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A self-described "household face," character actor Jesse White made his first stage appearance as a teenager in his adopted hometown of Akron, OH. Supporting himself with a variety of civilian jobs, White worked the nightclub circuit in Cleveland,... more
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The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
Cast: Don Knotts
Tags: Comedy Comedy of Errors Adventure Comedy
Length: 101min
Roy Fleming (Don Knotts) is signed on to the space program at NASA by his father Buck (Arthur O'Connell), a gung-ho former World War I vet who is trying to make something out of his son. Roy becomes a janitor who is afraid of heights and mistaken for...
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
Cast: Boris Karloff Basil Rathbone
Tags: Comedy Fantasy Heavenly Comedy Beach Film
Length: 82min
American-International's Beach Party series came to an abrupt end with Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. Because of such tangible reasons as contractual commitments, coupled with such intangibles as illness and death, most of the series "regulars" are...
Cast: Jesse White Jack Klugman
Length: 93min
Written by mystery master Rod Serling, The Yellow Canary stars Pat Boone as insufferable singing idol Andy Paxton. Barbara Eden plays his wife Lissa, who is fed up with her husband's egotistical attitude and is ready to leave him. When their baby son...
Tags: Musical
Length: 81min
Though produced on a shoestring, Country Music Holiday has a lot more going for it than most popular-music melanges of the 1950s. Ferlin Husky stars as Verne Brand, a talented hillbilly warbler who is discovered by fast-talking Sonny Moon (Jesse...
Cast: Jerry Lewis Frank Tashlin
Tags: Slapstick Detective Film Comedy Mystery Crime
Length: 84min
Jerry Lewis stars in this broad slapstick comedy as Lester March, a TV repairman who dreams of some day being a private detective like his friend and role model Mr. Flint (Jesse White). One night, Lester sees a report on television about Cecilia...
Three Blondes in His Life (1961)
Cast: Jock Mahoney
Length: 81min
Another low-budget, clichéd detective yarn, Three Blondes in his Life features Jock Mahoney as a private eye who is intent on figuring out the reasons for the death of one of his acquaintances, an insurance investigator. As the detective gets to work...
Cast: Buster Keaton Dorothy Lamour
Tags: Romantic Comedy Teen Movie Comedy Science Fiction Sci-Fi Comedy
Length: 82min
Out of the beaches and into the boudoirs go Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and the rest of the gang in Pajama Party. Actually, the whole megillah is as innocent as a newborn babe, but there's plenty of smirking and snickering during a wild 'n'...
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
Cast: Budd Boetticher
Tags: Crime Action Biopic Crime Drama Docudrama
Length: 101min
This effective gangster film on the notorious New York mobster Jack "Legs" Diamond is interspersed with moments of comic relief and was released just a few months after The Purple Gang shot their way across the silver screens in the U.S. Ironically,...
Cast: Cecil Kellaway Ethel Barrymore
Tags: Drama
Length: 80min
In this gentle, non-melodramatic drama, an elderly, wealthy widow will not leave her apartment even after her building is slated to be converted into a dormitory by the university that purchased it. She refuses to leave because she is convinced that...
Tags: Drama
Length: 80min
Prominent surgeon Walter Brennan comes to the conclusion that his talents are on loan from God. He retires from his lucrative practice and moves to a small town, there to donate his money to charitable religious causes. Brennan's avaricious family...
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