Bad for Each Other 1953  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dianne Foster, Mildred Dunnock, Frank Sully, Ray Collins, Rhys Williams, Arthur Franz, Marjorie Rambeau, Lester Matthews
Doctor Tom Owen (Charlton Heston) returns home after the war, is talked into setting up a plush practice for wealthy patients in the city, and then realizes that his true calling is for ministering to the coal miners in his hometown.
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The Bells of St. Mary's 1945  N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Ruth Donnelly, Henry Travers, William Gargan, Minerva Urecal, Martha Sleeper, Rhys Williams, Una O'Connor, Matt McHugh
The sequel to "Going My Way" stars Bing Crosby as the affable priest who bumps heads with the Mother Superior over the raising of the students of St. Mary's school. The film won only one Oscar (Best Sound Recording) but was nominated for all the biggies (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Director).
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The Black Shield of Falworth 1954  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Barbara Rush, Dan O'Herlihy, Patrick O'Neal, Rhys Williams, Herbert Marshall, Ian Keith, Claud Allister
Based on Howard Pyle's novel, "Men of Iron," this is the story of young Knight Myles (Tony Curtis) who fights for his King, Henry IV (Ian Keith)–and for the love of Lady Anne.
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Blood on the Sun 1945  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller / Romance
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, Rosemary DeCamp, Robert Armstrong, John Emery, Frank Puglia, Philip Ahn, Marvin Miller, Rhys Williams, Porter Hall, John Halloran, Leonard Strong, James Bell, Hugh Beaumont
This film involves the activities of American newspaper reporter Nick Condon (James Cagney) in Tokyo between World War I and World War II. Condon tries to uncover the "Tanaka Plan"–a grand scheme for Japanese world domination. The Japanese police are on Condon's trail, but he gets help from Chinese-American spy Iris (Sylvia Sidney) who sees this as her chance to settle a score with the Japanese High Command.
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Carbine Williams 1952 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid, Paul Stewart, James Arness, Leif Erickson, Rhys Williams, Otto Hulett, Fay Roope
This film biography is about Marsh "Carbine" Williams, inventor of the rifle. His is an intriguing story including problems with the legal system.
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The Corn Is Green 1945 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, John Dall, Joan Lorring, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock, Gwyneth Hughes, Thomas Louden, Arthur Shields
Bette Davis gave a classy performance as a devoted teacher in a Welsh mining town. When she discovers a gifted young student, they work together to help him win a scholarship to Oxford.
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The Crooked Way 1949 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Florey
Cast: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Percy Helton, John Doucette, Charles Evans, Greta Grandstedt, Harry Bronson, Raymond Largay, Hal Baylor, Don Haggerty
While Eddie Rice (John Payne) is recuperating from shell shock–but is still suffering amnesia–following his service in World War II, his criminal past begins to catch up with him.
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Cross My Heart 1946 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: John Berry
Cast: Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Rhys Williams, Ruth Donnelly, Iris Adrian, Al Bridge, Howard Freeman, Michael Chekhov, Milton Kibbee, Lewis L. Russell
Confessing to a murder she did not commit, a woman (Betty Hutton) depends on her lawyer husband (Sonny Tufts) to defend her and, in turn, give her the attention she craves. This is a remake of "True Confession."
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Devil's Doorway 1950  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, James Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams, Spring Byington, James Millican, Harry Antrim
This average flick started a trend to present Native Americans as the "good guys" and whites as the "bad guys." Lance (Robert Taylor) returns to his tribal lands after the Civil War to find that his people are being persecuted by whites who want the land. He must become a renegade to right the wrongs.
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Eagle Squadron 1942 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce, Leif Erickson, Jon Hall, Gladys Cooper, Alan Hale Jr., Rhys Williams
Great aerial shots highlight this film about Americans who volunteered to join the RAF and fight Nazis before America entered the war.
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The Farmer's Daughter 1947 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Charles Bickford, Ethel Barrymore, Rose Hobart, Rhys Williams, Harry Davenport, Tom Powers, Lex Barker, Thurston Hall
Loretta Young won the Oscar for her role of Katrin who moves to St. Paul to study nursing but is naive and loses her money. As a result, she works as a servant for Congressman Glenn Morley (Joseph Cotten) and ends up running for the congressional seat of her boss.
