The Big Operator 1959  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Anatomy of a Syndicate
Director: Charles F. Haas
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Ray Danton, Jim Backus, Jackie Coogan, Jay North, Don "Red" Barry, Lawrence Dobkin
When federal agents investigate, labor union boss Little Joe Braun (Mickey Rooney) fights the government crackdown of his operation.
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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion 1945  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Cast: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, Frank Sully, Steve Cochran, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, George M. Carleton, George Meader, Douglas Wood, George Lloyd, Robert Williams, Joe Palma, Dan Stowell, Jessie Arnold
In this "Boston Blackie" entry, Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) tries to help his friend Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan) auction off what he thinks is a Charles Dickens first edition book. The book, however, turns out to be a fake, and murder and mayhem ensue. But, of course, Blackie steps in, solves the crime, and saves the day.
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Boston Blackie's Rendezvous 1945 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Cast: Chester Morris, Nina Foch, Steve Cochran, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Frank Sully, Iris Adrian, Harry Hayden, Adele Roberts, Joe Devlin, Dan Stowell, Philip Van Zandt, Marilyn Johnson, Robert Williams, John Tyrrell
In this film, which is one of the best of the "Boston Blackie" series, Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) and his sidekick The Runt (George E. Stone) track down psycho killer "Jimmy" Cook (Steve Cochran) who has escaped from an asylum. To intimidate Blackie, Jimmy kidnaps dance hall hostess Sally Brown (Nina Foch). Now Blackie and The Runt try to find Jimmy, and, of course, Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) is hot on their trail suspecting Blackie of murder.
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Carnival Story 1954  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C. Flippen, Helene Stanley, Ady Berber
Set in Munich, Germany, this is the tale of Willie (Anne Baxter) who joins a carnival and falls for seedy Joe (Steve Cochran). High diver Frank (Lyle Bettger) takes her under his wing, makes her a star, and marries her. But, Joe is still on Willie's mind, and Joe shows his bad side through violence.
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 The Chase 1946 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Ripley
Cast: Robert Cummings, Michele Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Peter Lorre, Jack Holt, Don Wilson, James Westerfield, Shirley(2) O'Hara, Nina Koshetz, Alex Minotis, Yolanda Lacca, Jimmy Ames, Bess Flowers, Alex Montoya
The fortunes of Chuck (Robert Cummings), an out-of-luck veteran, change when he returns a wallet to gangster Eddie (Steve Cochran). Matters get rough when Eddie's wife (Michele Morgan) is sprung from prison. Chuck helps her escape from Eddie, and the chase is on.
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Come Next Spring 1956  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: R.G. Springsteen
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan, Sherry Jackson, Richard Eyer, Edgar Buchanan, Sonny Tufts, Harry Shannon, Mae Clark, Roscoe Ates
Following eight years of roaming the countryside, family patriarch Matt Ballot (Steve Cochran) returns to his wife Bess (Ann Sheridan) and children. He has his work cut out for him in convincing relatives and friends that he is home to stay.
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Copacabana 1947 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda, Andy Russell, Steve Cochran, Gloria Jean, Louis Sobol, Abel Green, Earl Wilson
Talent agent Lionel Q. Deveraux (Groucho Marx) has only one client, Carmen Novarro (Carmen Miranda), but he tricks a nightclub owner (Steve Cochran) into believing that Carmen is actually two entertainers. The ploy works until Carmen is assigned to perform roles simultaneously.
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Dallas 1950 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton, Leif Erickson, Antonio Moreno, Jerome Cowan, Will Wright, Monte Blue
Blade Hollister (Gary Cooper) is a former Confederate officer out to avenge the destruction of his family's Georgia home. He switches identities and tracks down the perpetrators.
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The Damned Don't Cry 1950 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Morris Ankrum, Richard Egan, Eddie Marr, Hugh Sanders, Selena Royle, Jacqueline deWit
Tough broad Ethel Whitehead (Joan Crawford) leaves husband Roy (Richard Egan) and becomes involved with gangster Nick Prenta (Steve Cochran). When Nick is gunned down, Ethel returns to her husband's home in order to escape Nick's killer (David Brian).
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The Deadly Companions 1961 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara, Steve Cochran, Chill Wills, Strother Martin, Will Wright, Jim O'Hara, Peter O'Crotty, Billy Vaughn, Chuck Hayward
When a gunslinger (Brian Keith) accidentally shoots the son of a dance hall entertainer (Maureen O'Hara), he feels obligated to escort the funeral procession through hostile Indian territory.
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The Desert Song 1953 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Allyn Ann McLerie, Dick Wesson, Ray Collins, Frank DeKova, William Conrad, Paul Picerni
This film, based on Sigmund Romberg's romantic operetta, is set in the African desert and features Gordon MacRae as the mysterious leader of the Riffs who fight evil Arabs.
