4 Movies Starring Don DeFore

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1944-11-01

Languages:

English, Mandarin

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

138 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (3822 Reviews)

Director:

Mervyn LeRoy

Cast:

Writer:

Dalton Trumbo (screen play)

Ted W. Lawson (based on the book)

Robert Considine (based on the book)

Fullplot:

The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the personal account by Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory - badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible - launch 16 fully loaded bombers from an aircraft carrier! Remarkable in its accuracy, this movie even uses film footage from the actual raid.

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1947-04-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1516 Reviews)

Director:

Roy Del Ruth

Cast:

Writer:

Everett Freeman (screen play)

Vick Knight (additional dialogue)

Herbert Clyde Lewis (original story)

Frederick Stephani (original story)

Everett Freeman (screenwriter)

Fullplot:

A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-09-15

Languages:

English, German, Russian

Countries:

USA, West Germany

Runtime:

132 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (1816 Reviews)

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Cast:

Writer:

Orin Jannings (screenplay)

Erich Maria Remarque (novel)

Fullplot:

In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long awaited furlough comes through. Back home in Germany, he finds his home bombed. While hopelessly searching for his parents, he meets lovely Elizabeth Kruse, daughter of a political prisoner; together they try to wrest sanity and survival from a world full of hatred.

The Facts of Life

The Facts of Life

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-11-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (802 Reviews)

Director:

Melvin Frank

Cast:

Writer:

Melvin Frank

Norman Panama

Fullplot:

Two romantic couples are each married to different people! They really DO love each other. At the beginning Kitty thinks Larry is un-funny, unendurable, and unrelenting. Larry thinks Kitty is just plain dull. Then three couples cancel their trip. Kitty and Larry are ALONE! At the hotel they go under the silly names of Mr.George Washington and Mrs Martha Washington. Then they fall in love while going fishing. When Kitty caught her first fish she kissed Larry. Kitty and Larry started to spend a lot of time together. Then Kitty writes her husband a letter telling him that she wants Larry, not him. Then Kitty and Larry get into a big fight. They both see that they are making a big mistake. They thought it wasn't right to have an affair at their age (they were middle aged).

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