Arch of Triumph 1948  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Louis Calhern, Ruth Warrick, Roman Bohnen, Ruth Nelson, Curt Bois, Stephen Bekassy, J. Edward Bromberg, Art Smith, Michael Romanoff, Oliver Blake, William Conrad, Gino Corrado
Dr. Ravic (Charles Boyer) is a German surgeon who has fled to Paris to escape the Nazis. While illegally practicing medicine under a false name, Ravic is searching for German agent Haake (Charles Laughton) who had tortured him in Germany. Ravik falls in love with Joan Amadou (Ingrid Bergman) who is grieving over the sudden death of her lover. They become involved in a doomed love affair that hits a critical point on the day that war is declared between France and Germany.
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 Citizen Kane 1941  N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Everett Sloane, Alan Ladd, George Coulouris, Paul Stewart, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, William Alland, Fortunio Bonanova, Philip Van Zandt, Georgia Backus
This Orson Welles film is often voted the best film ever made; it also revolutionized filmmaking technology. When reporter Jerry Thompson (William Alland) searches for the meaning of Charles Foster Kane's (Orson Welles) last dying word, "Rosebud," the life of the arrogant newspaper magnate is told through the reminiscences of those who knew him. An Oscar was awarded for Best Original Screenplay, and eight nominations were received–including Best Picture, Actor (Welles), and Director.
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Daisy Kenyon 1947 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart, Peggy Ann Garner, Connie Marshall, Nicholas Joy, Roy Roberts, George E. Stone, Art Baker, Mae Marsh, Damon Runyon, Ann Staunton
Daisy Kenyon (Joan Crawford) works in the New York City fashion world and lives in Greenwich Village. Her dilemma is choosing between a rich lawyer (Dana Andrews) and a poor, former soldier (Henry Fonda) who are both in love with her.
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The Great Bank Robbery 1969 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: Hy Averback
Cast: Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Claude Akins, Akim Tamiroff, Larry Storch, John Alexander, Sam Jaffe, Mako, Elisha Cook Jr., Ruth Warrick, John Fiedler, John Larch, Peter Whitney, Norman Alden
When a con man, the Reverend Pious Blue (Zero Mostel), attempts a bank robbery, he is met by a Texas Ranger (Clint Walker) and his six Chinese agents who are on the scene investigating a crooked mayor. When their paths cross, chaos becomes the name of the game. This is a pretty good spoof on Westerns; the tale takes place in the aptly named town of Friendly.
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The Great Dan Patch 1949 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell, Ruth Warrick, Charlotte Greenwood, Henry Hull, John Hoyt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Clarence Muse, Harry Lauter, Walter Brennan
Beloved trotter Dan Patch was one of the greatest harness-racing horses. This is the story of Dan Patch's training and victories.
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Guest in the House 1944 N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Brahm
Cast: Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon, Ruth Warrick, Scott McKay, Jerome Cowan, Marie McDonald, Margaret Hamilton, Percy Kilbride, Connie Laird
After her mental breakdown, Evelyn is taken by her fiance, Dan (Scott McKay), to his family home to recuperate. Once there, Evelyn becomes infatuated with Dan's married brother, Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), and tries her best to ruin his marriage. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score.
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Journey Into Fear 1942  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Jack Moss, Agnes Moorehead, Hans Conried, Everett Sloane, Edgar Barrier, Stefan Schnabel
The setting for this film is World War II Turkey where Howard Graham (Joseph Cotten) flees across the Black Sea trying to elude a Nazi assassin. This movie was produced by Orson Welles' Mercury Theater group and is a good spy drama dealing with munitions smuggling. Remade in 1975.
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Mr. Winkle Goes to War 1944 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Warrick, Ted Donaldson, Bob Haymes, Richard Lane, Robert Armstrong, Fred Kohler Jr., Robert Mitchum, Richard Gaines, Walter Baldwin
Middle-aged bank clerk Wilbert Winkle (Edward G. Robinson) is drafted into the Army in World War II. This is a clever comedy that benefits from Robinson's normal good performance as he is transformed.
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Peyton Place: The Next Generation 1985  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Elikann
Cast: Christopher Connelly, James Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Patricia Morrow, Ed Nelson, Tim O'Connor, Barbara Parkins, Evelyn Scott, Ruth Warrick
Peyton Place has a life of its own, as is shown in the visit of her long-lost daughter 20 years after the disappearance of Allison MacKenzie . Follows "Murder in Peyton Place."
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Secret Command 1944 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis, Chester Morris, Ruth Warrick, Barton MacLane, Tom Tully, Wallace Ford, Howard Freeman, Frank Sully, Matt McHugh
Sam Gallagher (Pat O'Brien) is an agent with Naval Intelligence and is sent to a California shipyard during World War II to find Nazi saboteurs known to be operating there. He saves the day in this pretty good spy thriller.
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Song of the South 1946  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Animation / Adventure / Musical
Director: Wilfred Jackson, Harve Foster
Cast: James Baskett, Bobby Driscoll, Ruth Warrick, Luana Patten, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Mary Field, Erik Rolf, Glenn Leedy, Anita Brown, Nicodermus Stewart, Johnny Lee, Georgie Nokes, Gene Holland, De Castro Sisters
This is the wonderful Disney cartoon/live action film with James Baskett starring as lovable Uncle Remus, teller of stories of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear. Baskett also introduces such classic songs as "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," which won an Oscar for best song.
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Three Husbands 1951 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Letter to Three Husbands
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Kames, Emlyn Williams, Billie Burke, Louise Erickson, Jonathan Hale, Jane Darwell, Benson Fong, Frank Cady, Dorothea Wolbert
When playboy Maxwell Bard (Emlyn Williams) arrives in Heaven, he is granted one last wish. His request is to watch from above the reactions of his three poker playing pals (Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, and Robert Kames) after they read the letters he left for them when he died. The letters tell about his affairs with each of their wives (Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, and Vanessa Brown), and the letters result in amusing reactions from the husbands.
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| 1. Arch of Triumph (1948)
2. China Sky (1945)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. Daisy Kenyon (1947)
5. The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
6. The Great Dan Patch (1949)
7. Guest in the House (1944)
8. Journey Into Fear (1942)
9. Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
10. Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985)
11. Secret Command (1944)
12. Song of the South (1946)
13. Three Husbands (1951)
aka: Letter to Three Husbands
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