The Manchurian Candidate (
1962) | IMDb:
7.9
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Starring:
Frank Sinatra
,
Laurence Harvey
,
Angela Lansbury
,
Janet Leigh
,
James Gregory
,
Henry Silva
Jack the Giant Killer (
1962) | IMDb:
6.3
The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning.
Starring:
Kerwin Mathews
,
Judi Meredith
,
Torin Thatcher
,
Walter Burke
,
Don Beddoe
,
Barry Kelley
Directed by:
Nathan H. Juran
Elmer Gantry (
1960) | IMDb:
7.7
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
The Joker is Wild (
1957) | IMDb:
7
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Starring:
Frank Sinatra
,
Mitzi Gaynor
,
Jeanne Crain
,
Eddie Albert
,
Beverly Garland
,
Jackie Coogan
Directed by:
Charles Vidor
Produced by:
South Sea Woman (
1953) | IMDb:
6.2
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.
Starring:
Burt Lancaster
,
Virginia Mayo
,
Chuck Connors
,
Arthur Shields
,
Barry Kelley
,
Leon Askin
Directed by:
Arthur Lubin
Produced by:
Wabash Avenue (
1950) | IMDb:
6.1
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
Starring:
Betty Grable
,
Victor Mature
,
Phil Harris
,
Reginald Gardiner
,
James Barton
,
Barry Kelley
Directed by:
Henry Koster
Produced by:
William Perlberg