99 Women 1969  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jesus Franco
Cast: Maria Schell, Maria Rohm, Elisa Montes, Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Mercedes McCambridge, Rosalba Neri, Valentina Godoy, Jose Maria Blanco, Maria Perschy
Director Jesus Franco adds a "women-in-prison" storyline to his genre collection as the oppressive prison environment at a women's prison leads to an escape attempt.
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 All the King's Men 1949  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Shepperd Strudwick, Anne Seymour, Will Wright, Raymond Greenleaf, Houseley Stevenson, Ralph Dumke, Walter Burke
Based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, inspired by the activities of Louisiana Governor Huey Long, this is a story about political corruption. Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) rises to the governorship of his Southern state, but corruption results in his ultimate undoing. The film won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Actor (Broderick Crawford), and Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge); nominations included Best Director and Supporting Actor (John Ireland).
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Amazing Stories: Book 2 1987  PG, 71 min.
Genre: Animation / Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Robert Zemeckis, Brad Bird
Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Scott Coffey, Mary Stuart Masterson, Stan Freberg, Annie Potts, Mercedes McCambridge, Billy Beck, Tom Bresnahan, Scott Menville, Marshall Efron, Jack Angel, Brad Bird
Two more stories from the Spielberg TV series are provided: "Go to the Head of the Class," concerns two students who get back at their sadistic teacher, and "Family Dog" is an animated film of a suburban family as seen through the eyes of their dog.
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Angel Baby 1961 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: George Hamilton, Salome Jens, Mercedes McCambridge, Joan Blondell, Henry Jones, Burt Reynolds, Roger Clark, R.L. Armstrong, Eddie Firestone, Dudley Remus
This good story follows evangelists as they travel from town to town and "Angel Baby" (Jens) who thinks she was healed by one and thus falls in love with him. Burt Reynolds' film debut.
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Cimarron 1960  N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama / Western
Director: Anthony Mann, Charles Walters
Cast: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Russ Tamblyn, Mercedes McCambridge, Vic Morrow, Harry Morgan, Edgar Buchanan, Charles McGraw, Robert Keith, David Opatoshu, Mary Wickes, Aline MacMahon, Lili Darvas
Set during the era between 1890 and 1915, this is the film adaptation of Edna Ferber's epic novel about Yancey and Sabra Cravat (Glenn Ford and Maria Schell) homesteading in Oklahoma. They stake a claim, and Yancey starts a newspaper business that proves very profitable. Yancey gains respectability as a leading citizen and is asked to run for governor. But, Yancey realizes that becoming governor would mean he would play a role in defrauding the Indians of their land and mineral rights. He declines the offer, much to the dismay of Sabra.
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The Concorde...Airport '79 1979  PG, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Thriller
aka: Airport '79
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: Alain Delon, Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, George Kennedy, Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Bibi Andersson, Charo, Martha Raye, Cicely Tyson, John Davidson, Andrea Marcovicci, Jimmie Walker, David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge
Co-pilots (George Kennedy and Alain Delon) are flying a Concorde jet from Washington, D.C., to Moscow when their jet becomes the target of missile fire and in danger of crashing over the Alps. The reason behind their dangerous situation is that a passenger, reporter Maggie (Susan Blakely), is carrying secret documents that threaten Harrison Industries, and its leader (Robert Wagner) wants to destroy the information and the carrier as well.
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Deadly Sanctuary 1968 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Justine
Director: Jesus Franco
Cast: Jack Palance, Romina Power, Akim Tamiroff, Klaus Kinski, Sylva Koscina, Maria Rohm, Rosemary Dexter, Mercedes McCambridge, Carmen de Lirio, Serena Vergano
Sadistic torture resulting in murder awaits two unwary young women.
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Echoes 1983  R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Living Nightmare
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Cast: Richard Alfieri, Nathalie Nell, Ruth Roman, Gale Sondergaard, Mercedes McCambridge, Mike Kellin, John Spencer, Paul Joynt, Leonard Crofoot, Dennis Wayne
In this psychic tale, Michael Durant (Richard Alfieri) is suffering from recurrent nightmares about being attacked by his unborn twin brother.
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 The Exorcist 1973  R, 122 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Jack MacGowran, Titos Vandis, Mercedes McCambridge, Vasiliki Maliaros, Barton Heyman, Peter Masterson, Rudolf Schundler, Gina Petrushka, Robert Symonds
When Megan (Linda Blair) exhibits bizarre behavior that includes violence and foul language, her mother, Chris (Ellen Burstyn), calls in a young priest, Father Karras (Jason Miller), to help her. Father Karras is sure that Megan is possessed by the devil and asks exorcist Father Merrin (Max von Sydow) to come to her aid by staging an exorcism. Many horrors ensue as Father Merrin confronts the supernatural spirit. This film caused quite a stir at the time of its release. Academy Awards were received for Best Writing and Sound as well as eight other nominations including Best Picture, Actress (Burstyn), Supporting Actor (Miller) and Actress (Blair), and Director. Two sequels follow
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A Farewell to Arms 1957 N/R, 152 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Charles Vidor, John Huston
Cast: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi, Mercedes McCambridge, Oskar Homolka, Elaine Stritch, Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Interlenghi, Victor Francen, Kurt Kasznar, Jose Nieto, Georges Brehat, Johanna Hofer, Eduard Linkers
American ambulance driver for the Italian Army, Lt. Frederic Henry (Rock Hudson), meets Red Cross nurse Catherine (Jennifer Jones) during World War I, and they fall in love. Their affair results in Catherine's pregnancy, but Frederick returns to the front, and they lose contact with each other. The war ends for Frederic when he deserts the army and travels to Switzerland searching for Catherine.
