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1960s Movies

For Love or Money (1963)

October 18, 2020January 6, 2023 - by greatmovies

For Love or Money movie storyline. In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, owner of a successful hotel chain, and one of his most prominent clients. Chloe has three daughters, sensible Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), bohemian Jan (Leslie Parrish), and heath food fanatic Bonnie (Julie Newmar), and she wants Deke to find them husbands.

1960s Movies

Move Over, Darling (1963)

August 23, 2020January 14, 2023 - by greatmovies

Move Over, Darling movie storyline. Three years into their loving marriage with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when she is swept off the lifeboat she is on. Her body is not recovered. Fast forward five years.

1950s Movies

Pillow Talk (1959)

August 20, 2020January 15, 2023 - by greatmovies

Pillow Talk movie storyline. In New York City, Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) is a Lothario, a songwriter who casually strings along several women at one time, they who willingly follow. Jan Morrow (Doris Day) is an interior designer, who is saving herself for Mr. Right.

1960s Movies

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

June 23, 2020February 13, 2023 - by greatmovies

Birdman of Alcatraz movie storyline. In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man.

1950s Movies

With a Song in My Heart (1952)

May 25, 2020July 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

With a Song in My Heart movie storyline. After landing a job singing on the radio, Jane Froman marries musical accompanist Don Ross. Under Don’s management,

1960s Movies

How the West Was Won (1963)

May 15, 2020July 12, 2023 - by greatmovies

How the West Was Won movie storyline. The story of how, over several generations, families opened up the Western U.S. to settlement.

1950s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Rear Window (1954)

July 27, 2019January 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

After breaking his leg during a dangerous assignment, professional photographer L. B. “Jeff” Jeffries (Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment, whose rear window looks out onto a small courtyard and several other apartments. During a summer heat wave, he passes the time by watching his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool. The tenants he can see include a dancer, a lonely woman, a songwriter, several married couples, and Lars Thorwald (Burr), a salesman with a bedridden wife.

1950s Movies

All About Eve (1950)

July 27, 2019July 25, 2023 - by greatmovies

All About Eve storyline. Eve is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing. It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance.