13 Rue Madeleine 1946  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel, Melville Cooper, Sam Jaffe, E.G. Marshall, Blanche Yurka, Karl Malden
This espionage thriller is a semi-documentary on the intelligence scene during World War II. Bob Sharkey (James Cagney), a spy chief, goes to France after one of his men is killed.
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The Accused 1949  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Dick, Sara Allgood, Ann Doran, Suzanne Dalbert, Mickey Knox, Francis Pierlot, George Spaulding, Carole Mathews, Billy Mauch, Joe Gray, Bess Flowers
Straight-laced, psychology professor Dr. Wilma Tuttle (Loretta Young) accidentally murders a student Bill Perry (Douglas Dick) when he attempts to rape her and then covers up her crime. All goes well for Tuttle–until Warren Ford (Robert Cummings) delves into the circumstantial evidence surrounding the murder and sleuths out the truth.
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 The Asphalt Jungle 1950  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Huston
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, Marilyn Monroe, Strother Martin, Marc Lawrence, Jean Hagen, John McIntire, Anthony Caruso
A gang of criminals attempts to commit the perfect crime when a corrupt lawyer (Louis Calhern) backs a jewel robbery, but the scheme is doomed from the start. Academy Award nominations include Best Director and Supporting Actor (Sam Jaffe).
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Battle Beyond the Stars 1980 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Cast: Richard Thomas, John Saxon, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, Darlanne Fluegel, Sybil Danning, Sam Jaffe, Morgan Woodward, Jeff Corey, Lynn Carlin
A planet must be saved from the hooligans of intergalactic criminals. Richard Thomas stars in this clever, humorous, cheap takeoff of Star Wars from Roger Corman.
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 G, 117 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Animation / Musical
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Roddy McDowall, David Tomlinson, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson, Bruce Forsyth, Reginald Owen, Tessie O'Shea, Arthur Gould-Porter, Cindy O'Callaghan, Roy Snart, Ian Weighill, Cyril Delevanti
This Disney film concerns a witch-in-training (Angela Lansbury) who becomes the guardian of three British children (Roy Snart, Ian Weighill and Cindy O'Callaghan) during World War II. With the help of an enchanted bedknob, they have some strange and wonderful adventures in animation and help stop a group of Nazis from invading the countryside.
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 Ben-Hur 1959  N/R, 211 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Sam Jaffe, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring, Terence Longdon, George Relph, Andre Morell, Ferdy Mayne, Tutte Lemkow
Remember the famous Chariot Race where one of the extras forgot to take off his watch? That seems to be the only flaw in this epic film that won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston also won for Best Actor as the Jewish Prince Judah Ben-Hur whose life story is told in tandem with the life of Jesus. Other Oscars included Best Director and Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith).
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 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Frank Conroy, Fay Roope, Tyler McVey, Harlan Warde, Lock Martin, Marshall Bradford, Wheaton Chambers, Holly Bane, Lawrence Dobkin
Alien Klaatu (Michael Rennie) with his robot Gort (Lock Martin) make a trip to Earth to discover the nature of its people. If they don't like what they find, they, along with members of other alien planets, are prepared to destroy the Earth. When the Earthlings discover the aliens and their purpose, they become very intent on a plan to capture the two spy aliens. This film set the standard for sci-fi movies.
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The Dunwich Horror 1970 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Daniel Haller
Cast: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Fox, Sam Jaffe, Barboura Morris, Donna Baccala, Joanne Moore Jordan, Talia Shire
A young student, Nancy (Sandra Dee), falls under the spell of magician Wilbur Whateley (Dean Stockwell) in this entertaining horror film.
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Gentleman's Agreement 1947 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, Sam Jaffe, Nicholas Joy, Harold Vermilyea
Journalist Phil Green (Gregory Peck) pretends to be Jewish for an article he is writing; in the process he encounters anti-Semitism. This experiment affects his family when his son Tommy (Dean Stockwell) suffers prejudice at school as a direct result of his father's article. The film won the Best Picture Academy Award, Elia Kazan won for Best Director, and Celeste Holm carried away an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Nominations went to Peck, McGuire, and Revere.
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Gideon's Trumpet 1980 TV, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert E. Collins
Cast: Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, John Houseman, Fay Wray, Sam Jaffe, Nicholas Pryor, William Prince, Dean Jagger, Lane Smith, Richard McKenzie, Dolph Sweet, Ford Rainey, David Sheiner, J. Patrick McNamara, Les Lannom
In 1961, Clarence Earl Gideon (Henry Fonda) is arrested in Panama City, Florida, for petty larceny. Because he cannot afford a lawyer, Gideon is sent to prison to serve a five year sentence. Gideon appeals, and the case goes to the Supreme Court where a landmark decision is reached giving free legal representation to anyone accused of a crime in the United States.
