Billy the Kid vs. Dracula 1966  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Western / Horror
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: Chuck Courtney, John Carradine, Melinda Plowman, Virginia Christine, Walter Janovitz, Bing Russell, Harry Carey Jr., Olive Carey, Roy Barcroft, Hannie Landman, William Forrest, Richard Reeves, Marjorie Bennett, Leonard P. Geer, George Cisar
Count Dracula is traveling by stagecoach through America's Western territory when he meets Double Bar B ranch owner James Underhill (William Forrest) who is subsequently killed in an Indian raid. Dracula takes on Underhill's identity and goes to the ranch where he tells Underhill's niece Elizabeth (Melinda Plowman) that he is her long-lost uncle. He makes moves on Elizabeth, but the ranch foreman, a reformed Billy the Kid (Chuck Courtney), becomes suspicious and steps in to stop Dracula before he can drink Elizabeth's blood.
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Cover-Up 1949  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton, Art Baker, Helen Spring, Ann E. Todd, Doro Merande, Virginia Christine, Russell Arms, Dan White, Paul E. Burns, Ruth Lee
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan (Dennis O'Keefe) digs into the case of a supposed suicide but does not get anywhere–until he gets help from a local citizen, Anita (Barbara Britton), in solving what turns out to be not a suicide, but a murder.
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967   N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards, Isabel Sanford, Roy Glenn, Virginia Christine, Tom Heaton, Alexandra Hay, Barbara Randolph, D'Urville Martin, Skip Martin
When Joey's (Katharine Houghton) parents (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy) discover their daughter is going to marry a Black man (Sidney Poitier), they express their concerns and disapproval. For 1967, this movie dealt with racism in a mature manner. Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar for her role. The film also won an Academy Award for Best Writing and was nominated for eight more, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Cecil Kellaway), and Supporting Actress (Beah Richards). 2 User Reviews
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| | Relevant Social Film | AvidMovieFan 09/22/2007 | | This film in all its glory was groundbreaking in revealing the human spirit in what and how race matters in America. I loved this film because it captures the true feelings in each of us and challenges the status quo to "marry someone of your own race". Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy offer stellar performances along with Sir Sydney Poitier and Katherine Houghton. The film is set in beautiful San Francisco and offers a sense of hope to all who view the world as colorblind. The year this film was made Jim Crow was still active in this country and challenges us to look inside ourselves and question self-prejudice. Excellent film for all, especially for people who are in and interracial relationship. The line at the end, "you'll just have to hold on to each other tight" and don't give a DAMN what anybody thinks is priceless! |
| | Should a rich white girl marry a black nobel prize winner? | 1fatts 03/26/2007 | I really wanted to like this film.
It was Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy . . . in fact, Tracy's last film. Stanley Kramer directed. And in 1967 to dislike anything Sidney Poitier was in was seen, pretty much in itself, as an act of racism.
But the film -- its comedy and its "importance" -- turned, ultimately, on the conflict caused by the white woman and the black man wanting to marry. And it was all a straw man. The girl (Katherin Houghton), aside from playing about as vivid as a cardboard cutout of a Bryn Mawr recruitment ad, faced no sacrifice of money, position, parental angst, or anything else. The boy was a PhD, brilliant, a guaranteed financial and professional success and spoke the Queen's English with an ease and sophistication that John Gilgood could have envied.
In short: no conflict, no tension, no comedy, no "significance".
"In the Heat of the Night" it wasn't. Maybe "in the cool of the cocktail hour." |
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Hail, Hero! 1969  PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Miller
Cast: Michael Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, John Larch, Louise Latham, Charles Drake, Peter Strauss, Virginia Christine, John Qualen, Deborah Winters
Carl Dixon (Michael Douglas) takes on the task of trying to explain to his parents (Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright) his antiwar feelings and telling them that he will NOT fight in Vietnam.
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 The Inner Circle 1946 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Philip Ford
Cast: Warren Douglas, Adele Mara, William Frawley, Ricardo Cortez, Will Wright, Virginia Christine, Martha Montgomery, Ken Niles, Dorothy Adams, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Gargan, Fred Graham
Private detective Johnny Strange (Warren Douglas) is framed for the murder of a popular radio personality. Johnny's solution: reenact the crime at the radio station using the suspects as participants and see if the truth can be sorted out.
