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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 Carrie 1952  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert, Mary Murphy, Basil Ruysdael, Ray Teal, Barry Kelley, Don Beddoe, Royal Dano, Sara Berner, William Reynolds, Walter Baldwin, Harry Hayden, Charles Halton
Based on Theodore Dreiser's novel, "Sister Carrie," this is the story of Carrie Meeber's (Jennifer Jones) rise in social status with the help of cultured George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier) who throws caution to the wind as he gives his money away to promote the welfare of Carrie.
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The Desperate Hours 1955 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young, Mary Murphy, Robert Middleton, Ray Collins, Whit Bissell, Richard Eyer, Alan Reed, Bert Freed, Ray Teal, Michael Moore
With Deputy Sheriff Bard (Arthur Kennedy) on their trail, three escaped convicts–Glen (Humphrey Bogart), Hal (Dewey Martin), and Sam (Robert Middleton) use the Hilliard Familys'–Emily (Martha Scott), her husband Dan (Fredric March), and their children Cindy (Mary Murphy), and Ralph (Richard Eyer)–home as their hideout. Knowing that if he contacts the police, his family's lives will be in danger, Dan plays along with the convicts' demands. But, how long will Dan go along with their demands before reaching the breaking point?
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Forty Pounds of Trouble 1963  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Tony Curtis, Phil Silvers, Suzanne Pleshette, Claire Wilcox, Larry Storch, Howard Morris, Stubby Kaye, Kevin McCarthy, Mary Murphy, Edward Andrews
This is a remake of "Little Miss Marker" in which Tony Curtis plays Steve McCluskey, the manager of a casino, who ends up with a little girl (Claire Wilcox) to care for.
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Harlow 1965 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Carroll Baker, Martin Balsam, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Raf Vallone, Leslie Nielsen, Mary Murphy, Peter Leeds
Movie star Jean Harlow's life is recreated in this screen version with Carroll Baker in the title role. It came out at the same time as a competing biography of Harlow starring Carol Lynley. This one is a little better, though both take many liberties with the true account of her life.
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Junior Bonner 1972 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Western
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker, Barbara Leigh, Mary Murphy, Bill McKinney, Don "Red" Barry, Dub Taylor, Sandra Deel, Charles H. Gray, Matthew Peckinpah, Sundown Spencer, Rita Garrison
Rodeo performer Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen) has passed his prime and returns home to Prescott, Arizona, where he finds that his parents, Ace and Elvira (Robert Preston and Ida Lupino), are breaking up their marriage, and his brother Curley (Joe Don Baker) is striking it rich selling off parcels of the family's land. Trying to regain his self-esteem, Junior enters the town's Fourth of July rodeo and wins the bull-riding event. Now, Junior buys an airplane ticket with the winnings and heads to Australia for more rodeos.
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Katherine 1975 TV, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Art Carney, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner, Jane Wyatt, Joe De Santis, Hector Elias, Jenny Sullivan, Rene Enriquez, Mary Murphy, Jorge Cervera Jr., Barbara Harris
Katherine Alman (Sissy Spacek) rebels against injustices of the American way in the 1960s and early 1970s and opts to change things through political terrorism.
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The Mad Magician 1954 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: John Brahm
Cast: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Patrick O'Neal, Jay Novello, Donald Randolph, Lenita Lane, Roy Engel, Lyle Talbot
A crazed magician (Vincent Price) uses his inventions to murder the opposition–his fellow magicians.
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A Man Alone 1955 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ray Milland
Cast: Ray Milland, Mary Murphy, Ward Bond, Raymond Burr, Lee Van Cleef, Alan Hale Jr., Arthur Space, Douglas Spencer, Thomas Browne Henry, Grandon Rhodes
Ray Milland made his directorial debut and also starred in this film about an innocent man, Wes Steele, who finds relative safety in the quarantined home of Nadine Corrigan (Mary Murphy) who helps him hide from a lynch mob.
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The Maverick Queen 1956 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Howard Petrie, Jim Davis, Emile Meyer, Walter Sande, John Doucette
A hotel owner, Kit Banion (Barbara Stanwyck), deals with outlaws but changes her ways when she is influenced by Jeff (Barry Sullivan), a Pinkerton agent who is on an undercover investigation.
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Sitting Bull 1954 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Dale Robertson, Mary Murphy, J. Carrol Naish, Iron Eyes Cody, John Litel, William Hopper, Douglas Kennedy, William Tannen, Joel Fluellen, John Hamilton, Thomas Browne Henry, Al Wyatt
In this reasonably accurate account of the story surrounding the Battle of Little Big Horn, Major Parrish (Dale Robertson) fights for Indian rights, but General Custer presses on into battle. In the aftermath, the Major is tried for treason and sentenced to death. Sitting Bull (J. Carrol Naish), Chief of the Sioux Indians, appeals to President Grant to pardon Major Parrish. The President, knowing the Major from the Civil War, grants the pardon.
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 The Wild One 1953 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Laszlo Benedek
Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen, Jerry Paris, Alvy Moore, Peggy Maley, Hugh Sanders, Ray Teal, John Brown, Will Wright
When a motorcycle gang descends on a small town in California, trouble is a certainty for the citizens. Dated now, but a big deal in the 1950s, and it set the standard for future cycle flicks. A great, early Marlon Brando performance as motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler.
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| 1. Beachhead (1954)
2. Born Innocent (1974)
3. Carrie (1952)
4. The Desperate Hours (1955)
5. Forty Pounds of Trouble (1963)
6. Harlow (1965)
7. Junior Bonner (1972)
8. Katherine (1975)
9. The Mad Magician (1954)
10. A Man Alone (1955)
11. The Maverick Queen (1956)
12. Sitting Bull (1954)
13. The Wild One (1953)
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