Biography: Lloyd Bacon |
Born into an American theatrical family, Lloyd Bacon was the son of Frank Bacon, the actor who made the stage play Lightnin' virtually his life's work. Lloyd pursued the family business early in life, appearing in stock companies and touring shows,... more
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Cast: Jane Russell
Length: 102min
Like so many other films that were once considered "lewd" and "scandalous", The French Line seems as harmless as Pollyanna when seen today. Essentially a remake of The Richest Girl in the World, the film stars Jane Russell as Mary Carson, an...
The Great Sioux Uprising (1953)
Cast: Henry Mancini
Length: 80min
Several genuine Native Americans dot the cast of Universal's The Great Sioux Uprising. The scene is the frontier outpost of Laramie Junction, where livery stable owner Joan Britton (Faith Domergue) and rancher Stephen Cook (Lyle Bettger) carry on a...
Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)
Cast: Janet Leigh Donald O'Connor
Length: 95min
Walking My Baby Back Home is a bubbly musical of no significance whatsoever, but this doesn't diminish its enjoyability factor. The film wastes no time in showing off the singing and dancing skills of star Donald O'Connor, who is seen cavorting about...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Jean Simmons Edgar Buchanan
Tags: Comedy
Length: 88min
Lloyd Bacon wrapped up his lengthy directorial career with the innocuous comedy She Couldn't Say No. "She" is a young heiress named Corby (Jean Simmons), who visits the small town of Progress, Arkansas, hoping to repay a good deed. It seems that, when...
Cast: Mitzi Gaynor Oscar Levant David Wayne
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Comedy Biopic
Length: 78min
Mitzi Gaynor plays legendary vaudeville headliner Eva Tanguay, whose signature tune was the bouncy &"I Don't Care". The film's actual producer George Jessel costars as "himself;" the gimmick is that Jessel wants to produce a biopic based on Tanguay,...
Cast: Richard Widmark Dana Andrews
Tags: War War Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 96min
In this World War II drama, Richard Widmark plays Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, a strict navy commander assigned to replace the popular senior officer of a group of underwater demolition divers -- better known as frogmen. Lawrence tightens the discipline...
Cast: William Bendix
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Sports Drama
Length: 78min
William Bendix is perfectly cast as a diehard baseball fan who hates umpires with every fibre of his being. Bendix' devotion to baseball has lost him job after job, so his father-in-law (Ray Collins)--who happens to be an umpire--forces Our Hero to...
Cast: Betty Grable Richard Boone Busby Berkeley
Tags: Musical
Length: 96min
The original Broadway musical Call Me Mister was a plotless revue. By the time the property made it to the screen, however, a storyline was grafted on and much of the revue's funnier (and dirtier) material was weeded out. Betty Grable stars as an...
Cast: Dale Robertson
Tags: Docudrama Biopic Musical Romance
Length: 108min
Golden Girl is the life story (sort of) of legendary 19th-century American entertainer Lotta Crabtree. The daughter of a luckless gambler (James Barton), young Lotta (Mitzi Gaynor) supports herself and her dad by singing and dancing in mining camps...
Cast: George Reeves
Tags: Crime Comedy Crime Comedy Slapstick
Length: 79min
In the tradition of Red Skelton's The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man comes The Good Humor Man, with Jack Carson subbing for Skelton this time out. Carson plays Biff Jones, who when not peddling Good Humor ice cream carries on a romance with...
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