Autumn Leaves 1956  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene, Ruth Donnelly, Shepperd Strudwick, Selmer Jackson, Maxine Cooper, Marjorie Bennett, Leonard Mudie
When relatives visit his home following his marriage to an older woman, Milly (Joan Crawford), Burt Hanson (Cliff Robertson) suffers mental anguish when he discovers his father in bed with his first wife.
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Back Street 1961  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Miller
Cast: Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Reginald Gardiner, Natalie Schafer, Alex Gerry, Tammy Marihugh, Robert Eyer, Doreen McLean, Karen Norris, Hayden Rorke, Mary Lawrence, Joseph Cronin
In this remake of earlier productions of "Back Street," Susan Hayward and John Gavin take on the roles of Rae Smith and Paul Saxon who meet and fall in love, but, due to a mix-up, they do not marry. Years later, they meet again, and now Paul is married to alcoholic Liz (Vera Miles). Unable to get a divorce from Liz, Walter enters into a love affair with Rae that will last for years to come. 2 User Reviews
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| | anonymous 02/14/2008 | | I am 66 years old now, but i still think about this movie. i loved susan hayward from my teenager years to today. i quote that line where John Gavin showed her his picture in their new house and asks her if she can decorate around it, and her reply was; why not, i built my whole life around it. i love it, i love it. where can you buy her movies? |
| | Anonymous 07/19/2007 | | If you are a romantic at heart, you will love this film. John Gavin is easy on the eyes and Susan Hayward is outstanding. You keep wishing throughout the movie that the two will end up together. |
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Beau James 1957  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Melville Shavelson
Cast: Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith, Darren McGavin, Joe Mantell, George Jessel, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Walter Catlett
Jimmy Walker's (Bob Hope) life as the flamboyant mayor of New York is the subject of this biography showing the corruption, scandal, and triumphs of the Roaring 20s.
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Brainwaves 1982  PG, 80 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Ulli Lommel
Cast: Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Tony Curtis, Vera Miles, Percy Rodriguez, Paul Willson, Ryan Seitz, Nicholas Love, Corinne Wahl, Eve Brent Ashe, Gale Sondergaard, Ruth Roman
Following brain surgery, a young woman (Suzanna Love) has flashbacks to a murder and finds herself being stalked by the murderer.
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The Castaway Cowboy 1974  G, 91 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Vincent McEveety
Cast: James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea, Elizabeth Smith, Manu Tupou, Gregory Sierra, George Fisher, Nephi Hannemann, Lito Capina
Lincoln (James Garner) is shipwrecked on an island in Hawaii where he meets a lovely widow (Vera Miles) and helps turn her struggling potato farm into a prosperous cattle ranch. But land-grabber Calvin (Robert Culp) holds the mortgage on her property and wants the land. Disney all the way.
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 The FBI Story 1959 N/R, 149 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Nick Adams, Diane Jergens, Jean Willes, Parley Baer, Fay Roope, Ann Doran
This film follows the career and federal cases of FBI agent Chip Hardesty (James Stewart) from the Prohibition era through the Cold War.
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Follow Me, Boys! 1966 N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charles Ruggles, Elliott Reid, Kurt Russell, Luana Patten, Sean McClory, Steve Franken, Parley Baer
Musician Lemuel Siddons (Fred MacMurray) decides to stop traveling, settle down in a small town, and dedicate himself to a troop of young Boy Scouts. Disney.
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In Search of America 1971 TV, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Bogart
Cast: Carl Betz, Vera Miles, Jeff Bridges, Ruth McDevitt, Renne Jarrett, Howard Duff, Kim Hunter, Michael Anderson Jr., Sal Mineo, Tyne Daly, Glynn Turman, George Wallace
Ben (Carl Betz); his wife Jenny (Vera Miles); and shaggy-haired, college dropout son, Mike (Jeff Bridges)–along with Grandma Rose (Ruth McDevitt)–take off in their 1928 Greyhound bus on a cross-country jaunt to connect with each other and with the realities of the 1960s. They meet interesting people along the way in this made-for-TV film.
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The Initiation 1984  R, 97 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Larry Stewart
Cast: Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Marilyn Kagan, Robert Dowdell, Patti Heider, Frances Peterson, Hunter Tylo, Paula Knowles
New college student and sorority pledge Kelly (Daphne Zuniga) has had fits of amnesia and violent dreams (involving her parents) since she was nine years old. Although a dream researcher has helped her, things come to a head when a sorority initiation is conducted at her father's store. A psychotic killer is on the loose, and the pledge body count mounts as Kelly's past is revealed. First-billed Vera Miles and Clu Gulager have very small parts as Kelly's parents.
