The Benny Goodman Story 1956  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Valentine Davies
Cast: Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten, Herbert Anderson, Robert F. Simon, Hy Averback, Dick Winslow, Jack Kruschen, Harry James, Wilton Graff, Sammy Davis Jr., Martha Tilton, Barry Truex, Shepard Menken, David Kasday
Great music is part of this biography of the famous bandleader Benny Goodman (Steve Allen) that includes his days of growing up in Chicago as well as his romance with and marriage to society debutante Alice Hammond (Donna Reed). Guest performers include Harry James, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Sammy Davis Jr., and Martha Tilton.
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Bigger Than Life 1956  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Christopher Olsen, Roland Winters, Robert F. Simon, Rusty Lane, Rachel Stephens, Lee Aaker, Virginia Carroll
Teacher Ed Avery (James Mason) begins cortisone therapy and then becomes addicted to the drug. He turns against his family but is eventually helped by his friend, Wally (Walter Matthau).
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Captain Newman, M.D. 1963 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: David Miller
Cast: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Bobby Darin, Eddie Albert, Jane Withers, Larry Storch, Robert Duvall, James Gregory, Dick Sargent, Bethel Leslie, Robert F. Simon, Vito Scotti, Crahan Denton, Paul Carr
This film adaptation of Leo Rosten's tragi-comedy bestseller is about Army neuropsychiatrist Dr. Newman (Gregory Peck) whose patients suffer breakdowns from battle fatigue. His job is to heal his patients and return them to active duty. But, he needs more help and gets it in the form of new arrivals–orderly Jackson Leibowitz (Tony Curtis) and nurse Lt. Francie Corum (Angie Dickinson). Jackson performs more than his fair share of pranks, but he aids Newman and Francie in dealing with the traumatized patients. Meanwhile, Newman and Francie are attracted to each other, and a romance blooms.
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The Catered Affair 1956 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Bette Davis, Debbie Reynolds, Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, Barry Fitzgerald, Robert F. Simon, Madge Kennedy, Dorothy Stickney, Ray Stricklyn, Dan Tobin
Bette Davis plays the wife of a Bronx taxi driver who is determined to spend more than she has to impress family and friends at her daughter's (Debbie Reynolds) wedding.
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Compulsion 1959 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall, Martin Milner, Richard Anderson, Ed Binns, Robert F. Simon, Robert Burton, Wilton Graff, Gavin MacLeod, Louise Lorimer, Terry Becker, Russ Bender
This is a fictionalized version of the 1920s' Leopold and Loeb case in which law school students–in this case Artie Straus and Judd Steiner (Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell)–carry out the "perfect" murder. The crime was perpetrated solely because they were convinced of their own intellectual superiority and wanted to prove their theory. Their parents hire defense attorney Jonathan Wilk (Orson Welles) because of his reputation for fighting against the death penalty.
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Edge of the City 1957 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire, Ruby Dee, Robert F. Simon, Ruth White, Val Avery, John Kellogg, David Clarke, William A. Lee, Estelle Hemsley, Mike Dana, Roy Glenn, Ralph Bell
Longshoremen–cohorts Axel North (John Cassavetes) and Army deserter Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier)–confront their bullying, racist supervisor Charles Malik (Jack Warden). The result is death for Tyler. The police investigate, but North, who knows that Malik killed Tyler, keeps silent. It isn't until later that North challenges Malik to a showdown in a one-on-one fight to avenge Tyler's death.
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The Facts of Life 1960 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye, Philip Ober, Peter Leeds, Robert F. Simon, Louise Beavers, William Lanteau, Marianne Stewart, Mike Mazurki
Larry (Bob Hope) and Kitty (Lucille Ball) are vacationing as "Mr. George Washington" and "Mrs. Martha Washington" while embarking on an extra-marital fling. Although the affair is never consummated, at first, their romance is great. But, by story's end, they learn that there are problems with having affairs in middle age and realize that true happiness lies back in their original marriages.
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The First Traveling Saleslady 1956  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing, David Brian, Clint Eastwood, James Arness, Robert F. Simon, Frank Wilcox, Dan White, Harry Cheshire
In this weak comedy, Rose Gillray (Ginger Rogers) finds love when she sets off to deal with rough cattlemen. Keep on the lookout for a very young Clint Eastwood.
