Released Date:
1957-06-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
126 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (9179 Reviews)
Director:
Elia KazanGenres:
Drama"A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
Released Date:
1957-09-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
109 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (751 Reviews)
Director:
Fred ZinnemannGenres:
DramaMichael V. Gazzo (play)
Michael V. Gazzo (screenplay)
Alfred Hayes (screenplay)
Carl Foreman (screenplay)
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Released Date:
1958-02-05
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (627 Reviews)
Director:
George CukorGenres:
DramaVittorio Nino Novarese (novel)
Arnold Schulman
An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her, she becomes involved with his trusted assistant. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Actor.
Released Date:
1958-05-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (6907 Reviews)
Director:
Martin RittGenres:
DramaWilliam Faulkner (stories)
Irving Ravetch (screenplay)
Harriet Frank Jr. (screenplay)
Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner, in ill health, owns many businesses and property in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment, they who he sees as not being able to carry on the Varner name in the style to which he has built around it. Son Jody Varner has no ambition and does not work, spending much of his time fooling around with his seductive wife, Eula. Twenty-three year old daughter Clara Varner he finds clever, but he feels she also wastes her time on more contemplative pursuits. While most of her contemporaries are married, Clara has been dating Alan Stewart, a genteel mama's boy, for six years. Will would not mind Alan so much if he too thought Alan had a bit of a forceful man in him, which he could demonstrate by actually asking Clara to marry him. Conversely, Jody laments that nothing he does is ever good enough for his father, while Clara plain does not like the way he treats them. Into their lives comes Ben Quick, who Jody hired while Will was hospitalized, Ben to do some sharecropping on currently vacant land. Despite Will believing the unsubstantiated stories that Ben burned down someone's barn as an act of vengeance, Will becomes to view Ben as the son he never had as he is much the same mold. As such, Will does whatever he can to get Ben to be part of the family to carry on the Varner name the way Will wants it be, which means marrying Clara. Through the process, Clara may come to a realization about what she really wants in life, while Jody does whatever he can to retain his position in the family.
Released Date:
1958-12-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy, USA, France
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (258 Reviews)
Director:
Henry KosterNorman Corwin (screenplay)
Giorgio Prosperi (screenplay)
Oscar Saul (story)
Talbot Jennings (story)
Released Date:
1960-10-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
(344 Reviews)
Director:
Joseph AnthonyGenres:
DramaBert Granet
James Lee (play)
James Lee (screenplay)
Philip Stong (novel)
Dalton Trumbo
More than anything in the world, Sam Lawson wants to be a successful actor. Is he willing to sacrifice his wife, happiness and personal reputation to achieve his goal?
Released Date:
1958-12-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy, USA, France
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (266 Reviews)
Director:
Henry KosterNorman Corwin (screenplay)
Giorgio Prosperi (screenplay)
Oscar Saul (story)
Talbot Jennings (story)
Released Date:
1962-10-31
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (704 Reviews)
Director:
George Roy HillIsobel Lennart (screenplay)
Tennessee Williams (play)
On December 23rd, Korean War veteran George Haverstick and nurse Isabel Crane - who George lovingly refers to as "Little Bit" - get married in a civil ceremony. They met when George was admitted to Belvedere General Hospital in St. Louis for a nervous shake, with Isabel being his night nurse. They got married immediately following his release, which occurred despite the doctors never discovering the reason for his affliction. They plan on honeymooning in Miami, and stopping in suburban High Point, Tennessee along the way to visit with who George considers his best friend, fellow Korean War vet Ralph Bates, and Ralph's wife of six years, Dorothea Bates. By the time they arrive on the Bates' doorstep on Christmas Eve, George and Isabel are hardly speaking to each other when they aren't yelling at each other as each had a preconceived notion of their role in the marriage incompatible with the other, and a romanticized view of how the other should behave. Ralph's marriage is currently in no better shape. Dottie has just left him, taking their infant son Junior with her. Although he never stated such to her, Ralph married insecure Dottie despite not loving her because her wealthy father, for who he worked, promised him the family business as an inheritance. Ralph and Dottie's current problem is primarily because Ralph could no longer stand her parent's pretentious and overbearing ways, both professionally and personally. Although Ralph, George and Isabel seem blind to the source of and solution to their own marital problems, each seems to have a clearer view of what ails the other couple and how best to fix their marriage.
Released Date:
1964-11-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
107 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1004 Reviews)
Director:
Gordon DouglasJoseph Landon (screenplay)
Clair Huffaker (screenplay)
Clair Huffaker (novel)
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.
Released Date:
1975-07-01
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (3184 Reviews)
Director:
Stuart RosenbergTracy Keenan Wynn (screenplay)
Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay)
Walter Hill (screenplay)
Ross Macdonald (novel)
Harper is brought to Louisiana bayou country to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her hellion of a daughter. What is more, he finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants her property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
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