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Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street (1947) more movies like this

directed by George Seaton
featuring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, Harry Antrim, Jerome Cowan, William Forrest, Herbert Heyes, Gene Lockhart

Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy's toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen O'Hara soon begins having second thoughts about hiring Kris: it's bad ...

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His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday (1940) more movies like this

directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns

The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph ...

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Carousel

Carousel (1956) more movies like this

directed by Henry King
featuring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Ruick, Claramae Turner, Gene Lockhart

Carousel was adapted from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical of the same name--which, in turn, was based on Liliom, a play by Ferenc Molnar. Gordon MacRae stars as carnival barker Billy Bigelow, who much against his will falls in love with Maine factory girl Julie Jordan (Shirley Jones). Billy proves an improvident and unreliable ...

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Going My Way

Going My Way (1944) more movies like this

directed by Leo McCarey
featuring Bing Crosby, Rise Stevens, Barry Fitzgerald, Gene Lockhart, Frank McHugh, James Brown

It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he acquiesced, winning an Academy Award in the process. Crosby is cast as Father Chuck O'Malley, newly arrived at rundown, heavily in debt St. Dominic's Church. Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), the cranky, set-in-his-ways ...

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The Inspector General

The Inspector General (1949) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart

The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery in The Inspector General. Kaye plays the illiterate stooge of two-bit medicine-show- entrepreneur Walter Slezak. Abandoned by Slezak, the starving Kaye wanders into a corruption-ridden Russian village, which is all geared up ...

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They Died With Their Boots On

They Died With Their Boots On (1941) more movies like this

directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Grapewin, Regis Toomey, Gene Lockhart, Stanley Ridges

Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate it up like cotton candy. In the gospel according to Warners, General George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) is neither an arrogant fool nor a rabid Indian hater. Instead, he is a flamboyant but brilliant cavalry officer, who ...

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A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol (1938) more movies like this

directed by Edwin L. Marin
featuring Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll, Terry Kilburn, Barry Mackay

For a generation of radio fans, Lionel Barrymore was the definitive Ebeneezer Scrooge. Alas, Barrymore was crippled by arthritis by the time MGM got around to filming Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in 1938, so the Scrooge role went to contract player Reginald Owen - who, though hardly in the Barrymore league, does a splendid job. Hugo Butler's ...

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The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf (1941) more movies like this

directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart

The fifth film version of Jack London's The Sea Wolf stars Edward G. Robinson as "premature fascist" Wolf Larsen. The captain of the scavenger ship Ghost , Larsen is a heartless tyrant who can tolerate no sign of weakness in anyone. "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" is Larsen's philosophy (borrowed from the character of Satan in ...

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Algiers

Algiers (1938) more movies like this

directed by John Cromwell
featuring Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia, Gene Lockhart

This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the original film, and even picked its actors on the basis of their resemblance to the French cast. Contrary to legend, star Charles Boyer never says "Come wizz me to zee Casbah"; as master criminal Pepe le Moko, he's already in ...

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Edison, The Man

Edison, The Man (1940) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart

In 1940, MGM turned out two films on the life of Thomas Alva Edison.The first, Young Tom Edison, starred Mickey Rooney and trotted out all the old Edison folklore, including the now-discredited incident in which Tom loses his hearing by being yanked onto a train by his ears. Edison the Man, starring Spencer Tracy in the title role, downplays ...

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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) more movies like this

directed by Henry King
featuring Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart

In this inspiring drama, William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary Elizabeth (Susan Hayward), a woman from the city. William is assigned a new parish and moves with Mary Elizabeth to a small town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his ...

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Northern Pursuit (1943) more movies like this

directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Gene Lockhart

The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office "pull" of Warner Bros. Northern Pursuit. Flynn is cast as Canadian mountie Steve Wagner, assigned to track down and capture downed Nazi pilot Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine) in the snowier Hudson Bay regions. Once Wagner and ...

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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart

This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For years after its release, people even referred to the telephone as "an Ameche." The story begins in 1873 Boston as Bell endeavors to teach deaf people to speak in the manner invented by his father. When not teaching, Bell ...

