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Sayonara

Sayonara (1957) more movies like this

directed by Joshua Logan
featuring Marlon Brando, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki, Ricardo Montalban, Miiko Taka, Patricia Owens, Martha Scott

Sayonara takes its own sweet time to unfold; in so doing, it permits us to make intimate acquaintance with its characters, so as to better understand their multitextured motivations. The film is set in Japan during the Korean War. While on leave, pugnacious American soldier Red Buttons falls in love with Japanese maiden Miyoshi Umeki. Given the ...

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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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Our Town

Our Town (1940) more movies like this

directed by Sam Wood
featuring William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell

Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood treatment in this adaptation directed by Sam Wood featuring an evocative score by Aaron Copland and outstanding production design by William Cameron Menzies. Frank Craven is Mr. Morgan, the narrator and our guide through the small town of Grover's Corners in the more ...

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Cheers for Miss Bishop

Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) more movies like this

directed by Tay Garnett
featuring Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway, Sidney Blackmer

Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years (from 19 to 69) in the course of the film. At a testimonial dinner on the occasion of her retirement, Miss Bishop's former students wonder why their beloved teacher never married. In flashback, the audience learns that town ...

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Doin' Time on Planet Earth

Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988) more movies like this

directed by Charles Matthau
featuring Nicholas Strouse, Hugh Gillin, Gloria Hendry, Hugh O'Brian, Martha Scott

Ryan Richmond (Nicholas Strouse) is a lonely teen from Sunnydale, Arizona who believes he is a space alien in this offbeat comedy. Charles (Adam West) and his wife Edna (Candice Azzara) are the new neighbors who reinforce Ryan's vivid imagination. Hugh O'Brien plays a former U.S. vice-president who is embarrassed by Ryan at his daughter's wedding. ...

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The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia (1940) more movies like this

directed by Frank Lloyd
featuring Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson

Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was no exception, despite the presence of Cary Grant in the lead. Most of the story takes place in the colonial capital city of Williamsburg, Virginia, where Matt Howard (Cary Grant) dedicates himself to the causes of Life, ...

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Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) more movies like this

directed by Andrew L. Stone
featuring Dennis O'Keefe, Martha Scott, Adolphe Menjou, Billie Burke, Pola Negri

In the tradition of Hellzapoppin', Hi Diddle Diddle is an all-stops-out "screwball comedy" populated by certifiable zanies. Billie Burke plays Mrs. Prescott, the featherbrained mother of bride-to-be Janie Prescott (Martha Scott). When Mrs. P is swindled out of her life savings, Colonel Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou), the con-man father of Janie's fiancé ...

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Strange Bargain (1949) more movies like this

directed by Will Price
featuring Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Katherine Emery, Richard Gaines

Jeffrey Lynn plays a bookkeeper who fails in his attempt to get a raise from his employer (Richard Gaines). The boss explains that the company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and that he is planning to kill himself. He offers Lynn $10,000 if Lynn will make the suicide look like murder so that the boss' family will collect on his insurance policy. ...

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