Biography: John Gavin |
Born Jack Golenor, this brawny, handsome leading man of Hollywood films appeared onscreen from 1956; he was once hyped as the next Rock Hudson. From 1952-56 he was an air intelligence officer with the Navy, specializing in Pan American Affairs. When... more
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Cast: John Gavin
Tags: Supernatural Horror Thriller
Length: 90min
Jennifer, directed by Brice Mack is an uninspired, low-budget rip-off of Brain De Palma's far superior Carrie but also borrows a bit from Ben and Willard. Jennifer (Lisa Pelikan) is an outcast student who gets her revenge on her classmates at the...
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 95min
When 2 young people plot to "get even" with their families, romance intervenes. ~ All Movie Guide
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970)
Cast: Ian McShane Joyce Van Patten
Tags: Comedy
Length: 100min
This uneven comedy finds Fred (Ian McShane) as a writer living off his royalties in Italy. Married to the long-suffering Millie (Ann Calder-Marshall), Fred revels in a series of affairs with a bevy of Italian beauties. Millie soon grows tired of being...
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn Yul Brynner Danny Kaye Edith Evans Charles Boyer
Length: 142min
Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final result falls short despite the talents of the celebrated thespians. The madwoman in question is the extremely eccentric Countess...
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Cast: Julie Andrews Carol Channing George Roy Hill Mary Tyler Moore Bud Westmore
Tags: Farce Comedy Musical Musical Comedy
Length: 138min
George Roy Hill directed this original musical set the 1920s that mixes pop standards with new tunes written by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen. Julie Andrews, in a role that recalls her Broadway triumph in The Boy Friend, stars as Millie Dillmount,...
Cast: Akim Tamiroff Peter Ustinov
Tags: Romance Comedy Political Satire
Length: 103min
Peter Ustinov went the auteur route as writer, director, producer, and star of this Cold War farce, based on his play and very similar to the equally well-regarded The Mouse That Roared (1959). Ustinov is "the general," leader of the tiny European...
Cast: Susan Hayward
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance Drama Melodrama
Length: 107min
This third film version of the lachrymose Fannie Hurst novel Back Street stars Susan Hayward as Rae Smith the role previously essayed by Irene Dunne (in 1932) and Margaret Sullavan (in 1941). In both earlier films, Rae Smith sacrifices 28 years of her...
Cast: Alfred Hitchcock Janet Leigh Bernard Herrmann Anthony Perkins
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 120min
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen hriller. From its first scene, in...
Pas De Roses Pour OSS 117 (1968)
Tags: Action Thriller Spy Film Glamorized Spy Film
Length: 105min
Agent OSS 117 (John Gavin) is the American secret agent who battles an evil organization that carries out assassinations. He poses as a killer to infiltrate the organization led by the macabre Major (Curt Jurgens). He draws an assignment that sends...
Length: 97min
In this emotional romance, the young backwoods girl Tammy lives in a houseboat on the river. She is very sad because she hasn't heard from her college-student boyfriend in ages. Determined to be near him, she cruises her boat down to his university...
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