Biography: Brian Aherne |
Active in amateur theatricals from age three, Briton Brian Aherne studied for his craft at the Italia Conti School, making his professional bow when he was eight. Aherne would later claim that he remained an actor into adulthood (after a tentative... more
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Cast: Cornel Wilde
Tags: Romantic Adventure Fantasy Romance
Length: 115min
Cornel Wilde co-produces, directs, and stars with his wife Jean Wallace in this uneven version of fabled King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Wilde, a skilled fencer, is Lancelot and appropriately enough, Wallace is his lady-love Guinevere....
Cast: Rosalind Russell
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 98min
Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play +A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe Heriat, but the indirect source for all three versions is Shakespeare's +King Lear. Rosalind Russell has the Lear part, here...
Cast: Dorothy McGuire
Tags: Drama
Length: 116min
A complicated soap opera, Susan Slade features Connie Stevens as the title character, a naïve 17-year-old who is at a mountain resort in Alaska when she falls in love with a climber (Grant Williams). They have an affair, and she ends up pregnant, but...
Cast: Constance Bennett
Tags: Adventure Action Romantic Adventure
Length: 86min
Angel on the Amazon gives the viewer a pretty good notion of what Lost Horizon or She might have looked like had they been produced by Republic Pictures. Vera Ralston stars as huntress Christine Ridgeway, who embarks on one of her many hunting...
Cast: Alfred Hitchcock Montgomery Clift Anne Baxter Karl Malden
Tags: Psychological Thriller Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 95min
Based on the turn-of-the-century play +Our Two Consciences by Paul Anthelme, Hitchcock's I Confess is set in Quebec. Montgomery Clift plays a priest who hears the confession of church sexton O.E. Hasse. "I...killed...a man" whispers Hasse in tight...
Cast: Jean Simmons
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 83min
A young woman (Jean Simmons) manages a remote California sheep ranch with her father (Brian Aherne). A plane carrying a sheriff (Stephen McNally) and a man indicted for manslaughter (Rory Calhoun) crashes nearby. Both men are cared for by the girl,...
Tags: Romantic Adventure War Drama Adventure War
Length: 88min
With Dorothy Arzner in the director's chair, it's no wonder that First Comes Courage has a more feminist slant than most WWII "underground" films. Merle Oberon plays Nicole Larsen, a member of the Norwegian resistance. To obtain important war...
Tags: Courtroom Drama Drama Mystery
Length: 93min
In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but once the day is over they become passionate lovers. Unfortunately their newest case may well threaten their relationship as the...
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke Buster Keaton Herbert Wilcox Frank Lloyd Robert Cummings Gladys Cooper Merle Oberon Ida Lupino
Tags: Period Film Ensemble Film Drama
Length: 106min
The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen...
Cast: Robert Mitchum
Tags: Drama Crime Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 86min
Setting something of a record for flashbacks within flashbacks, The Locket recounts the mental disintegration of bride-to-be Laraine Day. As a child, Day was accused of stealing a locket at a fancy party. She has spent her life getting even for this...
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