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The River's Edge (1957)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.
Starring: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey Jr., Chubby Johnson, Byron Foulger, Tom McKee, Frank Gerstle
Director: Allan Dwan
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Tags: Allan Dwan, Anthony Quinn, Byron Foulger, Chubby Johnson, Debra Paget, Frank Gerstle, Harry Carey Jr., Ray Milland, Tom McKee
Posted on December 27, 2017 |
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Driftwood (1947)
Drama
Six-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog, the only survivor of a plane wreck. A tag on the dog's neck states that it is en route to a medical laboratory where its blood will be used for spotted fever vaccine. Dr. Steven Webster meets both Jenny and the dog and "adopts" them both. His fiancée Susan isn't too fond of either the girl or the dog. Webster wants to get a hospital for the town but he is suppressed by the town mayor. In the arguments that follow, Webster's lab is wrecked and ticks infected with spotted fever escape. The town is in a panic and all want to be vaccinated. Jenny is infected and is about to die.
Starring: Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, Natalie Wood, Jerome Cowan
Director: Allan Dwan
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Tags: Allan Dwan, Charlotte Greenwood, Dean Jagger, Jerome Cowan, Natalie Wood, Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan
Posted on July 26, 2017 |
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Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Action | Drama | Romance | War
A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.
Starring: John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz, Julie Bishop, Peter Coe
Director: Allan Dwan
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Tags: Allan Dwan, Arthur Franz, Forrest Tucker, John Agar, John Wayne, Julie Bishop, Peter Coe
Posted on May 27, 2013 |
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Heidi (1937)
Drama | Family
Eight-year-old Heidi is orphaned and her selfish maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with Adolph Kramer, her grumpy, old, outcast, survivalist paternal grandfather. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her angelic ways, sheer love, and adorable personality. When Aunt Dete steals Heidi away to be the companion of a rich man's invalid daughter, the grandfather is enraged and sets out to get her back. Back in Frankfurt, loved and adored by everyone she touches except the villainous housekeeper, Fraulein Rottenmeier, she thrives but is inwardly very sad and lonely. No matter what anyone tells her, Heidi, with faith, hope, and the stubbornness she inherited from her grandfather, knows that some day she will be reunited with the him and the beloved people of the mountain's little village.
Starring: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Thomas Beck, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer
Director: Allan Dwan
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Tags: Allan Dwan, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Jean Hersholt, Mary Nash, Shirley Temple, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas Beck