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Francis Covers the Big Town (1953) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Donald O'Connor, Yvette Dugay, Gene Lockhart, Nancy Guild, Larry Gates

In this fourth of the "Francis" series, former Army officer Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) becomes a reporter for a big city newspaper. His greatest source of news tips is his talking mule Francis (voice by Chill Wills), who has become friendly with all the police horses. When asked how he manages to stay abreast of the news, Peter tries to ...

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The House on 92nd Street (1945) more movies like this

directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll

Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, House on 92nd Street is a "now it can be told" drama about the smashing of a Nazi spy ring operating the U.S. Thanks to covert surveillance, the FBI learns of the presence of several suspicious persons in NYC. William Eythe is a German-American college student approached by the spies to become a secret Nazi ...

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Hangmen Also Die! (1943) more movies like this

directed by Fritz Lang
featuring Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe

Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious Gestapo leader Heydrich, then goes into hiding. The wounded patriot is sheltered by history professor Walter Brennan, who is already under surveillance by the Nazis thanks to his veiled classroom attacks on the Third Reich. ...

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Something to Sing About (1936) more movies like this

directed by Victor Schertzinger
featuring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart

Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a New York bandleader who heads to Hollywood when he is offered a movie contract. The down-to-Earth Rooney resists the "star treatment," an attitude misinterpreted by movie executive Bennett O. Regan (Gene Lockhart) as ...

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Blondie (1938) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Gene Lockhart, Ann Doran

When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably never imagined that the ensuing "Blondie" series would last for 12 years and 28 episodes! Part of the series' charm was Columbia's wisdom in casting the ideal actors for the leading roles. Penny Singleton dyed her hair blonde ...

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A Scandal in Paris (1946) more movies like this

directed by Douglas Sirk
featuring George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart

A Scandal in Paris is a liberal adaptation of the life story of Eugène François Vidocq, who was French prefect of police during the Napoleonic era. George Sanders stars as Vidocq, who spends most of the film as an aimless rogue willing to lie, cheat, and steal for his own comfort. The women who affect Vidocq's life include a saucy cabaret ...

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Her Husband's Affairs (1947) more movies like this

directed by S. Sylvan Simon
featuring Lucille Ball, Franchot Tone, Nana Bryant, Edward Everett Horton, Mikhail Rasumny, Gene Lockhart, Jonathan Hale

Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret Weldon, the wife of advertising executive William Weldon (Franchot Tone). Though Weldon is successful, Margaret can't help but feel that he'd be more successful if she were to take an active part in his business affairs. The ...

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Rhubarb (1951) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart, William Frawley, Elsie Holmes

Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J. Banner (Gene Lockhart), multimillionaire owner of the Brooklyn baseball team, passes away, he wills the team -- and his $30 million estate -- to his pugnacious pet cat Rhubarb. Banner's press agent Eric Yeagar (Ray Milland) ...

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International Lady (1941) more movies like this

directed by Tim Whelan, Sr.
featuring George Brent, Ilona Massey, Basil Rathbone, Gene Lockhart, George Zucco

Hungarian actress Ilona Massey stars as an operative for the Axis in this slightly tongue-in-cheek wartime melodrama. She spends her working hours signalling secret messages to enemy U-boats. George Brent is the U.S. counterspy sent to track down the security leak. Brent's job is made doubly delicate when he falls in love with the seductive Massey ...

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The Lady Wants Mink (1953) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Dennis O'Keefe, Ruth Hussey, Eve Arden, William Demarest, Gene Lockhart

In this comedy, a housewife schemes to make her dreams of feeling the soft touch of mink on her hardworking shoulders a reality. Unfortunately her husband does not have enough money for such a luxury. Being a resourceful lass, the wife decides the only viable alternative is to raise her own mink. Unfortunately, her project doesn't set well with ...

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The Strange Woman (1946) more movies like this

directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
featuring Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke

B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer managed to direct a few A-pictures during his long career; he was personally selected by Hedy Lamarr to helm this big-budget thriller, a project she put together to change her image as a starlet whose sex appeal outweighed her acting abilities. Set in the early 19th century, The Strange Woman takes place in Bangor, ...

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South of Pago Pago (1940) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna, Gene Lockhart

Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island chieftan, young Kehane (Hall) defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson (Victor McLaglen) to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our hero by introducing him to seductive Ruby (Frances ...

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