3 Movies Starring Wallace Ford

Freaks

Freaks

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1932-02-20

Languages:

English, German, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

64 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(29972 Reviews)

Director:

Tod Browning

Genres:

DramaHorror

Cast:

Writer:

Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins (suggested by story: "Spurs")

Fullplot:

A circus trapeze artist, Cleopatra, takes an interest in Hans, a midget who works in the circus sideshow. Her interest however is in the money Hans will be inheriting and she is actually carrying on an affair with another circus performer, Hercules. Hans's fiancèe does her best to convince him that he is being used but to no avail. At their wedding party, a drunken Cleopatra tells the sideshow freaks just what she thinks of them. Together, the freaks decide to make her one of their own.

The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1934-02-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

73 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

(2011 Reviews)

Director:

John Ford

Genres:

AdventureWar

Cast:

Writer:

Dudley Nichols (screen play)

Garrett Fort (adaptation)

Philip MacDonald (from the story "Patrol" by)

Fullplot:

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awake the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.

A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-12-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(5055 Reviews)

Director:

Guy Green

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Elizabeth Kata (novel)

Guy Green

Fullplot:

Accidentally blinded by her prostitute mother Rose-Ann at the age of five, Selina D'Arcey spends the next 13 years confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with "Ole Pa", Selina's grandfather. One afternoon at the local park, Selina meets Gordon Ralfe, a thoughtful young office worker whose kind-hearted treatment of her results in her falling in love with him, unaware that he is black. They continue to meet in the park every afternoon and he teaches her how to get along in the city. But when the cruel, domineering Rose-Ann learns of their relationship, she forbids her to have anything more to do with him because he is black. Selina continues to meet Gordon despite Rose-Ann's fury, who is determined to end the relationship for good.

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