 An American in Paris 1951  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Musical / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Georges Guetary, Eugene Borden, Ann Codee, Dick Wessel, Paul Maxey, John Eldredge, Noel Neill, Madge Blake
Based on the music of George and Ira Gershwin, dance and music sequences contributed to the Academy Award for Best Picture. The story is about ex-GI Jerry (Gene Kelly) who stays in Paris after the war to study art and then falls in love with Lise (Leslie Caron). The film also won five other Oscars, and Director Vincente Minnelli received a nomination.
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Here Come the Waves 1944  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ann Doran, Catherine Craig, Noel Neill, Anabel Shaw, Mae Clarke, Minor Watson, Yvonne De Carlo
"Ac-cent-u-ate the Positive" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in this delightful musical about Johnny Cabot (Bing Crosby) courting twins Susie and Rosemary (Betty Hutton plays both).
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Invasion U.S.A. 1952  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Bice, Tom Kennedy, Wade Crosby, Erik Blythe, Phyllis Coates, Aram Katcher, Noel Neill
The Communist scare was on in the early 1950s, and this film, though weak in most respects, captures the flavor of the times. Mr. Ohman (Dan O'Herlihy) enters a bar in New York where the customers discuss current events. A TV news bulletin on the bar's TV states that the U.S. is being invaded. All but Mr. Ohman react with panic and head out to deal with their fate. Mr. Ohman's calm in the storm is revealed at film's end as an invasion, including the use of a nuclear bomb, takes place.
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The Sky Dragon 1949 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Lesley Selander
Cast: Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Milburn Stone, Elena Verdugo, Lyle Talbot, Noel Neill, Iris Adrian, John Eldredge
This time around, Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) solves the crime while flying above the Pacific Ocean in the same airliner in which a $250,000 theft occurred. The last in the Charlie Chan series is perhaps the worst.
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| 1. An American in Paris (1951)
2. Here Come the Waves (1944)
3. Invasion U.S.A. (1952)
4. The Sky Dragon (1949)
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