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From the Terrace

From the Terrace (1960) more movies like this

directed by Mark Robson
featuring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames

This cinemadaptation of John O'Hara's From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton, an unhappily married financial adviser, while his real-life wife Joanne Woodward portrays Mary St. John, his promiscuous screen spouse. Mary's libertine behavior is a by-product of her husband's inability to express love and affection, a trait he has ...

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Song of the Thin Man

Song of the Thin Man (1947) more movies like this

directed by Edward N. Buzzell
featuring Leon Ames, Warner Anderson, William Bishop, Bruce Cowling, Bess Flowers

In the sixth and final Thin Man whodunit, Nick (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) look into the mysterious killing of bandleader Tommy Drake (Phillip Reed). The police quickly hone in on the owner of a gambling ship, Phil Brant (Bruce Cowling), who was about to lose Drake's band to a competitor. Also among the many and varied suspects ...

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By the Light of the Silvery Moon

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the "Penrod" stories by Booth Tarkington. Penrod himself (played by Billy Gray) takes a back seat to the main plot, concerning the hot-and-cold romance between Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. Gordon will not marry Doris until he is ...

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The Absent-Minded Professor

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) more movies like this

directed by Robert Stevenson
featuring Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames

One of Disney's most entertaining forays into live-action, this hit family comedy stars Fred MacMurray as a college professor so forgetful that he missed his own wedding twice. He creates an extremely resilient flying rubber, dubbed "Flubber," and manages to make his old Model-T bounce all the way to Washington, DC, where it is mistaken for a UFO, ...

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A Date with Judy

A Date with Judy (1948) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Leon Ames, Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Miranda, George Cleveland, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert Stack, Scotty Beckett

In this lightweight musical comedy, Judy Foster (Jane Powell) and Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor) are teenagers and best friends who find their loyalties tested when they both fall for the same good-looking older man, Stephen Andrews (Robert Stack). This situation is particularly troublesome for Judy, who already has a boyfriend, "Oogie" Pringle ...

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On Moonlight Bay

On Moonlight Bay (1951) more movies like this

directed by Roy Del Ruth
featuring Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, "Smiling" Jack Smith, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros. musical On Moonlight Bay. The role of the incorrigible Penrod is played by future Father Knows Best regular Billy Gray, but his is a strictly secondary part herein. The emphasis is on Penrod's hoydenish older sister, played by ...

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Jake Speed

Jake Speed (1986) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Lane
featuring Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt, Leon Ames, Donna Pescow

An adventure tale for movie buffs, Jake Speed deftly lifts scenes from detective films of the '40s through the '70s to bring an added dimension to its spoof of the detective and adventure genres. When a family gets word that their daughter has been kidnapped in Paris, her father comments that they should get "Jake Speed" to find her. However, Jake ...

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East Side Kids

East Side Kids (1940) more movies like this

directed by Robert F. Hill
featuring Leon Ames, Dennis Moore, Joyce Bryant, Vince Barnett, Dave "Tex" O'Brien

Police detective Pat O'Day (Leon Ames) involves himself with a gang of slum kids led by Dutch Kuhn (Hally Chester) and Danny Dolan (Harris Berger). He tries to keep them from getting into trouble and to help out Danny, whose brother, Knuckles Dolan (Dave "Tex" O'Brien), is about to be executed for a murder allegedly committed as part of his ...

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Lady in the Lake

Lady in the Lake (1946) more movies like this

directed by Robert Montgomery
featuring Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames

Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source novelist Raymond Chandler. Montgomery plays detective Philip Marlowe, a private eye who just wants to publish his own crime stories. Kingsby Publications editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) meets with Marlowe, but offers him ...

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Angel Face

Angel Face (1953) more movies like this

directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Leon Ames

Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne (Herbert Marshall), who remarried a wealthy woman (Barbara O'Neil), Diane Treymayne's (Simmons) angelic countenance masks an unbridled psychotic who'll let nothing stand in the way of her ...

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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) more movies like this

directed by Robert Stevenson
featuring Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Stuart Erwin, Alan Hewitt

In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong. The movie spawned the sequel Monkey's Uncle two years later. John Bush, All ...

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Death in the Sky (1937) more movies like this

directed by Elmer Clifton
featuring Lona Andre, John Carroll, Henry Hall, Leon Ames, Wheeler Oakman

Puritan Pictures, a poverty-row operation devoted in the main to Tim McCoy westerns, turned out a few diverting murder mysteries during its short life span. In Death in the Sky, Leon Ames plays a World War I ace whose combat experiences have driven him mad. Convinced that every other aviator on earth poses a personal threat to him, Ames contrives ...

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The Big Hangover (1950) more movies like this

directed by Norman Krasna
featuring Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Percy Waram, Fay Holden, Leon Ames

Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly and boring," while the late William K. Everson regarded it as one of Hollywood's best and most underappreciated screwball comedies. Examine the premise and judge for yourself: Van Johnson plays David Maldon, an attorney with ...

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Cipher Bureau (1938) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Joan Woodbury, Donald Dillaway, Tenen Holtz

This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting and decoding secret messages. The protagonist must destroy a ring of thinly disguised German spies. The film contains a lot of interesting information about how codes are deciphered and other things such as the ways that ...

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