Pickup on South Street (1953)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey, Milburn Stone
Director: Samuel Fuller
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Biography | Crime | Drama
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Betty Field, Telly Savalas, Neville Brand
Director: John Frankenheimer, Charles Crichton
Pillow Talk (1959)
Comedy | Romance
Jan Morrow shares a phone party line with her neighbor, to her dismay, Brad Allen. The two soon bump into each other and form an unlikely relationship…but not before Brad pretends to be a dashing southern gentleman from Texas named Rex Stetson. Hilarity ensues.
Starring: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Julia Meade
Director: Michael Gordon
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Musical | Romance
On a trip to France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton sees an 18 year old girl in an orphanage. Enchanted with her, but mindful of the difference in their ages, he sponsors her to college in New England. She writes him letters, which he doesn't read. After 3 years, he goes to visit her at a dance, not telling her that he is her benefactor. They fall in love, but the usual movie-type difficulties get in the way before they can get together at the end.
Starring: Leslie Caron, Fred Astaire, Fred Clark, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Larry Keating
Director: Jean Negulesco
Rear Window (1954)
Mystery | Thriller
A magazine photographer, housebound on account of a broken leg, becomes voyeur to the apartment building facing his rear window for lack of anything to do. Soon, he draws his visiting girlfriend in on the thrill and eventually they witness a murder in progress that gets them into hot water.
Starring: Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
The Misfits (1961)
Drama | Romance | Western
A sexy divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.
Starring: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach
Director: John Huston
Boeing, Boeing / Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (1965)
Comedy
American playboy Bernard Lawrence has cleverly designed a system using the airline timetables to keep going three affairs with flight stewardesses. However, his life soon starts to descend into a shambles after the arrival of a friend, Robert Reed, and a dreaded change to the flight order, whereby it becomes increasingly difficult to keep his three fiancées apart.
Starring: Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Dany Saval, Christiane Schmidtmer, Suzanna Leigh, Thelma Ritter, Lomax Study
Director: John Rich
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