Great Movies - Part 9

1950s Movies

The Country Girl (1954)

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The Country Girl movie storyline. Broadway director Bernie Dodd (William Holden) is in desperate need of a male lead for his new play and pushes to hire Frank Elgin (Bing Crosby), an aging one time star with just the experience and skills required. The downside is that he has a reputation for being an unreliable drunk. Elgin has the talent for the job, but seems to be entirely dependent on his wife Georgie (Grace Kelly) to make all of his decisions for him.

1950s Movies

White Christmas (1954)

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White Christmas movie storyline. After World War II, song and dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis form a successful partnership, eventually becoming top Broadway producers. Bob agrees to take in a nightclub act by the Haynes sisters, Betty and Judy, as a favor, so he thinks, for their brother who served with Bob and Phil in the war.

1950s Movies

A Summer Place (1959)

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A Summer Place movie storyline. The Hunter family has long owned a mansion on Pine Island, a summer resort located off the Maine coast. Bart Hunter’s now deceased father was able to open the mansion for free when Bart was younger, but current owner Bart, a drunkard and weak man, must now live there year round for financial survival with his wife Sylvia and their late teen-aged son Johnny, the family which is barely able to eke out a living with the mansion now as a year-round inn which is in an extreme state of disrepair.

1960s Movies / Claude Lelouch Movies

Un Homme qui me Plaît (1969)

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Un Homme qui me Plaît movie storyline. An accidental meeting in the United States between an actress and a composer, both French. Leaving her husband and child in Paris, Françoise, cinema actress, driven to the United States, is waiting for her break.

1960s Movies

Any Wednesday (1966)

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Any Wednesday movie storyline. Wealthy middle-aged businessman John Cleves (Jason Robards) of Short Hills, New Jersey lies to his wife Dorothy once a week and stays in New York City to have an affair. Twentysomething art-gallery clerk Ellen Gordon (Jane Fonda) inadvertently aids him in his lies, to her disgust. But eventually she falls for his charms in his constant pursuit of her to become his exclusive Wednesday city liaison.

1960s Movies

The Empty Canvas (1963)

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The Empty Canvas movie storyline. The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting.

1960s Movies

Dementia 13 (1963)

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Dementia 13 movie storyline. Whilst out on a rowboat with his wife Louise, John Haloran has a heart attack and dies. She casts his body overboard and hides his death telling the family he left on an urgent business trip. Louise’s main concern is that she can only hope to inherit part of his family fortune if he’s still alive. The Halorans are a strange family.

1960s Movies

Bedtime Story (1964)

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Bedtime Story movie storyline. Freddie Benson (Marlon Brando) is a Casanova who despises women and invents all sorts of tricks to bed them and leave them. His favorite one is going through Germany posing as an American GI of Teutonic extraction. Whenever he spots a girl he likes, he takes a Polarod picture of her house, knocks on the door waving the photo and pretending to be on a pilgrimage to this very cottage his grandmother so vividly described.

1960s Movies

A Tiger Walks (1964)

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A Tiger Walks movie storyline. A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo, thereby saving the tiger’s life.

1960s Movies

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

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The Last Man on Earth movie storyline. When a plague devastated life on Earth, the population died or became a sort of zombie living in the dark. Dr. Robert Morgan is the unique healthy survivor on the planet, having a routine life for his own survival: he kills the night creatures along the day and maintains the safety of his house, to be protected along the night.