Biography: Henry King |
After a start as a stage actor, Henry Kingbegan appearing in films in 1912, and by 1915 was directing. King made numerous dramas, westerns, and actioners over the teens, achieving special distinction with his 1919 comedy 23-1/2 Hours Leave. Two years... more
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Cast: Rock Hudson Jean Simmons Claude Rains
Tags: Drama
Length: 125min
Based on the novel The Cup and the Sword by Alice Tisdale Hobart, this drama examines the trials and tribulations of three generations of French-American California vineyard owners. It's set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were...
Cast: Henry King
Tags: Romance Drama Biopic Romantic Drama
Length: 120min
Gregory Peck stars as the great American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in this film based on a memoir by Sheilah Graham, who was Fitzgerald's paramour during his final days. Graham (played by Deborah Kerr) was a gossip columnist and aspiring novelist who...
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr.
Tags: Romance Drama Melodrama Romantic Drama
Length: 146min
David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's -Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife Jennifer Jones. But financial difficulties compelled Selznick to sell the property (including Ms. Jones' services) to 20th...
Cast: Gregory Peck
Tags: Western Psychological Western
Length: 98min
Brooding Gregory Peck arrives in a small western town to witness the hanging of the men whom he holds responsible for the murder of his wife (they've been arrested for an unrelated crime). Through the help of a duplicitous executioner, the gang...
Tags: Romantic Adventure Action Adventure Epic
Length: 115min
Tyrone Power is a Dutchman, and Susan Hayward is an Irish lass. If you believe that, then the rest of Untamed will go down a lot easier. Power is a Boer calvary commander attempting to bring peace to his South African homeland. He has an affair with...
Cast: Gordon MacRae Shirley Jones
Tags: Musical Fantasy Romantic Fantasy Fantasy Romance Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies Musical
Length: 130min
Carousel was adapted from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical of the same name--which, in turn, was based on -Liliom, a play by Ferenc Molnar. Gordon MacRae stars as carnival barker Billy Bigelow, who much against his will falls in love...
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Cast: William Holden
Tags: Romance Melodrama Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 102min
Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Jennifer Jones plays Ms. Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and the widow of a Chinese general. She falls in love with American news...
Cast: Ava Gardner Tyrone Power Errol Flynn Darryl F. Zanuck Eddie Albert
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 129min
For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main concession to Hollywood formula was the casting of star players who were all too old to convincingly portray Hemingway's "Lost...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure
Length: 117min
Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for the screen rights to his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, but he could never bring himself to watch it. Gregory Peck plays...
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Tags: Romantic Adventure Action Adventure
Length: 100min
This remake of John Ford's The Black Watch (29) stars Tyrone Power as British army captain stationed in India in 1857. Shunned by his fellow officers because he is a half caste, Power defies the social structure of the era by falling in love with the...
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