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1	The Song of Bernadette (1943) more movies like this directed by Henry King featuring Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing up in the tiny French village of Lourdes in the 19th century, Bernadette (Jennifer Jones) experiences a vision of the Virgin Mary in a nearby grotto. At least, she believes that she did. The religious and political "experts ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99!
2	A Star is Born (1954) more movies like this directed by George Cukor featuring Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn , in that it represented the triumphal return to the screen of Judy Garland after a four-year absence. The remake adheres closely to the plotline of the 1937 original: An alcoholic film star, on his last professional legs, gives a career boost to a unknown aspiring ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
3	Days of Wine and Roses (1962) more movies like this directed by Blake Edwards featuring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace in liquor. Kirsten joins him in his nocturnal drinking sessions, and before long both are confirmed alcoholics. After several frightening episodes, Joe is ... see all copies from $13.99! new only from $13.99!
4	Duel in the Sun (1946) more movies like this directed by King Vidor featuring Griff Barnett, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Charles Bickford, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Sidney Blackmer, Harry Carey, Lillian Gish In David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, Jennifer Jones stars as half-breed Pearl Chavez, whom everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. She is taken into the home of wealthy, greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), who'd once been the sweetheart of Pearl's recently executed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00!
5	Riding High (1950) more movies like this directed by Frank Capra featuring Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford, Raymond Walburn Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an "A" picture on a modest budget. To that end, Capra bought the rights of his 1934 film Broadway Bill from Columbia, and remade it under the title Riding High. He then hired many of the supporting actors who'd appeared in ... see all copies from $4.99!
6	The Unforgiven (1960) more movies like this directed by John Huston featuring Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Charles Bickford, Lillian Gish One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of notable stars is no drawback either. Setting up the story with a series of suspenseful scenes, Huston has a mysterious stranger on horseback come into a small community in the Texas Panhandle and then proceed to cause a mini ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $9.98!
7	The Farmer's Daughter (1947) more movies like this directed by H.C. Potter featuring Keith Andes, Loretta Young, James Arness, Joseph Cotten, Art Baker, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Harry Davenport, Lex Barker When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd been in films since 1928, sighed "At long last!" Young is cast as Katie Holstrum, an independently-minded Swedish girl who leaves her family's Minnesota farm to take a domestic job at the Washington DC home of congressman ... see all copies from $68.24! new only from $68.24!
8	A Wing and a Prayer (1944) more movies like this directed by Henry Hathaway featuring Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Cedric Hardwicke Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime bravery whenever repeating his "We'll bring this one down together" anecdote. In fact, he was merely quoting a scene from the above-average World War 2 drama A Wing and a Prayer. The setting is an American aircraft carrier, ... see all copies from $5.55! new only from $10.19!
9	Little Miss Marker (1934) more movies like this directed by Alexander Hall featuring Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Shirley Temple, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman Perhaps the most memorable of all of the movies based on Damon Runyon's story because of the winning presence of Shirley Temple (although it was remade three times), this is the story of a little girl who is left as a marker for a $20.00 bet. Temple's father kills himself and the bookie doesn't know what to do with the young girl. Needless to say, ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $3.32!
10	Of Mice and Men (1939) more movies like this directed by Lewis Milestone featuring Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field, Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen This 1939 film version of John Steinbeck's classic novel was a surprising choice for comedy producer Hal Roach; in fact, Roach had no intention of filming the property until forced to do so as a result of a lawsuit brought by director Lewis Milestone. Burgess Meredith stars as itinerant farm worker George, who travels in with his cousin and best ... see all copies from $15.14! new only from $15.14!
11 view cover	Command Decision (1948) more movies like this directed by Sam Wood featuring Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford Command Decision is a stagebound but consummately acted adaptation of William Wister Haines' Broadway play. Clark Gable, starring in the role essayed on Broadway by Paul Kelly, plays Air Force Brigadier General "Casey" Dennis. With time at a premium, Dennis sends waves of bomber squadrons into Germany to knock out the enemy's jet plane factories. ... see all copies from $13.99! new only from $13.99!
12 view cover	A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) more movies like this directed by Fielder Cook featuring Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Jr., Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ford, Chester Conklin, Mae Clarke The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the wealthiest men in the West (among them Jason Robards Jr., Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford and Paul Ford). Into this rarefied atmosphere trudges impoverished farmer Henry Fonda, who despite the protests of his wife Joanne ... see all copies from $11.88! new only from $14.43!
13 view cover	Brute Force (1947) more movies like this directed by Jules Dassin featuring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel, corrupt prison guard who has his own less-than-ethical ways of dealing with inmates, enough so that Joe Collins (Lancaster) -- the toughest inmate in the cell block -- has decided to break out. Collins tries to persuade ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $27.99!
14 view cover	The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) more movies like this directed by Otto Preminger featuring Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts Mitchell's efforts to prove the viability of a strong air force. The hidebound military higher-ups refuse to finance aviation any further, figuring that the strength of the United States lies in its navy. When a friend is ... see all copies from $2.17! new only from $9.98!
