Fredrick Y. Smith

Birth : 1903-09-23, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Death : 1991-01-18

Movies

Truth and Illusion: An Introduction to Metaphysics
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A meditation or film-essay on metaphysics, perception, and the purpose and progress of mankind.
Misty
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Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Phantom will be caught in this years round up. They soon realize they will get more than they bargained for when the Phantom has a surprise for everyone: a foal named Misty.
All Hands on Deck
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The admiral is coming, so a sailor and his buddy hide their girlfriend and pet turkey.
For the Love of Mike
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An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.
Four Girls in Town
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Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by the director, composer, playboy, and actor. Which one of an international quartette of beauties will replace Universal's glamour star in an upcoming Biblical epic?
Rock, Pretty Baby
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A high school rock group enters a band contest.
Our Miss Brooks
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The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High School, still hoping to tie the knot with shy biology teacher Philip Boynton (Robert Rockwell).
I, the Jury
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in his first film adventure. Originally screened in 3D.
Confidentially Connie
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Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
Sky Full of Moon
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A cowboy seeks fame and fortune in Las Vegas where he meets a girl working in a casino.
Holiday for Sinners
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Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.
Bannerline
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A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
Grounds for Marriage
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Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
A Lady Without Passport
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A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
That Forsyte Woman
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Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
The Secret Land
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This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedition to Antarctica, known as Operation High Jump. The expedition was under the overall command of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, no stranger to the Antarctic. This was a large undertaking involving 13 ships and over 4000 thousand men. The fleet departed from Norfolk, Virginia traveling through the Panama canal and then southward to their final destination. The trip through the ice pack was fraught with danger and forced the submarine that was part of the fleet to withdraw. The trip was a success meeting all of its scientific goals.
White Cargo
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In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
Maisie Gets Her Man
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Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
This Time for Keeps
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A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
Lady Be Good
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Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
Ringside Maisie
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Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.
Maisie Was a Lady
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Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
Gold Rush Maisie
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Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Congo Maisie
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Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.
Another Thin Man
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Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Miracles for Sale
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A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Maisie
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Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
The Kid From Texas
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A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
Let Freedom Ring
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A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Dramatic School
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Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Three Loves Has Nancy
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A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Fast Company
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Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Port of Seven Seas
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In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
Mannequin
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Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Big City
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Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Parnell
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Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Libeled Lady
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When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
The Devil-Doll
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Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
Petticoat Fever
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A lonely radio operator in Labrador falls for an engaged woman.
Britannia of Billingsgate
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The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
Rome Express
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The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 7: 'The Spoon'
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Bobby Jones instructs a husband and the judge in his divorce proceedings on proper use of the Spoon.
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
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Bobby Jones gives a truant salesman some driving tips while his angry boss looks on.
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
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Bobby Jones shows Huntley Gordon and Vivian Oakland some tips on the use of the niblick (9 iron)
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 2: 'Chip Shots'
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Bobby Jones teaches a group of truant businessman how to improve their chip shots.
The Truth About Youth
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A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
Sweet Mama
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A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she loves.