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Barabbas

Barabbas is a 1961 film expanding on the career of Barabbas, from the Christian Passion narrative in the Gospel of Mark and other gospels. It starred Anthony Quinn as Barabbas, with Silvana Mangano, Katy Jurado, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews, Ernest...

Bend of the River

Bend of the River is a 1952 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their second collaboration. In 1847, remorseful former outlaw Glyn McLyntock (James Stewart) is scouting for a wagon train of settlers to...

Crashout

Crashout is a 1955 film noir black-and-white movie. Convict Van Duff is the leader of a large-scale prison break. The breakout works as the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison. Once the coast is clear they then set out...

High Sierra

High Sierra (1941) is an early heist film and film noir written by W.R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett. The movie features Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart and was directed by Raoul Walsh on location at Whitney Portal, halfway up...

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Italian title: Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti), also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue is a 1974 horror film written and directed by Jorge Grau and starring Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy and Cristina...

Nevada Smith

Nevada Smith is a 1966 American Western film made by Embassy Pictures and Solar Productions, in association with and released by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by Henry Hathaway with Joseph E. Levine as executive producer, from a...

Peyton Place

Peyton Place is a 1957 American drama film directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious. The film is an exposé of the lives and loves of the residents of a...

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Rancho Notorious

Rancho Notorious is a 1952 Western film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Marlene Dietrich as the matron of a criminal hideout called Chuck-a-Luck. Arthur Kennedy and Mel Ferrer play rivals for her attention in this tale of frontier revenge. The...

The Man from Laramie

The Man from Laramie is a 1955 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their seventh collaboration. It was adapted from a story of the same title by Thomas T. Flynn first published in The Saturday Evening Post...

The Window

The Window (1949) is a black-and-white suspense film noir based on the short story "The Boy Cried Murder" (reprinted as "Fire Escape") by Cornell Woolrich. The film, which was a critical success, was produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr. for $210,000 but...

Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears is a 1949 black-and-white film noir, starring Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea. Scott and Duryea appeared in many films noir during this era; however, they only appeared in one other film together; the western Silver Lode. This film,...

Some Came Running

Some Came Running is a novel by James Jones. It is the story of a war veteran with literary aspirations who returns in 1948 to his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, after a failed writing career. (The town of Parkman was loosely based on Jones' hometown...

Murder, She Said

Murder, She Said (1961) is a murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, loosely based on the novel 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie. The production starred Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple, alongside her real life husband Stringer...

Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry is a 1960 drama film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis and stars Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons....

Trial

Trial is a 1955 film directed by Mark Robson and written by Don Mankiewicz (novel and script). It stars Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy and Juano Hernandez. It is about a Mexican boy accused of rape and murder who becomes a pawn for red...

The Lusty Men

The Lusty Men is a 1952 western film made by Wald-Krasna productions and RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Nicholas Ray and Robert Parrish and produced by Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna from a screenplay by David Dortort, Horace McCoy, Alfred...

Bright Victory

Bright Victory is a 1951 film, adapted by Robert Buckner from Baynard Kendrick's novel Lights Out. It was directed by Mark Robson, and it stars Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, James Edwards, Will Geer, Nana Bryant, Jim Backus, and Rock...

Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning is a 1965 American film directed by Alex Segal and starring Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux and Oskar Homolka. It was adapted from the 1963 novel by Betty Smith. The musical score for the film is by Bernard Herrmann.

Signs of Life

Signs of Life, also known as One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, is a film by American director John David Coles, released May 5, 1989. The film stars Beau Bridges, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Arthur Kennedy (in his last major film appearance). Kathy Bates,...

City for Conquest

City for Conquest is a 1940 drama-film noir starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, and Arthur Kennedy, based on the novel of the same name by Aben Kandel. Cagney plays a truck driver named Danny Kenny, who starts as a New York boxing contender. Ann...

A Summer Place

A Summer Place is the title of a 1959 film based on the novel of the same name by Sloan Wilson. The story examines the adult lives of two onetime teen lovers, Ken (Egan) and Sylvia (McGuire), who were from different social strata. Ken was self...

Shark!

Shark! (also known as Caine) is a 1969 action film directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Burt Reynolds. Tagline: The deadliest sharks aren't always in the water. During production, one of the film's stuntmen was attacked and killed on camera by...

Ricco the Mean Machine

Devotion

Devotion is a 1946 highly-fictionalized biographical film account of the lives of the Brontë sisters. This was Montagu Love's last role. He died before the film's release.

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Resisting Enemy Interrogation is a 1944 U.S. Army training film, directed by Robert B. Sinclair and written by Harold Medford, that was designed to train U.S. Army Air Forces crews to resist interrogation by the Germans. The film, 62 minutes in...

Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner. Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it. Because the novelization was released six months...