The Student Prince (1954) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the 1927 Ernst Lubitsch silent picture based on the renowned 1924 operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly, which itself was based on the novel and play by Wilhelm Meyer-Foerster. Lanza was signed to play the German ...

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Jailhouse Rock (1957) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughan Taylor, Jennifer Holden

One of the best of Elvis Presley's pre-Army films, Jailhouse Rock offers us the sensual, "dangerous" Elvis that had won the hearts of the kids and earned the animosity of their elders. Presley plays a young buck who accidentally kills a man while protecting the honor of a woman. Thrown into prison, Elvis strikes up a friendship with visionary ...

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Ivanhoe (1952) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams

Produced by MGM's British facilities, the Technicolor Ivanhoe starred Robert Taylor in the title role. Returning to England from the Third Crusades, Ivanhoe is given a cool but cordial reception by his estranged father Cedric (Finlay Currie), a Saxon who despises the Norman king Richard the Lionhearted. Cedric introduces Ivanhoe's fellow knights ...

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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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The Great Caruso (1951) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna, Richard Hageman

The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso is brought to America, getting off to a bad start by inadvertently insulting the impresario (Carl Benton Reid) responsible for his Metropolitan debut. This complication has a happy outcome when Caruso marries his benefactor ...

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Vengeance Valley (1951) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, John Ireland

The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as ranch-hand Owen Daybright, who has been raised as a son by rancher Arch Stroble (Ray Collins). Stroble's natural son Lee (Robert Walker) has always been envious of Owen, who in turn has spent most of his life pulling Lee out of ...

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Double Wedding (1937) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal, Jessie Ralph

Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for their popular appearances together in the Thin Man series. Powell is Charlie Lodge, a bohemian artist who lives in a trailer, camped in an auto parking space in a busy city. Lodge believes that work is meaningless - that life ...

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Fun in Acapulco (1963) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Elsa Cardenas, Paul Lukas, Alejandro Rey, Larry Domasin

Elvis Presley stars as Mike Windgren, a former trapeze artist who's suffered from vertigo ever since accidentally dropping his partner during a performance. Working as a lifeguard/entertainer at an Acapulco resort, Mike falls in love with social director Margarita Dauphine (Ursula Andress). With her help, he overcomes his fear of heights in a ...

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The Thin Man Goes Home (1944) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gloria de Haven, Lucile Watson, Anne Revere, Harry Davenport

This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per the title, retired private detective Nick Charles (William Powell) pays a visit to his home town of Sycamore Springs, with wife Nora (Myrna Loy) in tow. Poor Nick is amusingly browbeaten by his parents (Harry Davenport and ...

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Tarzan Escapes (1936) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Buckler, Benita Hume, William Henry

Produced under the working title The Capture of Tarzan , Tarzan Escapes was completely refilmed before release, eviscerating several blood-curdling sequences involving killer pygmies, torture murders and vampire bats. Wearing considerably more clothing than in 1934's Tarzan and His Mate, Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) ...

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On an Island with You (1948) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban, Jimmy Durante, Cyd Charisse

The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a movie star (what an innovation!), Rosalind Reynolds, who is on location in Hawaii to shoot a picture. Peter Lawford plays the film's naval technical advisor, Lt. Lawrence Y. Kingslee, who naturally falls deeply in love with ...

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Athena (1954) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Virginia Gibson, Nancy Kilgas, Dolores Starr

Health faddist Mulvain (Louis Calhern) and his astrology-minded wife Salome (Norma Varden) hold court over their seven musical-prodigy daughters. Each girl is named after a mythical Greek: Athena (Jane Powell), Minerva (Debbie Reynolds), Niobe (Virginia Gibson), Aphrodite (Nancy Kligas), Medea (Jane Fischer), Calliope (Dolores Starr) and Ceres ...

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This Time for Keeps (1947) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Esther Williams, Johnny Johnston, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante, Xavier Cugat

In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with the star of the "aquacaper." It is difficult to woo her as she is constantly surrounded by her piano-playing bodyguard and her ever-present grandmother. It's musical and comedic chaos as the son attempts to overcome these ...

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Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Virginia Grey, Charles Bickford

This final "Tarzan" entry from the MGM assembly line is arguably one the least effective of the series, though it certainly has its adherents. It all begins when Boy (Johnny Sheffield), adopted son of Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), is kidnapped from the jungle by crooked circus promoters Rand (Charles Bickford) and ...

