On the Beach (1959) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson

Although there'd been "doomsday dramas" before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first "important" entry in this genre when originally released in 1959. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute, the film is set in the future (1964) when virtually all life on earth has been exterminated by the radioactive residue of a nuclear holocaust. ...

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Seven Days in May (1964) more movies like this

directed by John Frankenheimer
featuring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien

Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May was allegedly inspired by the far-right ramblings of one General Edwin Walker. Burt Lancaster plays General James M. Scott, who, convinced that liberal President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) is soft on America's enemies, plots a ...

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Show Boat (1951) more movies like this

directed by George Sidney
featuring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion

The third and (to date) last film version of the Edna Ferber/Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Show Boat falls just short of greatness but is still a whale of a show. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson are in fine fettle as irresponsible gambler Gaylord Ravenal and showboat ingenue Magnolia Hawks. The plot adheres closely to the Broadway ...

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Mogambo (1953) more movies like this

directed by John Ford
featuring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Eric Pohlmann, Philip Stainton

The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director John Ford. Gable is safari leader Victor Marswell, who plays "host" to stranded Eloise Y. Kelly (Ava Gardner, who is no better than she ought to be but ...

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The Night of the Iguana (1964) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, James Ward

Filmed on location in Mexico by John Huston, Night of the Iguana stars Richard Burton as Rev. Shannon, an alcoholic defrocked minister, who scratches out a living as a south-of-the-border tour guide. His latest customers are several American schoolteachers, and he guides their bus to a rundown hotel owned by flamboyant widow Maxine Faulk (Ava ...

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) more movies like this

directed by Henry King
featuring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegarde Neff, Leo G. Carroll

Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for the screen rights to his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, but he could never bring himself to watch it. Gregory Peck plays a character based, in decidedly unflattering fashion, on Hemingway crony F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

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Earthquake (1974) more movies like this

directed by Mark Robson
featuring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold

Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to moviegoers from thousands of films. A huge number of ongoing vignettes which include cameos from numerous celebrities and stars are tied together by the ongoing efforts of architect Graff (Charleton Heston) to rescue his ...

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The Barefoot Contessa (1954) more movies like this

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi

The Barefoot Contessa begins at the funeral of Ava Gardner, a former Spanish peasant, cabaret dancer and movie star, who at the time of her death was a full-fledged contessa. Her life story unfolds in flashback recollections from her mourners. Film director Humphrey Bogart recalls how his career was saved when he discovered Gardner on behalf of ...

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The Cassandra Crossing (1976) more movies like this

directed by George Pan Cosmatos
featuring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen

This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train who are infected with a viral plague by a group of terrorists. Burt Lancaster plays military man Mackenzie, who wants to send the train across a rickety bridge so all the passengers will die, with Mackenzie reasoning the ...

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Mayerling (1968) more movies like this

directed by Terence Young
featuring Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice

This romantic tragedy concerns the Archduke Rudolf (Omar Sharif) and his mistress, the Baroness Maria Vetsera (Catherine Deneuve), and their untimely demise at Mayerling, the sight of the Austrian royal family's hunting lodge. Rudolf verbally spars with his father Emperor Franz-Josef (James Mason) about wanting to implement progressive policies ...

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55 Days at Peking (1963) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Ray
featuring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland

Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray was taken off the film and replaced by the more pliable directorial touches of Andrew Marton. Charlton Heston stars as Maj. Matt Lewis, the leader of an army of ...

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The Killers (1946) more movies like this

directed by Robert Siodmak
featuring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Jeff Corey, Sam Levene, Jack Lambert

The Killers uses Ernest Hemingway's short story as a springboard for a complex film noir. Two mysterious men (William Conrad and Charles McGraw) muscle their way into a small town and kill an aging boxer (Burt Lancaster, making his screen debut), who offers no resistance and seems to be welcoming his death. An insurance investigator (Edmond O ...

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Knights of the Round Table (1953) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer, Anne Crawford, Stanley Baker, Gabriel Woolf

MGM's first CinemaScope production was the lavishly appointed Knights of the Round Table. Without overlapping into any copyrighted material (specifically T.H. White's The Once and Future King), the film spins a lucid account of the King Arthur legend. The good king is played by Mel Ferrer, while Queen Guenevere is essayed by Ava Gardner. Arthur's ...