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The Fastest Gun Alive 1956 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Russell Rouse
Cast: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, John Dehner, Noah Beery Jr., Allyn Joslyn, Russ Tamblyn, Leif Erickson, Rhys Williams, Virginia Gregg
An ex-gunfighter, George Temple (Glenn Ford), tries to live an honest life but finds himself forced into one more showdown.
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Gentleman Jim 1942 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, Alan Hale, Jack Carson, Alexis Smith, Ward Bond, William Frawley, Rhys Williams, Minor Watson, Arthur Shields, John Loder
This is the biography of boxing champ Jim Corbett who fought in the 1890s when boxing was not always considered an accepted sport. Errol Flynn plays the title role with understanding and a dash of comedy.
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Hills of Home 1948 G, 97 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
aka: Master of Lassie
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams, Reginald Owen, Edmund Breon, Alan Napier, Hughie Green, Lumsden Hare, Eileen Erskine, Frederick Worlock, David Thursby
In the Scottish mountain town of Glen Urtach, Lassie has been tending sheep but is afraid of the water. Her owner, Dr. William MacLure (Edmund Gwenn), tries to cure Lassie's phobia but fails–until William has an accident, and Lassie dives into the raging river to save him.
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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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If Winter Comes 1947 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Binnie Barnes, Janet Leigh, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams, Halliwell Hobbes
Mark Sabre (Walter Pidgeon) takes unwed, pregnant Nona Tybar (Deborah Kerr) as a goodwill effort, but tragedy results.
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The Imperfect Lady 1947 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Allen
Cast: Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Cedric Hardwicke, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn, Reginald Owen, Melville Cooper, Rhys Williams, George Zucco, Miles Mander
A member of Parliament (Ray Milland) marries a ballerina (Teresa Wright) who has led a checkered life, and her past comes back to haunt them.
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Inspector General 1949 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart, Alan Hale, Walter Catlett, Rhys Williams, Benny Baker, Norman Leavitt, Nestor Paiva, Byron Foulger, Jimmy Conlin, Fred Kelsey
A case of mistaken identity results in a very funny story as an illiterate stooge, Georgi (Danny Kaye), is wrongly identified as a man of power in the government. When he arrives in their town, corrupt town officers believe that Georgi is the Inspector General and grant him wishes and bribes to keep them from being arrested for stealing tax money. When the real Inspector General (Rhys Williams) arrives on the scene, the corruption is brought to an end, and Georgi is appointed the town's mayor–free to live happily ever after with the woman of his dreams, Leza (Barbara Bates). Songs include "The Gypsy Drinking Song."
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The Kentuckian 1955 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Burt Lancaster
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Dianne Foster, John McIntire, Una Merkel, Walter Matthau, John Carradine, Rhys Williams, John Litel, Edward Norris
This is the film adaptation of Basula Felix Holt's novel, "The Gabriel Horn." It also marks the film debut of Walter Matthau. In 1820, Big Eli (Burt Lancaster) and his son left their hard existence in Kentucky in search of better lives in Texas. History is combined with romance and action in this fine film.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 1950 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Paxton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler, Barton MacLane, William Frawley, Steve Brodie, Rhys Williams, Kenneth Tobey
Shades of the B movie days, this fast-paced gangster film highlights Cagney as the ruthless gangster Ralph Cotter. Cotter and his cronies break out of jail and return to their life of crime.
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The Law and the Lady 1951 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edwin H. Knopf
Cast: Greer Garson, Michael Wilding, Fernando Lamas, Marjorie Main, Rhys Williams, Hayden Rorke, Margalo Gillmore, Ralph Dumke, Natalie Schafer, Soledad Jimenez
This is the third remake of "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney." The story is about a team of jewel thieves (Greer Garson and Michael Wilding) who pose as nobility to get close to their upper-crust society victims.
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 Les Miserables 1952 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester, James Robertson Justice, Joseph Wiseman, Rhys Williams
The often-filmed Victor Hugo classic story is adequately presented in this adaptation, though much is cut (as evidenced by the length). Michael Rennie is cast as Jean Valjean, and Richard Newton plays his pursuer Javert. Three episodes are told: Valjean's arrest for stealing a loaf of bread and his imprisonment, Valjean's hounding by Javert after becoming mayor and adopting a girl (Debra Paget), and Javert's cessation of the pursuit of Valjean.