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Jigsaw 1972 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Man on the Move
Director: William A. Graham
Cast: Richard Kiley, James Wainwright, Vera Miles, Andrew Duggan, Edmond O'Brien, Marsha Hunt, Irene Dailey, Gene Andrusco, Milton Selzer, Elliott Street, Ken Lynch, Pamela Rodgers, Jenifer Shaw, Claudia Bryar, Felton Perry
This was the pilot for a crime series in which a detective Lt. Frank Dain (James Wainwright) is on the run after being framed in the murder case of a diplomat. Dain's problems begin when he awakens in the hospital after he was found unconscious in the apartment of the murder victim. Dane specializes in missing person cases and uses his expertise as he sets out in search of the answers to the crime and to clear his name.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962  N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Jeanette Nolan, John Carradine, John Qualen, Ken Murray, Willis Bouchey, Carleton Young, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle
This film begins with Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) arriving at the frontier town of Shinbone to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). The visit peaks the interest of reporter Maxwell Scott (Carleton Young), and Stoddard tells the story of what took place years before when Stoddard was a young lawyer and was attacked by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) because of Stoddard's desire for statehood. Stoddard was left for dead, but Doniphon found him, took him to Shinbone, and helped him find a job. Later, Valance challenged Stoddard to a gun fight, which ended with Valance dead. By story's end, it is learned that it is Doniphon, not Stoddard, who killed Liberty Valance. But when asked if the truth will be published, the reporter replies, "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." A John Ford classic.
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Mazes and Monsters 1982 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Cast: Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wallace, Lloyd Bochner, Peter Donat, Anne Francis, Vera Miles, Susan Strasberg, Chris Makepeace, Murray Hamilton
Four college students, playing a "Dungeons and Dragons" type game, find the level of intensity accelerates as they become more and more involved in the medieval world of sorcery.
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Molly and Lawless John 1972 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Gary Nelson
Cast: Vera Miles, Sam Elliott, Clu Gulager, John Anderson, Cynthia Myers, Charles Pinney, Bob Westmoreland, Melinda Chavaria, Pasqualita Baca, George Le Bow, Grady Hill, Dave Burleson, Dick Bullock, Terry Kingsley-Smith
Outlaw Johnny Lawler (Sam Elliott) strikes up a friendship with Sheriff Marvin Parker's (John Anderson) wife, Molly (Vera Miles). Johnny wants Molly's help to get him out of jail. It works, and the two run off together. But Molly soon learns that Johnny was only using her and takes care of the situation as the posse homes in on the couple.
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One Little Indian 1973 G, 90 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Bernard McEveety
Cast: James Garner, Vera Miles, Pat Hingle, Morgan Woodward, John Doucette, Clay O'Brien, Robert Pine, Ken Swofford, Jay Silverheels, Jodie Foster
This Disney comedy involves a cavalryman going AWOL after being sentenced to hang for disobeying orders–he saved Indian women and children during a raid. He takes off across the desert on a camel, meets and teams up with a boy who has lost his tribe and is trying to find them, and ends up at a ranch run by a widow and her daughter.
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Psycho 1960  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Simon Oakland, John Anderson, Vera Miles, Vaughn Taylor, John Gavin, John McIntire, Martin Balsam, Lurene Tuttle, Frank Albertson, Patricia Hitchcock, Mort Mills, George Eldredge, Sam Flint
Janet Leigh plays confused Marion Crane who helps herself to company funds and is on her way to a better life with her newly found wealth. In the course of her escape, she stops at the Bates Motel where she meets the weird manager Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) who has his own plans for her. She better not take a shower! Leigh was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director.
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Psycho II 1983 R, 113 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Richard Franklin
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz, Hugh Gillin, Claudia Bryar, Lee Garlington, Tom Holland, Tim Maier, Robert Alan Browne, Jill Carroll, Chris Hendrie, Michael Lomazow, Oz Perkins
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) has served his time in the mental hospital and has been released, despite objections from one of his victim's relatives (Vera Miles). Norman now befriends a young waitress (Meg Tilly). Norman begins receiving mysterious messages, and murders ensue–including that of the new manager of the Bates Motel. Is Norman again responsible?
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 The Searchers 1956  N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Adventure
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Vera Miles, John Qualen, Harry Carey Jr., Patrick Wayne, Henry Brandon, Antonio Moreno, Lana Wood, Olive Carey, Hank Worden, Pippa Scott, Ken Curtis
Indians have captured nine-year-old Debbie (Lana Wood). During a five-year search, an embittered cowboy (John Wayne) and his partner (Jeffrey Hunter) search for Debbie (now played by Natalie Wood). One of the great Westerns and another John Ford treasure. 1 User Review
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| | Among the most complex Ford westerns, if not the best | 1fatts 03/14/2007 | Anyone who knows American movies knows this one. I don't think it is more quintessentially "American" than the Ford Cavalry Trilogy, but there is an edge to it which sets it apart. There is an emptiness in John Wayne's Ethan Edwards that marks him and separates him so fundamentally from everything around him that we are limited in our sympathy for him and find it only appropriate that he both begins and ends the film as the outsider and perhaps the outcast.
The movie is not without flaws. Structurally, we never see what it is that changes Ethan's intention to kill Debbie and, therefore, while we are willing to accept it emotionally, it doesn't really work in terms of the plot setup.
