Biography: Jeanne Crain |
At age 16, Jeanne Crain won a beauty contest as "Miss Long Beach" and became a model; the next year she was named "Camera Girl of 1942," leading to contacts in Hollywood. She debuted on screen in 1943 in The Gang's All Here, beginning a starring... more
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Cast: Charlton Heston
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 100min
Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans the controls of a Los Angeles-bound commercial airliner which is hijacked to Russia by an unknown miscreant. Even when...
Cast: Akim Tamiroff
Tags: Epic
Length: 96min
An international cast wanders in and out of the lavish sets in Daggers of Blood. Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film concerns the star-crossed romance between a Polish military officer and a gorgeous Slavic princess. The princess' vengeful...
Cast: David Janssen Agnes Moorehead
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 102min
Sounding something like a standard '40s police story, this talkative but interesting murder mystery stars David Janssen of TV's The Fugitive series. Janssen plays Tom Alder, a gumshoe looking into the murder of the secretary of a shady Hollywood film...
Cast: Dana Andrews
Tags: Action Drama Juvenile Delinquency Film
Length: 92min
In this youthful actioner, two young hot-rodding hoods torment a family while they are en route to a motel in the California desert. The film is also known as 52 Miles to Midnight. The family goes there to take over the establishment. When they...
Cast: Kathleen Freeman Jeanne Crain
Tags: Drama
Length: 94min
Dana Andrews is ad-man Clint Lorimer in this uneven drama, the last feature film by director Bruce Humberstone, released several years after it was completed. Clint is fired from his job working for a big ad agency, and he is determined to prove...
Cast: Broderick Crawford Glenn Ford
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 92min
In this western, a pacifistic store owner does all he can to avoid association with his father, a notorious gunfighter. One day he gets drunk and shows off his own considerable skills with a pistol. Unfortunately, this attracts the attention of the...
Cast: Henry Mancini
Tags: Psychological Thriller Detective Film Thriller
Length: 93min
Jeff Chandler plays big-city lawyer James Gordon Blane, who heads to a small Nevada town to defend a playboy (Phillip Reed) accused of murder. Blane wins the case, but is then himself charged with accepting bribes. The man behind this accusation is...
Guns of the Timberlands (1960)
Cast: Alan Ladd
Tags: Western Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 95min
In this action drama, ranchers and lumberjacks are at loggerheads over the proper usage of the land. When the logging team finds a prime stand, the ranchers beg the loggers not to harvest it because the lack of trees will cause deadly mud slides...
Cast: Frank Sinatra Mitzi Gaynor Eddie Albert Jackie Coogan
Tags: Showbiz Drama Biopic Drama
Length: 126min
Frank Sinatra stars as legendary nightclub comic Joe E. Lewis in this dramatic screen biography. In the 1920s, Lewis was a popular singer in Chicago who could fill any nightclub he chose to play. This doesn't go unnoticed by the mobsters who control...
Cast: Kirk Douglas Claire Trevor Richard Boone King Vidor
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 89min
In this deceptively titled and paced Western, Kirk Douglas shines in the hyper-macho role of Dempsey Rae, a good-natured drifter with a mysterious past up from Texas, a top hand with a gun, a horse, or a herd, who can even play the banjo and sing. He...
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