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 Giant 1956 N/R, 198 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Mercedes McCambridge, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Paul Fix
This is Edna Ferber's epic story about ranching and oil fortunes in early Texas history. The Benedict family (Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor) is shown as they grow from an idealistic young couple through grandparenthood. They learn how to live with prejudice and greed that are a part of the Texas they love. George Stevens won the Oscar for Best Director of this film, and the film was nominated for nine others, including Best Picture, Actor (Rock Hudson), Supporting Actor (James Dean), and Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge).
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Inside Straight 1951 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Gerald Mayer
Cast: David Brian, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Mercedes McCambridge, Paula Raymond, Lon Chaney Jr., Roland Winters, Claude Jarman Jr., John Hoyt, Barbara Billingsley
A poker game, set up by Rip MacCool (David Brian), is the vehicle for telling MacCool's history through flashbacks.
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 Johnny Guitar 1954 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Paul Fix, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, John Carradine, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, Dennis Hopper
This psychologically based Western pits saloon owner Vienna (Joan Crawford) against Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the head of a vigilante group. While critics did not care for this film when it was released, it has since developed a cult following, and through the added perspective developed with time, its value has been reconsidered.
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The President's Plane Is Missing 1971 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daryl Duke
Cast: Buddy Ebsen, Peter Graves, Arthur Kennedy, Raymond Massey, Mercedes McCambridge, Rip Torn, Louise Sorel, Dabney Coleman, Joseph Campanella, John Amos
There's a threat to overthrow the U.S. Government, and the action starts when the president's plane (with the president on board) mysteriously disappears. So-so made-for-TV flick.
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The Sacketts 1979 TV, 193 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert Totten
Cast: Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Glenn Ford, Ben Johnson, Jeff Osterhage, Gilbert Roland, John Vernon, Ruth Roman, Jack Elam, Gene Evans, L.Q. Jones, Paul Koslo, Mercedes McCambridge, Slim Pickens, Pat Buttram
This made-for-TV Western combines the plots of Louis L'Amour's "The Daybreakers" and "The Sacketts" and takes place at the end of the Civil War when the Sackett brothers–Tell (Sam Elliott), Orrin (Tom Selleck), and Ty (Jeff Osterhage)–escape from a family feud and head West from their Tennessee home. While Tell prospects for gold, Orrin and Ty join cowboys Tom Sunday (Glenn Ford) and Cap Roundtree (Ben Johnson) herding cattle on the journey to Santa Fe where new troubles await.
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Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Mercedes McCambridge, Albert Dekker, Gary Raymond, Mavis Villiers, Joan Young, Patricia Marmont, Maria Britneva
Sebastian was a sensitive, gay poet whose premature death haunts his cousin, Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor). To keep a dark secret, Sebastian's mother (Katharine Hepburn) plots to have a lobotomy performed on Catherine to ensure her loss of memory of the event. Both Taylor and Hepburn received Academy Award nominations as Best Actress for this film.
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Touch of Evil 1958 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Dennis Weaver, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Ray Collins, Joanna Moore, Marlene Dietrich, Valentin de Vargas, Joi Lansing, Joseph Cotten, Mercedes McCambridge
Orson Welles can make film masterpieces, and this is one excellent example of his artistic talents. Welles plays an American policeman who has issues with an important man (Charlton Heston) in the Mexican government while on the trail of the killers of a wealthy Mexican. A number of cameo appearances add to the appeal.
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| Oscar: Best Supporting Actress for All The King's Men (1949) |
1. 99 Women (1969)
2. All the King's Men (1949)
3. Amazing Stories: Book 2 (1987)
4. Angel Baby (1961)
5. Cimarron (1960)
6. The Concorde...Airport '79 (1979)
aka: Airport '79
7. Deadly Sanctuary (1968)
aka: Justine
8. Echoes (1983)
aka: Living Nightmare
9. The Exorcist (1973)
10. A Farewell to Arms (1957)
11. Giant (1956)
12. Inside Straight (1951)
13. Johnny Guitar (1954)
14. The President's Plane Is Missing (1971)
15. The Sacketts (1979)
16. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
17. Touch of Evil (1958)
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