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1	The Bishop's Wife (1947) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, Gladys Cooper, James Gleason When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds for a new cathedral, his prayers are answered in the form of a handsome, personable guardian angel named Dudley (Cary Grant). Establishing himself as a Yuletide guest in the Brougham home, Dudley arouses the ire of Henry, who ... see all copies from $2.46! new only from $8.00!
2	Harvey (1950) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne This whimsical fantasy about a local drunk's 6' 3 1/2" imaginary rabbit pal was a smash hit (and a Pulitzer Prize winner) on Broadway and was then adapted into this likeable farce that's also an allegory about tolerance. James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy tippler whose sunny philosophy and inebriated antics are tolerated by most of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.10!
3	Flower Drum Song (1961) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster, Jack Soo featuring Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall, Jack Soo, Miyoshi Umeki, Benson Fong The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the only Rogers and Hammerstein film to lose money at the box office. It looks far better now than it did back in 1961, if only because of the paucity of musical films in the 1990s. Essentially a comedy about the culture clash ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $8.99!
4	A Man Called Peter (1955) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Jill Esmond, Les Tremayne, Billy Chapin A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played by Richard Todd. In his youth, Marshall moves to Washington DC, where he becomes pastor of the Church of the Presidents. His wisdom and conviction enables Marshall to communicate with men of all faiths. In private life, the ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $11.05!
5	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
6	No Highway in the Sky (1951) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Ronald Squire Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as Theodore Honey, a widower and single parent to 11-year-old Elspeth (Janette Scott). He's also an absent-minded engineer who has formed a scientific theory about metal fatigue in a specific model of aircraft. He tries to ... see all copies from $24.93!
7	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Reginald Gardiner, Marie Wilson Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson adapted the novel by author Edward Streeter, whose work was also the basis of Father of the Bride (1950), into this domestic comedy. James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara star as Roger and Peggy Hobbs, a St. Louis couple with a large brood who desire a seaside vacation. Renting a cottage by the ocean is just the first step ... see all copies from $6.05! new only from $6.05!
8	The Robe (1953) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right. Based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Richard Burton as the wastrelly Roman tribune who is assigned by a weary Pontius Pilate (Richard Boone, who spends the whole of his single ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.85!
9	The Story of Ruth (1960) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Peggy Wood, Viveca Lindfors, Jeff Morrow This Biblical epic stars Elana Eden as Ruth, who serves in the temple where the High Priestess (Viveca Lindfors) leads the worship of the Pagan idols of the people of Moab. When Ruth falls in love with Mahlon (Tom Tryon), a Hebrew, she must come to terms with his spiritual beliefs, but in time she embraces his faith and converts to Judaism when ... see all copies from $10.46! new only from $11.04!
10	Come to the Stable (1949) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez A Christmastime TV perennial, Come to the Stable is the gentle saga of two French nuns (Celeste Holm with accent, Loretta Young without) who come to America in hopes of raising funds for a children's hospital. Travelling to a small New England town presciently named Bethlehem, the nuns befriend eccentric painter Elsa Lanchester, who allows them to ... see all copies from $25.98!
11 view cover	Desiree (1954) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell Director Henry Koster and writer Daniel Taradash speculate mightily in this historical tableau charting the rise and fall of Napoleon (Marlon Brando), all due to his unrequited love for noblewoman Desiree (Jean Simmons). The film takes a chronological view of Napoleon's reign and posits Napoleon's love of a woman he wanted to marry as a young ... see all copies from $27.05! new only from $27.05!
12 view cover	D-Day, the Sixth of June (1956) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter, Edmond O'Brien, John Williams We don't see much of Omaha Beach in D-Day, the Sixth of June. Instead, the film concentrates on a romantic triangle involving American officer Robert Taylor, British officer Richard Todd and the lovely Dana Wynter. Taylor and Todd spend the last hours before D-Day reminiscing about Wynter. The romantic dilemma is eventually solved shortly after ... see all copies from $2.90! new only from $10.78!
13 view cover	My Man Godfrey (1957) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring June Allyson, David Niven, Jesse Royce Landis, Robert Keith, Eva Gabor The Depression-New Deal subtext of the original 1936 My Man Godfrey was understandably dispensed with in this so-so 1957 remake. David Niven steps into the old William Powell role as hobo-turned-butler Godfrey, while June Allyson does her best in the Carole Lombard part as Irene Bullock, the spoiled, impulsive heiress who brings Godfrey into her ... see all copies from $16.88!
14 view cover	O. Henry's Full House (1952) more movies like this directed by Henry Hathaway, Henry King, Henry Koster, Howard Hawks, Jean Negulesco featuring Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Dale Robertson, Fred Allen This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem , a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries to get arrested so that he can spend the winter in jail, only to find that is not as easy as it used to be. Marilyn ... see all copies from $15.67! new only from $15.67!
15 view cover	The Virgin Queen (1955) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy Having previously portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I in 1939's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Bette Davis reprises the role in the Technicolor-and-Cinescope costumer The Virgin Queen. Harry Brown and Mindret Lord's screenplay proposes that Elizabeth's relationship with adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) was somewhat more ... see all copies from $15.61! new only from $15.61!
16 view cover	The Rage of Paris (1938) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mischa Auer, Louis Hayward, Helen Broderick This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She appears as a French model who's come to New York to find a job. Things go a little awry in her first interview when she applies for a nude modeling position and gets the addresses mixed up. When she shows up at the wrong place ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $14.99!
17 view cover	My Blue Heaven (1950) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, David Wayne, Jane Wyatt, Mitzi Gaynor In this musical comedy with dramatic touches, Jack and Molly Moran (Dan Dailey and Betty Grable) are a show business couple who, after hosting their own radio show, have just been given a deal to star in a TV series. They're also thrilled to discover that Molly is expecting a baby, but their joy turns to sorrow after she loses the child in an ... see all copies from $11.43! new only from $16.24!
18 view cover	First Love (1939) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish, Lewis Howard Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized variation of the Cinderella legend (there's even "six white mice" in the form of a sextet of motorcycle policemen!). The film casts Durbin as Constance Harding, the poor relation of wealthy tycoon James Clinton (Eugene Pallette ... see all copies from $6.95!
19 view cover	Three Smart Girls (1936) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Deanna Durbin, Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Ray Milland, Charles Winninger, Mischa Auer Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in Three Smart Girls. Durbin, Nan Grey and Barbara Read play three wealthy young sisters, living with their divorced mother (Nella Walker) in Europe. The girls learn that their father (Charles Winninger) has made plans to remarry ... see all copies from $15.84!
20 view cover	Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Deanna Durbin, Charles Winninger, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish, Robert Cummings In this sequel to 1936's Three Smart Girls, Deanna Durbin is back as the most precocious of a sister trio: the other girls are Nan Grey and Helen Parrish (replacing the first film's Barbara Read. Three Smart Girls dealt with the girls' efforts to reunite their parents. In the sequel, Durbin pokes her turned-up nose into the affairs of her older ... see all copies from $47.78! new only from $47.78!
21	Spring Parade (1940) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer (Bob Cummings) who secretly ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
22 view cover	It Started With Eve (1941) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Tallichet A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring Deanna Durbin. Jonathan Reynolds Jr. (Robert Cummings) is the playboy son of multi-millionaire business magnate Jonathan Reynolds, Sr. (Charles Laughton). Junior has told his father that he's finally met the woman he's going to ... see all copies from $15.95! new only from $15.95!

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