The Band Wagon 1953   N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, James Mitchell, Robert Gist, Thurston Hall, Ava Gardner, Steve Forrest, Douglas Fowley, Jack Gargan, Julie Newmar, Emory Parnell, Harry Stanton
This musical is about aging, Hollywood dancer Tony Hunter (Fred Astaire) whose friends Lester and Lily Marton (Oscar Levant and Nanette Fabray) convince him to make a career comeback through a Broadway show they have written. Tony agrees to star in the show but runs into problems when the "artistic" director Jeffrey Cordova (Jack Buchanan) hires prima ballerina Gabriella Gerard (Cyd Charisse) to star with Tony. Tony and Gabriella do not get along, and the show appears doomed until all involved decide that they must work together if the show is to be a hit on Broadway. Musical numbers include "Dancing in the Dark," "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan," and "Louisiana Hayride." 1 User Review
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| | not enough good music in it | babydoll07 04/22/2007 | | not enough good music in it and actors were not that good |
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Dream Wife 1953  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Sheldon
Cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John, Steve Forrest, Buddy Baer, Les Tremayne, Richard Anderson, Eduard Franz, Donald Randolph, Bruce Bennett, Dan Tobin
Business executive Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) divorces his wife, Effie (Deborah Kerr), when he has his eyes set on princess Tarji (Betta St. John) whose goal is to please her man. However, Tarji changes her tune after Effie teaches her a few facts of life. One of Grant's (and Kerr's and Pidgeon's) weaker films.
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Flaming Star 1960 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Don Siegel
Cast: Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, Dolores del Rio, John McIntire, Rodolfo Acosta, Karl Swenson, Ford Rainey, Richard Jaeckel, L.Q. Jones
There is big trouble between settlers in Texas and the Indian tribe of Kiowas. Elvis Presley plays a half-breed who must decide between his mother's tribe and the Texans.
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The Ghost Ship 1943  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard, Edmund Glover, Skelton Knaggs, Tom Burton, Steve Winston, Lawrence Tierney, Robert Bice, Dewey Robinson, Steve Forrest, Boyd Davis, George DeNormand, Skelton Knaggs
Third Officer Tom Merriam (Russell Wade) tries in vain to warn crewmen that Captain Stone (Richard Dix) is psychotic. When the men ignore him, a deadly game of cat-and-mouse follows that endangers the entire crew.
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Heller in Pink Tights 1960 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Margaret O'Brien, Steve Forrest, Eileen Heckart, Edmund Lowe, Ramon Novarro, George Mathews, Frank Silvera, Ed Binns
This film, based on a Louis L'Amour story, is about a traveling troupe who entertained in Wyoming more than a century ago.
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It Happened to Jane 1959 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
aka: Twinkle and Shine
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Mary Wickes, Teddy Rooney, Russ Brown, Max Showalter, Jayne Meadows, Harry Morgan, Parker Fennelly, Walter Greaza, Philip Coolidge
Widow Jane Osgood (Doris Day) runs a New England lobster business. After her shipment of lobsters die, Jane hires lawyer George Denham (Jack Lemmon) and sues the railroad company she holds responsible. But, railroad executive Harry Foster Malone (Ernie Kovacs), who is "the meanest man in the world," does not take the law suit lying down, and the battle rages between Harry and Jane. Meanwhile, love blossoms between George and Jane.
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 The Last of the Mohicans 1977 TV, 97 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: James L. Conway
Cast: Steve Forrest, Ned Romero, Andrew Prine, Don Shanks, Michele Marsh, Jane Actman, Robert Tessier, Robert Easton, Whit Bissell, Dehl Berti, John Bishop, Coleman Creel
This is a good TV rendition of James Fenimore Cooper's novel as Hawkeye (Steve Forrest), along with the last two survivors of the Mohican tribe–Uncas and Chingachgook (Don Shanks and Ned Romero), escorts Army Major Duncan Heyward (Andrew Prine) and Cora and Alice Morgan (Michele Marsh and Jane Actman) through hostile territory during the French and Indian War.
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The Manions of America 1981 TV, 290 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles S. Dubin, Joseph Sargent
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Kate Mulgrew, Linda Purl, David Soul, Steve Forrest, Simon MacCorkindale, Anthony Quayle, Barbara Parkins, T.P. McKenna, Kathleen Beller
This film was originally shown as a three-part TV miniseries and stars Pierce Brosnan as one of many Irish patriots who immigrated to the United States during the famine of the 1840s. The story chronicles his successes, failures, and fights in his rise in America.
