Biography: Marilyn Maxwell |
Her mother was a piano accompanist for dancer Ruth St. Denis; Maxwell traveled with her as a child, and at age three made her first stage appearance in a dance number. After taking singing lessons, as a teenager she became a band vocalist and sang on... more
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Cast: James Cagney
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 87min
Producer A.C. Lyles managed to do quite well for himself in the 1960s by making low-budget westerns crammed full of familiar faces whose stock in the film industry had slipped a bit. Starring in Arizona Bushwackers were such celebrities of yesteryear...
Length: 95min
In this remake of Johnny Dark (1954) an ex-GI and college dropout would rather play with cars than anything else until he meets the lovely Eady with whom he falls passionately in love. They get engaged and go to San Francisco where he begins working...
Cast: Lucille Ball Rip Torn
Tags: Comedy Drama Showbiz Comedy
Length: 100min
Ira Levin wrote the stage comedy Critic's Choice as a good-natured retort to a comment made by critic Walter Kerr. In his essay -How Not to Write a Play, Kerr noted that the worst possible scenario would involve a drama critic forced to review a play...
Cast: Keenan Wynn Lon Chaney, Jr.
Length: 82min
In this western adventure, a sheriff prepares to retire and finds himself forced to deal with his past when he is assigned to round up a gang of outlaws comprised of the sons of the man who raised him after his own parents were killed. The sheriff has...
Cast: Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis
Length: 103min
In this comedy, an awkward TV repairman finds himself falling for an actress who doesn't even know he exists and instead marries a dashing Mexican bullfighter. Unfortunately, he dies the day after their wedding; fortunately, he managed to impregnate...
Cast: Broderick Crawford Anne Bancroft
Length: 87min
New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan, a "torpedo" for Manhattan crime boss Charlie Lupo (Broderick Crawford). Pleased with Magellan's work, Charlie promotes him to...
Cast: Jane Darwell Lloyd Nolan
Tags: Crime Comedy Drama
Length: 91min
Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with Lee Tracy paid more than lip service to the original Runyon story. The second version, filmed in 1951, was completely retooled to...
Cast: Anthony Quinn Henry Mancini Budd Boetticher
Tags: Adventure Action Romantic Adventure
Length: 82min
Director Budd Boetticher moves out of his traditional western surroundings for the Technicolor programmer East of Sumatra. Jeff Chandler stars as an American miner, who journeys east of Sumatra in search of tin ore. He runs afoul of Anthony Quinn, a...
Cast: Bob Hope Mickey Rooney
Tags: Police Comedy Comedy
Length: 89min
At age 50, Bob Hope was getting a bit too long in tooth for frenzied farces like Off Limits, but his surplus of energy makes up for his chronological unsuitability. Hope plays the manager of boxing champ Stanley Clements, who has just received his...
Cast: Andy Devine Raymond Burr
Length: 76min
Filmed in Ansco Color (a fancy name for Eastmancolor), New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as Capt. Hunt, a U.S. Cavalry Captain stationed in Indian territory. Sympathetic to the plight of the long-suffering Native Americans, Hunt sets out to sign a peace...
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