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The Sun Comes Up (1949) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, Claude Jarman, Jr., Percy Kilbride

In this moving drama an embittered widow, a former concert singer, can't help but blame Lassie for her son's death. Needing help with her chores, she hires an orphan from the local home. At first she remains aloof towards the charming lad who quickly bonds with the collie dog, but as time passes she can't help but develop feelings for the boy. ...

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Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Reginald Owen, Barry Fitzgerald

Judging by the number of times it's popped up on TV, Tarzan's Secret Treasure was one of the most popular of the MGM "Tarzan" pictures, though it's hardly the best. This time around, a group of gold hunters invade the domain of Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller), Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Boy (Johnny Sheffield). Expedition leader Professor Elliot ...

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The Prodigal (1955) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern, Audrey Dalton, James Mitchell, Neville Brand

One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the then-flagging MGM studios. In its retelling of the 22-verse Biblical story of the Prodigal Son, the film helpfully fills in the story details inconsiderately left out of the Old Testament. Edmond Purdon plays Micah, the wastrel son of ...

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The King Murder (1932) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Conway Tearle, Natalie Moorhead, Marceline Day, Dorothy Revier, Don Alvarado

As evidenced by its title, Chesterfield's The King Murder was partially inspired by the infamous Dot King extortion case of the early 1930s. Before the film is even half over, three murders have been committed. The first victim is a blonde trollop who'd been blackmailing a prominent millionaire. The second unfortunate is the cop assigned to guard ...

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The Honeymoon Machine (1961) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger, Jack Mullaney

Just a few years before The Great Escape would catapult Steve McQueen to stardom, the charismatic actor played the lead, Lt. Fergie Howard, in this light romantic farce involving the computers on a Navy ship. Lt. Howard is playing poker on the good ship El Mira when he gets a brilliant idea. Why not use the ship's computer "Max" to figure out ...

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The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Fernando Lamas, William Powell, Gig Young, James Whitmore

A good man tries to warn his daughter away from a bad man who has stolen her heart in this melodrama. Steve Latimer (William Powell) is a successful defense attorney who has gone out of his way to give his daughter Jean (Elizabeth Taylor) every advantage in life. However, Steve's generosity and open minded attitude begin to backfire on him when ...

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Challenge to Lassie (1949) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen, Alan Webb

A "new" Lassie (once again, a male collie in drag) starred in A Challenge to Lassie, MGM's fourth entry in their series based on characters created by Eric Knight. This time, Lassie is plunked into the plotline of William Ludwig's novel Greyfriars Bobby (remade by Disney under its original title in 1963). In 19th-century Edinburgh, crusty ...

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Murder at Dawn (1932) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Jack Mulhall, Josephine Dunn, Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Crauford Kent

A judge investigating two Wall Street brokers accused of stock manipulations learns of a mysterious invention, a "DXL Accumulator" with which its inventor, Prof. Farrington, plans to harness solar power. The judge decides to visit the professor at his mountain hideaway. When he arrives, he finds that the professor's daughter and her boyfriend are ...

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Grief Street (1931) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Barbara Kent, John Holland, Dorothy Christy, Crauford Kent

In this mystery-thriller, set on Broadway, a cynical reporter looks into the killing of a New York actor who was found strangled in his dressing room. The reporter also must deal with the death of the lead actress, who is shot. One more person dies before he can solve the murders and drag the murderer into the police. Sandra Brennan, All Movie ...

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King of the Wild (1931)

directed by B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason, Richard Thorpe

Set in India, Arabia, and Darkest Africa, this 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial had been created for Harry Carey and Edwina Booth, the stars of MGM's highly anticipated Trader Horn (1930). That film, however, needed quite a bit of re-tooling and producer Nat Levine had to settle for lesser names Walter Miller and Nora Lane. A top serial leading ...

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Night Must Fall (1937) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Merle Tottenham

Emlyn Williams' theatrical horror piece Night Must Fall was filmed by MGM without the usual studio-imposed happy ending. Robert Montgomery stars as Danny, a wickedly charming Irish bellhop who wins the confidence of an elderly invalid (Dame May Whitty). The old woman's niece (Rosalind Russell) is not so easily swayed by Danny's blarney, but she ...

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