Attack! 1956  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, William Smithers, Strother Martin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen, Steven Geray, Peter van Eyck
This reenactment of the World War II Battle of the Bulge involves men following the inept leadership of their captain (Eddie Albert) until they rebel to save their own lives during a German counterattack.
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Charles McGraw, Earl Holliman, Dennis Weaver, Robert Strauss, Richard Shannon, Willis Bouchey, Keiko Awaji, Charles Tannen, Gene Reynolds, Dickie Jones, Corey Allen
Harry Brubaker (William Holden) leaves his law firm to fly Navy jets in Korea. When his wife, Nancy (Grace Kelly), visits him, Admiral Tarrant (Fredric March) tells her that her husband flies dangerous missions, and–for the first time–Nancy understands the dangers of being a jet pilot during wartime. 1 User Review
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| | THIS IS ONE MOVIE THAT I WATCH OVER AND OVER | DIAMONDQB...USNA 03/27/2007 | | BECAUSE I WAS WW2 USNA, AND ALSO WORKED FOR ACADEMY (WP) FOR THE NEXT 20 ODD YEARS, THIS WAS A MOVIE A LOT LIKE MYSELF IN MANY WAYS, EXCEPT I AM STILL HERE AND MY LITTLE WIFE, MY LITTLE PEARLEY B., WHOM I LOVE MORE THAN LIFE ITS SELF AND I HAD 66WONDERFUL YEARS TOGETHER, SHE WENT TO BE WITH THE LORD OCT.29, 2005, AND LEFT ME A VERY BROKEN HEARTED OLD GUY, I LOVE AND MISS HER SO, YOU CAN SEE PICTURES http://jonmulliniks.blogster.com HER FAVORITE MALE ACTOR OF COURSE WAS WILLIAM HOLDEN, SHE SAID BECAUSE HE LOOKED LIKE ME AND WE WERE SO MUCH A LIKE, SHE KNEW HOW TO MAKE ME FEEL GOOD, I ALSO LIKED HOLDEN VERY MUCH AND WE SAW MOST OF HIS FILMS, I JUST GOT THROUGH LOOKING AT ONE OF HIS CIVAL WAR MOVIES...MARANATHA!!! WINDRIVERCHOCTAW@JUNO.COM |
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The Family Jewels 1965  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Lewis
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, Donna Butterworth, Gene Baylos, Milton Frome, Herbie Faye, Anne Baxter, Ellen Corby, Robert Strauss, Neil Hamilton
Nine-year-old orphan Donna Peyton (Donna Butterworth) must select from seven uncles (all played by Jerry Lewis) to determine who will be her guardian. 1 User Review
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| | hmmmm | Anonymous 07/20/2009 | | Looking for jolly fats wee hawken airlines? Is this the movie? If so great skit. Where is the movie where Jerry plays the clown that leads children to the gas chambers in Aushwitz? |
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Frankie and Johnny 1966  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Frederick De Cordova
Cast: Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Harry Morgan, Sue Ane Langdon, Nancy Kovack, Audrey Christie, Robert Strauss, Anthony Eisley, Jerome Cowan, Joyce Jamison, Naomi Stevens, Henry Corden
Johnny (Elvis Presley) is a riverboat gambler who forsakes his lover Frankie (Donna Douglas) for the attentions of Nellie Bly (Nancy Kovack) in the film rendition of the folk song by the same name.
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Girls! Girls! Girls! 1962 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin, Benson Fong, Robert Strauss, Guy Lee, Frank Puglia, Nestor Paiva, Ann McCrea, Lili Valenty, Beulah Quo, Ginny Tiu, Elizabeth Tiu, Alexander Tiu
Ross Carpenter (Elvis Presley) is a charter boat captain in Hawaii where he spends his days at sea and his nights singing at a nightclub hoping to earn enough money to buy the boat from its owner Wesley Johnson (Jeremy Slate). Meanwhile, Ross cannot decide between heiress Laurel (Laurel Goodwin) and sexy singer Robin (Stella Stevens)–one of whom is destined to become his true love. Who will it be? Songs include "The Nearness of You" and "Never Let Me Go" by Stevens and "Girls, Girls, Girls," "Return to Sender," and "Because of You" by Presley.
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Harlow 1965  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alex Segal
Cast: Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Barry Sullivan, Hurd Hatfield, Ginger Rogers, Hermione Baddeley, Lloyd Bochner, Robert Strauss, John Williams, Audrey Totter
Carol Lynley takes on the role of movie star Jean Harlow in this screen biography. It is a weak account, which takes many liberties with the real account of Harlow's life, and is not as good as the competing biography which came out at the same time.
