5 Movies Starring Dorothy Malone

Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-12-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (6973 Reviews)

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

George Zuckerman (screenplay)

Robert Wilder (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

On 24 October 1955, the hard-work geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New York and invites her to go to a conference with the alcoholic playboy and son of a tycoon Kyle Hadley. On the way of the meeting, he confesses that they had traveled from Houston to New York to satisfy the wish of the reckless Kyle, who is his best friend since their childhood, of eating a sandwich from club 21 and the meeting was just a pretext to Kyle's father Jasper Hadley. Mitch and Kyle immediately fall in love for Lucy, and Kyle unsuccessfully uses his money to impress Lucy; then he opens his heart and proposes Lucy. They get married and travel to Acapulco and the insecure Kyle stops drinking. Meanwhile, Kyle's sister Marylee is an easy woman and has a non-corresponded crush on Mitch that sees her as a sister. One year later, Kyle discovers that he has a problem and might be sterile and starts drinking again. The jealous Marylee poisons Kyle telling that his wife and Mitch are having a love affair. When Lucy finds that she is pregnant, Kyle believes that the baby belongs to Mitch and his mistrust leads to a tragedy.

Warlock

Warlock

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-04-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (3369 Reviews)

Director:

Edward Dmytryk

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Alan Aurthur (screenplay)

Oakley Hall (novel)

Fullplot:

The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading the inhabitants to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as marshal. When Blaisdell appears, he is accompanied by his friend Tom Morgan, a club-footed gambler who is unusually protective of Blaisdell's life and reputation. However, Johnny Gannon, one of the thugs who has reformed, volunteered to accept the post of official deputy sheriff in rivalry to Blaisdell; and a woman arrives in town accusing Blaisdell and Morgan of having murdered her fiancè. The stage is set for a complex set of moral and personal conflicts.

The Last Voyage

The Last Voyage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-02-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (1341 Reviews)

Director:

Andrew L. Stone

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Cliff Henderson and his family are traveling aboard the SS Claridon en route to Japan. The Claridon is an old ship, on its last voyage before heading to the scrap heap. An explosion in the engine room weakens the hull and the ship is now taking on more water that the bilge pumps can deal with. The Captain seems to have difficulty accepting that his ship will sink. Henderson's wife Laurie is severely injured and trapped under a fallen beam. While the men in the engine room work frantically to shore up the hull, Henderson tries to free his wife from the wreckage with the help of one of the crew, Hank Lawson.

The Last Sunset

The Last Sunset

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-06-07

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1660 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Aldrich

Cast:

Writer:

Howard Rigsby (novel)

Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle and O'Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy.

Beach Party

Beach Party

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-08-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (1254 Reviews)

Director:

William Asher

Fullplot:

The first of the five official American-International "Beach Party" movies. Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones. Look for Big Daddy's surprise cameo.

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