards, John McKee, Christopher Olsen
This biographical drama is about Air Force Colonel Paul Tibbetts' (Robert Taylor) training and preparation for his B-29 bombing mission that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and helped bring an end to World War II.
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Ada 1961   N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Mann
Cast: Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ralph Meeker, Martin Balsam, Frank Maxwell, Mary Treen, Ford Rainey, Charles Watts, Larry Gates
Ada (Susan Hayward) has political aspirations for her husband (Dean Martin). Together, they plan to reach the top of state politics and work for reform. 2 User Reviews
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| | Hayward at full throttle | movie-dahl 02/04/2008 | | Susan Hayward chews up the scenery in a highly entertaining film. That is good enough, folks. |
| | FilmFiend 05/24/2007 | I'm a big Susan Hayward fan, but this is one of her films that was beneath her talent. I noticed that her film company, along with her second husband, Chalkmar, was involved in the production of this flick. I think at that time in her life, when she was happy in her second marriage and no longer lusting after an Academy Award (which she received for her excellent work in 1958 in I Want to Live), she was interested in occasional work which would afford her and her husband the opportunity to travel.
Most of her post-I Want to Live films were inferior, sad to say, including not only Ada, but the awful I Thank a Fool. While Back Street wasn't much better, at least she got to wear very nice fashions. The Honey Pot was a better film, but her role was small.
However, I'm such a big fan of hers, I still watch the clunkers, too. |
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 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor, Patty Ann Gerrity, Rusty Stevens, Deborah Miller, Brian Corcoran, Jeane Wood, Walter Merrill, Bobby Johnson
Big Daddy (Burl Ives) is dying, and family members are hovering like vultures around his home. Brick (Paul Newman) and his childless wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), are there along with his brother's family of "No Neck Monsters"–as Maggie refers to the children. Of the situation, Brick says: "The truth is something desperate, and Maggie's got it. Believe me, it is desperate, and she has got it."
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Francis Covers the Big Town 1953 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Donald O'Connor, Yvette Dugay, Gene Lockhart, Nancy Guild, Larry Gates, Lowell Gilmore, William Harrigan, Gale Gordon, Chill Wills
Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) and his talking mule, Francis (voice of Chill Wills), take a job at the newspaper and before long they are in the middle of a murder trial.
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The Girl Rush 1955 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Robert Pirosh
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria DeHaven, Marion Lorne, James Gleason, Douglas Fowley, Jesse White, Larry Gates, George Chandler
Kim Halliday (Rosalind Russell) is a proper museum curator who inherits a Las Vegas casino and–with her Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne) in tow–heads West to run her new business venture.
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal? 1952 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau, Lynn Bari, Larry Gates, William Reynolds, Skip Homeier, Paul Harvey, Frank Ferguson, Forrest Lewis, Gloria Holden, Fred Nurney, Helen Wallace, James Dean
Aging millionaire Samuel Fulton (Charles Coburn) has no family of his own and wants to leave his fortune to the Vermont family of the woman who long ago turned down his marriage proposal. But first, he wants to test them. He poses as a poor artist, rents a room from them, and anonymously gifts the family $100,000. The mother, Harriet (Lynn Bari), wants to move the family to a mansion and tells her daughter Millicent (Piper Laurie) that she should break up with her boyfriend Dan (Rock Hudson) and find a wealthy man. They run into problems along the way, but, by story's end, lessons are learned, and the family regains its senses and returns to its old lifestyle. Playing a customer at the drug store, James Dean makes his first film appearance.
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Hoodlum Priest 1961 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Don Murray, Larry Gates, Cindi Wood, Keir Dullea, Logan Ramsey, Don Joslyn, Sam Capuano, Vince O'Brien, Al Mack, Lou Martini
This film is based on the real-life story of St. Louis priest Charles Dismas Clark, who worked to help juvenile delinquents and rehabilitate ex-convicts. The specific example of Clark's work is provided by the case of ex-convict Billy Lee Jackson (Keir Dullea), whose attempts at rehabilitation went very, very wrong.
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Hour of the Gun 1967 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Sturges
Cast: James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman, Steve Ihnat, Michael Tolan, Larry Gates, William Windom, Frank Converse, Lonny Chapman, William Schallert
After Wyatt Earp (James Garner) kills members of the Clampton gang, remaining members retaliate by killing his brother, and Wyatt gets help from Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) to track down the killers.
