2024-06-26
During World War II, officers aboard a U.S. Navy mine sweeper stage a revolt against their mentally unbalanced captain and wind up being court-martialed for the offense. The film was adapted from the best seller by Herman Wouk, and received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Film and Best Actor for Humphrey Bogart as the troubled Capt. Queeg.
Slice of Americana about a rural family's annual trip to the Iowa State Fair, where pop enters his prize hog in a contest, mom shows off her pickles and jams, and both kids just want some fun. A Best Picture nominee. Musical remakes of the film were released in 1945 and 1962.
Thelma Ritter is matchmaker to Jeanne Crain and Scott Brady. Witty script; directed by George Cukor. Zero Mostel, Michael O'Shea.
An ex-con becomes an informer for the assistant DA. Richard Widmark's sinister portrayal of a hoodlum won him acclaim.
A great, but immature marine pilot builds character in his family by ordering them around like a commander, putting them through drills and hounding his sensitive eldest son. Based on actual events.
Brutal melodrama, with Robert Duvall as an ex-con bent on vengeance against the mob. Bett: Karen Black. Cody: Joe Don Baker. Mailer: Robert Ryan. Jake: Timothy Carey. Chemy: Richard Jaeckel. Alma: Jane Greer. Madge: Marie Windsor. Frank: Felice Orlandi. Buck's Wife: Sheree North. Doctor: Henry Jones. John Flynn directed.
A tribunal assesses whether life on Earth should be permitted to continue, or be destroyed, by reviewing past human behavior in significant historical events. The film was the final one in which the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico and Harpo) appeared together.
Two men and one woman form a strange partnership on the Chinese New Year.
Life among a cross section of characters carrying on at a hotel near the end of the Nazi regime. The film is an adaptation of a novel by Vicki Baum, who wrote the similarly themed "Grand Hotel.".
Two rival jewel thieves go head-to-head in India after setting their sights on a diamond pendant called the "Star of Asia." The crooks are forced to team up to stay one step ahead of a police inspector and a mercenary ship captain.
After learning of an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple's child is kidnapped in an attempt to ensure their silence.
After a famous concert pianist is murdered, the victim's severed hand emerges to seek revenge in shocking fashion.
Kay Kyser and his orchestra offer a melange of mirth, melody and mayhem in this spoof of "Old House" horror films. Janis: Helen Parrish. Fenninger: Peter Lorre. Mainwaring: Boris Karloff. Margo: Alma Kruger. Saliano: Bela Lugosi. Chuck: Dennis O'Keefe. Ginny Simms: Herself. Harry Babbitt: Himself. Jurgen: Joseph Eggenton. Sully Mason: Himself. Ish Kabibble: Himself. David Butler directed.