4 Movies Starring Ernie Kovacs

Operation Mad Ball

Operation Mad Ball

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-08-17

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (585 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Quine

Genres:

ComedyWar

Cast:

Writer:

Arthur Carter (screenplay)

Jed Harris (screenplay)

Blake Edwards (screenplay)

Arthur Carter (play)

Fullplot:

Private Hogan must raise his ability to scheme and plot to a new level to put on a madcap dance to celebrate the closing of an Army surgical hospital in post WWII France while evading the stickler-for-details Captain Locke - and win the heart to the beautiful nurse Lieutenant Betty Bixby.

Bell Book and Candle

Bell Book and Candle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-12-19

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (6556 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Quine

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel Taradash (screenplay)

John Van Druten (play)

Fullplot:

Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. But one day a handsome publisher, Shep Henderson walks into her building and Gillian decides she wants him--especially as it turns out he's marrying Merle Kittridge, an old poison penpal from Gillian's college days. So, Gillian casts a spell over Shep. But her powers are in danger of being exorcised by something stronger than the bell-book-and-candle routine: Love.

North to Alaska

North to Alaska

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-11-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

(4724 Reviews)

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Cast:

Writer:

John Lee Mahin (screenplay)

Martin Rackin (screenplay)

Claude Binyon (screenplay)

Ladislas Fodor (play)

John H. Kafka (idea)

Fullplot:

Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancèe back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy. Frankie is a con man trying to steal the partner's gold claim.

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-02-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

111 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (3178 Reviews)

Director:

Carol Reed

Fullplot:

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.

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