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Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind (1960) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York, Henry "Harry" Morgan

The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 "Monkey Trial," in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of state law. Scopes deliberately courted arrest to ...

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The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Virginia Mayo

The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult readjustments of returning World War II veterans, tells the intertwined homecoming stories of ex-sergeant Al Stephenson (Fredric March), former bomber pilot Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), and sailor Homer Parrish (Harold Russell). Having ...

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Seven Days in May

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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The Bridges at Toko-Ri

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) more movies like this

directed by Mark Robson
featuring William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Earl Holliman, Robert Strauss

Based on the novel by James Michener, this film stars William Holden as Harry Brubaker, a former military pilot who served in World War II. When he's called back into duty during the Korean conflict, Brubaker is angry, believing he's already served his country and needs to devote himself to his wife Nancy (Grace Kelly) and their children. However, ...

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The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Walker
featuring Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Guy Standing

Eagle and the Hawk is a "war is hell" saga slightly reminiscent of All Quiet on the Western Front. Fredric March plays a British World War One flying ace suffering from emotional fatigue. March's happy-go-lucky pilot buddy (Cary Grant) tries to help his friend forget his problems by accompanying him on leave in London. March meets a beautiful ...

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The Desperate Hours

The Desperate Hours (1955) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin

Based on the novel and play by Joseph Hayes, which in turn was inspired by an actual event, The Desperate Hours is the prototypical "family-trapped-by-criminals" drama. Escaped convicts Humphrey Bogart, Robert Middleton and Dewey Martin, seeking an appropriate hideout until they can make contact with their money supply, deliberately choose the ...

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Death Takes a Holiday

Death Takes a Holiday (1934) more movies like this

directed by Mitchell Leisen
featuring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katherine Alexander, Gail Patrick

In this adaptation of Alberto Casella's stage play, Death assumes human form in order to discover why men fear him. Posing as a Prince Sirki (and played by Fredric March), Death appears as a house guest at the villa of an Italian duke. While "Sirki" is present, Death takes his titular holiday, and no one on Earth dies. Grazia (Evelyn Venable) the ...

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Hombre

Hombre (1967) more movies like this

directed by Martin Ritt
featuring Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Cameron Mitchell

Yes, Paul Newman is a blue-eyed Indian in Hombre, but this apparent ethnic error is carefully justified in the body of the story. Newman plays a white man who was raised by the Apaches, and ever since has straddled two worlds, feeling truly comfortable in neither. While riding a stagecoach, Newman is subject to the racial bias of banker Fredric ...

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Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great (1956) more movies like this

directed by Robert Rossen
featuring Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Harry Andrews

The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While the film's 141 minutes are occasionally bogged down ...

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I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch (1942) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Cecil Kellaway

As she burns at the stake, a 17th century witch, Jennifer (Veronica Lake), places a curse on her accuser (Fredric March), so that from this day forward, all of his descendants (each played by him) will be unhappy in marriage. After several hilarious through-the-years examples (the Civil War-era Fredric March runs off to battle rather than endure ...

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) more movies like this

directed by Nunnally Johnson
featuring Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Marisa Pavan, Lee J. Cobb

This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as an ex-army officer, pursuing a living as a TV writer in the postwar years. Hired by a major broadcasting network, Peck is assigned to write speeches for the network's president (Fredric March). Peck comes ...

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The Sign of the Cross (1932) more movies like this

directed by Cecil B. DeMille
featuring Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith

Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box office hit after the close of the silent era. Fredric March stars as Roman Prefect Marcus Superbus, a noble military leader of the year 64 A.D. Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) has just burned down the city and blamed the ...

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Anna Karenina (1935) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan, May Robson

This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character, the sheltered wife of Czarist official Rathbone. Intending to dissuade Rathbone's brother (Reginald Owen) from a life of debauchery, Garbo is sidetracked by her own fascination with dashing military officer Fredric March. ...

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A Star Is Born (1937) more movies like this

directed by Jack Conway, William Wellman
featuring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine

A Star is Born came into being when producer David O. Selznick decided to tell a "true behind-the-scenes" story of Hollywood. The truth, of course, was filtered a bit for box-office purposes, although Selznick and an army of screenwriters based much of their script on actual people and events. Janet Gaynor stars as Esther Blodgett, the small-town ...