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 In the Heat of the Night 1967 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Quentin Dean, James Patterson, William Schallert, Scott Wilson, Matt Clark, Anthony James, Larry Gates, Beah Richards
Black Philadelphia homicide detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) visits a backwater Mississippi town. While there, he is mistakenly arrested for murder. When the confusion is resolved, bigoted Police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) and Tibbs join forces to investigate a murder. Tibbs teaches Gillespie about crime solving methods and about prejudice. This film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Actor (Steiger) and was nominated for two others, including Best Director.
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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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One Foot in Hell 1960 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Western
Director: James B. Clark
Cast: Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy, Dolores Michaels, Barry Coe, Larry Gates, Karl Swenson, John Alexander, Rachel Stephens, Ann Morriss
Following the death of his wife, Mitch (Alan Ladd) seeks revenge on the entire community.
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker 1959  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Levin
Cast: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Charles Coburn, Jill St. John, Ron Ely, Ray Stricklyn, David(1) Nelson, Richard Deacon, Dorothy Stickney, Larry Gates
This is a dated story about Mr. "Pa" Pennypacker (Clifton Webb), a Pennsylvania businessman, who is married to two different women and is raising families (17 children) in two different towns. Judge Judy would have a field day with this case!
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The Sand Pebbles 1966 N/R, 193 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Emmanuelle Arsan, Mako, Simon Oakland, Larry Gates, Charles Robinson, Ford Rainey, Gavin MacLeod, Joe Turkel, Barney Phillips, Richard Loo, Joe Di Reda
A U.S. Navy gunboat–nicknamed "Sand Pebbles" by the crew–patrolling the Yangtze River in 1926 is caught up in battles of Chinese warlords. One of the crewmen (Steve McQueen) tries to warn the Captain (Richard Crenna) of the potential for diplomatic problems as the crew tries to protect American lives. The film received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (McQueen) and Supporting Actor (Mako).
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Some Came Running 1958 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates, Leora Dana, Larry Gates, Betty Lou Keim, Connie Gilchrist, Steve Peck, Ned Wever, Roy Engel, Don Haggerty, Joe Gray
This film is based on James Jones' novel about writer Dave Hirsh's (Frank Sinatra) conflicts when he returns to his hometown of Parktown, Indiana, following World War II and must decide between respectable and decadent lifestyles. His businessman brother Frank (Arthur Kennedy) introduces Dave to schoolteacher Gwen French (Martha Hyer), but, when Dave won't break his ties to local gambler Bama Dillert (Dean Martin) and floozy Ginny Moorehead (Shirley MacLaine), tragedy lies ahead. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Actress (MacLaine), Supporting Actor (Kennedy), and Supporting Actress (Hyer).
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Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser 1988 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Charlotte Zwerin
Cast: Thelonious Monk, Charlie Rouse, Larry Gates, Phil Woods, Johnny Griffin, Ray Copeland, Jimmy Cleveland, Ben Riley, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris
This documentary is filled with great footage of performances by jazz-musician Thelonious Monk in concert. Clint Eastwood was Executive Producer.
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Toys in the Attic 1963 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney, Larry Gates, Nan Martin, Frank Silvera, Charles Lampkin, Joe Gray
This production fails to exhibit the provocative insights of Lillian Hillman's well-written play. It stars Wendy Hiller and Geraldine Page as the spinster sisters whose "glass house" is shattered when their brother (Dean Martin) brings home his young bride.
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The Young Savages 1961 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, Edward Andrews, Telly Savalas, Pilar Seurat, Milton Selzer, Larry Gates, Vivian Nathan, Jody Fair, Roberta Shore, Robert Burton, John Davis Chandler, Neil Nephew, Stanley Kristien
District Attorney Hank Bell (Burt Lancaster) deals with ghetto gangs from Harlem, where he grew up, while trying to solve the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. The teenage gang members (John Davis Chandler, Neil Nephew, and Stanley Kristien) have been caught, and Bell is assigned the case as prosecutor. The case appears to be easy–until Bell realizes that there is more to it than meets the eye. In fact, one of the defendants is the son of Bell's ex-lover, Mary di Pace (Shelley Winters), and his wife, Karen (Dina Merrill), is turning against him because of his past. Now the question is: As more secrets come to the fore, will Bell be able to keep his principles intact?
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| 1. Above and Beyond (1952)
2. Ada (1961)
3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
4. Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)
5. Funny Lady (1975)
6. The Girl Rush (1955)
7. Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
8. Hoodlum Priest (1961)
9. Hour of the Gun (1967)
10. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
11. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
12. Lucky Luciano (1974)
13. One Foot in Hell (1960)
14. The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)
15. The Sand Pebbles (1966)
16. Some Came Running (1958)
17. Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser (1988)
18. Toys in the Attic (1963)
19. The Young Savages (1961)
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