Charles Bickford

Days of Wine and Roses (1962)

Cast: Jack Lemmon Jack Klugman Blake Edwards Henry Mancini Johnny Mercer   

Tags: Marriage Drama 

Length: 118min

In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace in liquor. Kirsten joins him in his nocturnal drinking...

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You Can't Run Away From It (1956)

Cast: Jack Lemmon June Allyson Dick Powell Jim Backus Howard McNear   

Tags: Screwball Comedy Musical Comedy Comedy Musical 

Length: 95min

You Can't Run Away From It is a musical remake of Frank Capra's Oscar-winning classic It Happened One Night, complete with same-named characters and word-for-word scene reconstructions. It all begins when spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (June Allyson)...

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The Unforgiven (1960)

Cast: Audrey Hepburn John Huston Burt Lancaster Lillian Gish Audie Murphy   

Tags: Revisionist Western Psychological Western Western 

Length: 123min

One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of notable stars is no drawback either. Setting up the story with a series of suspenseful scenes, Huston has a mysterious...

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Not as a Stranger (1955)

Cast: Frank Sinatra Robert Mitchum Olivia de Havilland Broderick Crawford Stanley Kramer   

Tags: Melodrama Drama 

Length: 135min

Ambitious but impecunious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) marries the older and (in this film, at least) not especially attractive Kristina Hedvigson (Olivia de Havilland) so that she can pay his tuition fees. Kristina loves Lucas, but he...

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Mister Cory (1957)

Cast: Tony Curtis Blake Edwards Henry Mancini William Reynolds Martha Hyer   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 92min

Mister Cory represented the first of several successful collaborations between star Tony Curtis and director Blake Edwards. Adapted from a story by Leo Rosten, the story details the rise of Mr. Cory (Curtis) from summer-resort busboy to high-stakes...

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The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)

Cast: Gary Cooper Otto Preminger Rod Steiger Ralph Bellamy Peter Graves   

Tags: Docudrama Biopic War Drama Drama 

Length: 100min

In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts Mitchell's efforts to prove the viability of a strong air force. The hidebound military higher-ups refuse to finance aviation...

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A Star is Born (1954)

Cast: George Cukor James Mason Judy Garland Harold Arlen Tommy Noonan   

Tags: Musical Drama Marriage Drama Drama Musical Showbiz Drama 

Length: 175min

The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal return to the screen of Judy Garland after a four-year absence. The remake adheres closely to the plotline of the 1937 original: An...

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Prince of Players (1955)

Cast: Bernard Herrmann Richard Burton Raymond Massey Paul H. Frees Philip Dunne   

Tags: Biopic Drama 

Length: 102min

Screenwriter Philip Dunne doubled as director on the elaborate filmed biography Prince of Players. Richard Burton stars as the eminent American tragedian Edwin Booth, whose life and career is thrown into turmoil after his younger brother John Wilkes...

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The Last Posse (1953)

Cast: Broderick Crawford Wanda Hendrix Warner Anderson Charles Bickford Will Wright   

Tags: Western Traditional Western 

Length: 73min

After his Oscar win for All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford found himself working out his Columbia contract in a string of rapidly deteriorating films. The Last Posse was a middling western, the sort that the studio sent out as bottom-of-bill...

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