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Ferris Webster

Ferris Webster (April 29, 1912 – February 4, 1989), an American film editor, was nominated for Academy Awards for his work on Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and The Great Escape (1963). Webster edited seventy-two films, including six for director Vincente Minnelli:...
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The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from bandits. It is a resetting of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai. A Mexican village is periodically...

Initial release date:

  • Oct 23, 1960

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 128 min (76.8 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 3,000,000 (US$)

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film in CinemaScope and Metrocolor directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen. The characters and setting were inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the...

Initial release date:

  • 1956

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 98 min (59 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 1,900,000 (US$)

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American Cold War political thriller film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury and featuring Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver. It was directed by...

Initial release date:

  • 1962

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 126 min (75.6 hs )

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 revisionist Western film set at the end of the American Civil War directed by and starring Clint Eastwood (as the eponymous Josey Wales), with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman...

Initial release date:

  • 1976

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 135 min (81 hs )

Produced by:

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride is a 1950 comedy film which tells the story of a man trying to cope with all of the disasters that happen along the way from the time that his daughter announces that she's engaged until the wedding actually occurs. The movie...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 16, 1950

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

Produced by:

The Magnificent Yankee

The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film adapted by Emmet Lavery from his play of the same title, which was in-turn adapted from the book Mr. Justice Holmes by Francis Biddle. The story examines the life of United States Supreme Court...

Initial release date:

  • 1950

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 80 min (48 hs )

Screenplay by:

The Great Escape

The Great Escape is a 1963 American film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II. It is based on the book The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill, which is a novelization of the true story of a mass escape...

Initial release date:

  • 1963

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 172 min (103 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 4,000,000 (US$)

Produced by:

Seven Days in May

Seven Days in May is a political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. The novel was made into a motion picture in 1964, with screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring...

Initial release date:

  • 1964

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Runtime:

  • 118 min (70.8 hs )

Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the novel of the same name by Evan Hunter. Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 19, 1955

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 101 min (60.6 hs )

Produced by:

Firefox

Firefox is a 1982 action film produced and directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. It was based on a 1977 novel with the same name by Craig Thomas. Russian filming locations were not possible due to the Cold War, and the producers selected Vienna...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 18, 1982

Directed by:

Rating:

PG (USA)

Runtime:

  • 136 min (81.6 hs )

Produced by:

Magnum Force

Magnum Force is the 1973 sequel to the 1971 film Dirty Harry, starring Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan. The film was released in 1973 and directed by Ted Post, who also directed Eastwood in TV's Rawhide and the feature film Hang 'Em...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 25, 1973

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 124 min (74.4 hs )

Produced by:

Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy is a 1953 stage play in three acts by Robert Anderson. It received its premiere on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on September 30, 1953 in a production by The Playwrights' Company, directed by Elia Kazan and designed by Jo...

Initial release date:

  • 1956

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 122 min (73.2 hs )

Produced by:

The Enforcer

The Enforcer is the 1976 third film in the Dirty Harry series. Directed by James Fargo, it stars Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Tyne Daly as Inspector Kate Moore and DeVeren Bookwalter as terrorist leader/main antagonist Bobby...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 22, 1976

Runtime:

  • 96 min (58 hs )

Produced by:

High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter is a 1973 Western film, with a hint of the supernatural, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood as a mysterious gunfighter who is hired by a corrupt frontier mining town to defend it against a group of criminals. It was...

Initial release date:

  • 1972

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 105 min (63 hs )

Produced by:

Every Which Way But Loose

Every Which Way But Loose is a 1978 American film, released by Warner Brothers, produced by Robert Daley and directed by James Fargo. It starred Clint Eastwood in an uncharacteristic and offbeat comedy role, as Philo Beddoe, a trucker and brawler...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 20, 1978

Runtime:

  • 110 min (66 hs )

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet is a 1977 action film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The film also stars Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, and longtime personal friend Mara Corday who would appear with Eastwood in another three films....

