Biography: Whit Bissell |
Whit Bissell was an alumnus of the Carolina Playmakers, the prestigious amateur-theatrical arm of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He entered films with 1943's Holy Matrimony, instantly establishing his standard screen characterization of... more
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Cast: Paul Newman Patricia Neal Martin Ritt Melvyn Douglas Brandon de Wilde
Tags: Drama Modern Western Americana
Length: 112min
Having been burned by compromises to censors on his earlier films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, Paul Newman decided to star in as uncompromising a property as he could find. That property was Hud, inspired by a portion of Larry...
Cast: Irwin Allen
Tags: Sci-Fi Disaster Film Drama Science Fiction
Length: 100min
Irwin Allen, praised in some circles as a science fiction genius and damned in others as a shameless schlockmeister, produced and directed this fanciful TV-movie. Set in the 21st century, the film concentrates on a group of colonists dwelling in a...
Tags: Drama
Length: 82min
In this drama, a young mother refuses to marry her son's father because he is too violent. The young father has a secret brother, a mute, whom his ashamed parents have locked away in an insane asylum. One day a cruel guard turns a hose upon him and,...
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
Cast: Phyllis Coates
Tags: Horror Comedy Creature Film Horror Comedy
Length: 72min
From the folks who brought you I Was a Teenage Werewolf comes this relentlessly shlocky variation on the Frankenstein legend. Whit Bissell stars as Professor Frankenstein, descendant of you-know-who, who harbors a few radical theories about limb...
Cast: Virginia Mayo Joel McCrea Walter Mirisch
Length: 81min
Joel McCrea essays the title role in this moody little western. McCrea is a Union officer wounded in battle, who joins up with a wagon train heading westward. He is ostracized by those passengers who'd fought on the Confederate side, though leading...
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Tags: Horror Drama Creature Film Melodrama
Length: 70min
I Was a Teenage Werewolf is a B-level cheapie that can most easily be summed up as a cross between The Wolf Man and Rebel Without a Cause. Michael Landon stars as Tony, a hot-headed teenager whose lightning-quick temper has led to social troubles and...
Tags: Drama
Length: 71min
This Republic potboiler is no relation to the like-vintage Swedish film of the same title. The wayward girl in question is Judy Wingate (Marcia Henderson), the stepdaughter of predatory alcoholic Frances Wingate (Katherine Barrett). Judy is thrown...
Cast: Kim Hunter John Frankenheimer James Gregory James Daly
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 84min
Adapting a made-for-TV play that he had directed for the screen, John Frankenheimer made his feature film debut with this sensitive father-son drama. Tom Ditmar (James Daly) is a movie studio executive who has a strained relationship with his teenaged...
Cast: Lee Marvin Keenan Wynn Terry Moore
Tags: Spy Film Action Thriller
Length: 80min
It is all but impossible to dislike this ultra-cheap "Cold War paranoia" melodrama. Virtually the entire picture takes place on a single set, representing a rundown roadside diner. Lee Marvin plays the aptly named Slob, a lecherous short-order cook...
Cast: Frank Lloyd Edmond O'Brien Richard Jaeckel
Length: 99min
Produced and directed by the prestigious Frank Lloyd, The Shanghai Story was promoted as a "class" production by the bread-and-butter firm of Republic Pictures. The film takes place in the eponymous far-eastern metropolis (courtesy of the Republic...
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