Belles on Their Toes 1952  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Levin
Cast: Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Edward Arnold, Hoagy Carmichael, Barbara Bates, Martin Milner, Robert Arthur, Verna Felton, Marnie Alton, Jennifer Carmichael
In this sequel to "Cheaper by the Dozen," family patriarch Frank Bunker Gilbreth has died, and his widow (Myrna Loy) is left to raise their 12 children by herself.
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The Devil on Wheels 1947  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Crane Wilbur
Cast: Noreen Nash, Darryl Hickman, Terry Moore, James Cardwell, Damian O'Flynn, Lenita Lane, Ann Burr, William Forrest, Sue England, Robert Arthur
Micky Clark (Darryl Hickman) and his teenage friends take part in illegal drag races that, eventually, lead to the death of Micky's best friend and injury to his own mother.
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Green Grass of Wyoming 1948 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Western
Director: Louis King
Cast: Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn, Robert Arthur, Lloyd Nolan, Burl Ives, Robert Adler, Will Wright, Geraldine Wall, Charles Tannen, Richard Garrick, Marcella Becker, Herbert Heywood, Marilyn Monroe
In this sequel to "My Friend Flicka" and "Thunderhead-Son of Flicka," the story continues, but this time around the plot concentrates on rival horse-breeding Greenway (Peggy Cummins and Charles Coburn) and Mclaughlin (Robert Arthur, Lloyd Nolan, and Geraldine Wall) families.
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Hellcats of the Navy 1957 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Nathan Juran
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis, Arthur Franz, Robert Arthur, Harry Lauter, Selmer Jackson, William Leslie, Joe Turkel, Don Keefer, Maurice Manson
This is a war drama about a Navy submarine commander (Ronald Reagan) who endures the dangers of submarine patrol while his love, Helen (Nancy Davis), waits for his return. This is the only time the couple appeared together in a movie.
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Just for You 1952  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Ethel Barrymore, Robert Arthur, Natalie Wood, Cora Witherspoon, Regis Toomey, Art Smith, Willis Bouchey, Herb Vigran
This film's song "Zing a Little Zong" was nominated for an Academy Award. The story is loosely based on Stephen Vincent Benet's novel "Famous." Jordan Blake (Bing Crosby) is a successful Broadway producer who realizes–almost too late–that he has devoted too much time to work and not enough to his family.
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Mother Wore Tights 1947 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall, Vanessa Brown, Robert Arthur, Sara Allgood, William Frawley, George Cleveland, Sig Ruman
Vaudevillians Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) and Frank Burt (Dan Dailey) mix professional and personal lives as they raise their family in the midst of show business. This film won the Academy Award for Best Musical Score.
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 The Ring 1952 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Gerald Mohr, Rita Moreno, Lalo Rios, Robert Arthur, Robert Osterloh, Martin Garralaga, Jack Elam, Peter Brocco, Lillian Molieri, Julia Montoya, Pepe Hern, Victor Millan, Tony Martinez
Mexican-American Tommy Cantanios (Lalo Rios) lives in White dominated East Los Angeles in the 1950s when he decides that the best way to improve his lot in life is to train as a boxer and excel in the ring. Tommy gets his training from boxing scout Pete Genusa (Gerald Mohr) and gains success as a boxer but learns that despite his standings in the ring, he is still considered to be an "outsider" in the neighborhood.
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September Affair 1950 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Francoise Rosay, Jessica Tandy, Robert Arthur, Jimmy Lydon, Fortunio Bonanova, Anna Demetrio, Charles Evans, Charles La Torre
When the airplane they had booked passage on–but failed to board–crashes, two musicians, Manina Stuart (Joan Fontaine) and David Lawrence (Joseph Cotten), are presumed dead. They take the easy road and continue their adulterous affair by beginning a new life together letting the world continue to believe they are dead.
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 Twelve O'Clock High 1949   N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Dean Jagger, Roger Anderson, Lawrence Dobkin, Kenneth Tobey, Millard Mitchell, Robert Arthur, John Kellogg, Paul Stewart, Robert Patten, Lee MacGregory, Sam Edwards, Paul Picerni
This war film stars Gregory Peck as General Frank Savage who takes over Major Harvey Stovall's (Dean Jagger) World War II bomber squadron in England. The story is told in flashback as Stovall relates the perils of leadership and the stresses of command. Savage institutes strict discipline, but the men grow cold to him because of his orders. Eventually, Savage cares for his men above all else, and the story concerns the stresses of command as the leader becomes too close to his men. Dean Jagger won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor and nominations were received for Best Picture and Actor (Gregory Peck).
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Yellow Sky 1948 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, Harry Morgan, James Barton, Charles Kemper, Jay Silverheels, Robert Adler
Outlaws arrive in an Arizona ghost town and are confronted by a woman (Anne Baxter) living there alone with just her prospecting grandfather for company. They have hit gold, don't plan on giving it up easily to the robbers, and the battle begins.
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| 1. Belles on Their Toes (1952)
2. The Devil on Wheels (1947)
3. Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
4. Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
5. Just for You (1952)
6. Mother Wore Tights (1947)
7. The Ring (1952)
8. September Affair (1950)
9. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
10. Yellow Sky (1948)
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