Paul Picerni
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Loyola University grad Paul Picerni became an actor at a time when Arrow-collar leading men were giving way to blue-collar realistic types. Picerni never seemed too comfortable with his leading assignments in such films as House of Wax (1953); he... more
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Cast: Jack Kruschen Dan Ullman Keith Larsen Marlin Skiles William "Wild Bill" Elliott
Length: 63min
In this thriller, a mentally unstable ex-GI escapes from the mental ward and goes searching for his ex-wife who only recently divorced him. The man is not dangerous; he just wants to talk to her. Meanwhile the woman is murdered by her lover, a married...
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)
Cast: Thomas Gomez Dimitri Tiomkin Walter Wanger Don Weis Amanda Blake
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure
Length: 92min
In the 1950s, historical spectaculars set in the Far or Middle East became the repository for exploitive tales of eroticism, pure lust, and concupiscent freedom. The "decadence" of previous times gave American filmmakers an excuse to satisfy viewers'...
Cast: Vincent Price Richard Benjamin André De Toth Carolyn Jones Phyllis Kirk
Tags: Costume Horror Horror
Length: 88min
This simplified (but lavish) remake of the 1933 melodrama The Mystery of the Wax Museum was the most financially successful 3-D production of the 1950s. In his first full-fledged "horror" role, Vincent Price plays Prof. Henry Jarrod, the owner of a...
Cast: Lewis Seiler Frank Lovejoy Don Beddoe Joan Weldon Paul Picerni
Length: 90min
The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in which a major gambling syndicate can so insinuate itself in "respectable" business circles that it becomes virtually impossible...
Cast: Errol Flynn Raymond Burr Richard Webb Ruth Roman Milo Anderson
Tags: Romantic Adventure Sea Adventure Action Adventure
Length: 98min
A very tired-looking Errol Flynn heads the cast of Maru Maru. Flynn plays deep-sea diver Gregory Mason, who is hired to locate a sunken PT boat bearing a diamond-encrusted religious icon. Mason's employer on this mission is the disreputable Brock...
Cast: Rita Moreno Amanda Blake Dennis Morgan Philip Carey Merv Griffin
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 71min
Cattle Town is a rare low-budget western from the Warner Bros. mills. Dennis Morgan plays Mike McGann, a troubleshooter sent out by the governor of Texas to keep a group of dispossessed ranchers from causing trouble. Disgusted by the activities of...
Cast: Cornel Wilde Karl Malden Robert Shaw Lewis Seiler Phyllis Thaxter
Length: 108min
Loosely based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz, this mystery centers on an American WW II veteran who heroically served as both an officer and a member of the French Foreign Legionnaire. During the war he had been instrumental in...
Cast: Lewis Seiler Steve Cochran Philip Carey George O'Hanlon Paul Picerni
Tags: War Drama Combat Films War
Length: 90min
Actual combat footage is deftly blended in with dramatized re-enactments in The Tanks Are Coming. Steve Cochran stars as Sergeant Sully, the hard-bitten new leader of an arrogant, fiercely independent tank platoon. Despite protests from his commanding...
Cast: Frank Lovejoy Lewis Seiler David Brian Danny Arnold Paul Picerni
Tags: War Drama Combat Films War
Length: 91min
Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent. Led by Captain Hale (David Brian), a small group of infantrymen march through Normandy. The war-weary foot...
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