4 Movies Starring Torin Thatcher

Knock on Wood

Knock on Wood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-07-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (636 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Norman Panama

Melvin Frank

Fullplot:

Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has to see another love affair fail. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his doll Clarence becomes mean and jealous. His fiancèe Audrey leaves him and Jerry smashes his two dolls, Clarence and Terrence. Morgan's doll maker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen secret plans to the top secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, Papinek decides to use Morgan's dolls as a mailbox and hides the secret plans in the heads of the dolls. Another secret spy ring also wants to get their hands on Jerry's luggage and they *also* follow him. Eventually, Jerry is chased by both these organizations as well as the police, who suspects him of murder.

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-09-26

Languages:

English, Mandarin

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (3119 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

John Patrick (screenplay)

Han Suyin (novel)

Fullplot:

Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. During the closing days of the Chinese Civil War, he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian doctor, the widow of a Nationalist general. But when they begin to fall in love, their friends and her Chinese family pressure them to stop the cross-cultural relationship.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-12-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (7648 Reviews)

Director:

Nathan Juran

Fullplot:

While sailing with Princess Parisa to Baghdad to their wedding, Sinbad finds the Colossa Island and anchors his vessel to get supplies for the starving crew. Sinbad and his men help the magician Sokurah to escape from a Cyclops that attacks them, and Sokurah uses a magic lamp with a boy jinni to help them; however, their boat sinks and he loses the lamp. Sokurah offers a small fortune to Sinbad to return to Colossa, but he does not accept and heads to Baghdad. The citizens and the Caliph of Baghdad are celebrating the peace with Chandra, and they offer a feast to the Sultan of Chandra. Sakurah requests a ship and crew to return to Colossa but the Caliph refuses to jeopardize his countrymen. However, the treacherous magician shrinks the princess and when the desperate Sinbad seeks him out, he tells that he needs to return to Colossa to get the ingredient necessary for the magic potion. But Sinbad has only his friend Harufa to travel with him, and he decides to enlist a doubtful crew in the prison of Baghdad, in the beginning of his dangerous voyage to Colossa to save the princess and avoid the eminent war between Chandra and Baghdad.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-01-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada, USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (331 Reviews)

Director:

Charles Jarrott

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Louis Stevenson (novel)

Ian McLellan Hunter (teleplay)

Fullplot:

This made-for-television adaptation doesn't waste time with preliminaries. Within 15 minutes of its opening, Dr. Henry Jekyll has already experimented on himself with a concoction that he'd hoped would neutralize his baser instincts but which releases without inhibition his long-repressed animal inclinations.

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