Biography: David Butler |
David Butler's filmmaking career spans forty years. He is best remembered as a prolific director of musicals and romantic comedies. Prior to becoming a director, the San Francisco born Butler began his career as a three year old child actor. In 1918,... more
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Cast: Jane Withers
Tags: Drama
Length: 92min
This is a routine drama about Leo Mack (Frankie Vaughn) a good-for-nothing, aspiring actor who goes to Hollywood and then ruins one life after another. Based on a stage play by the late Garson Kanin and adapted by his brother, scripters Michael Kanin...
C'mon, Let's Live a Little (1967)
Cast: David Butler
Length: 85min
This drama centers on life in a small college. The hero is a folk singer from the backwoods. Because he saved the dean's daughter from a car accident, he received a scholarship. The school rebel uses the folk singer to entice students into attending...
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
Cast: Virginia Mayo George Sanders Laurence Harvey Robert Douglas
Tags: Epic Adventure Period Film Costume Adventure
Length: 113min
Roundly panned when it was first released, this CinemaScope film version of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman can now be enjoyed on a "high camp" level. George Sanders plays King Richard the Lionhearted, while his arch-foe Saladin is over-acted by Rex...
Length: 93min
Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina. The 56-day battle of Dien Ben Phu is herein reenacted, with several French volunteers emerging as the heroes....
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
Cast: Natalie Wood Tab Hunter
Tags: Comedy Adventure Romantic Adventure
Length: 103min
The peacetime draft is given the teen-idol treatment in The Girl He Left Behind. Hollywood hunk Tab Hunter is starred as a spoiled young man who is whipped into shape--and humility--by his two years of compulsory military service. Natalie Wood plays...
Cast: Walter Brennan Charlotte Greenwood Gene Markey
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 100min
Producer-director David Butler once listed Glory as among his favorite films. Margaret O'Brien plays her first grown-up role as the owner of the eponymous racing filly. Despite the fact that the horse seems to be a dud, Margaret insists upon entering...
Cast: Doris Day Philip Carey Howard Keel Allyn Ann McLerie
Tags: Musical Western Musical Romance Musical
Length: 101min
Doris Day looks no more like the real Calamity Jane than you or I do, but this 1953 film is intended as a lighthearted musical, not a historical tract. As portrayed by the freckled Ms. Day, Jane is a rootin', tootin' shootin' hoyden in the western...
Cast: Guy Madison
Length: 88min
The Command was Warner Bros.' first Technicolor release. Guy Madison, then extremely popular with western fans by virtue of the TVer Wild Bill Hickok, heads the cast as Army medical captain McClaw. When a cavalry commander is killed, McClaw, the...
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
Cast: Gordon MacRae
Tags: Musical Romance Romance
Length: 101min
By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the "Penrod" stories by Booth Tarkington. Penrod himself (played by Billy Gray) takes a back seat to the main plot, concerning the...
Cast: Ray Bolger
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Romance Comedy Musical
Length: 100min
Thanks to a bureaucratic blunder, the US State Department invites brassy showgirl Doris Day to attend a chi-chi arts festival in Paris. En route to the City of Light, Day falls in love with diplomat corps flunkey Ray Bolger (who's responsible for the...
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