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 Grumpy Old Men 1993 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann - Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Ossie Davis, Buck Henry, Christopher McDonald, Steve Cochran, Joe Howard, Isabell O'Connor, John Carroll Lynch, Buffy Sedlachek, Charles Brin
What happens when a good-looking widow moves into the neighborhood? Lots, when the widow, Ariel Truax, is played by Ann-Margret, and the other roles of John Gustafson and Max Goldman are taken on by Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. This is a good flick, set in Minnesota where the winter nights are a lot colder than this street's residents who have been feuding all their lives. Be sure to catch the outtakes at the end of the movie.
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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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Il Grido 1957 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Outcry
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Dorian Gray, Lynn Shaw, Gabriella Pallotta, Mirna Girardi, Guerrino Campanili, Gaetano Matteucci, Pina Boldrini
Disillusioned by life, laborer Aldo (Steve Cochran) disintegrates emotionally and drifts across Northern Italy with his daughter in tow. Eventually he returns to his ex-wife who, in turn, found a new life apart from Aldo, leaving Aldo still alienated from those he loves.
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Jim Thorpe - All American 1951 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Phyllis Thaxter, Steve Cochran, Dick Wesson, Nestor Paiva, Billy Gray, Edwin Max, Alfonso Mejia
Burt Lancaster takes on the title role in this biography of runner Jim Thorpe, a United States Olympic champion who was stripped of his medals because he played professional baseball.
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The Kid from Brooklyn 1946 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Eve Arden, Walter Abel, Lionel Stander, Fay Bainter, Clarence Kolb, Jerome Cowan
In this remake of "The Milky Way," Danny Kaye takes on Harold Lloyd's role of the milkman who rises in the rankings to become a champion boxer–mostly due to his manager's wheeling and dealing.
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A Song Is Born 1948  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran, Felix Bressart, Louis Armstrong, Esther Dale, J. Edward Bromberg, Ludwig Stossel, Ford Washington Lee, John William Sublett, O.Z. Whitehead, Ben Weldon, Mary Field
In this remake of "Ball of Fire," musicologist Professor Hobart Frisbee (Danny Kaye) heads a team of professors studying the history of jazz. While they do research, gangster Tony Crow's (Steve Cochran) moll, Honey Swanson (Virginia Mayo), decides that the house where the team of professors are living would make a great place to hide while police search for her to testify at Tony's trial. Honey introduces the professors to popular music, and a good time is had by all–until Tony spoils the party. Lots of Big Band greats are featured and certainly add to the entertainment value of this film. 1 User Review
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| | mllagers 03/14/2007 | | It's great. Great historical value. |
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Storm Warning 1951 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Lloyd Gough, Raymond Greenleaf, Ned Glass, Sean McClory, Mary Alan Hokanson
After witnessing a reporter's murder, Marsha (Ginger Rogers) learns that her own brother-in-law, Hank (Steve Cochran), is a member of the group of killers–the Ku Klux Klan.
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White Heat 1949  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, John Archer, Steve Cochran, Wally Cassell, Fred Clark, Ford Rainey, G. Pat Collins, Paul Guilfoyle, Sid Melton
In this great gangster film, mobster Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) is psychologically dependent on his evil mother (Margaret Wycherly). Nevertheless, he is determined to make it to "the top of the world, Ma." So, Cody and his gang rob a train, kill people, and make off with the loot. But, they leave clues behind, and Cody ends up in jail on a trumped up charge. Now, the feds send an undercover agent Hank Fallon, a.k.a. "Vic" (Edmund O'Brien), to the jail. He befriends Cody and infiltrates Cody's gang. Cody's mother is killed, Cody breaks out of jail with "Vic," and reunites with his gang for a chase scene through a chemical factory ending with Cody crying out to his deceased mother.
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Wonder Man 1945 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins, Edward Brophy, Steve Cochran, Otto Kruger, Huntz Hall, Eddie Acuff
Danny Kaye stars as two brothers: Buzzy is a nightclub entertainer who is murdered by gangsters and studious twin Edwin who is called on to help get the killers. The film won an Oscar for special effects and was nominated for the music.
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| 1. The Big Operator (1959)
aka: Anatomy of a Syndicate
2. Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945)
3. Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)
4. Carnival Story (1954)
5. The Chase (1946)
6. Come Next Spring (1956)
7. Copacabana (1947)
8. Dallas (1950)
9. The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
10. The Deadly Companions (1961)
11. The Desert Song (1953)
12. Grumpy Old Men (1993)
13. I, Mobster (1958)
14. Il Grido (1957)
aka: The Outcry
15. Jim Thorpe - All American (1951)
16. The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
17. A Song Is Born (1948)
18. Storm Warning (1951)
19. White Heat (1949)
20. Wonder Man (1945)
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