Black Widow 1954  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner, Reginald Gardiner, Otto Kruger, Cathleen Nesbitt, Skip Homeier, Virginia Leith, Hilda Simms, Bea Benaderet, Aaron Spelling
This mystery by Patrick Quentin is somewhat gaudy but still entertaining about goings on in an upper-crust apartment building. Van Heflin plays a married Broadway producer who is suspected of killing Nancy (Peggy Ann Garner) when she turns up dead in his apartment. Detective Lt. C.A.Bruce (George Raft) is on the scene to clear it all up.
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How to Be Very, Very Popular 1955  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Sheree North, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Orson Bean, Tommy Noonan, Charlotte Austin, Rhys Williams
In this remake of 1934's "She Loves Me Not" and 1942's "True to the Army," two dancers (Betty Grable and Sheree North) witness a Mob killing and then hide out on a college campus. This was Grable's last movie–"musicals" was her thing, but musicals were NOT the thing by the mid-1950s.
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 1956  N/R, 153 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Gregory Peck, Fredric March, Jennifer Jones, Ann Harding, Arthur O'Connell, Lee J. Cobb, Keenan Wynn, Gene Lockhart, Marisa Pavan, Kenneth Tobey
The pitfalls of success on Madison Avenue are presented in this film as Gregory Peck plays the executive who is beginning to find that there is more to life than fame and fortune.
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The Man Who Understood Women 1959 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio, Conrad Nagel, Frank Cady, Harry Ellerbe, Ben Astar, Edwin Jerome
Willie (Henry Fonda) is a very successful filmmaker; however, he is not so fortunate in his relationship with his actress-wife (Leslie Caron).
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Night People 1954   N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork, Rita Gam, Walter Abel, Buddy Ebsen, Peter van Eyck, Max Showalter, Jill Esmond, Hugh McDermott
This film about the Cold War involves an Army corporal who is kidnapped in East Berlin; Colonel Van Dyke (Gregory Peck) tries to retrieve the U.S. soldier without causing an incident with the U.S.S.R. that will further diminish relationships between the two countries. 1 User Review
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| | Political thriller - Nazi & communist cold war intrigue | nana4u 08/09/2009 | | Col Van Dyke (Peck) is stuck with a spy thriller at the communist border in Berlin. Following Nazi Germany; cold war politics have divided Berlin into pieces of a police puzzle. The characters have mysterious past histories; and the plot twists maintain a suspenceful film noir. The story keeps pace with the viewer's interest until the disclosure of loyalties is finally finished. Good yarn well worth the trip. |
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The Three Faces of Eve 1957  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb, Edwin Jerome, Alistair Cooke, Nancy Kulp, Douglas Spencer, Ken Scott, Mimi Gibson, Vince Edwards, Alena Murray, Terry Ann Ross, Mary Field, Frank Marlow, Richard Garrick
Joanne Woodward won an Academy Award for Best Actress playing Eve who suffers from a multiple personality syndrome. The film is based on the true story of Eve's psychiatric treatment as three personalities emerge: Eve White, Eve Black, and Jane.
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| 1. Black Widow (1954)
2. How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
3. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
4. The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
5. Night People (1954)
6. The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
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