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Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby (1968) more movies like this

directed by Roman Polanski
featuring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans

In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and ...

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Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun (1946) more movies like this

directed by King Vidor
featuring Griff Barnett, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Charles Bickford, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Sidney Blackmer, Harry Carey, Lillian Gish

In David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, Jennifer Jones stars as half-breed Pearl Chavez, whom everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. She is taken into the home of wealthy, greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), who'd once been the sweetheart of Pearl's recently executed ...

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The Little Colonel

The Little Colonel (1935) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Sidney Blackmer

Shirley Temple's first costume picture -- and one of her best pictures of any kind -- was 1935's The Little Colonel. The story begins in 1870, when unreconstructed Southerner Colonel Lloyd (Lionel Barrymore) disowns his daughter Elizabeth (Evelyn Venable) when she stubbornly marries damn-Yankee Jack Sherman (John Lodge). Several years pass, during ...

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Little Caesar

Little Caesar (1930) more movies like this

directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glenda Farrell, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas E. Jackson

The first "talkie" gangster movie to capture the public's imagination, Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar started a cycle of crime-related movies that Warner Bros. rode across the ensuing decade and right into World War II with titles such as All Through the Night (1941). At the start of the picture, Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello (Edward G. Robinson, ...

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Tammy and the Bachelor

Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Pevney
featuring Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Leslie Nielsen, Mala Powers, Fay Wray, Sidney Blackmer

Debbie Reynolds stars as Tammy in this romantic comedy of a country girl living in the South who cares for pilot Peter Brent (Leslie Neilsen) after his plane crashes near her home. At the beckoning of mutual admiration, Peter soon invites her to his plantation where she charms the fancy-shmancy attitude out of his family and transforms the whole ...

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The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) more movies like this

directed by Rowland V. Lee, Wilfred Lucas
featuring Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn

Few famous novels have been filmed as often as Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo--and few versions are as enjoyable as this 1934 adaptation starring Robert Donat. Donat plays Edmond Dantes, wrongly accused of a plot against the post-Napoleonic French government. Condemned to a prison cell in the impenetrable Chateau D'If, Dantes vows ...

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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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Down Mexico Way

Down Mexico Way (1941) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Santley
featuring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Harold Huber, Sidney Blackmer

Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie ...

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The President's Mystery

The President's Mystery (1936) more movies like this

directed by Phil Rosen
featuring Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Sidney Blackmer, Evelyn Brent, Barnett Parker

The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues ...

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The Panther's Claw

The Panther's Claw (1942) more movies like this

directed by William Beaudine
featuring Sidney Blackmer, Byron Foulger, Rick Vallin, Herbert Rawlinson

Magazine writer and editor Fulton Ousler's stern police commissioner Thatcher Colt came to the screen in April of 1942 courtesy of former investment broker Lester Cutler, veteran actor Sidney Blackmer, and cinematic hack William Beaudine (the latter living up to his nickname "One Shot" by assembling the whodunit within a week or so at Hollywood's ...

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Missing Girls (1936) more movies like this

directed by Phil Rosen
featuring Roger Pryor, Muriel Evans, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison, Ann Doran

A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen. Runaway Ann Jason (Ann Doran) finds shelter in big, bad New York City with the Traveler's Aid Society, one of those organizations run by bored socialites. The socialite in question is Dorothy ...

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Streamline Express (1935) more movies like this

directed by Leonard Fields
featuring Evelyn Venable, Victor Jory, Esther Ralston, Ralph Forbes, Sidney Blackmer

Grand Hotel meets Twentieth Century in this Mascot feature. Evelyn Venable stars as Patricia Wells, a tempestuous stage actress who impulsively elopes on opening night of her newest play. Wells and her new fiancée Fred Arnold (Ralph Forbes) book adjoining compartments on the Streamline Express, while her conniving producer Jimmy Hart (Victor Jory ...

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False Pretenses (1935) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Irene Ware, Sidney Blackmer, Russell Hopton, Betty Compson, Edward Gargan

Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as lunch-counter waitress Mary Beekman, who intends to crash society and land a wealthy husband. She is helped along by affable millionaire Kenneth Alden (Sidney Blackmer), who loves Mary but won't admit it. Our heroine winds up ...

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I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943) more movies like this

directed by Harold Young
featuring Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian, Bill Henry, Sidney Blackmer

With a title like I Escaped from the Gestapo, it's a wonder that there's any suspense at all in this Monogram programmer. Dean Jagger stars as Lane, an imprisoned counterfeiter who is sprung from jail by a group of sinister-looking gentlemen. It soon develops that Lane is expected to apply his counterfeiting skills on behalf of the Nazis, who hope ...

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Shadows of the Orient (1937) more movies like this

directed by Burt P. Lynwood
featuring Esther Ralston, Regis Toomey, John Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Sidney Blackmer

Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by Larry Darmour. Arrested in a raid on a Chinese gambling joint, judge's daughter Viola Avery (Esther Ralston) is rescued from disgrace by King Moss (Sidney Blackmer), owner of the establishment. In return, Moss expects Viola to string ...

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Convict's Code (1939) more movies like this

directed by Lambert Hillyer
featuring Robert Kent, Anne Nagel, Sidney Blackmer, Victor Kilian, Norman Willis

Monogram's seemingly endless series of inexpensive crime mellers continued with Convict's Code. Robert Kent plays a star football player who is framed by gamblers on a robbery charge and sentenced to prison. Serving three years behind bars, Kent is paroled in the custody of the same gambling boss (Sidney Blackmer) who engineered the frame. Unaware ...

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Law of the Pampas (1939) more movies like this

directed by Nate Watt
featuring William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Steffi Duna, Sidney Toler, Sidney Blackmer

If not the best of the Hopalong Cassidy films, Law of the Pampas is certainly one of the better-known entries. This time around, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his pal Lucky (Russell Hayden) head to South America to look after a herd of cattle sold by Cassidy's boss to an Argentine rancher. Villain Ralph Merritt (Sidney Blackmer) wants to get his mitts ...

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Goodbye Love (1934) more movies like this

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, Herbert Ross
featuring Veree Teasdale, Mayo Methot, Sidney Blackmer, Phyllis Barry, Ray Walker

Goodbye Love is a lampoon of what was once designated the "alimony racket." Refusing to meet his wife's exorbitant alimony demands, Sidney Blackmer volunteers to go to jail, where he finds that his cellmate is his own valet (Charlie Ruggles), incarcerated because he can't make his alimony payments. Finally able to raise enough money to secure his ...

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The House of Secrets (1937) more movies like this

directed by Roland D. Reed
featuring Leslie Fenton, Muriel Evans, Noel Madison, Sidney Blackmer, Morgan Wallace

A young man is in danger of losing his inheritance in this muddled thriller from the waning Chesterfield Motion Picture Corp., a remake of the company's first talkie. After rescuing a pretty girl from a brute while crossing the English channel, Barry Wilding (Leslie Fenton) learns that he has inherited the large Hawk's Nest estate on the condition ...

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) more movies like this

directed by Fritz Lang
featuring Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Barbara Nichols, Philip Bourneuf, Shepperd Strudwick

Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the alleged ineptitude of conviction-happy DA (Philip Bourneuf). Tom will plant clues indicating that ...

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