Jim Backus
Jim Backus : Ohio-born actor Jim Backus's stage career began in summer stock, where, according to his then-roommate Keenan Wynn, he was as well known for his prowess with the ladies as he was for his on-stage versatility. Backus continued acting in New York,... » Learn more
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The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies
A woman hopes to tie up Jed Clampett, a mountain-man Easterner, and his newly acquired wealth in the bonds of matrimony.
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Bye Bye Baby
Bye Bye Baby
A married couple from Milan is tempted into mutual betrayal during a holiday in Mauritius Islands.
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Agency
Agency
An advertising agency utilizes subliminal suggestion to influence voting patterns.
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Chomps
Chomps
A teenage genius (Wesley Eure) invents a robot watchdog to bail out his girlfriend's (Valerie Bertinelli) father's (Conrad Bain) home-security business.
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Good Guys Wear Black
Good Guys Wear Black
An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.
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Pete's Dragon
Pete's Dragon
An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit.
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Crazy Mama
Crazy Mama
Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers kill her father (Clint Kimbrough), turning her mother Sheba (Ann Sothern) into a bitter widow. Mother and daughter take off to Long Beach, California, and the time jumps to 1958, when the two are thrown out of their beauty salon for non-payment of back rent. Melba now has an attractive (and pregnant) teenage daughter Cheryl (Linda Purl). The three generations take to the road, stealing cars and creating general mayhem across the United States, robbing a motorcycle racetrack box office and a bank. But in 1959, Melba and Cheryl are picked up again, running a Miami Beach snack bar, their lives wasted in free-living terror. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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Friday Foster
Friday Foster
Magazine photographer Friday (Pam Grier) exposes a racist plot to assassinate politicians.
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.
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Myra Breckinridge
Myra Breckinridge
Sex-changed Myron becomes shapely Myra (Raquel Welch) and enrolls at Buck Loner's (John Huston) drama school.
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Hello Down There
Hello Down There
A wacky inventor creates an underwater home and takes his family, including his teenage rock-band playing kids, to live in it.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A motley assortment of characters embarks on a chaotic and slapstick-filled race to find $350,000 in buried loot.
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The Alamo
The Alamo
Davy Crockett (John Wayne), Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and William Travis (Laurence Harvey) die defending the Texas fort against Mexican soldiers in 1836.
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Home From the Hill
Home From the Hill
The son of a Texas millionaire (Robert Mitchum) rivals his illegitimate brother (George Peppard) for a woman.
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North By Northwest
North By Northwest
Mistaken identity spurs a foreign spy (James Mason) to pursue an innocent New Yorker (Cary Grant), all the way to Mount Rushmore.
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Man of a Thousand Faces
Man of a Thousand Faces
Makeup genius and actor Lon Chaney (James Cagney) marries two women (Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer) and stars in silent classics like ``The Phantom of the Opera.''
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Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause
Tragedy follows when a new-to-town, troublemaking teen (James Dean) meets other anguished children (Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo) of feckless parents.
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East of Eden
East of Eden
Rebellious son Cal (James Dean) competes with his twin, Aron, for the love of a rigid farmer (Raymond Massey) and a girl in 1917 California.
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Don't Bother to Knock
Don't Bother to Knock
Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal young woman, recently released from a mental institution. She doesn't mention this on her resumé when she takes a baby-sitting job in a posh hotel. Jed Towers (Richard Widmark), a hotel guest, tries to make time with Nell after his own girlfriend, played by Anne Bancroft, has told him to take a hike. As Nell and Jed neck on the couch, the little girl whom Nell is tending (Donna Corcoran) surprises the spooning couple. This drives the psychotic Nell over the edge, forcing Jed to try to keep the baby-sitter from killing both herself and the child. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Pat and Mike
Pat and Mike
A promoter (Spencer Tracy) falls for a gym teacher (Katharine Hepburn) he bills as the world's top woman athlete.
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His Kind of Woman
His Kind of Woman
Lured to Mexico, a gambler (Robert Mitchum) meets a cafe singer (Jane Russell) and learns a gangster wants his face.
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The Great Lover
The Great Lover
On an ocean liner, an inept scoutmaster pursues a duchess while a killer pursues him.
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Adam's Rib
Adam's Rib
Married lawyers (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) clash in and out of court over a woman's (Judy Holliday) right to shoot her husband and his lover.
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Above and Beyond
Above and Beyond
Air Force Col. Paul Tibbets (Robert Taylor) cannot tell his wife (Eleanor Parker) he is training to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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Broadway Melody of 1936
Broadway Melody of 1936
A Broadway columnist (Jack Benny) feuds with a producer (Robert Taylor) whose upstate girlfriend (Eleanor Powell) poses as a Paris star.
