7 Movies Starring Hume Cronyn

People Will Talk

People Will Talk

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1951-08-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (3815 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (written for the screen by)

Curt Goetz (play)

Fullplot:

Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witch hunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson. Fuel is added to the fire when Praetorius befriends young Deborah Higgins, who has become suicidal at the prospect of having a baby by her ex boyfriend, a military reservist who was called up for service in the Korean War and killed in action.

Sunrise at Campobello

Sunrise at Campobello

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-09-28

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

144 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (728 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Dore Schary (screenplay)

Dore Schary (story)

Fullplot:

The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover - based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name.

Rollover

Rollover

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-12-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (811 Reviews)

Director:

Alan J. Pakula

Cast:

Writer:

Howard Kohn (story)

David Shaber (screenplay)

David Shaber (story)

David Weir (story)

Fullplot:

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Cocoon

Cocoon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-06-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (41858 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Howard

Genres:

Sci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Tom Benedek (screenplay)

David Saperstein (story)

Fullplot:

A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they'd left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they'd rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who discover unusual powers from within these cocoons.

*batteries not included

*batteries not included

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-12-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (21448 Reviews)

Director:

Matthew Robbins

Cast:

Writer:

Mick Garris (story)

Brad Bird (screenplay)

Matthew Robbins (screenplay)

Brent Maddock (screenplay)

S.S. Wilson (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to 'persuade' them to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers.

Cocoon: The Return

Cocoon: The Return

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-11-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (11242 Reviews)

Director:

Daniel Petrie

Cast:

Writer:

David Saperstein (characters)

Stephen McPherson (story)

Elizabeth Bradley (story)

Stephen McPherson (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Art, Ben and Joe are back! So are their wives and good friend Bernie in their first adventure since their last! Five years since the senior citizens blasted off into space with the Antareans return to earth because their alien friends have to collect the rest of the cocoons in the ocean, believed to be in danger from an earthquake. Ben and Mary visit their family, while Art and Joe visit Bernie, who's still hangin' on. Art, Ben and Joe had forgotten what it was like on earth and immediately begin to feel their weaknesses, except for Art's wife who's pregnant! Meanwhile in the ocean, a biologist company snatched a cocoon out of the ocean and are doing research on it...

Day One

Day One

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-03-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

141 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (309 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Sargent

Genres:

DramaHistory

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Wyden (book)

David W. Rintels (teleplay)

Fullplot:

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

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