6 Movies Starring Anne Francis

Susan Slept Here

Susan Slept Here

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-10-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (944 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Tashlin

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Alex Gottlieb (screenplay)

Steve Fisher (play)

Alex Gottlieb (play)

Fullplot:

Mark Christopher is a 35-year old, award-winning comedy scriptwriter who is struggling to be taken seriously as a drama writer. On Christmas Eve, two police officers bring 17-year old Susan (picked up for vagrancy and brawling) to Mark's apartment. If she spends a few days with him, Mark could use Susan as inspiration to write a script about juvenile-delinquents and Susan could avoid spending Christmas behind bars.

Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-01-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

81 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (13332 Reviews)

Director:

John Sturges

Cast:

Writer:

Millard Kaufman (screen play)

Don McGuire (adaptation)

Howard Breslin (based on a story by)

Fullplot:

From the time John J. Macreedy steps off the train in Black Rock, he feels a chill from the local residents. The town is only a speck on the map and few if any strangers ever come to the place. Macreedy himself is tight-lipped about the purpose of his trip and he finds that the hotel refuses him a room, the local garage refuses to rent him a car and the sheriff is a useless drunkard. It's apparent that the locals have something to hide but when he finally tells them that he is there to speak to a Japanese-American farmer named Kamoko, he touches a nerve so sensitive that he will spend the next 24 hours fighting for his life.

Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-03-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (5978 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Brooks

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Brooks (screenplay)

Evan Hunter (novel)

Fullplot:

War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school. This is his first teaching assignment, which he needs to support himself and his insecure pregnant wife, Anne. Despite Principle Warnecke's assertions to the contrary, Dadier quickly learns that the rumors of student discipline problems at the school are indeed true. The established teachers at the school try to counsel the newcomers, all inexperienced in such situations, as how best to handle the rowdy students. Regardless, Dadier tries to exert discipline in his class, which provokes a violent response. Dadier believes the student leaders against him are Artie West, but more specifically Gregory Miller, who he thinks uses the fact of being black as a means of racial provocation. Dadier has to decide either to leave and teach at a "real" school, or stay and figure out how to get through to his students. If he decides to stay, he has to figure out who the real disruptive influences are, especially as they have resorted to attacks of a personal nature that affect especially Anne.

Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-03-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (31378 Reviews)

Director:

Fred M. Wilcox

Cast:

Writer:

Cyril Hume (screen play)

Irving Block (based on a story by)

Allen Adler (based on a story by)

Fullplot:

When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet inhabited by scientists, he finds all but two have died. Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira have somehow survived a hideous monster which roams the planet. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, and has no intention of sharing it (or his daughter!) with anyone.

Don't Go Near the Water

Don't Go Near the Water

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-12-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (420 Reviews)

Director:

Charles Walters

Cast:

Writer:

William Brinkley (novel)

Dorothy Kingsley

George Wells

Fullplot:

On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy's P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. Max Siegal is the Second in command to a clueless Commanding Officer who believes Sea Duty to be the worst punishment he can give one of his men. Siegal has to keep the foreign correspondents happy, keep his Commander out of trouble and figure out a way for one of the enlisted sailors to date the lady Lieutenant of his dreams - all while convincing a certain island schoolteacher that he's the man for her.

Funny Girl

Funny Girl

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-09-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

151 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (12074 Reviews)

Director:

William Wyler

Cast:

Writer:

Isobel Lennart (book)

Isobel Lennart (from the original story by: based on the play with)

Isobel Lennart (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from Nick Arnstein.

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