Bataan 1943  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman, Robert Walker, Desi Arnaz, Barry Nelson, Tom Dugan, Donald Curtis, Phillip Terry, Roque Espiritu, Kenneth Spencer, Alex Havier, Bud Geary
This is one of the great World War II films. It relates the saga of U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his rear guard soldiers as they protect General Douglas MacArthur's army during the retreat down a peninsula on Bataan. They face certain death while delaying the advancing Japanese troops in pursuit of MacArthur but are prepared to sacrifice themselves for their country.
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The Beginning or the End 1947 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Audrey Totter, Hume Cronyn, Joseph Calleia, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, Moroni Olsen
The development of the atomic bomb during World War II unfolds in this drama that climaxes with the bombing of Hiroshima.
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The Clock 1945  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Under the Clock
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Lucile Gleason, Ruth Brady, Paul E. Burns, Eddie Acuff, Barbara Bedford
Judy Garland's debut in a dramatic film highlights this story about young lovers, Joe (Robert Walker) and Alice (Judy Garland), who fall in love and marry within 24 hours while soldier Joe is on a three-day leave from the Army.
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Her Highness and the Bellboy 1945  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Carl Esmond, Agnes Moorehead, Rags Ragland, Warner Anderson, Ludwig Stossel, George Cleveland, Konstantin Shayne, Tom Trout, Ben Lessy, Patty Moore, Edward Gargan, Ann Codee
Princess Veronica (Hedy Lamarr) visits New York searching for reporter Paul MacMillan (Warner Anderson) who she became enamored with when he visited her country. At the Eaton Hotel, Veronica meets bellboy Jimmy Dobson and insists that he escort her around the city while she tracks down Paul. Billy regularly visits invalid Leslie Odell (June Allyson) who becomes jealous when he tells her about Veronica. Billy and Veronica visit a bar that gets raided, and Veronica is put in jail. Paul does appear to bail her out, and she learns that her father, the king, has died and that she is now the queen. By story's end, Valerie and Paul are a couple, and Jimmy and Leslie have discovered their love for each other.
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Madame Curie 1943 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Walker, Dame May Whitty, Henry Travers, C. Aubrey Smith, Albert Bassermann, Victor Francen, Reginald Owen, Van Johnson
This biography of Marie Curie (Greer Garson) and her discovery of radium is both educational and entertaining. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor (Walter Pidgeon), and Actress (Garson).
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One Touch of Venus 1948 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Romance
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Ava Gardner, Robert Walker, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden, Tom Conway, Sara Allgood, Arthur O'Connell, James Flavin, George Meeker, Olga San Juan, James Flavin, Hugh Herbert, Anne Nagel, Russ Conway, Eddie Parker
This musical comedy is taken from the Broadway show and involves a department store statue of Venus (Ava Gardner) coming to life after being kissed by employee Eddie Hatch (Robert Walker). Love becomes the order of the day, and Venus and Eddie dance in Central Park. The love affair continues for 24 hours until Venus returns to her pedestal and her immobile form.
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Please Believe Me 1950 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens, Peter Lawford, James Whitmore, J. Carrol Naish, Spring Byington, George Cleveland, Ian Wolfe, Henri Letondal
A British heiress, Alison Kirbe (Deborah Kerr), sails to America to claim her Texas land. While en route she is courted by three men looking for a chance to share her wealth and providing plenty of shipboard romances.
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The Sailor Takes a Wife 1945  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Whorf
Cast: Robert Walker, June Allyson, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Reginald Owen, Gerald Oliver Smith, Moyna MacGill, Anna Q. Nilsson, Franklin Pangborn, Lillian Yarbo, Shimen Ruskin, George Sorel, Jack Luden, Phillip Pine
One evening during 1944, a sailor, John Hill (Robert Walker), shares a carriage with Mary (June Allyson), and they fall in love. They marry that night, and John ships out immediately after the ceremony. John is discharged from the Navy a short time later and returns to Mary, but they are basically strangers, and many complications lie ahead.
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The Sea of Grass 1947 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Thaxter, Edgar Buchanan, Harry Carey, Charles Trowbridge, Ruth Nelson, Robert Barrat
Cattle baron Colonel Jim Brewton (Spencer Tracy) is so busy feuding with farmers over land rights that he ignores his wife Lutie (Katharine Hepburn) who, in turn, finds the attentions of Brice Chamberlain (Melvyn Douglas) to her liking.