More seriously, the whole film sets us up for a confrontation between Edwards and Scar, and, in the end, we don't get that confrontation. That is a significant weakness.
But it is a great western. Monument Valley has rarely been used to better effect. Ford's stock company all acquit themselves well, and we have a chance to appreciate John Wayne in a more complex role than we usually get to see him. |
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Sergeant Ryker 1968 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Buzz Kulik
Cast: Lee Marvin, Bradford Dillman, Vera Miles, Peter Graves, Lloyd Nolan, Murray Hamilton, Norman Fell, Walter Brooke, Francis de Sales, Don Marshall
Sergeant Ryker (Lee Marvin) is about to be executed when his wife (Vera Miles) persists in having his case reviewed, which results in a new trial. Ryker is charged with being a traitor during the Korean War, but he insists he was on a top secret mission that was ordered by a now-dead general. Originally shown on TV five years earlier, but expanded for theatrical release.
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Smash-Up on Interstate 5 1976 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Cast: Robert Conrad, Sian Barbara Allen, Buddy Ebsen, David Groh, Vera Miles, Terry Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Scott Jacoby, Sue Lyon, Donna Mills
A 39-vehicle crash on the famous California freeway starts off this film with a bang. After that, it plods along.
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Those Calloways 1965 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon DeWilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn, Linda Evans, Philip Abbott, Parley Baer, Tom Skerritt, John Larkin
The Calloways are Vermonters who seek to provide a bird sanctuary for wild geese despite resistance from local residents. Disney.
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A Tiger Walks 1964 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Pamela Franklin, Sabu, Una Merkel, Kevin Corcoran, Frank McHugh, Arthur Hunnicutt, Jack Albertson, Edward Andrews
A young girl gets help from the sheriff in protecting the life of a tiger that has escaped from the circus in this average Disney film.
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A Touch of Larceny 1959 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: James Mason, Vera Miles, George Sanders, Harry Andrews, Robert Flemyng, Oliver Johnston, Peter Barkworth, Duncan Lamont, Martin Stephens, William Kendall, Rachel Gurney, Waveney Lee, Charles Carson, Junia Crawford, Henry B. Longhurst
A British naval officer, Commander Max Easton (James Mason), needs money to impress his friend Sir Charles Holland's (George Sanders) fiancee, wealthy American Virginia Killain (Vera Miles). Easton comes up with a scheme to sue the newspapers for libel after he causes his own arrest for supposed espionage. He makes it look like he is a traitor and then maroons himself on an island. After being rescued, he convinces the Special Branch that he is innocent and then visits Virginia. Will she be impressed?
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Twilight's Last Gleaming 1977 R, 146 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Joseph Cotten, Vera Miles, Richard Jaeckel, Leif Erickson
As his anti-Vietnam War statement, a deranged U.S. Air Force officer, Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster), takes over a nuclear missile base and blackmails U.S. government officials.
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Two Tickets to Broadway 1951 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: James V. Kern
Cast: Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Bracken, Ann Miller, Bob Crosby, Barbara Lawrence, Taylor Holmes, Vera Miles, Donald MacBride
With dreams of starring on a TV show, young performers form a song and dance act that earns them a spot on Bob Crosby's television show. Look for young Vera Miles in the chorus.
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Wichita 1955 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Peter Graves, Keith Larsen, Carl Benton Reid, Jack Elam, Robert J. Wilke
Wyatt Earp (Joel McCrea) is hired by citizens of Wichita to clean up the violence. When Wyatt bans all guns inside the city limits, citizens revolt.
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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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The Wrong Man 1956 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Nehemiah Persoff, Esther Minciotti, Laurinda Barrett, Doreen Lang, Dayton Lummis, Will Hare, John Heldabrand, Norma Connolly, Lola D'Annunzio, Charles Cooper, Richard Robbins
Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda) is a musician wrongly identified as the perpetrator in a series of New York City robberies. He must go through a trial, and during this stressful time his wife, Rose (Vera Miles), cannot handle the pressure and has a nervous breakdown. Based on a true story, this is a different kind of film for Alfred Hitchcock.
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| 1. Autumn Leaves (1956)
2. Back Street (1961)
3. Beau James (1957)
4. Brainwaves (1982)
5. The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
6. The FBI Story (1959)
7. Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
8. Hellfighters (1968)
9. In Search of America (1971)
10. The Initiation (1984)
11. Jigsaw (1972)
aka: Man on the Move
12. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
13. Mazes and Monsters (1982)
14. Molly and Lawless John (1972)
15. One Little Indian (1973)
16. Pride of the Blue Grass (1954)
17. Psycho (1960)
18. Psycho II (1983)
19. The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
20. The Searchers (1956)
21. Sergeant Ryker (1968)
22. Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
23. Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)
24. Those Calloways (1965)
25. A Tiger Walks (1964)
26. A Touch of Larceny (1959)
27. Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
28. Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
29. Wichita (1955)
30. The Wild Country (1971)
aka: The Newcomers
31. The Wrong Man (1956)
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