Biography: Sidney Blackmer |
Sidney Blackmer had planned to study law at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, but football and amateur theatricals held more interest for him. Heading east to make his fortune as an actor, Blackmer accepted day work at various film... more
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Cast: Roman Polanski John Cassavetes
Tags: Horror Supernatural Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 134min
In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John...
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Cast: Fritz Lang Joan Fontaine
Tags: Psychological Drama Courtroom Drama Crime Drama Drama Film Noir
Length: 80min
Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the...
Tags: Thriller Crime Mystery Crime Thriller Detective Film
Length: 75min
Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things, Ilona is guilty; she was, after all, the last person to see crooked lawyer Hobart (Sidney Blackmer) alive. But Lt. Roy Hargis...
The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
Tags: Drama
Length: 97min
Miscegenation, that old reliable bugaboo of many a Southern-based novel, is at the center of Hamilton Basso's The View from Pompey's Head. The film version stars Richard Egan as a New York lawyer who returns to his Southern home town to investigate an...
Cast: Fay Wray Debbie Reynolds
Tags: Romantic Comedy Romance
Length: 89min
Debbie Reynolds stars as Tammy in this romantic comedy of a country girl living in the South who cares for pilot Peter Brent (Leslie Neilsen) after his plane crashes near her home. At the beckoning of mutual admiration, Peter soon invites her to his...
Cast: Tony Curtis Henry Mancini Piper Laurie
Tags: Action Drama Romance Sports Drama
Length: 79min
Tony Curtis stars as Johnny Dark, a moody automobile designer. Rejected by a major auto firm because of his "radical" notions, Johnny sets out to prove the efficiency of his cars on the racetrack. He is aided and abetted by pretty Piper Laurie and...
Cast: Donna Reed
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 111min
John Derek plays a Polish-American immigrant who excels in high school sports. Though no great shakes academically, Derek wins a scholarship at an exclusive Southern university. Sidney Blackmer is a wealthy alumnus who sees to it that Derek is allowed...
Cast: Lionel Barrymore Gregory Peck Lillian Gish David O. Selznick Orson Welles Jennifer Jones King Vidor Joseph Cotten
Tags: Drama Epic Western Romantic Drama Western Melodrama
Length: 130min
In David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, Jennifer Jones stars as Pearl Chavez, whom everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. She is taken into the home of wealthy, greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife...
The San Francisco Story (1952)
Cast: Joel McCrea
Length: 80min
Joel McCrea plays 19th-century miner Rick Nelson in The San Francisco Story. The year is 1856, and Frisco is a wide-open town. To stem the activities of crooks and con artists, newspaper editor Jim Martin (Onslow Stevens) organizes a group of...
Cast: Hugh Beaumont
Length: 81min
Washington Story stars Van Johnson as mildly liberal congressman Joseph T. Gresham. For reasons that he can't fathom, Gresham has been targeted for abuse by powerful columnist Gilbert Nunnaly (Philip Ober). Working in cahoots with Nunnaly is...
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