Biography: Barbara Bel Geddes |
The daughter of Norman Bel Geddes, the noted architect and theatrical set designer, Barbara Bel Geddes was a professional stage actress from age 18. She gained prominence as the ingenue in the original Broadway production of that summer-stock... more
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Tags: Family Drama Drama Americana
Length: 120min
This videotaped version of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play Our Town stars Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager. Acting as narrator and assuming several different interlocutory roles throughout the production, Holbrook shows us life in Grovers...
Cast: Jeanne Moreau Martin Ritt
Length: 101min
Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this standard wartime drama. Some of his better-known films (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Norma...
Cast: Danny Kaye Tuesday Weld
Tags: Drama Musical Showbiz Drama Biopic Musical Drama
Length: 117min
The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future bandleaders...
Cast: Alfred Hitchcock James Stewart Bernard Herrmann Kim Novak
Tags: Psychological Thriller Romantic Mystery Mystery
Length: 128min
Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel ~D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and...
Cast: Agnes Moorehead Grace Kelly
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Thriller
Length: 92min
Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma affects those around him. Robert Cosick (Richard Basehart) is a desperate and despondent young man who has never gotten along...
Cast: Elia Kazan Paul Douglas Zero Mostel Jack Palance Richard Widmark
Tags: Chase Movie Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 96min
Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from the U.S. Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague. The carrier was an illegal alien, murdered by criminals...
Cast: James Mason
Tags: Marriage Drama Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Melodrama Drama
Length: 90min
It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure out that Smith Ohrig, the character played by Robert Ryan in Caught, is a thinly disguised takeoff of Howard Hughes. But whereas Howard Hughes was merely paranoid and eccentric, Smith Ohrig is an all-out...
Cast: Irene Dunne
Tags: Family Drama Ensemble Film Drama
Length: 134min
George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of short stories entitled -Mama's Bank Account features Irene Dunne as Mama in one of her finest and most ingratiating performances. The film is narrated by Mama's daughter Katrin...
Cast: Robert Mitchum
Tags: Psychological Western Western
Length: 88min
One of the best "psychological" westerns of the 1940s, RKO Radio's Blood on the Moon stars Robert Mitchum as itinerant cowboy Jim Garry. Riding into a Texas Indian reservation, Garry finds himself embroiled in a deadly feud between cattle ranchers and...
Cast: Henry Fonda Vincent Price
Tags: Film Noir Crime Drama Drama
Length: 101min
Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe Adams (Henry Fonda) finds himself holed up in his apartment, surrounded by policemen who soon open fire in a relentless and...
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