Boomerang! 1947  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy, Sam Levene, Ed Begley, Taylor Holmes, Robert Keith, Karl Malden, Cara Williams, Philip Coolidge, William Challee, Bert Freed, Lucia Backus Seger, George Petrie
When a New England priest is murdered, John Waldron (Arthur Kennedy) is arrested. He is beaten into confessing that he is the killer and then tried for the crime. Based on the true story of a 1924 murder case that is still unsolved, the film follows State's Attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) as he works to sort out the facts.
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I Want to Live! 1958  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Wesley Lau, Theodore Bikel, Philip Coolidge, James Philbrook, Bartlett Robinson, Joe De Santis, Gavin MacLeod, Lou Krugman, Gage Clark
This is the true story of Barbara Graham, a prostitute who maintains her innocence throughout her trial and subsequent execution for murder. Susan Hayward won an Oscar for her role as Barbara Graham.
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 Inherit the Wind 1960  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Dick York, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Florence Eldridge, Elliott Reid, Philip Coolidge, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr., Donna Anderson, Paul Hartman, Jimmy Boyd, Norman Fell, Hope Summers
Charles Darwin's theories of evolution go on trial in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Tennessee where Clarence Darrow (Spencer Tracy) and William Jennings Bryan (Fredric March) argue the merits of teaching the new science in the classroom. 1 User Review
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| | Battle of the Giants | 1fatts 06/16/2009 | The story is that when this movie was being shot, actors on the lot would find their way to the set to just hang out and watch the battle of the giants: Spencer Tracy and Fredric March. It was a good script; no one could direct courtroom like Stanley Kramer; nice casting; great set: but it is, in the end, March and Tracy eating the scenery and creating character.
Other good things deserve to be said about this movie, but it's watching the two actors of their generation pull out the stops that overshadows everything else. |
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It Happened to Jane 1959 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
aka: Twinkle and Shine
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Mary Wickes, Teddy Rooney, Russ Brown, Max Showalter, Jayne Meadows, Harry Morgan, Parker Fennelly, Walter Greaza, Philip Coolidge
Widow Jane Osgood (Doris Day) runs a New England lobster business. After her shipment of lobsters die, Jane hires lawyer George Denham (Jack Lemmon) and sues the railroad company she holds responsible. But, railroad executive Harry Foster Malone (Ernie Kovacs), who is "the meanest man in the world," does not take the law suit lying down, and the battle rages between Harry and Jane. Meanwhile, love blossoms between George and Jane.
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The Mating Game 1959 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark, Una Merkel, Philip Ober, Philip Coolidge, Charles(2) Lane, Trevor Bardette, William Smith
I.R.S. agent Lorenzo Charlton (Tony Randall) examines the fact that farmer Pop Larken (Paul Douglas) has never paid taxes. In the process of looking into the matter, Lorenzo falls in love with the farmer's daughter (Debbie Reynolds).
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 North by Northwest 1959 N/R, 136 min.
Genre: Adventure / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis, Philip Ober, Josephine Hutchinson, Edward Platt, Les Tremayne, Adam Williams, Robert Ellenstein, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Ken Lynch
A Madison Avenue businessman (Cary Grant) is pursued by foreign agents who mistakenly think he is a spy. He has a torrid affair with a stranger (Eva Marie Saint) during a train ride while eluding the agents. The chase takes place from New York City, through Midwest corn fields, and culminates at the top of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills. One of Hitchcock's and filmdom's greats. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Film Editing, and Writing.
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The Tingler 1959  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: William Castle
Cast: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Philip Coolidge, Pamela Lincoln, Bob Gunderson, Clarence Straight, Dal McKennon, William Castle
Doctor Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) treats patients who are suffering from strange growths–tinglers–on their spines, and the tingler attacks only when the people are frightened. The treatment involves screaming to release tension–and the growth. He meets Ollie Higgins (Philip Coolidge) whose deaf wife Martha (Judith Evelyn) dies from the tingler's effects, and Warren finds the tingler during her autopsy. Ollie owns a theater in which the tingler escapes, and Warren urges the audience to scream. The film stops, and the gimmick is that certain seats within the movie theater had been equipped to deliver small electric shocks.
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| 1. Boomerang! (1947)
2. I Want to Live! (1958)
3. Inherit the Wind (1960)
4. It Happened to Jane (1959)
aka: Twinkle and Shine
5. The Mating Game (1959)
6. North by Northwest (1959)
7. The Tingler (1959)
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