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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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 Gunga Din 1939 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Comedy / Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine, Montagu Love, Robert Coote, Cecil Kellaway, Abner Biberman, Lumsden Hare, Reginald Sheffield, Roland Varno, Charles Bennett, Jamiel Hasson
Rudyard Kipling's poem about British soldiers crushing revolts during the 1800s in India is the source for this outstanding film. After a British outpost is raided by the rebelling Thugges who want the British off their land, Sergeants Cutter (Cary Grant) MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) are ordered to the outpost to annihilate the raiders. They are accompanied by Indian troops and water-bearer Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe) and manage to complete their mission. Later, Cutter and Gunga Din search for gold and find it–in the Thugges' headquarters, and the dangers reach new heights.
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale 1951 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Only the Best
Director: Michael Gordon
Cast: Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey, George Sanders, Sam Jaffe, Randy Stuart, Harry von Zell, Mary Philips, Marvin Kaplan, Richard Lane, Steven Geray
Based on the Jerome Weidman novel, the hero has been changed to a heroine with Susan Hayward taking on the role of gutsy Harriet, a model who wants to climb the garment industry ladder and become a top-notch fashion designer.
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 Lost Horizon 1937 N/R, 138 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Adventure / Drama / Mystery
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Sam Jaffe, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner, George Chan, David Torrence, Carl Stockdale, Hugh Buckler, Wyrley Birch, Darby Clark
British diplomat Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) and his brother George (John Howard) help British citizens–Henry Bernard (Thomas Mitchell), Gloria (Isabel Jewell), and "Lovey" Lovett (Edward Everett Horton)–evacuate from China during a revolution. Their plane crashes in Tibet, and a rescue team, led by Chang (H.B. Warner), leads them to Shangri-La where they discover a tranquility that they have never before experienced. This wonderful city is ruled by an aging 200 year-old High Lama (Sam Jaffe) who is impressed with Robert and wants him to succeed him after his death. Now, Robert is torn between leaving for England or remaining in Shangri-La with his new-found love Sondra (Jane Wyatt). A winner of two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Film Editing), it also received five nominations, including Best Picture and Supporting Actor (Warner).
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Night Gallery 1969 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Steven Spielberg, Boris Sagal, Barry Shear
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Ossie Davis, Joan Crawford, Sam Jaffe, Barry Sullivan, George Macready, Richard Kiley, Tom Bosley, Norma Crane, Barry Atwater, George Murdock, Byron Morrow, Garry Goodrow, Shannon Farnon
In this three-story anthology, the offering "Eyes" is Steven Spielberg's directorial debut. It features Joan Crawford as a blind woman who dreams of seeing. Other stories, "The Cemetery" and "Escape Route" were directed by Boris Sagal and Barry Shear.
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Nothing Lasts Forever 1984 PG, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tom Schiller
Cast: Zach Galligan, Apollonia van Ravenstein, Lauren Tom, Dan Aykroyd, Imogene Coca, Eddie Fisher, Sam Jaffe, Mort Sahl, Bill Murray, Paul Rogers
This comedy is centered on a would-be artist (Zach Galligan) who has adventures in a futuristic New York and on the moon.
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Rope of Sand 1949 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Sam Jaffe, Corinne Calvet, John Bromfield, Mike Mazurki, Edmund Breon, Hayden Rorke
Years ago, Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) hid a cache of diamonds, and now he tries to regain his treasure.
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The Scarlet Empress 1934 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith, Gavin Gordon, Olive Tell, Jameson Thomas, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ruthelma Stevens, Davison Clark, Erville Alderson, Maria Riva, Akim Tamiroff
To improve the royal bloodline, the Empress Elizabeth (Louise Dresser) of Russia imports German Princess Sophia (Marlene Dietrich) as the bride for her dull-witted son, the Grand Duke Peter (Sam Jaffe). When the Empress dies, Sophia leads her troops to the palace and ascends to the throne as Catherine the Great. While this story is not historically accurate, it represents one of the best biographical efforts of the 1930s.
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Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion 1967  G, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William Witney
Cast: Ron Ely, Ulla Stromstedt, William Marshall, Manuel Padilla Jr., Sam Jaffe, Lloyd Haynes, Jason Evers, Harry Lauter, Charles Wood, Nichelle Nichols
Taken from a two-part TV series, this was not very good TV fare and is not any better as video fare.
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We Live Again 1934  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Anna Sten, Fredric March, Jane Baxter, C. Aubrey Smith, Ethel Griffies, Jessie Ralph, Sam Jaffe
This film is based on Tolstoy's "Resurrection" about a Russian nobleman, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov (Fredric March), who falls in love with Katusha Maslova (Anna Sten), a woman beneath his social station.
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| 1. 13 Rue Madeleine (1946)
2. The Accused (1949)
3. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
4. The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
5. Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
6. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
7. Ben-Hur (1959)
8. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
9. The Dunwich Horror (1970)
10. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
11. Gideon's Trumpet (1980)
12. The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
13. Gunga Din (1939)
14. Guns for San Sebastian (1968)
15. I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
aka: Only the Best
16. Lost Horizon (1937)
17. Night Gallery (1969)
18. Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)
19. Rope of Sand (1949)
20. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
21. Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion (1967)
22. We Live Again (1934)
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