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 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
Director: Don Siegel
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Carolyn Jones, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Jean Willes, Ralph Dumke, Virginia Christine, Tom Fadden, Kenneth Patterson, Guy Way, Eileen Stevens, Bobby Clark, Beatrice Maude, Jean Andren
Dr. Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) arrives back in town after a medical conference and realizes that his family and neighbors are not behaving in their usual manner. This leads him to discover that they are being taken over by pods from outer space that are draining the people and turning them into zombie-like individuals whose only aim is survival. A sci-fi classic.
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The Killers 1946  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Ernest Hemingway's The Killers
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, William Conrad, Virginia Christine, John Miljan, Donald MacBride, Vince Barnett, Charles McGraw, Charles D. Brown, Jack Lambert, Queenie Smith, Jeff Corey
Ernest Hemmingway's story is the springboard for this tale about killers (Charles McGraw and William Conrad) who murder an aging prizefighter Ole "Swede" Anderson (Burt Lancaster). Insurance investigator Jim Rearden (Edmond O'Brien) looks for "Swede's" beneficiary, and, in a series of flashbacks, he connects "Swede" to an unsolved robbery. It was "Swede" and his ex-girlfriend Kitty Collins (Ava Gardner) who conspired to take the goods, double-cross crime boss Big Jim Colfax (Albert Dekker), and then take off on their own. And, no, they do not live happily ever after.
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The Killers 1964  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Don Siegel
Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins, Norman Fell, Virginia Christine, Don Haggerty, Robert Phillips
Auto racing provides the setting for this story of evil in a fast-paced world involving under-the-table money exchanges. This was Ronald Reagan's last movie, and he was cast as a low-down, dirty, cruel crime boss.
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The Mummy's Curse 1944 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Leslie Goodwins
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Peter Coe, Virginia Christine, Kay Harding, Dennis Moore, Holmes Herbert, Martin Kosleck, Kurt Katch, Addison Richards, Charles Stevens, William Farnum, Napoleon Simpson, Ann Codee, Budd Buster, Herbert Heywood
In this sequel to "The Mummy's Ghost," Kharis the Mummy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Princess Ananka (Virginia Christine) are dug out of the bog they disappeared into at the end of the earlier film. Archaeologist James Halsey (Dennis Moore) and his assistant Dr. Ilzor Zandaab (Peter Coe)–who, unknown to Halsey, is a member of the Egyptian cult of Akran–arrive to find the mummies who have been transferred to Cajun country after the bog was drained. Kharis and Ananka are revived when Zandaab obtains tanna leaves that he knows are the secret potion to bring them back. Ananka suffers from amnesia and wanders the streets. Kharis is determined to find her, and he wreaks havoc in Louisiana as he kills anyone who stands in his way. Will Halsey be the one to finally put the mummies away for good? This is the final film in the "Mummy" series.
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Nightmare 1956 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Maxwell Shane
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Virginia Christine, Rhys Williams, Gage Clarke, Barry Atwater, Marian Carr, Billy May
A fine cast, good (jazz) musical score, and creative directing make this re-do of "Fear In The Night" enjoyable. A jazz musician (Kevin McCarthy) dreams he has stabbed a man in a mansion; his cuts and bruises indicate it may be real. His brother-in-law (Robinson), a police detective, tells him to forget it. But, he is determined to find the mansion, and he does. Now Robinson, after hearing that a murder has been committed there, finds out what really happened.
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Special Agent 1949 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William C. Thomas
Cast: William Eythe, George Reeves, Kasey Rogers, Paul Valentine, Tom Powers, Carole Mathews, Frank Puglia, Jeff York, Virginia Christine, Walter Baldwin, Robert Williams, Raymond Bond
With help from the daughter (Kasey Rogers) of the engineer killed during a train robbery, special agent Johnny Douglas (William Eythe) investigates the murder and theft of $100,000 in railroad receipts.
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Three Brave Men 1957 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Dunne
Cast: Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, Virginia Christine, Edward Andrews, Frank Faylen, Diane Jergens, Warren Berlinger
This courtroom drama is based on the true story of U.S. Navy Department employee, Bernie Goldsmith (Ernest Borgnine), who was fired for suspected Communist activities. His lawyer, Joe Di Marco (Ray Milland), works tirelessly to prove his client's innocence.
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| 1. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)
2. Cover-Up (1949)
3. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
4. Hail, Hero! (1969)
5. The Inner Circle (1946)
6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
7. The Killers (1946)
aka: Ernest Hemingway's The Killers
8. The Killers (1964)
9. The Mummy's Curse (1944)
10. Nightmare (1956)
11. A Rage to Live (1965)
12. Special Agent (1949)
13. Three Brave Men (1957)
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