Whit Bissell

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Cast: Michael Landon Vladimir Sokoloff Eddie Marr Whit Bissell Gene Fowler, Jr.   

Tags: Melodrama Creature Film Drama Horror 

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...

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Hud (1963)

Cast: Paul Newman Patricia Neal Melvyn Douglas Martin Ritt 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...

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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)

Cast: Phyllis Coates Robert Burton George Lynn Herbert L. Strock Lothrop B. Worth   

Tags: Horror Comedy Creature Film Comedy Horror 

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...

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Third of a Man (1962)

Cast: James Drury Simon Oakland Whit Bissell Marshall Reed Robert Lewin   

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,...

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The Wayward Girl (1957)

Cast: Tony Martinelli Lesley Selander Whit Bissell Grandon Rhodes Ray Teal   

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...

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The Tall Stranger (1957)

Cast: Virginia Mayo Joel McCrea Thomas Carr Walter Mirisch Michael Ansara   

Tags: Drama Western 

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...

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The Atomic Kid (1954)

Cast: Mickey Rooney Fred Allen Robert Strauss Bill Goodwin Dick Winslow   

Tags: Comedy Science Fiction 

Length: 86min

The Atomic Kid strives mightily to wring laughs from the otherwise humorless topic of atomic radiation. Mickey Rooney (who also produced the film) and Robert Strauss play a couple of brainless prospectors who stumble upon a A-bomb testing site. Led to...

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The Young Stranger (1957)

Cast: John Frankenheimer Kim Hunter Albert S. D'Agostino 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...

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Shack out on 101 (1955)

Cast: Keenan Wynn Lee Marvin Terry Moore Louis Prima Frank Lovejoy   

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...

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