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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Arise, My Love 1940  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel, Dick Purcell, Frank Puglia, George Zucco, Esther Dale, Ann Codee, Nestor Paiva
This film won the Academy Award for Best Original Story. Set during World War II, it is the love story of Tom Martin (Ray Milland) and Augusta "Gusto" Nash (Claudette Colbert) who meet under adversity (his imprisonment), fall in love, and marry.
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The Confession 1964  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Quick, Let's Get Married
Seven Different Ways
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Barbara Eden, Michael Ansara, Walter Abel, Elliott Gould, Cecil Kellaway, Pippa Scott, Leonardo Cimino, Vinton Haworth
This film was made in 1964 but it was not released for showing until 1971; it involves a joke pulled on an unworldly prostitute. Elliott Gould made a quiet film debut in this weak flick that wasted the talents of the good cast.
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Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Carlisle, Katharine Alexander, Edward Brophy, Walter Abel, Harold Huber, Ernest Truex, Chester Clute, Emma Dunn, Sidney Blackmer
Judy O'Brien (Maureen O'Hara) arrives in New York City planning to gain fame as a ballerina. As luck would have it, she gets a job working as a stooge for strip-tease dancer Bubbles (Lucille Ball) who dances a ballet as a lead-in to her strip show. The two women encounter problems when they both fall for playboy Jimmy Harris (Louis Hayward), and physical fighting is used to determine who should have Jimmy. But that issue is settled after Jimmy's ex-wife (Virginia Field) decides to take him back.
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Fury 1936 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan, Frank Albertson, Bruce Cabot, Raymond Hatton, Ward Bond, George Chandler
In a case of mistaken identity, Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) is arrested for kidnapping and falls into the hands of a lynch mob. Narrowly escaping with his life, Joe plans to bring the perpetrators to trial. Still a winner.
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The Green Light 1937 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry O'Neill, Spring Byington, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Walter Abel, Henry Kolker, Pierre Watkin
This is a philosophical drama about an idealist physician (Errol Flynn) who undergoes a conversion and leaves his profession to learn more about meaning in life.
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Hold Back the Dawn 1941 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Rosemary DeCamp, Curt Bois, Eric Feldary, Nestor Paiva, Mitchell Leisen
Spinster Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland) becomes the means for gigolo George Iscovesco (Charles Boyer) to live in the United States, but romance blooms when he carries out his selfish plans. This film received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Actress.
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Holiday Inn 1942 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Abel, Virginia Dale, Louise Beavers, John Gallaudet, James Bell, Irving Bacon, Marek Winheim, John Gallaudet, Shelby Bacon
This musical features Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as two performers who try to make a go of a country inn. The love triangle includes Lovely Linda (Marjorie Reynolds), but it's the great Irving Berlin musical score that makes this a classic film. "White Christmas" was introduced in this film and won an Oscar for Best Song.
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The Indian Fighter 1955 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Abel, Walter Matthau, Lon Chaney Jr., Diana Douglas, Eduard Franz, Alan Hale Jr., Elisha Cook Jr., William Phipps
The Sioux are understandably upset with settlers taking over their land and stealing their gold. Enter a wagon train, with its leader Johnny Hawks (Kirk Douglas), winding its way through dangerous Sioux territory.
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Island in the Sky 1953  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness, Andy Devine, Harry Carey Jr., Regis Toomey, Darryl Hickman, Paul Fix, Bob Steele
Dooley (John Wayne) and the crew of his C-47 are forced into a crash landing in the frozen Arctic where their knowledge of survival tactics helps to keep them alive while awaiting rescue.
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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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Kiss and Tell 1945 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Shirley Temple, Jerome Courtland, Walter Abel, Katharine Alexander, Robert Benchley, Porter Hall, Tom Tully, Darryl Hickman, Kathryn Card, Darren McGavin
This film is based on the Broadway character Corliss Archer. In this episode, Corliss (Shirley Temple) tries to keep news of her brother's marriage a secret.
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Men with Wings 1938 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Louise Campbell, Andy Devine, Walter Abel, Virginia Weidler, Donald O'Connor, Lynne Overman, Porter Hall, Kitty Kelly
Look for a young Donald O'Connor as one of the boys shown as the film begins in this story about two fliers (Ray Milland and Fred MacMurray) who both love the same woman (Louise Campbell).
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Mirage 1965 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston, Walter Abel, George Kennedy, Leif Erickson, Anne Seymour, Hari Rhodes, Robert H. Harris, House Jameson, Syl Lamont, Eileen Baral, Neil Fitzgerald
After a blackout at a Gotham skyscraper, everything inside the building changes for David Stillwell (Gregory Peck). He knows that he is linked to the death of Charles Calvin (Walter Abel) who fell out of the 27th-story window, but Stillwell suffers from amnesia and cannot remember anything. Stillwell does know that danger lurks and seeks help from private eye Ted Caselle (Walter Matthau) who doesn't appear to believe that Stillwell has a problem–and then Caselle is murdered. The plot twists and turns as Stillwell finds himself the intended victim in a series of murder attempts. Remade in 1968 as "Jigsaw."
