Support Your Local Sheriff
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) starring James Garner, Jack Elam Review In short, Support Your Local Sheriff is one of the most hilarious, laugh out… Read More »Support Your Local Sheriff
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O. Henry’s Full House
O. Henry’s Full House (1952) starring Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Farley Granger, Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe
Synopsis of O. Henry’s Full House
O. Henry’s Full House is an anthology of five of O. Henry’s short stories, well-acted and well-directed, that are well worth watching.
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Half a Hero [Red Skelton]
Half a Hero (1953), starring Red Skelton, Jean Hagen
Synopsis of Half a Hero, starring Red Skelton, Jean Hagen
In Half a Hero, Red Skelton stars as Ben Dobson, a freelance writer who no sooner starts working full-time as a rewrite man at a magazine then his wife (Jean Hagen) decides that they should have their first child. Afterward, she pushes him into moving from New York City to the suburbs. Here he is nickel and dimed to the verge of bankruptcy. Until his boss gives him his first chance at writing his own article for this national magazine. An article talking about the “slums of tomorrow” — the suburbs
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The Fly
The Fly (1958) starring David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
Many people think of The Fly as a monster movie. But that’s not correct. The Fly is a psychological thriller, where a beautiful young wife (Patricia Owens) has murdered her rich, successful husband (David Hedison) – a brilliant inventor. The inventor’s brother (Vincent Price) is shocked beyond words. He knows that she loved her husband more than her own life, and can’t imagine why she would do such a thing. Especially knowing how it would impact her young son (Charles Herbert). Only after Vincent Price tricks her does the bed-ridden woman tell the story …
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The Ladies Man
Editorial Reviews of Jerry Lewis’ The Ladies Man (1961), courtesy of Amazon.com Jerry Lewis conjured up one of his simplest concepts for this 1961 hit, but… Read More »The Ladies Man
The Disorderly Orderly
The Disorderly Orderly (1964) starring Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Karen Sharp, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman
In The Disorderly Orderly, Jerry Lewis plays the part of Jerome Littlefield, a would-be medical student who has dropped out of school due to his extreme case of sympathy pains—whenever a patient discusses his or her symptoms, Jerome begins to feel the malady himself. In addition, he finds himself pining for the girl that he fell in love with in college. She doesn’t know that he exists (Susan Oliver). To the distress of one of the nurses (Karen Sharp), who has fallen in love with Jerry Lewis’ character.
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