 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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Angel Face 1952  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Jim Backus, Leon Ames, Barbara O'Neil, Kenneth Tobey, Raymond Greenleaf, Griff Barnett, Robert Gist, Morgan Farley, Bess Flowers, Herbert Lytton
When a beautiful–but psychotic–rich woman, Diane (Jean Simmons), plots to kill her stepmother Catherine (Barbara O'Neil), ambulance driver Frank (Robert Mitchum) unwittingly becomes involved in the crime. Frank is hired as the family chauffeur, and Diane fixes the car so that it goes over a cliff, but the accident kills not only Catherine but Diane's father Charles (Herbert Marshall) as well. Frank and Diane are now charged with murder. In an effort to sway the jury, Diane's lawyer (Leon Ames) suggests Diane and Frank marry, they do, and are acquitted. After being freed, Frank realizes that he cannot be married to a murderess and tells Diane that he is leaving her. Not a good move because Diane now puts the car into reverse, they fall over a cliff, and hurtle to their deaths.
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Birdman of Alcatraz 1962  N/R, 143 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Edmond O'Brien, Telly Savalas, Betty Field, Neville Brand, Hugh Marlowe, Graham Denton, James Westerfield, Whit Bissell, Raymond Greenleaf, Lewis Charles, Robert Burton
This story is based on the life of Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) who becomes obsessed with birds during his 53 years of imprisonment on Alcatraz. After rescuing a sparrow that flies into his cell, Stroud, despite his third-grade education, becomes a world-renowned ornithologist and gains a new purpose in life while serving his life sentence. Telly Savalas plays the talkative prisoner in the next cell, and Thelma Ritter takes on the role of Stroud's controlling mother. Excellent performances by Lancaster, Savalas, and Ritter earned Academy Award nominations.
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East Side, West Side 1949  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Davis, Gale Sondergaard, William Conrad, William Frawley, Raymond Greenleaf
An upper-class Manhattan couple, Jessie and Brandon Bourne (Barbara Stanwyck and James Mason), have marital problems because of Brandon's roaming eye.
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From the Terrace 1960 N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames, Barbara Eden, George Grizzard, Patrick O'Neal, Felix Aylmer, Elizabeth Allen, Raymond Greenleaf, Malcolm Atterbury, Raymond Bailey, Ted de Corsia, Howard Caine
Alfred Eaton (Paul Newman) has inherited the inability to show affection from his father Samuel (Leon Ames), and, after returning from the war, climbs the corporate ladder in New York's financial world. He chooses his professional world over his personal life with his promiscuous wife Mary St. John (Joanne Woodward) and spends much of his time away from her–until he hits a crisis point while having an affair with Natalie (Ina Balin), and his world comes crashing down around him. An extra star in the rating is due to Myrna Loy's performance as Alfred's alcoholic mother, Martha Eaton.
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 Harriet Craig 1950 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Corby, William Bishop, K.T. Stevens, Raymond Greenleaf, Virginia Brissac, Douglas Wood
In this remake of "Craig's Wife," Joan Crawford takes on the Rosalind Russell role of the domineering perfectionist who alienates all around her.
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A Millionaire for Christy 1951 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson, Una Merkel, Douglass Dumbrille, Kay Buckley, Raymond Greenleaf, Nestor Paiva, Chris-Pin Martin, Julian Rivero
A legal secretary, Christy Sloane (Eleanor Parker), notifies radio personality Peter Ulysses Lockwood (Fred MacMurray) that he has inherited $2 million dollars and goes after him in hopes of marriage and a share of the loot.
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Monkey on My Back 1957  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards, Jack Albertson, Kathy Garver, Lisa Golm, Barry Kelley, Dayton Lummis, Lewis Charles, Raymond Greenleaf, Richard Benedict, Brad Harris
Boxing champion Barney Ross (Cameron Mitchell) joined the Marines and fought in the Pacific theater during World War II. After contracting malaria, he was given morphine to deal with the pain. He became addicted, which nearly ruined his life, until he fought his way back from the depths.