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Man in the Attic 1954 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Hugo Fregonese
Cast: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, Rhys Williams, Sean McClory, Leslie Bradley, Harry Cording, Isabel Jewell, Lester Matthews, Tita Phillips, Lisa Daniels, Lilian Bond, Stuart Holmes, Ben Wright
In this tale of horror, Jack Palance takes on the role of Slade who just might be psychotic killer Jack the Ripper who kills showgirls in London during the 19th century. Slade rents a flat from Helen and William Harley (Frances Bavier and Rhys Williams) and falls in love with their daughter Lily (Constance Smith), but she ignores his advances. Now, Helen begins to suspect that Slade is Jack the Ripper and gives information to Scotland Yard Inspector Paul Warner (Byron Palmer) who attempts to uncover the facts about who Jack the Ripper really is. This is the second remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1926 film, "The Lodger."
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Many Rivers to Cross 1955 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western / Romance
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, James Arness, Alan Hale Jr., John Hudson, Rhys Williams, Josephine Hutchinson, Sig Ruman, Rosemary DeCamp, Abel Fernandez, Russell Johnson, Ralph Moody
Bushrod Gentry (Robert Taylor) is a trapper in the 18th century, and Mary Cherne (Eleanor Parker) is determined to gain his love. He can't escape her persistent pursuit, and a shotgun wedding ensues. But, Bushrod takes off to the North Country, and Mary is not far behind. They continue to rescue each other in this funny film, but the treatment of the Native Americans in that era is not acceptable today. Good song: "The Higher Up the Berry Tree, the Sweeter Grow the Berries."
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Midnight Lace 1960  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: David Miller
Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, Herbert Marshall, Natasha Parry, John Williams, Hermione Baddeley, Rhys Williams
Kit Preston (Doris Day) is unaware that her husband, Tony (Rex Harrison), is plotting to kill her–after she appears insane as a result of numerous disturbing telephone calls. This film was remade for TV in 1980. 1 User Review
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| | anonymous 04/02/2009 | | another grt performance by doris...anothr oscar she didn't get!!!! |
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Mohawk 1956 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Neville Brand, Lori Nelson, Allison Hayes, John Hoyt, Barbara Jo Allen, Rhys Williams, Ted de Corsia, Mae Clarke, Tommy Cook, Michael Granger
In this "Eastern" Western, Boston artist Jonathan Adams (Scott Brady) is popular with the ladies, one of which is a Mohawk princess (Rita Gam). When Jonathan is sent to the Mohawk Valley to paint landscapes, he becomes embroiled in a war between settlers and the Mohawk Indians brought on by land grabber Butler (John Hoyt) who wants more land.
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Moss Rose 1947 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Peggy Cummins, Ethel Barrymore, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, George Zucco, Patricia Medina, Rhys Williams, Patrick O'Moore, Billy Bevan
Chorus girl Belle Adair (Peggy Cummins) uses blackmail as an entry into society to get Michael whose mother, Lady Margaret Drego (Ethel Barrymore), allows her selfish love for her son to cause two murders.
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Mrs. Miniver 1942 N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Henry Travers, Richard Ney, Reginald Owen, Miles Mander, Henry Wilcoxon, Rhys Williams, Mary Field, Brenda Forbes, Helmut Dantine, Tom Conway
Kay Miniver (Greer Garson) is the matriarch of a British family who holds things together as World War II closes in around them. While she tends to the children and her garden, her husband Clem (Walter Pigeon) takes part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. Meanwhile, German bombs are dropping on their peaceful village, and the eldest son Vin (Richard Ney) falls in love with upper-crust Carol (Teresa Wright). The family seems able to face the tragedies of the war, but will the war take its toll on their young love? This film was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture, Director (William Wyler), Actress (Garson), and Supporting Actress (Wright). It also won two more Oscars and was nominated for six others, including Best Actor (Pidgeon), Supporting Actor (Henry Travers), and Supporting Actress (Dame May Whitty).
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Mutiny 1952 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Mark Stevens, Angela Lansbury, Patric Knowles, Gene Evans, Rhys Williams, Robert Osterloh, Peter Brocco, Norman Leavitt, Walter Sande, Morris Ankrum, Todd Karns, Clayton Moore
During the War of 1812, officers serving on an American Naval ship, the Ulysses–American Capt. James Marshall (Mark Stevens) and British Capt. Ben Waldridge (Patric Knowles)–vie for control of the gold shipment as well as the attention of passenger Leslie (Angela Lansbury).
