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Directed by Mark RobsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
RomanceThemes Politique,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
Disaster films,
Films about aviation accidents or incidentsActors William Holden,
Mickey Rooney,
Fredric March,
Grace Kelly,
Robert Strauss,
Charles McGrawRating66%
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Harry Brubaker (William Holden) is a Naval Reserve officer and Naval Aviator who was called back to active duty from his civilian profession as an attorney to fly fighter-bombers in the Korean War. Returning from a mission with battle damage, he is forced to ditch into the sea and is rescued by a Sikorsky H-5 helicopter manned by Chief Petty Officer (NAP) Mike Forney (Mickey Rooney) and Airman (NAC) Nestor Gamidge (Earl Holliman). , 1h11
Directed by W. Lee WilderGenres Science fiction,
HorrorActors Paul Langton,
Teru Shimada,
Lock Martin,
William Phipps,
Rusty Wescoatt,
Robert BiceRoles Subra
Rating32%
The movie has two acts, the first taking place in the exotic locale of the Himalayas and the second occurring in Los Angeles, California. While the first act takes place in an undisclosed Himalayan country (presumably bordering India) the actors portraying the locals speak Japanese. The movie starts with a scientific expedition intent on collecting botanical samples, led by Dr. Frank Parrish (Paul Langton) and encounters difficulties when the wife of the expedition's chief guide is kidnapped. The guide, a sherpa named Subra (played by Teru Shimada), seizes the expedition’s guns and takes control of the team when he is unable to convince Parrish to pursue the Yeti and save his wife. Parrish, a man of science, is skeptical of the Yeti's existence, put is forced to participate in Subra's march. Along with his fellow westerner (a photographer named Peter Wells, played by Leslie Denison), Parrish awaits his opportunity to overthrow the renegade sherpa. However, as the team draws closer to the Yeti, evidence emerges that begins to change Parrish’s opinion regarding the creature’s existence (such as the tell-tale “giant footprints”). Finally, the team makes contact with the snow creature, who hurls stones at them from atop his mountain refuge. The expedition tracks the creature to his cave, where they encounter the creature, along with two other Yeti’s - a female and young one. The team also discover Subra’s wife, who is guarded jealously by the snow creature. Parrish forcibly prevents the enraged Subra from shooting the Yeti, reasoning that the creature is more valuable for science alive. This delays the capture long enough to enable the creature to create a cave-in (presumably to keep his family safe from the humans). However, the cave-in works against the Yeti, killing the female and young Yetis and knocking the snow creature himself unconscious. The cave-in also enables Parrish and Wells to take control of the sherpa’s guns. Having regained control over the expedition, and successfully capturing a live Yeti, Parrish declares that he is intent upon bringing the creature to the U.S. where it will be studied., 1h21
Directed by Byron HaskinOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Action,
HorrorThemes Space adventure films,
Mars in film,
Films based on science fiction novels,
Films set in the future,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Martiens,
Space opera,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Alien invasions in films,
Arme nucléaire,
Disaster films,
American disaster filmsActors Gene Barry,
Ann Robinson,
Les Tremayne,
Cedric Hardwicke,
Sandro Giglio,
Robert O. CornthwaiteRoles Japanese Diplomat (uncredited)
Rating69%
In early 1950s southern California, Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry), a scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, is fishing with colleagues when a large object crashes near the town of Linda Rosa. At the impact site, he meets Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson) and her uncle, Pastor Matthew Collins (Lewis Martin). Van Buren was told that the meteorite came down at a low angle, while Forrester observes it appears far lighter than normal for its massive size. His Geiger counter also detects it is slightly radioactive, but the object is still too hot to examine closely. Unable to account for these anomalies, Forrester is intrigued and decides to wait in town overnight for the object to cool down., 1h28
Directed by Stuart HeislerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors Humphrey Bogart,
Sessue Hayakawa,
Alexander Knox,
Teru Shimada,
Florence Marly,
Harold GoodwinRoles Ito
Rating62%
After World War II, ex-serviceman Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) returns to Tokyo to see if there is anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint ("Tokyo Joe's") after all the bombing. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito (Teru Shimada). Joe is shocked to learn from Ito that his wife Trina (Florence Marly), who he thought had died in the war, is still alive. Believing her to be dead, Joe inadvertently deserts her and she has divorced Joe and is now married to Mark Landis (Alexander Knox), a lawyer working in the U.S. Occupation HQ. She has a seven-year-old child, Joe's daughter Anya (Lora Lee Michel), born when Trina was in an internment camp after Joe's departure from Japan just before Pearl Harbor., 2h28
Directed by Jack Conway,
Harold S. Bucquet,
Andrew MartonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
WarThemes Political filmsActors Katharine Hepburn,
Walter Huston,
Aline MacMahon,
Akim Tamiroff,
Turhan Bey,
J. Carrol NaishRoles Villager (uncredited)
Rating59%
Durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, un paisible village chinois est occupé par l'armée japonaise. Si la plupart des habitants acceptent le joug nippon, Jade le refuse. La rebelle entrepend de résister à l'envahisseur, au grand dam de son père., 1h29
Directed by Clarence BrownOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Adventure,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Political films,
Heist filmsActors Clark Gable,
Rosalind Russell,
Peter Lorre,
Jessie Ralph,
Reginald Owen,
Eduardo CiannelliRoles Japanese Colonel (uncredited)
Rating65%
Gerald Meldrick (Clark Gable) and Anya von Duren (Rosalind Russell) are a pair of rival jewel thieves at large in India. Both parties are after the same prize, a priceless diamond owned by the Duchess of Beltravers (Jessie Ralph). To inveigle their way into the Duchess' confidence, Gerald poses as a Lloyd's of London detective, while Anya pretends to be an aristocrat. After working at cross purposes, they decide to team up, keeping one step ahead of a diligent police inspector (Matthew Boulton) and mercenary freighter captain Chang (Peter Lorre). Both Gerald (joining the Winnipeg Grenadiers) and Anya betray the nobler sides of their natures in the end, fighting in a pitched battle in Hong Kong against the invading Japanese army., 1h5
Directed by Victor Halperin,
Jean YarbroughOrigin USAGenres Action,
HorrorThemes Medical-themed films,
Zombie films,
Films about viral outbreaks,
Disaster filmsActors Dean Jagger,
Roy D'Arcy,
George Cleveland,
Carl Stockdale,
E. Alyn Warren,
John ArcherRoles Buna
Rating34%
On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during World War I, an Oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power to turn men into zombies. In his prison cell, the priest prepares to burn a parchment containing the location of the secret formula. Gen. Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) kills the priest and takes the partially burned parchment. After the war, an expedition of representatives from the Allied countries with colonial interests are sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the so-called "Secret of the Zombies". The group includes Colonel Mazovia; a student of dead languages, Armand Louque (Dean Jagger); Englishman Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland); General Duval (George Cleveland); and his daughter Claire (Dorothy Stone).Directed by Mervyn LeRoyOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political filmsActors Pat O'Brien,
Josephine Hutchinson,
Jean Muir,
Lyle Talbot,
Arthur Byron,
Donald CrispRoles Tea House Owner
Rating63%
Ambitious, idealistic Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien) goes to work for the Atlantis Oil Company and is sent to a remote outpost in rural China run by "No. 1 Boss" (Arthur Byron). After a while, he feels secure enough to send for his fiancée and goes to Yokohama to meet and marry her. However, when he gets there, all that is waiting for him is a telegram, in which she explains she is unwilling to live in such a backward country. , 1h51
Directed by John M. StahlOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Melodrama,
RomanceActors Claudette Colbert,
Warren William,
Rochelle Hudson,
Ned Sparks,
Louise Beavers,
Fredi WashingtonRoles Customer in Pancake Shop (uncredited)
Rating74%
White widow Bea Pullman (Claudette Colbert) and her daughter Jessie (Juanita Quigley as a toddler, Marilyn Knowlden as an eight-year-old) take in black housekeeper Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers) and her daughter Peola (Sebie Hendricks), whose fair complexion reveals her mixed-race ancestry. Bea exchanges room and board for work, although struggling to make ends meet. Delilah and Peola quickly become like family to Jessie and Bea. They particularly enjoy Delilah's pancakes, made from a special family recipe. Five years later, Jessie and Peola prove to be challenging children to raise: Jessie is demanding, not particularly studious, relying instead on her charm. She is the first person to call Peola "black" in a hurtful way, making it clear that their childhood idyll is doomed. Peola does not tell her classmates at school that she is "colored" and is humiliated when her mother shows up one day, revealing her secret., 1h29
Directed by Mitchell LeisenOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Victor McLaglen,
Carl Brisson,
Gertrude Michael,
Jack Oakie,
Kitty Carlisle,
Dorothy StickneyRoles Koto (Uncredited)
Rating64%
Jack Ellery (Oakie) is staging a lavish musical revue, starring Eric Lander (Brisson), Ann Ware (Carlisle), and Rita Ross (Michael), supported by a cast of a hundred background singers/dancers (almost all women, and many scantily clad) and two full orchestras. On opening night, just before the show, somebody tries to kill Ware several times. Ellery calls in police lieutenant Murdock (McLaglen) of the homicide squad to investigate. During the show a private detective and then Rita are murdered. Ellery hides this from the rest of the performers, claiming the victims are just sick, and talks Murdock into investigating while the revue continues on, otherwise Ellery will go broke., 1h35
Directed by Cecil B. DeMilleOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
AdventureActors Claudette Colbert,
Herbert Marshall,
Mary Boland,
William Gargan,
Leo Carrillo,
Nella WalkerRoles Native
Rating61%
The film tells the story of two men (Marshall and Gargan) and two women (Colbert and Boland), who leave from a plague-ridden ship and reach the Malayan jungle. The relationships between the four people before they enter the jungle are examined and are transformed as they interact with natural phenomena and the natives who populate the jungle. The film also relates how each of the four people carried on in life after they emerged from the jungle.