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Pinky 1949 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Nina Mae McKinney, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael, Griff Barnett, Evelyn Varden, Raymond Greenleaf, Arthur Hunnicutt
The absurdity of racial prejudice is shown in this film about a Black woman (Jeanne Crain) who passes for White in the Deep South. Crain was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and both Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters were nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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Port of New York 1949 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Laszlo Benedek
Cast: Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens, Yul Brynner, Neville Brand, Alden "Stephen" Chase, Raymond Greenleaf, William Challee, Tudor Owen, John Kellogg
United States Customs agents try to break up a drug-smuggling ring led by Paul Vicola (Yul Brynner). This was Brynner's film debut.
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She's Working Her Way Through College 1952 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson, Don DeFore, Phyllis Thaxter, Patrice Wymore, Roland Winters, Raymond Greenleaf, George Meader, Eve Miller
Wanting to improve herself intellectually, burlesque dancer Angela Gardner (Virginia Mayo) heads for college and upsets the campus in this musical remake of "The Male Animal."
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South Sea Woman 1953 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Chuck Connors, Arthur Shields, Paul Burke, Barry Kelley, Hayden Rorke, Leon Askin, Raymond Greenleaf, Cliff Clark
World War II has just begun, and Marine Sergeant O'Hearn (Burt Lancaster) is in San Diego embroiled in his court-martial trial for desertion. Coming to his defense is nightclub photographer Ginger Martin (Virginia Mayo) who testifies that O'Hearn is trying to protect his fellow Marine, Davy White (Chuck Connors), who O'Hearn had forced on a perilous trip from Shanghai to Pearl Harbor, resulting in O'Hearn arriving in Pearl Harbor after the Japanese had attacked and giving the impression that he had deserted.
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Storm Warning 1951 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Lloyd Gough, Raymond Greenleaf, Ned Glass, Sean McClory, Mary Alan Hokanson
After witnessing a reporter's murder, Marsha (Ginger Rogers) learns that her own brother-in-law, Hank (Steve Cochran), is a member of the group of killers–the Ku Klux Klan.
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The Vampire 1957 PG, 74 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi
aka: Mark of the Vampire
Director: Paul Landres
Cast: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey, Lydia Reed, Dabbs Greer, Herb Vigran, Ann Staunton, James Griffith, Paul Brinegar, Budd Buster, Anne O'Neal, Brad Morrow, Mauritz Hugo, Raymond Greenleaf
Scientist/Doctor Paul Beecher (John Beal) received pills from his dying associate who had been conducting experiments on animals to support his work on improving the human brain. Suffering from migraine headaches, he takes his pill to relieve the headache but inadvertently takes the wrong pill. He turns into a killer vampire, and, even worse, the pill is addictive, and he must take it daily–and the killing continues.
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Wild in the Country 1961 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Dunne
Cast: Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, Rafer Johnson, John Ireland, Gary Lockwood, Jason Robards Sr., William Mims, Raymond Greenleaf, Alan Napier
A troubled young man (Elvis Presley) is encouraged by his psychologist (Hope Lange) to work towards his goal of becoming a writer.
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You Can't Run Away from It 1956 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Dick Powell
Cast: June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford, Paul Gilbert, Jim Backus, Stubby Kaye, Henny Youngman, Allyn Joslyn, Jack Albertson, Walter Baldwin, Byron Foulger, Louise Beavers, Richard H. Cutting, Raymond Greenleaf
This remake of "It Happened One Night" has been set to music as it re-tells the story of heiress Ellie Andrews (June Allyson) who runs away from her impending marriage and discovers real love in the person of newspaper reporter Peter Warne (Jack Lemmon).
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| 1. All the King's Men (1949)
2. Angel Face (1952)
3. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
4. East Side, West Side (1949)
5. From the Terrace (1960)
6. Harriet Craig (1950)
7. A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
8. Monkey on My Back (1957)
9. Pinky (1949)
10. Port of New York (1949)
11. She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)
12. South Sea Woman (1953)
13. Storm Warning (1951)
14. The Vampire (1957)
aka: Mark of the Vampire
15. Wild in the Country (1961)
16. You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
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