15 view cover	Branded (1950) more movies like this directed by Rudolph Maté featuring Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia Rancher Charles Bickford comes to believe that drifter Alan Ladd is his long-lost son. In truth, Ladd is a crook, in league with Brian Keith to con Bickford out of his fortune. Intending to go through with the scheme, Ladd has second thoughts when Bickford and his "mother" Selena Royle shower him with the familial affection that he has lacked all ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $49.95!
16 view cover	Johnny Belinda (1948) more movies like this directed by Jean Negulesco, Robert Wise featuring Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Stephen McNally, Jan Sterling After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy Award in the bargain -- in Johnny Belinda. Adapted from a stage play by Elmer Harris, the story takes place in Nova Scotia, where deaf-mute Belinda (Wyman) leads a lonely existence on the hardscrabble farm of her father Black ... see all copies from $4.60! new only from $14.43!
17 view cover	The Plainsman (1937) more movies like this directed by Cecil B. DeMille featuring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess One is immediately aware that The Plainsman is a Cecil B. DeMille production in the opening scene, wherein President Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.), on the verge of signing crucial legislation which will determine the future of the American West, is dragged away from his Cabinet by a scolding Mrs. Lincoln (Leila McIntyre), who informs her ... see all copies from $2.48! new only from $10.89!
18 view cover	Anna Christie (1930) more movies like this directed by Clarence Brown featuring Greta Garbo, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, Charles Bickford Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo made her "talking picture" debut in this carefully chosen vehicle, the second screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1922 play about the Minnesota-raised Swedish girl who desperately attempts to keep her unsavory past from her long-lost father, Kris ... see all copies from $2.81! new only from $14.43!
19 view cover	Fallen Angel (1945) more movies like this directed by Otto Preminger featuring Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere Otto Preminger directed this stylish film noir exercise, intended as a follow-up to his surprise hit Laura. Kicked off a bus traveling cross-country for not being able to come up with the fare, down-and-out press agent Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews) ends up in Walton, a small coastal town in California. Stanton fast-talks Joe Ellis (Olin Howland) ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $10.19!
20 view cover	Four Faces West (1948) more movies like this directed by Alfred E. Green featuring Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford, Joseph Calleia, William Conrad When the family land is threatened with foreclosure, honest, hard-working rancher Ross McEwen (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank robbery in order to come up with the necessary cash. Although he leaves the bank an I.O.U., Sheriff Pat Garrett (Charles Bickford) is sent out to catch the criminal as he flees to escape capture. This western was originally ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $9.98!
21 view cover	Mr. Lucky (1943) more movies like this directed by H.C. Potter featuring Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney One of Cary Grant's most financially successful 1940s vehicles, Mr. Lucky finds Grant atypically cast as a shifty, out-for-number-one gambler. Having dodged the draft by adopting the identity of a dead man, Grant sets his sights on purchasing a fancy gambling ship. To raise the necessary funds, he pretends to be working hand in glove with the ... see all copies from $35.00!
22 view cover	Guilty of Treason (1950) more movies like this directed by Felix E. Feist featuring Charles Bickford, Paul Kelly, Bonita Granville, Richard Derr, Berry Kroeger Made in the same atmosphere and paranoia that spawned the infamous Joseph McCarthy, this is an anti-communist propaganda movie looking more at the dark side of communism than at its subject matter--the life and times of Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary. Mindszenty was imprisoned as an enemy of the State for his outspokenness and, during his ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $4.57!
23 view cover	East of Borneo (1931) more movies like this directed by George Melford featuring Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar, Noble Johnson One of the most frequently telecast films of the 1950s and 1960s, East of Borneo stars Rose Hobart as Linda, the wife of African missionary Dr. Clark (Charles Bickford). Feeling stifled by her unfamiliar surroundings, Linda is further isolated from civilization when her husband runs off into the jungle, believing that his wife has been unfaithful. ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $4.99!
24 view cover	Queen of the Yukon (1940) more movies like this directed by Phil Rosen featuring Charles Bickford, Irene Rich, George Cleveland, Guy Usher This adventure is based on Jack London's tale of a Northwestern woman who owns a riverboat who sends her daughter to boarding school and then discovers that she cannot afford to be reunited with her. In desperation, she sells the boat to a wealthy mine owner. This results in the independent miners getting cheated until the woman's burly ex-partner ... see all copies from $3.71! new only from $5.00!
25 view cover	Mutiny in the Big House (1939) more movies like this directed by William Nigh featuring Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Pat Moriarity, Dennis Moore, William Royle A frequent visitor to contemporary TV cable services, Monogram's Mutiny in the Big House affords stalwart supporting player Charles Bickford top billing as a prison chaplain, with jailhouse-flick veteran Barton MacLane billed second as a hardened con. The nominal hero, however, is fourth-billed Dennis Moore, sent "up the river" for forging a check ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $4.57!

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