 Calamity Jane 1953   N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama / Western / Romance
Director: David Butler
Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Philip Carey, Allyn Ann McLerie, Dick Wesson, Paul Harvey, Chubby Johnson, Gale Robbins, Lane Chandler, Kenne Duncan, Glenn Strange, I. Stanford Jolley, Budd Buster, Lee Shumway, Monte Montague
Calamity Jane (Doris Day) and Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) meet in Deadwood, South Dakota, where they have a rollicking good time. Jane promises the townsfolk that she will get Chicago singing star Adelaide Adams (Gale Robbins) to perform on Deadwood's Golden Garter stage. Adelaide is booked on a European tour and, unbeknownst to Jane, sends her maid Katie (Allyn Ann McLerie) to perform. After failing at her first performance, Katie becomes a success and tries to make a "lady" out of Jane. Meanwhile, Jane thinks she is falling for handsome Lt. Gilmartin (Philip Carey), but when Gilmartin is attracted to Katie instead, Jane finally realizes that it is Wild Bill who she has loved all along. Terrific music; songs include "Deadwood Stage," "Secret Love," and "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better." "Secret Love" won the Oscar for Best Song.
|  | |
The Singing Hill 1941  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale, Mary Lee, Spencer Charters, George Meeker, Gerald Oliver Smith, Wade Boteler, Harry Stubbs, Monte Montague, Hal Price
Gene Autry sings and sings and fixes a problem. It appears that Virginia Dale would like to give up her land, but if she does, bad guy John Ramsey (George Meeker) can charge high prices for grazing land.
| | |
Tailspin Tommy 1934  N/R, 230 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Maurice Murphy, Noah Beery Jr., Patricia Farr, Walter Miller, Grant Withers, Charles A. Browne, Monte Montague, Edmund Cobb, Bryant Washburn, John Davidson, Harrison Green, William Desmond
Tailspin Tommy Tompkins (Maurice Murphy) and cohort Skeeter Milligan (Noah Berry Jr.) are working for a mail-delivery airline when a rival airline sends out its dogfighting planes with the mission of destroying Tommy's plane and seizing control of the mail-delivery business. A 12-part serial for the 1930s' Saturday matinees.
| | |
| 1. Calamity Jane (1953)
2. The Singing Hill (1941)
3. Tailspin Tommy (1934)
In The News
|