Initial release date:

  • Dec 21, 1977

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 109 min (65.4 hs )

Produced by:

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 Western spoof directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau, amongst others. The film is presented in a pseudo-documentary style, with a serious,...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 23, 1965

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 165 min (99 hs )

Screenplay by:

The Eiger Sanction

The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 action thriller based on a 1972 novel of the same name by American author Dr. Rodney William Whitaker, under the pen name Trevanian. The film was directed by Clint Eastwood who also starred as Dr. Jonathan Hemlock. Dr....

Initial release date:

  • Jul 16, 1975

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 123 min (73.8 hs )

Screenplay by:

The Glass Slipper

The Glass Slipper (1955) is a musical film adaptation of Cinderella, made by MGM, directed by Charles Walters and produced by Edwin H. Knopf from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch. The music score is by Bronislau Kaper, the cinematography by Arthur E....

Initial release date:

  • 1955

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

Screenplay by:

The Long, Long Trailer

The Long, Long Trailer is a novel by Clinton Twiss from the 1950s. It is about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling across the United States. The novel was made into a movie in 1954 starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz,...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 18, 1954

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Runtime:

  • 96 min (58 hs )

Produced by:

Mystery Street

Mystery Street (1950) is a black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by famed lensman John Alton. The MGM film was shot on location in Boston and Cape Cod. Also featured are Harvard Medical School in Roxbury,...

Initial release date:

  • Jul 27, 1950

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

Produced by:

Any Which Way You Can

Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 action comedy film, starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, and Ruth Gordon. It is directed by Buddy Van Horn. The film is the sequel to the 1978 hit comedy film Every Which Way But Loose...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 17, 1980

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 116 min (69.6 hs )

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) is an Academy Award-nominated MGM film directed by Richard Brooks based on the Tony-nominated play of the same name by Tennessee Williams adapted by Richard Brooks and James Poe. One of the top-ten box office hits of...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 20, 1958

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Runtime:

  • 108 min (64.8 hs )

Screenplay by:

Undercurrent

Undercurrent (1946) is a film noir drama directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay was written by Edward Chodorov, based on the novel You Were There by Thelma Strabel. The motion picture features Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum,...

Initial release date:

  • Nov 28, 1946

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 116 min (69.6 hs )

Produced by:

Seconds

Seconds is a 1966 American film starring Rock Hudson. Characterized sometimes as a science fiction thriller, but with elements of horror, neo-noir, psychedelia, and drama, it was directed by John Frankenheimer with a screenplay by Lewis John Carlino...

Initial release date:

  • 1966

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Runtime:

  • 100 min (60 hs )

Ransom!

Ransom! is a 1956 crime drama examining the reactions of parents, police, and the public to a kidnapping. Written by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume, the film was based on a popular episode of "The United States Steel Hour" titled "Fearful Decision,"...

Initial release date:

  • Jan 24, 1956

Runtime:

  • 109 min (65.4 hs )

Father's Little Dividend

Father's Little Dividend is a 1951 comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor. The movie is the sequel to Father of the Bride (1950). Originally released by MGM, the film is now in the...

Initial release date:

  • 1951

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Runtime:

  • 82 min (49 hs )

Produced by:

Breezy

Breezy is a 1973 American romantic drama film, starring William Holden and Kay Lenz. It was written by Jo Heims and directed by Clint Eastwood. It was the third film directed by Eastwood. Eastwood does not act in Breezy (as he did in some of the...

Initial release date:

  • Nov 18, 1973

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 108 min (64.8 hs )

Screenplay by:

Bronco Billy

Bronco Billy is a 1980 film starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. It was directed by Eastwood and written by Dennis Hackin. The film revolves around "Bronco Billy's Wild West Show", a run-down traveling circus, the star of which is Bronco Billy...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 11, 1980

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 116 min (69.6 hs )

Honkytonk Man

Honkytonk Man is a 1982 drama film set in the Great Depression. Clint Eastwood, who produced and directed the film, stars in the film with his son, Kyle Eastwood. Clancy Carlile's screenplay is based on his novel of the same name. Clint Eastwood...

Initial release date:

  • 1982

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 122 min (73.2 hs )

Produced by:

Hour of the Gun

Hour of the Gun is 1967 Western film about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers, in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona. The film is based on...