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Mr. Skeffington 1944 N/R, 145 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Richard Waring, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Marjorie Riordan, Robert Shayne, John Alexander, Jerome Cowan, Charles Drake, Johnny Mitchell, Dorothy Peterson, Halliwell Hobbes, Peter Whitney, Bill Kennedy
Fanny Tullis (Bette Davis) marries banker Job Skeffington (Claude Rains) to save her brother Trippy (Richard Waring). Many trials and tribulations await as Fanny survives divorce, deceit, and a disaster. Davis received an Oscar Nomination for Best Actress and Claude Rains was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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Night People 1954  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork, Rita Gam, Walter Abel, Buddy Ebsen, Peter van Eyck, Max Showalter, Jill Esmond, Hugh McDermott
This film about the Cold War involves an Army corporal who is kidnapped in East Berlin; Colonel Van Dyke (Gregory Peck) tries to retrieve the U.S. soldier without causing an incident with the U.S.S.R. that will further diminish relationships between the two countries. 1 User Review
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| | Political thriller - Nazi & communist cold war intrigue | nana4u 08/09/2009 | | Col Van Dyke (Peck) is stuck with a spy thriller at the communist border in Berlin. Following Nazi Germany; cold war politics have divided Berlin into pieces of a police puzzle. The characters have mysterious past histories; and the plot twists maintain a suspenceful film noir. The story keeps pace with the viewer's interest until the disclosure of loyalties is finally finished. Good yarn well worth the trip. |
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Raintree County 1957 N/R, 187 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead, Rhys Williams, Walter Abel, Tom Drake
Johnny Green's great score adds to the enjoyment of this film. This is a Civil War epic about Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) whose life and psyche are severely disturbed by events surrounding her Midwest existence. The film received four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress (Taylor) and Musical Score.
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Silent Night, Bloody Night 1973 R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Death House
Night of the Dark Full Moon
Director: Theodore Gershuny
Cast: Patrick O'Neal, John Carradine, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, Walter Abel, Fran Stevens, Jay Garner, Lisa Blake Richards, Ondine, Walter Klavun, Grant Code
The owner of a long-empty estate is anxious to sell and sends his lawyer (Patrick O'Neal) to take care of selling the property to the city for a bargain price. The history of the house is told in flashback, revealing that it was once an insane asylum where the cruel doctors had been slain by inmates set free by the owner. The inmates took up residence in the city and now, many years later, an axe-wielding killer is extracting revenge on the former inmates.
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Skylark 1941 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel, Grant Mitchell, Ernest Cossart, Mona Barrie, Fritz Feld, Irving Bacon
Lydia (Claudette Colbert) feels she has been neglected during her five years of marriage to businessman Tony Kenyon (Ray Milland) and is tempted into an affair with Tim Blake (Brian Aherne).
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So Proudly We Hail! 1943 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves, Barbara Britton, Walter Abel, Sonny Tufts, Bill Goodwin, Mary Treen, John Litel
In this somewhat dated, but still enjoyable, film Army nurses serve on Bataan treating the wounded soldiers during World War II. Paulette Goddard was nominated for an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress).
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That Lady in Ermine 1948  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger
Cast: Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cesar Romero, Walter Abel, Reginald Gardiner, Harry Davenport, Virginia Campbell, Whit Bissell, Edmund MacDonald, Harry Cording
It's the mid-1800s and an invading force, led by Col. Karolyi (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), takes over the castle of a ruling countess (Betty Grable). Karolyi falls in love with the countess, while she seeks advice from a deceased, female ancestor who dealt with a similar problem over 200 years ago. Not much here, but there are a few good songs. Director Lubitsch died shortly after the start of filming; Otto Preminger completed the film without credits.
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The Three Musketeers 1935 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Moroni Olsen, Onslow Stevens, Heather Angel, Margot Grahame, Ian Keith, Ralph Forbes, Rosamond Pinchot, John Qualen, Miles Mander, Lumsden Hare, Murray Kinnell, Nigel De Brulier
This is not a bad rendition of Alexandre Dumas' D'Artagnan (Walter Abel) and his musketeers who roam 17th-century France during the reign of Louis XIII (Miles Mander). It doesn't, however, have as much action as later versions.
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Wake Island 1942 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Farrow
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix, Albert Dekker, Walter Abel, Mikhail Rasumny, Rod Cameron, Bill Goodwin, Damian O'Flynn, Barbara Britton, Frank Albertson, Phillip Terry, Don Castle, Dane Clark
Set shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Marines are sent to small Wake Island to hold off the Japanese advances. The action is nearly continuous as the Marines thwart one attack after another. This and other similar films were important in rallying the country behind the war effort and showing there is even victory in defeat. Academy Award nominations included Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor (William Bendix).
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Wise Girl 1937 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leigh Jason
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Henry Stephenson, Alec Craig, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Margaret Dumont, Gregory Gaye, Ivan Lebedeff, Rafael Storm
Susan Fletcher (Miriam Hopkins) falls in love with a struggling artist, John O'Halloran (Ray Milland), AFTER she tries to get custody of his two children.
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| 1. 13 Rue Madeleine (1946)
2. Arise, My Love (1940)
3. The Confession (1964)
aka: Quick, Let's Get Married
aka: Seven Different Ways
4. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
5. Fury (1936)
6. Grace Quigley (1985)
7. The Green Light (1937)
8. Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
9. Holiday Inn (1942)
10. The Indian Fighter (1955)
11. Island in the Sky (1953)
12. The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
13. Kiss and Tell (1945)
14. Men with Wings (1938)
15. Mirage (1965)
16. Mr. Skeffington (1944)
17. Night People (1954)
18. Racket Busters (1938)
19. Raintree County (1957)
20. Silent Night, Bloody Night (1973)
aka: Death House
aka: Night of the Dark Full Moon
21. Skylark (1941)
22. So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
23. That Lady in Ermine (1948)
24. The Three Musketeers (1935)
25. Wake Island (1942)
26. Wise Girl (1937)
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