Biography: Thomas Mitchell |
The son of Irish immigrants, Thomas Mitchell came from a family of journalists and civic leaders; his nephew, James Mitchell, later became the U.S. Secretary of Labor. Following the lead of his father and brother, Mitchell became a newspaper reporter... more
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Cast: Thomas Mitchell
Tags: Drama
Length: 88min
Based on the stageplay ~Pick-up Girl, this film adaptation by director Muriel Box retains enough of the verbose theatrical styling and single-set focus to wobble as a cinematic effort. The story centers around an unfortunate period in the life of...
Tags: Crime Drama Crime Drama
Length: 82min
In this drama, a law student discovers corruption in city hall while researching a class project involving mock grand-jury work. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Vincent Price Fritz Lang George Sanders Ida Lupino Dana Andrews Rhonda Fleming
Tags: Thriller Film Noir Psychological Thriller
Length: 100min
When media mogul Amos Kyne (Robert Warwick) dies, his business, which includes a major newspaper, a television station, and a wire news service, is turned over to his sole heir, his foppish, ne'er do well son (Vincent Price). The younger Kyne has no...
The Hour of Stars: Miracle on 34th Street (1955)
Tags: Fantasy Family Holiday Film
Length: 60min
The 20th Century-Fox Hour (later syndicated as The Hour of Stars) ran on CBS just shy of two years, from October 1955 through September 1957. An anthology program, the series typically featured readaptations of 20th Century-Fox feature films for a...
Cast: Audie Murphy
Length: 95min
The third and (as of 1998) final film version of Max Brand's Destry Rides Again, this 1954 Audie Murphy vehicle owes more to the 1939 Jimmy Stewart version than it does to the Brand original. Murphy plays Tom Destry, the peace-loving son of a...
Length: 87min
Minister Sterling Hayden is able to tend to the needs of his flock, but can do nothing for his alcoholic wife. She kills herself, whereupon the anguished minister turns his back on his calling. He ends up a skid-row derelict and is thrown into the...
Cast: Robert Young Charlton Heston
Tags: Adventure
Length: 101min
Before Indiana Jones there was Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an idealistic archaeologist determined to return an ancient Incan mask to the society from which it came. A greedy con-artist (Robert Young) has other ideas, though, and the two men race...
Cast: Gary Cooper Fred Zinnemann Grace Kelly Lloyd Bridges
Tags: Psychological Western Western
Length: 85min
This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly). But his happiness is short-lived when he is informed that the Miller gang, whose...
Cast: Ray Milland
Length: 92min
This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants to become governor. Blocked by corrupt political forces, Foster would practically have to make a deal with the Devil to reach...
Cast: Mickey Rooney
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 92min
In The Big Wheel, Mickey Rooney plays Billy Coy, a garage mechanic who matriculates into a champion race-car driver. On the way to the top, he steps on friends and foes alike. He even manages to briefly alienate his saintly mother (Spring Byington)....
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