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: Sophia Loren Michael Curtiz Maurice Chevalier Angela Lansbury
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 98min
Based on the Ferenc Molnar play +Olympia, A Breath of Scandal serves as an elegant vehicle for a ravishing Sophia Loren. The star plays Princess Olympia, who despite her station in life cannot resist the urge to satisfy her sexual appetites. Exiled to...
Cast: Myrna Loy Doris Day Roddy McDowall Rex Harrison Herbert Marshall
Tags: Film Noir Mystery Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 108min
Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim of a mysterious stalker, who she hears but can never see. She is threatened by the eerie, high-pitched voice as she walks in...
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Cast: Keenan Wynn Jock Mahoney Don DeFore
Tags: Melodrama War Drama War Romance Drama
Length: 133min
Douglas Sirk directed this doomed World War II love story, seen from the German side of the war, as filtered through a distinctly late-'50s Hollywood banality. The film is based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the author of the classic World War...
Cast: Fred MacMurray
Tags: Hybrid Western Crime Western
Length: 80min
Fred MacMurray plays the head of an outlaw band trying to escape across the Mexican border. The gang is able to elude the law and to navigate the rough terrain, but the flight comes to a halt in an all-but-deserted desert town. Here MacMurray and...
Cast: Lana Turner Ross Hunter
Tags: Melodrama Drama Family Drama
Length: 124min
This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst. Originally, the heroine was a widowed mother who kept the wolf from the door by setting up a successful...
Cast: Henry Mancini John Gavin Don Beddoe
Tags: Escape Film Drama Crime
Length: 85min
Behind the High Wall is a remake of the 1937 Jackie Cooper-Victor McLaglen film The Big Guy. Tom Tully plays prison warden Frank Carmichael, who is kidnapped during a jail break in which a policeman is killed. In an ensuing car crash, all the escapees...
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