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Here Come the Girls 1953 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Claude Binyon
Cast: Bob Hope, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl, Rosemary Clooney, William Demarest, Fred Clark, Robert Strauss, Millard Mitchell, Frank Orth, Johnny Downs
Stanley Snodgrass (Bob Hope) becomes the star of a Broadway musical–although he is unaware that he is being set up as bait to trap a murderer.
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I, Mobster 1958 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss, Celia Lovsky, Lili St. Cyr, John Brinkley, Yvette Vickers, Grant Withers, Wally Cassell, Frank Gerstle
A gangster boss, Joe Sante (Steve Cochran), is investigated by the U.S. Senate where he relates the story of his rise from small-time hood to giant of the underworld.
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Jumping Jacks 1952 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mona Freeman, Don DeFore, Robert Strauss, Ray Teal, Richard Erdman, Edwin Max, Alex Gerry, Charles Evans
Chick Allen (Dean Martin) and Hap Smith (Jerry Lewis) are vaudeville buddies who entertain paratroopers and end up over their heads in Army brass.
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The Last Time I Saw Archie 1961 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Webb
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jack Webb, Martha Hyer, France Nuyen, Don Knotts, Louis Nye, Richard Arlen, Joe Flynn, Robert Strauss
Archie Hall (Robert Mitchum) is an army private who wheels and deals himself and his buddy, Bill (Jack Webb), into relative lives of ease toward the end of World War II AND they become heroes!
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Li'l Abner 1959 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Comedy
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Stubby Kaye, Howard St. John, Julie Newmar, Billie Hayes, Joe E. Marks, Stella Stevens, Robert Strauss, Bern Hoffman, Al Nesor, William Lanteau, Ted Thurston, Carmen Alvarez, Alan Carney
Based on the hit Broadway show, this is a delightful film with Al Capp's cartoon characters of Dogpatch brought to life. They are all there from Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer), Daisy Mae (Leslie Parrish), and Mammy and Pappy Yokum (Billie Hayes and Joe E. Marks) to Evil Eye Fleagle (Al Nesor), Marryin' Sam (Stubby Kaye), and Sen. Jack S. Phogbound (Ted Thurston). When the U.S. Congress selects the hillbilly town of Dogpatch to test the Atomic bomb, Li'l Abner goes with his Mammy and Pappy to Washington, D.C., to persuade the government to spare Dogpatch by arguing that Mammy's Yokumberry tonic gives the town value that cannot be replaced. Meanwhile, Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae encounter problems in their romance that, hopefully, will be overcome.
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 Man with the Golden Arm 1955 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Darren McGavin, Arnold Stang, Robert Strauss, George Mathews, John Conte, George E. Stone, Leonid Kinskey, Doro Merande, Emile Meyer, Jack Mulhall, Will Wright
This is the story of card dealer/drug addict Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) who fights to kick the habit after he returns from six months in rehab. His boss (Robert Strauss) wants him to work one more rigged poker marathon. At the same time, Frankie must deal with his wheelchair-confined wife Zosch (Eleanor Parker)–who is actually faking her condition. Along comes sympathetic Molly (Kim Novak) who supports Frankie when he goes cold turkey and kicks the habit. Sinatra was nominated for the Academy Award for his performance.
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Money from Home 1953 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Pat Crowley, Richard Haydn, Robert Strauss, Sheldon Leonard, Jack Kruschen, Marjie Millar, Gerald Mohr, Lou Lubin, Romo Vincent, Charles Horvath, Richard Reeves, Frank Richards, Harry Hayden
In this Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis film, Herman "Honey Talk" Nelson (Martin) is a gambler who needs help fixing a horse race to pay off his gambling debts. To solve his problem, he turns to veterinarian Virgil Yokum (Lewis). Along the way, gangsters and an Arab's harem appear on the scene. 1 User Review
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| | great movie | K.D 03/15/2007 | | |
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The Redhead from Wyoming 1953 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lee Sholem
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Alex Nicol, William Bishop, Robert Strauss, Alexander Scourby, Jeanne Cooper, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer, Dennis Weaver, Stacy Harris, Edmund Cobb, Claudette Thornton
Local gambler Jim (William Bishop) is also a cattle rustler who goads the ranchers and settlers into starting a range war. Dance hall queen Kate (Maureen O'Hara), who works for Jim, decides it's time to bring him to justice, especially since she has fallen for mild-mannered sheriff Stan (Alex Nicol). But that may not be easy.
