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Backlash (1956)

Cast: Richard Widmark Donna Reed Barton MacLane John Sturges John McIntire   

Tags: Western Traditional Western 

Length: 83min

The breathtakingly beautiful Technicolor cinematography of Irving Glassberg is but one of the many small pleasures of the big-budget western Backlash. Set in post-Civil War Arizona, the film stars Richard Widmark as Jim Slater, who hopes to prove that...

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The Whole Truth (1958)

Cast: George Sanders Donna Reed Gianna Maria Canale John Guillermin Stewart Granger   

Tags: Mystery Thriller 

Length: 84min

In this mystery, a movie producer gets bored with his wife and begins an affair with a fiery actress. In the end, he jilts his mistress and returns to his wife. The trouble begins when someone stabs the actress and he is labelled the prime suspect by...

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Beyond Mombasa (1956)

Cast: Christopher Lee Donna Reed Cornel Wilde George Marshall Leo Genn   

Tags: Action Adventure 

Length: 90min

Hot on the heels of Safari came another Columbia-released, African-filmed adventure, Beyond Mombassa. Matt Campbell (Cornel Wilde) arrives in Kenya on a double quest. He hopes to locate a valuable uranium mine, and also to learn the "whos, whats and...

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Ransom (1956)

Cast: Alexander Scourby Donna Reed Glenn Ford Juano Hernandez Leslie Nielsen   

Tags: Drama Crime Psychological Thriller 

Length: 109min

Viewers familiar with the 1996 Mel Gibson blockbuster Ransom may be disappointed that there are no smirking villains, car chases, or bloody fistfights in the original 1956 version of the same story. Even so, the earlier Ransom! has much to offer on a...

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The Far Horizons (1955)

Cast: William Demarest Fred MacMurray Donna Reed Charlton Heston Daniel L. Fapp   

Tags: Romantic Adventure Biopic Adventure Historical Film 

Length: 108min

The Untamed West is the reissue title of the Pine-Thomas production The Far Horizons. This romanticized retelling of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803-06 stars Fred MacMurray as Meriwether Lewis and Charlton Heston as Bill Clark. The film doesn't...

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Three Hours to Kill (1954)

Cast: Donna Reed Dana Andrews Harry Joe Brown Stephen Elliott Dianne Foster   

Tags: Traditional Western Western 

Length: 77min

Three Hours to Kill is a "message" Western that manages to entertain without preaching. Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews), unjustly accused of murder, is forced out of town by an angry mob. After several tough years living off the land, Guthrie returns to...

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The Benny Goodman Story (1955)

Cast: Steve Allen Henry Mancini Donna Reed Gene Krupa Robert Simon   

Tags: Musical Drama 

Length: 116min

Steve Allen makes his dramatic film debut in The Benny Goodman Story. Outside of Goodman's conflicts with his parents over his career choice, and his early frustration over not being able to play his kind of music, the film tends to be more a series...

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They Rode West (1954)

Cast: Donna Reed Phil Karlson Philip Carey Stuart Randall Jack Kelly   

Tags: Drama Western Medical Drama 

Length: 84min

After Robert Francis became an "instant star" in Columbia's The Caine Mutiny (54), the studio rushed Francis into as many vehicles as possible. In They Rode West, Francis plays a young Army doctor, stationed at a remote cavalry post. The post's...

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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor Donna Reed Walter Pidgeon Van Johnson Eva Gabor   

Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Romance Drama 

Length: 116min

Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Paradise Revisited, MGM's The Last Time I Saw Paris is a star-studded soap opera, luxuriously lensed by director Richard Brooks. In his last film as an MGM contractee, Van Johnson plays reporter Charles Wills,...

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