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Franklin
featuring Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alexander

Based on a successful stage drama, this historical romance stars Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid largely confined to her bed. Elizabeth has little company beyond her dog and her obsessively protective father, Edward Moulton Barrett (Charles Laughton). Her one great passion and means of emotional escape is writing poetry, to which ...

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Executive Suite (1954) more movies like this

directed by Robert Wise
featuring William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon

Cameron Hawley's novel Executive Suite appeared around the same time as two other tales of big-business intrigue, the 1954 film A Woman's World and the 1955 Rod Serling teleplay Patterns. Elements of all three properties inevitably overlap. In Executive Suite, a furniture-store executive dies suddenly, resulting in a power play between five of his ...

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Nothing Sacred (1937) more movies like this

directed by William Wellman
featuring Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Rumann

"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye..." With this jaundiced opening title, scripter Ben Hecht introduces his classic comedy Nothing Sacred. Fredric March plays Wally Cook, a hotshot ...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) more movies like this

directed by Rouben Mamoulian
featuring Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Edgar Norton

This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic Dr. Jekyll, who makes the fatal mistake of delving into secrets that Man Should Never Know. Fascinated with the notion that within each man lurk impulses for both Good and Evil, Jekyll develops a drug to release the ...

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Les Miserables (1935) more movies like this

directed by Richard Boleslawski
featuring Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson, John Beal, Marilyn Knowlden, Frances Drake

Richard Boleslawski directed this lavish adaptation of Victor Hugo's oft-filmed epic novel. Fredric March stars as Jean Valjean, who is hauled into prison for stealing a loaf of bread. After ten years at hard labor, he escapes from the merciless prison but the years have taken their toll and Valjean is now a hard and embittered man. Valjean ...

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Mary of Scotland (1936) more movies like this

directed by John Ford
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton, John Carradine

Maxwell Anderson's blank-verse play Mary of Scotland was adapted for the screen by Dudley Nichols and directed with a surprising paucity of verve by John Ford. Katharine Hepburn, in one of the "icy" roles that would later earn her the onus of "box office poison", stars as Mary Stuart, who serves as the Queen of Scotland until she is jealously put ...

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Tomorrow the World (1944) more movies like this

directed by Leslie Fenton
featuring Fredric March, Betty Field, Agnes Moorehead, Skip Homeier, Joan Carroll

14-year-old Skip Homeier repeats his stage role as an unreconstructed Hitler Jugend in the film version of the James Gow/Arnaud D'Usseau stage play Tomorrow the World. A German orphan, Homeier is taken into the home of his American uncle (Fredric March), a gently liberal university professor. Though the son of an anti-Nazi, little robot-like Skip ...

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Christopher Columbus (1949) more movies like this

directed by David MacDonald
featuring Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Linden Travers, Kathleen Ryan, Derek Bond

Reverent to the point of tedium, Christopher Columbus stars Fredric March in the title role, and he's welcome to it. March's wife Florence Eldredge co-stars as Queen Isabella, who finances Columbus' expedition to find a westward route to India. After several reels devoted to table-top miniatures impersonating the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa ...

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We Live Again (1934) more movies like this

directed by Rouben Mamoulian
featuring Anna Sten, Fredric March, Jane Baxter, C. Aubrey Smith, Ethel Griffies, Sam Jaffe

We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the same thing as Resurrection and was easier to understand. The film was meant as an introductory showcase for Goldwyn's latest discovery, Russian actress Anna Sten. The story, much laundered from the Tolstoy original, depicts ...

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The Iceman Cometh (1973) more movies like this

directed by John Frankenheimer
featuring Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Fredric March, Jeff Bridges

John Frankenheimer's screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's dingy waterfront saloon. On the occasion of Hope's birthday, several derelicts enter the scene to pontificate on the lives they'd planned, the lives they still dream about, and the wasted lives they wound up with. The cast ...

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Smilin' Through (1932) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Franklin
featuring Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard, O.P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes

Director Sidney Franklin originally adapted Jane Murfin and Jane Cowl's play Smilin' Through for the silver screen in a 1922 silent film starring Norma Talmadge and (the other) Harrison Ford. Remaking his own film, Franklin directed Norma Shearer in this 1932 talkie. Leslie Howard plays John Carteret, an old man whose fiancée (Shearer) was killed ...

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