Initial release date:

  • 1967

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 100 min (60 hs )

Produced by:

The Magnificent Seven Ride

The Magnificent Seven Ride is a 1972 western film and is the third and last sequel of the 1960 western, The Magnificent Seven. It stars Lee Van Cleef as Chris Adams, succeeding Yul Brynner and George Kennedy in the role. It was directed by George...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 1, 1972

Runtime:

  • 100 min (60 hs )

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

The Fastest Gun Alive

The Fastest Gun Alive is a 1956 western film starring Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain and Broderick Crawford. Notorious gunslinger George Kelby Jr. (Glenn Ford) and his wife Dora (Jeanne Crain) settle down in a peaceful little town under assumed identities...

Initial release date:

  • Jul 12, 1956

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

Produced by:

Lone Star

Lone Star is a 1952 Western film starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, and Lionel Barrymore (in his final role) as President Andrew Jackson. The film also marks the first screen appearance by then-thirteen-year-old George...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 8, 1952

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 94 min (56 hs )

Screenplay by:

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary is a 1949 film adaptation of the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin billed as Christopher Kent, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper. It was...

Initial release date:

  • 1949

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 106 min (63.6 hs )

Produced by:

Walk in the Spring Rain

A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) is a romantic drama film made by Columbia Pictures, directed by Guy Green and produced by Stirling Silliphant, from his own screenplay based on the novel by Rachel Maddux. It stars Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn,...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 17, 1970

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 98 min (59 hs )

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

Les Girls

Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 comedy film musical made by MGM. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C. Siegel with Saul Chaplin as associate producer from a screenplay by John Patrick based on a story by...

Initial release date:

  • Oct 3, 1957

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 114 min (68.4 hs )

Produced by:

Ice Station Zebra

Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 action film directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine and Jim Brown. The screenplay by Alistair MacLean, Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink and W.R. Burnett is loosely based upon...

Initial release date:

  • Oct 23, 1968

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 148 min (88.8 hs )

Produced by:

Joe Kidd

Joe Kidd is a 1972 American western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges. The film is about an ex-bounty hunter hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan to track down Mexican...

Initial release date:

  • Jul 14, 1972

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Screenplay by:

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is an American horror-drama film based on the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, his only novel. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George...

Initial release date:

  • 1945

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 110 min (66 hs )

Produced by:

Rationing

Rationing is a 1944 film starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. The screen comedy was directed by Willis Goldbeck.

Initial release date:

  • 1944

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

Something Of Value

Something Of Value is a 1957 drama directed by Richard Brooks and starring Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter and Sidney Poitier. The movie, based on the book of the same name, portrays the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. It shows the colonial and native African...

Initial release date:

  • 1957

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 113 min (67.8 hs )

Produced by:

All the Brothers Were Valiant

All the Brothers Were Valiant is a 1953 adventure drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It is a remake of the 1923 silent film, also made by MGM and now considered lost, as well as the 1928 MGM version Across to Singapore. The 1953 version...

Initial release date:

  • Nov 13, 1953

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The Law and Jake Wade

The Law and Jake Wade is a 1958 western released by MGM and directed by the legendary John Sturges. The title name, Jake Wade (Taylor) is a now reformed town sherrif marshal with a past that will soon catch up with him. Before he is able to settle...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 6, 1958

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Screenplay by:

Divorce American Style

Divorce American Style is a 1967 American satirical comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin. The screenplay by Norman Lear is based on a story by Robert Kaufman and focuses on a married couple that opts for divorce when counseling fails to help them...

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Runtime:

  • 109 min (65.4 hs )

Produced by:

Scandal at Scourie

Scandal at Scourie is an American drama movie from the year 1953 starring Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson. Catholic girl Patsy lives in an orphanage in Quebec. After the orphanage burns down due to Patsy's arson, she finds a new home with the...

Initial release date:

  • May 17, 1953

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

The Girl in White

The Girl in White is a 1952 anthology film directed by John Sturges.

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Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

Kind Lady

Kind Lady is a 1951 drama film directed by John Sturges. A remake of the 1935 film, the story of a kindly old woman with a love of art who is tricked into allowing an artist, his wife, and another couple into staying in her house. They then begin...

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Runtime:

  • 78 min (47 hs )
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