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1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry TraversThis is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in ... More
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2. Gun Fury (1953)
directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Philip CareyOriginally shot in 3-D, Gun Fury opens with wealthy rancher Ben Warren (Rock Hudson) and his fiancée Jennifer Ballard (Donna Reed) aboard a ... More
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3. They Were Expendable (1945)
directed by John Ford
featuring Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Cameron Mitchell, Ward BondJohn Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines, that makes him a radical ... More
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4. Dallas: Season 08 (1984)
As season eight of Dallas gets under way, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) painfully convalesces from the gunshot wound that felled him at the end of ... More
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5. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva GaborLoosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Paradise Revisited, MGM's The Last Time I Saw Paris is a star-studded soap opera, luxuriously lensed by ... More
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7. Trouble Along the Way (1953)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Sherry Jackson"Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were spoken not by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi but by Steve Williams, the ... More
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8. From Here to Eternity (1953)
directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank SinatraThe scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From ... More
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9. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
directed by Albert Lewin
featuring George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter LawfordThe Picture of Dorian Gray was writer/director Albert E. Lewin's fascinating follow-up to his expressive-esoterica masterpiece The Moon and Sixpence. ... More
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10. The Benny Goodman Story (1955)
directed by Valentine Davies
featuring Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten, Herbert Anderson, Robert SimonSteve Allen makes his dramatic film debut in The Benny Goodman Story. Outside of Goodman's conflicts with his parents over his career choice, and his ... More
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12. The Far Horizons (1955)
directed by Rudolph Maté
featuring Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale, William DemarestList of all editionsThe Untamed West is the reissue title of the Pine-Thomas production The Far Horizons. This romanticized retelling of the Lewis and Clark expedition ... More
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13. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
directed by W.S. Van Dyke
featuring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam LeveneList of all editionsThis fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races". Officially retired from ... More
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16. See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
directed by Tay Garnett, Wesley Ruggles
featuring Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Keenan Wynn, Robert Benchley, Ray CollinsList of all editionsNewspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The story is basically a ... More
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17. Three Hours to Kill (1954)
directed by Alfred L. Werker
featuring Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster, Richard CooganList of all editionsThree Hours to Kill is a "message" Western that manages to entertain without preaching. Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews), unjustly accused of murder, is ... More
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18. Beyond Mombasa (1956)
directed by George Marshall
featuring Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn, Ron Randell, Christopher LeeList of all editionsHot on the heels of Safari came another Columbia-released, African-filmed adventure, Beyond Mombassa. Matt Campbell (Cornel Wilde) arrives in Kenya ... More
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19. Backlash (1956)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell, John McIntire, Barton MacLaneThe breathtakingly beautiful Technicolor cinematography of Irving Glassberg is but one of the many small pleasures of the big-budget western Backlash ... More
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20. The Caddy (1953)
directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed, Barbara Bates, Joseph CalleiaMartin and Lewis tee each other off on a PGA tour in The Caddy. Harvey Miller (Jerry Lewis) is an expert with his golf club, except when he tries to ... More
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21. Hangman's Knot (1952)
directed by Roy Huggins
featuring Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Claude Jarman, Jr., Frank Faylen, Glenn Langan, Richard Denning, Lee MarvinList of all editionsRandolph Scott is the commander of a Confederate raiding party. They rob a Yankee gold shipment and are told by a dying Union soldier that the war ... More
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22. Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
directed by Sidney Salkow, Yves Allégret
featuring John Payne, Donna Reed, Gerald Mohr, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anthony CarusoList of all editionsJohn Payne stars as legendary pirate Barbarossa -- aka Redbeard -- in Raiders of the Seven Seas. Capturing a Spanish galleon almost single-handedly, ... More
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23. Green Dolphin Street (1947)
directed by Victor Saville
featuring Lana Turner, Patrick Aherne, Linda Christian, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Gladys Cooper, Bernie Gozier, Richard Hart, Edmund GwennList of all editionsThe 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least, the MGM backlot ... More