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Never Say Goodbye 1956  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerry Hopper
Cast: Rock Hudson, George Sanders, David Janssen, Cornell Borchers, Clint Eastwood, Ray Collins, Shelley Fabares, Helen Wallace, John Wengraf, Robert F. Simon
A separated couple (Rock Hudson and Cornell Borchers) regains love and find happiness as parents. 1 User Review
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| | Excellent **** | Star 09/16/2007 | | I was about 12 years old when I saw this movie - and for many many years I always said it was my favorite movie of all time. It's about a mother secretly giving piano lessons to an older gentleman from across the iron curton. One day she is not able to return and goes missing. Her little girl believes her mother is dead, and her husband thinks she left him. It has a very beautiful ending - touches the heart. I would give it four stars. |
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A New Kind of Love 1963 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melville Shavelson
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor, Maurice Chevalier, George Tobias, Marvin Kaplan, Robert Clary, Ted Mapes, Robert F. Simon
Real-life husband and wife, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, star in this lightweight comedy about an experienced journalist (Newman) who falls in love with a Paris fashion designer (Woodward). Highlight: Maurice Chevalier singing "Mimi" and "Louise."
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Operation Petticoat 1959 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Dick Sargent, Arthur O'Connell, Virginia Gregg, Robert F. Simon, Gavin McLeod, Robert Gist, George Dunn, Dick Crockett
The U.S.S. Sea Tiger is a World War II submarine that undergoes more than any military vessel should be required to endure. Not only must the boat be painted pink, it is also used to transport a group of nurses across the Pacific. Cary Grant plays the hapless commanding officer.
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Pay or Die 1960 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Wilson
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin, Renata Vanni, Franco Corsaro, Robert F. Simon, Robert Ellenstein, Paul Birch, Vito Scotti, John Marley
Members of the Mafia-dominated Black Hand are intimidating New York citizens living in the Little Italy sector in the early 1900s. NYPD Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino (Ernest Borgnine) is sent in with fellow officers to clean up the area.
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The Rack 1956 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond O'Brien, Lee Marvin, Anne Francis, Cloris Leachman, Robert Burton, Robert F. Simon, Trevor Bardette
Adapted from Rod Serling's teleplay, this compelling drama is about an Army court-martial of an officer (Paul Newman) who was brainwashed into collaborating with the enemy in a North Korea prison camp.
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Rogue Cop 1954 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft, Steve Forrest, Anne Francis, Alan Hale Jr., Robert F. Simon, Robert Ellenstein, Peter Brocco, Anthony Ross
Undercover cop Christopher Kelvaney (Robert Taylor) seeks the killers of his brother. Well made flick.
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Spider-Man Strikes Back 1978  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Action / Fantasy
Director: Ron Satlof
Cast: Nicholas Hammond, Robert F. Simon, Chip Fields, Michael Pataki, JoAnna Cameron, Robert Alda, Emil Farkas, Anne Bloom, Lawrence P. Casey, Wil Albert, Sidney Clute, Gino Ardito, Leigh Kavanaugh, Ron Hajek, David Somerville
Here comes the second TV production of the Marvel comics superhero, again starring Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man. University students get their hands on all they need to create an atomic bomb. While Spider-Man deals with side issues, the wealthy, but bad, Mr. White (Robert Alda) attempts to get the bomb in order to threaten the world. Will our hero come through?
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Tess of the Storm Country 1960  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Paul Guilfoyle
Cast: Diane Baker, Jack Ging, Lee Philips, Wallace Ford, Robert F. Simon, Bert Remsen, Archie Duncan, Grandon Rhodes, Nancy Valentine
In this rendition of Grace Miller White's novel, the story is updated to the 1960s. A Scottish woman, Tess (Diane Baker), moves to the Pennsylvania Dutch country and has problems fitting in with her Mennonite neighbors–until she sides with the farmers who are unhappy about a toxic chemical company polluting the land. During the confrontations, she falls in love with a Mennonite, Peter Graves (Jack Ging), and finally, after her work to save the environment, the community accepts her.
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| 1. The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
2. Bigger Than Life (1956)
3. Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
4. The Catered Affair (1956)
5. Compulsion (1959)
6. Edge of the City (1957)
7. The Facts of Life (1960)
8. The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
9. Never Say Goodbye (1956)
10. A New Kind of Love (1963)
11. Operation Petticoat (1959)
12. Pay or Die (1960)
13. The Rack (1956)
14. Rogue Cop (1954)
15. Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978)
16. Tess of the Storm Country (1960)
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