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Mommie Dearest 1981 PG, 129 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Perry
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Mara Hobel, Howard Da Silva, Jocelyn Brando, Priscilla Pointer, Xander Berkeley, Robert Harper, Matthew Faison, Rutanya Alda, Harry Goz, Michael Edwards, Joe Abdullah, Jeremy Scott Reinbolt
Based on movie star Joan Crawford's daughter Christina Crawford's bestseller, this is the sordid story of what she went through growing up in the insecure world of Hollywood. Joan (Faye Dunaway) adopts Christina (Mara Hobel) and Christopher (Jeremy Scott Reinbolt) with plans to give them a happy family life. But, when Joan is troubled by problems with men and her sagging career, it is the children who bear the brunt of her problems. As they grow up, Christina and Christopher (now played by Diana Scarwid and Xander Berkeley) have memories of brutal treatment at the hands of their mother that continue to have an effect on them.
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North Dallas Forty 1979 R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Steve Forrest, Bo Svenson, G.D. Spradlin, Dabney Coleman, Savannah Smith, Marshall Colt
This film provides a glimpse into the inner workings of professional football. It features an aging star player, Phillip Elliott, who finds that he is just a number when he fails to produce for the financial benefit of the team owner.
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Rascal 1969 G, 85 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Steve Forrest, Bill Mumy, Pamela Toll, Elsa Lanchester, Henry Jones, Bettye Ackerman, Jonathan Daly, John Fiedler, Richard Erdman, Herbert Anderson
Wisconsin in 1918 is the home of a father (Steve Forrest) and his young son, Willard (Bill Mumy). After saving a Racoon from a predator, Sterling names it "Rascal," and they enjoy a summer of adventure during his father's frequent absences on business. Wholesome Disney fare.
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Rogue Cop 1954 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft, Steve Forrest, Anne Francis, Alan Hale Jr., Robert F. Simon, Robert Ellenstein, Peter Brocco, Anthony Ross
Undercover cop Christopher Kelvaney (Robert Taylor) seeks the killers of his brother. Well made flick.
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 Sahara 1983  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Brooke Shields, John Mills, Lambert Wilson, Steve Forrest, Horst Buchholz, John Rhys-Davies, Perry Lang, Ronald Lacey, Cliff Potts, Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
A young heiress (Brooke Shields) promises her dying father that she will drive his newly designed car in the 1927 endurance race (the world's most treacherous auto race) across the Sahara Desert. While crossing the desert, she is captured and falls in love with an Arab Sheik (Lambert Wilson). A terrible take-off on "The Perils of Pauline."
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The Second Time Around 1961 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse, Thelma Ritter, Ken Scott, Isobel Elsom, Rodolfo Acosta, Timothy Carey, Tom Greenway
In this Comedy/Western, widow Lucretia (Debbie Reynolds) resettles in an Arizona town where she becomes sheriff.
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So Big 1953 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson, Steve Forrest, Martha Hyer, Tommy Rettig, Elisabeth Fraser, Walter Coy, Richard Beymer, Roland Winters
This poignant story is the third filming of Edna Ferber's epic novel about a widowed schoolteacher (Jane Wyman) who turns to farming for survival.
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Spies Like Us 1985  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Landis
Cast: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Donna Dixon, Steve Forrest, Bruce Davison, Bernie Casey, William Prince, Frank Oz, Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, Tom Hatten, James Daughton, Jim Staahl, Costa-Gavras, Ray Harryhausen
Inept government workers Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Milbarge (Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd) yearn for the exciting lives of espionage agents. They cheat on their Foreign Service Board exams for the CIA and get promoted. What they do not know is that the CIA considers them to be disposable and uses them as decoys for the real spies. They are dropped off in Pakistan where they fight Pakistani rebels and become involved in trying to stop Gen. Sline's (Steve Forrest) plan to start World War III.
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The Wild Country 1971 G, 100 min.
Genre: Family
aka: The Newcomers
Director: Robert Totten
Cast: Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Jack Elam, Ron Howard, Frank DeKova, Morgan Woodward, Clint Howard, Dub Taylor, Karl Swenson, Rance Howard
This Disney film involves the Tanner family relocating from Pittsburgh to the Wyoming wilderness where they face tornadoes, fire, a fight for water rights, and other adversities. All ends well.
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| 1. The Band Wagon (1953)
2. Battle Circus (1953)
3. The Deerslayer (1978)
4. Dream Wife (1953)
5. Flaming Star (1960)
6. The Ghost Ship (1943)
7. Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
8. It Happened to Jane (1959)
aka: Twinkle and Shine
9. Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
10. The Last of the Mohicans (1977)
11. The Manions of America (1981)
12. Mommie Dearest (1981)
13. North Dallas Forty (1979)
14. Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
15. Prisoner of War (1954)
16. Rascal (1969)
17. Rogue Cop (1954)
18. Sahara (1983)
19. The Second Time Around (1961)
20. So Big (1953)
21. Spies Like Us (1985)
22. The Wild Country (1971)
aka: The Newcomers
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