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The Kidnapping of the President (1980) more movies like this

directed by George Mendeluk
featuring William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Van Johnson, Ava Gardner, Miguel Fernandes

After Third World terrorists abduct the Commander-in-Chief, it's up to Secret Service head William Shatner to get him back in this thriller based on a novel by Charles Templeton. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Whistle Stop (1946) more movies like this

directed by Léonide Moguy
featuring George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen, Tom Conway, Jorja Curtright

In this drama, Mary (Ava Gardner) returns to her small town after she becomes a success in the city. Meeting up with her old love, Kenny (George Raft), she discovers that he is still the unambitious, lazy man he was when she left, and she begins an affair with nightclub owner Lew Lentz (Tom Conway). When a jealous rivalry arises between Lew and ...

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Ghosts on the Loose (1943) more movies like this

directed by William Beaudine
featuring Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan

Ghosts on the Loose (which features no ghosts whatsoever) is perhaps the best-known of Monogram's "East Side Kids" series. This time, Muggs (Leo Gorcey), Glimpy (Huntz Hall), and the rest of the kids offer to decorate the honeymoon cottage of Glimpy's sister, Betty (Ava Gardner), and her new husband, Jack (Rick Vallin). Unfortunately, the boys end ...

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Bhowani Junction (1956) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews

Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction. Set during India's battle for independence from Britain, the film begins with Gardner returning to her native land after spending several years in England. Her true loyalties, and her own sense of who she really is, are put to the test by the two men in her ...

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East Side, West Side (1949) more movies like this

directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner, Cyd Charisse

Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Jessie Bourne, a charming society woman whose finds out that her husband Brandon (James Mason) is guiltily indulging in an illicit affair with the earthy Isobel Lorrison (Ava Gardner). Jessie bears her ...

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Singapore (1947) more movies like this

directed by John Brahm
featuring Ava Gardner, Fred MacMurray, Richard Haydn, Roland Culver, Thomas Gomez, Spring Byington

Returning to Singapore after a five-year absence, WWII veteran Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) mournfully recalls his romance with, and marriage to, a girl named Linda (Ava Gardner), whom he assumes was killed in a bombing raid on their wedding night. Resuming his prewar profession as a pearl smuggler, Matt gets mixed up with gangsters who are ...

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Lone Star (1951) more movies like this

directed by Vincent Sherman
featuring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi

During the 1845 battle for Texas' independence, a cattle baron (Clark Gable) spars with an evil senator (Broderick Crawford) over the state's future and for the affections of newpaperwoman Ava Gardner. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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A.D. (1985) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Cooper
featuring Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman

Filmed in Tunisia on a budget of 30 million dollars, the five-part, 12-hour miniseries A.D. was the final installment in a historical trilogy which included Moses the Lawgiver and Jesus of Nazareth. Covering the years 30 to 69 A.D., the teleplay, co-written by Anthony Burgess, chronicled the political intrigue which plagued the Roman Empire, with ...

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One Touch of Venus (1948) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden, Olga San Juan

The spirit of love is back, and she's working in retail in this bubbly romantic musical comedy. Eddie Hatch (Robert Walker) is a window dresser at a large department store; he's become especially fond of one of his mannequins who looks like the sort of girl he'd like to meet, and one night he impulsively gives the dummy a kiss. To his tremendous ...

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The Naked Maja (1959) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster, Mario Russo
featuring Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi, Lea Padovani

The slow pacing of this fanciful tale about the life and one reputed love of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya makes for an uneven drama. Anthony Franciosa is the artist, and Ava Gardner plays his paramour, the Duchess of Alba. While the Prime Minister of Spain schemes to betray his country to Napoleon's forces and the Spanish Inquisition is ...

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Harem (1986) more movies like this

directed by William Hale
featuring Ava Gardner, Nancy Travis, Omar Sharif

The classy made-for-TV Harem managed to get away with plot devices that dated back to the days of Rudolph Valentino. Nancy Travis heads the cast as Jessica Gray, a turn-of-the-century American woman who is kidnapped and ensconced in the harem of Turkish sultan Hasan (Omar Sharif). Jessica immediately runs afoul of Kadin (Ava Gardner, in her TV ...

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Priest of Love (1981) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Miles
featuring Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner, Penelope Keith, Jorge Rivero

The later years of the life of author D.H. Lawrence are dramatized in this screen biography. Following the controversial reception of his novel The Rainbow, David Herbert Lawrence (Ian McKellen) and his wife Frieda (Janet Suzman) leave England for the U.S., where they hope that Lawrence's bold themes will be received in a more tolerant climate. ...

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