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Nightmare 1956 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Maxwell Shane
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Virginia Christine, Rhys Williams, Gage Clarke, Barry Atwater, Marian Carr, Billy May
A fine cast, good (jazz) musical score, and creative directing make this re-do of "Fear In The Night" enjoyable. A jazz musician (Kevin McCarthy) dreams he has stabbed a man in a mansion; his cuts and bruises indicate it may be real. His brother-in-law (Robinson), a police detective, tells him to forget it. But, he is determined to find the mansion, and he does. Now Robinson, after hearing that a murder has been committed there, finds out what really happened.
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No Time for Love 1943 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase, Richard Haydn, Paul McGrath, June Havoc, Rhys Williams, Bill Goodwin, Marjorie Gateson, Morton Lowry, Frank Moran, Rod Cameron, George Dolenz, Rhys Williams, Ben Taggart
A famous photographer, Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert), while photographing a tunnel under construction, falls in love with Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray) who is working on the tunnel project.
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 Our Man Flint 1965 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Daniel Mann
Cast: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare, Benson Fong, Rhys Williams, Russ Conway, Peter Brocco, James Brolin, William Walker
This spoof on "James Bond" films stars James Coburn as Derek Flint–the world's greatest secret agent. When attempts are made to assassinate him, Flint uses his deductive skills to locate the mad scientists who are out to get Flint out of the way so they can take over the world. Sequel: "In Like Flint."
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Plymouth Adventure 1952 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn, Lloyd Bridges, Dawn Addams, John Dehner, Barry Jones, Rhys Williams, Tommy Ivo
This film–winner of the Academy Award for Special Effects–depicts the 1620's voyage of the Mayflower to Massachusetts and the first trying months the Pilgrims endured while settling their new land Despite the cast, it's not special.
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Raintree County 1957 N/R, 187 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead, Rhys Williams, Walter Abel, Tom Drake
Johnny Green's great score adds to the enjoyment of this film. This is a Civil War epic about Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) whose life and psyche are severely disturbed by events surrounding her Midwest existence. The film received four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress (Taylor) and Musical Score.
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Random Harvest 1942 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Henry Travers, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams, Una O'Connor, Alan Napier, Elisabeth Risdon
Star-crossed lovers (Ronald Colman and Greer Garson) fall in love and marry only to discover that he had amnesia and has now regained his memory–but not of recent events, including his wife. But she remains devoted to him hoping that he will resume his love for her. An excellent film which received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Colman), Supporting Actress (Susan Peters) and Director.
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Remember Pearl Harbor 1942 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Santley
Cast: Don "Red" Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie, Sig Ruman, Ian Keith, Rhys Williams, Maynard Holmes, Diana Del Rio, Robert Emmett Keane, Sammy Stein, James B. Leong
Shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Republic pictures produced this film about soldiers stationed in the Philippines at the time and culminates when an American G.I. (Don "Red" Barry) leads a suicide mission driving his plane into a Japanese troop ship.
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The Restless Breed 1957 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Scott Brady, Anne Bancroft, Jay C. Flippen, Rhys Williams, Jim Davis, Scott Marlowe, Leo Gordon, Eddy Waller, Harry Cheshire, Myron Healey
Following the murder of his secret-service-agent father, Mitch Baker (Scott Brady) sets out to avenge the Texas border crime.
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So Goes My Love 1946 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Ryan
Cast: Myrna Loy, Don Ameche, Rhys Williams, Bobby Driscoll, Richard Gaines, Molly Lamont, Sara Haden, Clara Blandick, John Gallaudet, John Phillips
Set in 1860's Brooklyn, this is the story of the inventor of the Maxim machine gun, Hiram Stephen Maxim (Don Ameche). The theme is about his married life to Jane (Myrna Loy) and how she adjusted to life with a slightly offbeat genius.
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The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, Michael Anderson Jr., Martha Hyer, Dennis Hopper, Strother Martin, George Kennedy, James Gregory, Paul Fix, Jeremy Slate, John Litel, John Doucette, James Westerfield, Rhys Williams
Ranch owner Katie's sons John, Tom, Matt, and Bud (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, and Michael Anderson Jr.) come home for her funeral and stay long enough to fight for their land and their lives.
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The Spiral Staircase 1946 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming, Gordon Oliver, Elsa Lanchester, James Bell, Charles Wagenheim, Ellen Corby, Richard Tyler, Erville Alderson, Sara Allgood, Rhys Williams, Myrna Dell
A crazed killer is on the loose, peeking through a hole in the wall looking for his next victim. He has his eye on Helen Capel (Dorothy McGuire), a mute servant girl, who works in the very eerie house of the bedridden Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore). Barrymore received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Strange Woman 1946 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke, Rhys Williams, June Storey, Moroni Olsen, Alan Napier, Dennis Hoey
Bangor, Maine, was a bustling, brawling lumber town in the early 1800s when beautiful, young Jenny Hager (Hedy Lamarr) accepted a marriage proposal from wealthy businessman Isaiah Poster (Gene Lockhart), 20 years her senior. Shrewd for her age (due in part to having to deal with her drunken father for many years), she uses her new wealth to her advantage, including courting other men. Well acted and directed.
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 There's No Business Like Show Business 1954 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Gaynor, Hugh O'Brian, Frank McHugh, Rhys Williams, Lyle Talbot
Filled with Irving Berlin songs, this is a delightful musical about a vaudeville family and their roles in show business.
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Tokyo Joe 1949 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland, Gordon Jones, Rhys Williams, Charles Meredith, Harold Goodwin, James Cardwell, Teru Shimada, Hideo Mori, Lora Lee Michel, Whit Bissell, Fred F. Sears
Three years after World War II ends, an American soldier, Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart), returns to Japan on a business venture. He believes that his wife Trina (Florence Marly) died in a concentration camp, but now finds that Trina is alive, has remarried Mark Landis (Alexander Knox), and has a seven-year-old daughter Anya (Lora Lee Michel) who Barrett suspects is his own child. Ex-Japanese intelligence officer Baron Kimura (Sessue Hayakawa) wants Barrett to use his airline to fly war criminals back to Japan and kidnaps Anya to ensure Barretts cooperation. Events escalate and culminate in a bloody shoot-out.
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The Trouble with Women 1947 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Rose Hobart, Rhys Williams, Lloyd Bridges, Iris Adrian, Charles Smith, Lewis L. Russell
Professor Gilbert Sedley (Ray Milland) runs into problems while publicizing his new book and sues the newspaper responsible. Kate Farrell (Teresa Wright) is sent to investigate, and the good professor is soon smitten.
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The World in His Arms 1952 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire, Andrea King, Eugenie Leontovich, Hans Conried, Rhys Williams, Sig Ruman, Carl Esmond, Gregory Gaye, Bill Radovich, Bryan Forbes, Henry Kulky, Gregg Barton
Set in the 1850s, this film is about a sea captain, Jonathan Clark (Gregory Peck), who illegally hunts seals. He falls in love with a beautiful Russian princess, the Countess Marina (Ann Blyth), while helping her flee from an arranged marriage to Prince Semyon (Carl Esmond). Now, Clark and the Countess are about to wed, but the Countess is kidnapped by Prince Semyon and taken to Alaska. After recovering from a drunken stupor, Clark races fellow seal hunter Portugee (Anthony Quinn) to Alaska, but they are both arrested by the Russians. In an effort to save them, Countess Marina says she will marry Semyon when he orders the release of Clark and Portugee.
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| 1. Bad for Each Other (1953)
2. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
3. The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
4. Blood on the Sun (1945)
5. Carbine Williams (1952)
6. The Corn Is Green (1945)
7. The Crooked Way (1949)
8. Cross My Heart (1946)
9. Devil's Doorway (1950)
10. Eagle Squadron (1942)
11. The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
12. The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
13. Gentleman Jim (1942)
14. Hills of Home (1948)
aka: Master of Lassie
15. How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
16. If Winter Comes (1947)
17. The Imperfect Lady (1947)
18. Inspector General (1949)
19. The Kentuckian (1955)
20. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
21. The Law and the Lady (1951)
22. Les Miserables (1952)
23. Man in the Attic (1954)
24. Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
25. Midnight Lace (1960)
26. Mohawk (1956)
27. Moss Rose (1947)
28. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
29. Mutiny (1952)
30. Nightmare (1956)
31. No Time for Love (1943)
32. Our Man Flint (1965)
33. Plymouth Adventure (1952)
34. Raintree County (1957)
35. Random Harvest (1942)
36. Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)
37. The Restless Breed (1957)
38. So Goes My Love (1946)
39. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
40. The Spiral Staircase (1946)
41. The Strange Woman (1946)
42. There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
43. Tokyo Joe (1949)
44. The Trouble with Women (1947)
45. The World in His Arms (1952)
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