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Sailor Beware 1951 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Hal Walker
Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet, Marion Marshall, Robert Strauss, Betty Hutton, James Dean, Leif Erickson, Don Wilson, Vince Edwards, Skip Homeier, Dan Barton, Mike Mahoney, Mary Treen, James Flavin
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are hilarious in this remake of "The Fleet's In" about submarine sailors on shore leave. Melvin Jones (Lewis) and his buddy Al Crowthers (Martin) experience many hilarious–including Melvin entering a boxing match with the Navy champion and Al romancing a sexy French chanteuse (Corinne Calvet). Betty Hutton (who made her debut in "The Fleet's In") makes a cameo appearance, and James Dean can be seen briefly in the boxing scene. Slapstick, songs, and pretty girls abound in this Martin and Lewis film.
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 The Seven Year Itch 1955 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Butch Bernard, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Oskar Homolka, Marguerite Chapman, Victor Moore, Donald MacBride
After seven years of marriage, Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) and his wife (Evelyn Keyes) say a short goodbye as she leaves to spend the summer in the coolness of Maine, and he resolves to spend a boring summer in the city. Boredom is thrown to the wind when Richard meets a neighbor (Marilyn Monroe). Tom Ewell: "What happened at the office? Well, I shot Mr. Brady in the head, made violent love to Miss Morris, and set fire to 300,000 copies of 'Little Women'."
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Stage to Thunder Rock 1964 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William F. Claxton
Cast: Barry Sullivan, Marilyn Maxwell, Keenan Wynn, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney Jr., John Agar, Wanda Hendrix, Anne Seymour, Allan Jones, Robert Strauss
Sheriff Horne (Barry Sullivan) is forced to arrest family members who raised him in this tale of gunslingers on the trail of the same people–but they are coming from different perspectives.
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 Stalag 17 1953  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman, Peter Baldwin, Michael(2) Moore, Robinson Stone, Gil Stratton, William Pierson, Robert Shawley
William Holden captured the Oscar for his portrayal of Sefton, a P.O.W., suspected of collaborating with his Nazi captors. Intrigue continues throughout as clues are dropped that lead to the identity of the real informer. Oscar nominations were received for Best Supporting Actor (Robert Strauss) and Director.
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That Funny Feeling 1965 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor, Nita Talbot, Larry Storch, Leo G. Carroll, James Westerfield, Robert Strauss, Ben Lessy, Benny Rubin
In an attempt to impress her wealthy NYC boyfriend, Tom (Bobby Darin), maid-for-hire Joan (Sandra Dee) tells him that she lives in a beautiful apartment that, in reality, she is paid to clean. What Joan doesn't know is that the apartment belongs to Tom. Tom plays along.
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Wake Me When It's Over 1960 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, Jack Warden, Margo Moore, Nobu McCarthy, Don Knotts, Robert Strauss, Marvin Kaplan, Parley Baer, Ralph Dumke, Noreen Nash, Robert Emhardt, Raymond Bailey, Linda Wong, Richard Tyler
While stationed on a Pacific island off Shima, Captain Stark (Ernie Kovacs) and Gus Brubaker (Dick Shawn), who has been re-drafted after a clerical error, use Army supplies from their base to set themselves up in a thriving Pacific island hotel business. The 100 servicemen under Stark's command help build the hotel, and this work helps relieve their boredom. All goes well–until an article about the hotel is published, and an investigation is ordered.
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The Wheeler Dealers 1963 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, Louis Nye, John Astin, Pat Harrington Jr., Robert Strauss, Pat Crowley
Texas oil baron Henry Tyroon (James Garner) heads for New York City to invest in the Stock Market and becomes involved with stock analyst Molly Thatcher (Lee Remick).
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| 1. The Atomic Kid (1954)
2. Attack! (1956)
3. The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
4. The Family Jewels (1965)
5. Frankie and Johnny (1966)
6. Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
7. Harlow (1965)
8. Here Come the Girls (1953)
9. I, Mobster (1958)
10. Jumping Jacks (1952)
11. The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
12. Li'l Abner (1959)
13. Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
14. Money from Home (1953)
15. The Redhead from Wyoming (1953)
16. Sailor Beware (1951)
17. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
18. Stage to Thunder Rock (1964)
19. Stalag 17 (1953)
20. That Funny Feeling (1965)
21. Wake Me When It's Over (1960)
22. The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
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