9 Movies Starring Louis Calhern

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1934-09-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (1602 Reviews)

Director:

Rowland V. Lee

Cast:

Writer:

Alexandre Dumas père (novel)

Philip Dunne (screenplay)

Dan Totheroh (screenplay)

Rowland V. Lee (screenplay)

Philip Dunne (dialogue)

Dan Totheroh (dialogue)

Rowland V. Lee (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. After being told that he died in prison, his fiancè Mercedes is forced to marry his rival Count Mondego. Twenty years later, Dantes escapes with the help of the Abbe Faria, who leaves him the treasure of Monte Cristo. Dantes, now called the Count of Monte Cristo, plans his revenge on the three who framed him.

Notorious

Notorious

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1946-09-06

Languages:

English, French, Portuguese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (67596 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.

Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-05-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

(2842 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Sidney Sheldon (screenplay)

Herbert Fields (book)

Dorothy Fields (book)

Fullplot:

A story very loosely based on the love story of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler who meet at a shooting match. Fabulous music although the lead characters have virtually nothing to do with the actual historical figures. Annie joins Frank Butler in Col. Cody's Wild West Show. They tour the world performing before Royalty as well as the public at large.

The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-05-23

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (16441 Reviews)

Director:

John Huston

Cast:

Writer:

Ben Maddow (screen play)

John Huston (screen play)

W.R. Burnett (from a novel by)

Fullplot:

When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich that offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safecracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.

Devil's Doorway

Devil's Doorway

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-09-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

84 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (822 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Mann

Genres:

Western

Fullplot:

Lance Poole, an Indian who won a Medal of Honor fighting at Gettysburg, returns to his tribal lands intent on peaceful cattle ranching. But white sheep farmers want his fertile grass range and manage to turn the ostensibly civilized white population against the tribes, with tragic results.

The Magnificent Yankee

The Magnificent Yankee

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-12-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

89 min

IMDB Ratings:

(381 Reviews)

Director:

John Sturges

Cast:

Writer:

Francis Biddle (book)

Emmet Lavery (play)

Emmet Lavery (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The Man with a Cloak

The Man with a Cloak

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1952-09-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

84 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (632 Reviews)

Director:

Fletcher Markle

Cast:

Writer:

Frank Fenton (written for the screen by)

John Dickson Carr (based on a story by)

Fullplot:

In 1848, a young Frenchwoman, Madeline Minot, goes to New York City to see Thevenet, the grandfather of her fiance. Thevenet had been with Napoleon and may be sympathetic to the political aims of his grandson. She finds the old man in very bad spirits, living in a large house with a housekeeper and a butler who are just waiting for him to die (and perhaps helping him along a bit) so they can inherit his fortune. They see Madeline as a threat to their plans. She is aided in her dealings with these strange people by a mysterious man in a cloak.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-06-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (7303 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaHistory

Cast:

Writer:

William Shakespeare (play)

Fullplot:

Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man, makes a moving speech. The conspirators are driven from Rome, and two armies are formed: one side following the conspirators; the other, Antony. Antony has the superior force, and surrounds Brutus and Cassius, but they kill themselves to avoid capture.

Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-03-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (5978 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Brooks

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Brooks (screenplay)

Evan Hunter (novel)

Fullplot:

War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school. This is his first teaching assignment, which he needs to support himself and his insecure pregnant wife, Anne. Despite Principle Warnecke's assertions to the contrary, Dadier quickly learns that the rumors of student discipline problems at the school are indeed true. The established teachers at the school try to counsel the newcomers, all inexperienced in such situations, as how best to handle the rowdy students. Regardless, Dadier tries to exert discipline in his class, which provokes a violent response. Dadier believes the student leaders against him are Artie West, but more specifically Gregory Miller, who he thinks uses the fact of being black as a means of racial provocation. Dadier has to decide either to leave and teach at a "real" school, or stay and figure out how to get through to his students. If he decides to stay, he has to figure out who the real disruptive influences are, especially as they have resorted to attacks of a personal nature that affect especially Anne.

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