Biography: Donald Crisp |

If Donald Crisp had any peer as an actor, it was probably his fellow Scotsman Finlay Currie, who made a virtual star career (albeit mostly in England) playing the same kind of dour roles that Crisp often essayed -- but even that only overlapped with... more
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Cast: Henry Fonda   
Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Rural Drama Family Drama Comedy Drama Americana 
Length: 118min
For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons, Spencer's Mountain sure has a lot in it about sex. Henry Fonda gives an interesting portrayal in one of his more unusual roles, as...

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)
Tags: Family Drama Animal Picture Docudrama 
Length: 91min
Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and both feature Donald Crisp in a major role. A true story, set in Edinburgh around 1875, the Disney version stars Alex McKenzie as...

Cast: John Cassavetes   
Tags: Action Western Traditional Western 
Length: 84min
Rod Serling's first original screenplay for the Big Screen was the psychological western Saddle the Wind. In one of his best performances, Robert Taylor plays Steve Sinclair, a world-weary gunslinger. Hoping to become a rancher, Sinclair is given a...

Cast: James B. Clark Theodore Bikel   
Tags: Animal Picture Drama Family 
Length: 96min
Based on a novel written in 1872, this charming tale of a young boy and his dog is leisurely and heart-warming. Nello (David Ladd) and his grandfather Daas (Donald Crisp) manage to make ends meet by delivering milk from the nearby farms to the city of...

Cast: James Stewart   
Tags: Psychological Western Western 
Length: 104min
Anthony Mann directed this brilliant psychological Western reminiscent of Shakespeare's +King Lear. James Stewart plays Will Lockhart, who is obsessed with finding the man who sold automatic rifles to the Apaches, resulting in the death of his...

Cast: Marilyn Monroe   
Tags: Drama Propaganda Film Melodrama 
Length: 61min
Home Town Story was commissioned as a pro-Big Business tract by General Motors. The story revolves around Blake Washburn, a mildly leftist newspaperman, played by Jeffrey Lynn. Returning to his home town, Washburn turns his journalistic vitriol upon...

Cast: John Ford Tyrone Power Donald Crisp Maureen O'Hara   
Length: 138min
The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in flashback, the film recalls the first days at the Point for Irish immigrant Maher (Tyrone Power), a pugnacious boy who can't...

Cast: Michael Curtiz Lauren Bacall Gary Cooper Patricia Neal   
Tags: Melodrama Drama Romance 
Length: 109min
Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native Carolinian who for many years taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's theatre department. The film version of...

Tags: Animal Picture Drama Family 
Length: 76min
A "new" Lassie (once again, a male collie in drag) starred in A Challenge to Lassie, MGM's fourth entry in their series based on characters created by Eric Knight. This time, Lassie is plunked into the plotline of William Ludwig's novel Greyfriars...

Cast: Janet Leigh Edmund Gwenn   
Tags: Animal Picture Family-Oriented Adventure Drama 
Length: 97min
MGM's Lassie series was declining in popularity by 1948, so the studio decided to release its latest adventure of the famous collie as Hills of Home, so that non-Lassie fans might be inveigled into entering the theatre. Actually, Hills is one of the...

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