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There Goes the Bride
There Goes the Bride
Retrograde even at the time of its 1980 release, this filmed version of the mid-'70s play by the same title stars Tom Smothers as Timothy Westerby, the bumbling father of the bride, and his imaginary dance partner, Polly (Twiggy). Events of the chaotic wedding day are told in flashback as Westerby is shown sweating over an advertising assignment from a bra company and hoping that a photo of Polly from the bygone '20s will inspire him. Instead, Westerby bangs into a door and Polly comes fuzzily to life, but only he can see her, causing all sorts of havoc at the wedding and among the guests. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
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Critic's Choice
Critic's Choice
Parker Ballantine is a critic who delights in destroying Broadway plays on opening night - until his wife writes one.
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42nd Street
42nd Street
A Broadway producer (Warner Baxter) sends in the understudy (Ruby Keeler) when his show's star (Bebe Daniels) twists her ankle.
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Hook, Line and Sinker
Two insurance agents (Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey) turn an old hotel into a social hub ripe for crooks.
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Angel Face
Angel Face
Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne (Herbert Marshall), who remarried a wealthy woman (Barbara O'Neil), Diane Treymayne's (Simmons) angelic countenance masks an unbridled psychotic who'll let nothing stand in the way of her happiness. Diane arranges for Catherine's death, making it look like an auto accident. Coveting family chauffeur Frank Jessup (Robert Mitchum), Diane steals Frank away from his sweetheart Mary (Mona Freeman) and forces him to become her spiritual accomplice in her stepmother's murder. And when Diane finally realizes that she'll never, ever, be able to hold Frank, she... well, enough said. If Angel Face doesn't look like a typical early-1950s RKO Radio film, it may be because its director was borrowed from 20th Century-Fox, and its cinematographer (Harry Stradling) was a loan-out from Sam Goldwyn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide- ON DVD
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The Egg and I
The Egg and I
Based on the humorous autobiographical book by Betty McDonald, The Egg & I casts Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray as Manhattan-dwelling newlyweds. When MacMurray enthusiastically purchases an upstate farm in the hopes of cleaning up in the egg business, Colbert cautiously goes along. The film's humor is derived from the efforts of these two hopelessly citified slickers to adapt themselves to the rigors of rural life. In a plot complication added to the film, pretty neighbor Louise Allbritton upsets the equilibrium of MacMurray and Colbert's union, but both husband and wife are happily reunited at the finale (in real life, Betty McDonald and her husband were splitsville before the book even hit the stands). Retained from the novel, though heavily laundered, were the earthy characters of farmers Ma and Pa Kettle and their huge brood of children. Marjorie Main as Ma and Percy Kilbride as Pa struck so responsive a chord with filmgoers that Universal headlined them in their own "Kettle" series of B pictures, which endured until 1956. The Egg & I would be adapted into a live TV comedy serial in 1952, with Pat Kirkland and John Craven in the leading roles. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Billie
Billie
A mayoral candidate (Jim Backus) and his wife (Jane Greer) fret over their tomboy daughter (Patty Duke), a high-school track star.
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I'll See You in My Dreams
I'll See You in My Dreams
The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from the point of view of Kahn' wife Grace, who was still alive when the film was made (Kahn died some ten years earlier). Danny Thomas stars as the prolific tunesmith, whose fortunes take an upswing in 1908 when he meets and falls in love with Grace LeBoy (Doris Day, who receives top billing, not to mention most of the best musical numbers). Kahn's career ascends to spectacular heights via such hits as "Pretty Baby", "My Buddy", "Toot Toot Tootsie" and "Making Whoopee", only to go into eclipse when he loses his savings in the 1929 stock-market crash. Convinced that he's lost his touch and that he's sacrificed true happiness to the evil goddess success, Kahn is ultimately gratified by the love and recognition of his peers. Among the famous personages imitated in I'll See You In My Dreams are Kahn's writing partner Walter Donaldson (Frank Lovejoy) and producers Sam Harris (Jim Backus) and Flo Ziegfeld (William Forrest). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Little Alice (Fiona Fullerton) falls into a strange land and meets the White Rabbit (Michael Crawford), March Hare (Peter Sellers) and other odd characters out of Lewis Carroll's story.
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Behind the Screen
Behind the Screen
In Behind the Screen, the seventh of his 12 Mutual Studios two-reelers, Charlie Chaplin pokes some less than gentle fun at his former employer Mack Sennett. Chaplin and Eric Campbell play a couple of bumbling stagehands at Gigantic Picture Studios. They knock each other about, break for lunch, and knock each about again. Pretty Edna Purviance sneaks into the studio disguised as a boy. Chaplin finds out her secret and steals a kiss -- drawing a very suspicious glance from Campbell. The film ends with a combination union strike and slapstick pie fight. Best bit: a temperamental movie comedian refuses to throw a pie without proper "motivation." Chaplin spent so much time achieving perfection in Behind the Screen that Mutual was obliged to apologize to its exhibitors for missing the scheduled release date by two weeks. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Africa Screams
Africa Screams
A schemer (Hillary Brooke) and her henchmen shanghai two book salesmen (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) for a diamond safari in Africa.
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