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See Here, Private Hargrove 1944  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Robert Benchley, Keenan Wynn, Ray Collins, Bob Crosby, Chill Wills, Grant Mitchell, Frank Faylen, Douglas Fowley
Raw recruit Private Marion Hargrove (Robert Walker) learns the basics about army life in this very funny story.
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Since You Went Away 1944 N/R, 180 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Keenan Wynn, Agnes Moorehead, Monty Woolley, Robert Walker, Hattie McDaniel, Alla Nazimova, Albert Bassermann, Guy Madison, Craig Stevens, Lloyd Corrigan
Life on the home front during World War II is told through Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert) and her daughters Jane and Bridget (Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple) who also serve while Tim, their husband/father, fights the war. To make ends meet, Anne takes in a boarder, Col. William Smollet (Monty Woolley), who lends his moral support to the family. Among the eight Academy Award nominations (in addition to an Oscar for Musical Score) were Best Picture, Actress (Colbert), Supporting Actor (Monty Woolley) and Supporting Actress (Jones).
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Song of Love 1947 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell, Leo G. Carroll, Jimmy Hunt, Gigi Perreau, Ann Carter, Roman Bohnen, Ludwig Stossel
This is a romanticized version of the marriage of Clara and Robert Schumann and her special friendship with Johannes Brahms. The facts are pretty mixed up, but the music is a delight.
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Strangers on a Train 1951  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Patricia Hitchcock, Leo G. Carroll, Laura Elliot, Jonathan Hale, Howard St. John, Norma Varden, Robert Gist, Marion Lorne, John Brown, John Doucette, Dick Wessel
In this thriller, Bruno Antony (Robert Walker) is the psychopathic stranger on a train who has a conversation with Guy Haines (Farley Granger) about exchanging murders. Later, Guy learns that Bruno has carried out the murder of Guy's wife, and now Guy is expected to perform his part of the bargain. Tense all the way; an Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1944 N/R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Spencer Tracy, Phyllis Thaxter, Robert Mitchum, Leon Ames, Stephen McNally, Scott McKay, Don DeFore, Donald Curtis
This is the story about strategic and logistic plans for carrying out the first bombing missions over Tokyo, Japan during World War II. A fine wartime story.
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 Till the Clouds Roll By 1946 N/R, 137 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Richard Whorf
Cast: Robert Walker, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin, Lena Horne, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Paul Langton, Paul Maxey, Dorothy Patrick
An all-star cast singing Jerome Kern's songs make this account of Kern's life and times an entertaining experience. Kern's story begins and ends with his Broadway show, "Showboat," and is told through flashbacks as Kern sells his songs, moves to London, and marries Eva (Dorothy Patrick). Then, his contacts with Victor Herbert (Paul Maxey) and Oscar Hammerstein (Paul Langton) lead to success on Broadway. Songs are abundant and are sung by top musical stars of the day.
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Vengeance Valley 1951 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama / Western
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, John Ireland, Carleton Carpenter, Ray Collins, Ted de Corsia, Hugh O'Brian, Will Wright, Jim Hayward, Stanley Andrews, Grayce Mills, James Harrison, Margaret Bert
Owen Daybright (Burt Lancaster) has spent his lifetime covering for his deviant foster brother, Lee Stroble (Robert Walker). Now, Lee is responsible for Lily Fasken's (Sally Forrest) pregnancy, but he blames Owen who then must answer to Lily's brothers Hub and Dick (John Ireland and Hugh O'Brian).
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What Next, Corporal Hargrove? 1945 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Jean Porter, Chill Wills, Hugo Haas, William "Bill" Phillips, Paul Langton, Cameron Mitchell, William Lundigan, Walter Sande
This sequel to "See Here, Private Hargrove" finds our hero (Walker) in France near war's end. He and his buddy (Wynn) are on garbage duty where they get into all sorts of predicaments.
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| 1. Bataan (1943)
2. The Beginning or the End (1947)
3. The Clock (1945)
aka: Under the Clock
4. Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
5. Madame Curie (1943)
6. One Touch of Venus (1948)
7. Please Believe Me (1950)
8. The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)
9. The Sea of Grass (1947)
10. See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
11. Since You Went Away (1944)
12. Song of Love (1947)
13. Strangers on a Train (1951)
14. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
15. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
16. Vengeance Valley (1951)
17. What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)
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