7 Movies Starring Carolyn Jones

House of Wax

House of Wax

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-04-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (10721 Reviews)

Director:

Andrè De Toth

Genres:

CrimeHorror

Cast:

Writer:

Crane Wilbur (screenplay)

Charles Belden (story)

Fullplot:

Professor Henry Jarrod is a true artist whose wax sculptures are lifelike. He specializes in historical tableau's such a Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc. His business partner, Matthew Burke, needs some of his investment returned to him and pushes Jarrod to have more lurid exposes like a chamber of horrors. When Jarrod refuses, Burke set the place alight destroying all of his beautiful work in the hope of claiming the insurance. Jarrod is believed to have died in the fire but he unexpectedly reappears some 18 months later when he opens a new exhibit. This time, his displays focus on the macabre but he has yet to reproduce his most cherished work, Marie Antoinette. When he meets his new assistant's beautiful friend, Sue Allen, he knows he's found the perfect model - only unbeknown to anyone, he has a very particular way of making his wax creations.

Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-04-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

85 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (349 Reviews)

Director:

Don Siegel

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel Mainwaring (screenplay)

Irving Shulman (screenplay)

Irving Shulman (story)

Fullplot:

George "Babyface" Nelson becomes one of the most important gangsters of 1920s Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allies himself with John Dillinger...

Career

Career

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-10-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

(344 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Anthony

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Bert Granet

James Lee (play)

James Lee (screenplay)

Philip Stong (novel)

Dalton Trumbo

Fullplot:

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?

A Hole in the Head

A Hole in the Head

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-07-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (1647 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Capra

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Arnold Schulman (screenplay)

Arnold Schulman (play)

Fullplot:

Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can't meet the payments. Another liability is his weakness for dames (Shirl, his sexy current flame, is even less responsible than Tony). But a solid asset is Ally, his sensible 12-year-old son. When Tony wants stolid brother Mario to bail him out again, Mario makes conditions: give up Ally, or at least get married to a "nice, quiet little woman" of his selection. Tony and Ally just play along to be diplomatic, but when the woman in question proves to look like Eleanor Parker...

Last Train from Gun Hill

Last Train from Gun Hill

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-11-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (4188 Reviews)

Director:

John Sturges

Cast:

Writer:

Les Crutchfield (story)

James Poe (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered. The killers leave behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill. Belden is sympathetic, until it transpires that one of the murderers is his own son Rick, whom he refuses to hand over. Morgan is determined to capture Rick and take him away by the 9.00 train; but he is trapped in the town alone, with Belden and all his men now looking to kill him.

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-02-20

Languages:

English, Arapaho

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

164 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (13259 Reviews)

Genres:

Western

Fullplot:

Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later. On the way they encounter river pirates, and escape with the help of fur trapper Linus Rawlings, who subsequently marries one of their daughters, Eve. The parents are drowned on a foundering raft, and the other daughter Lilith becomes a riverboat singer and catches the eye of a genteel adventurer Cleve Van Valen. They cross the plains together in a wagon train and make and lose a fortune in California; meanwhile Linus has turned farmer and, comes the Civil War, joins the Union Army and is killed at the Battle of Shiloh. One of his sons Zeb also joins the army and stays after the war as a cavalry officer and is sent to Colorado to help guard the pioneering railroad against the Indians, whose land they are crossing. By this time Lilith is the elderly lady of the family, having survived long enough to see the dream of settlement realized, but not, mercifully, the aerial shots of the Los Angeles freeway traffic with which the film ends.

Eaten Alive

Eaten Alive

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-05-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (4219 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Alvin L. Fast

Mohammed Rustam

Kim Henkel (screen adaptation)

Fullplot:

Judd runs the Starlight Hotel out in some sort of swampy place and is unfortunately a few slices short of a loaf. He has a crocodile conveniently placed on the other side of the hotel's front porch railing. The croc will eat just about anything, as the hapless guests of the hotel find out soon enough. A reformed hooker, an unlucky family, and the father and sister of the hooker all suffer various rates of attrition as Judd tries to implement damage control.

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