Douglas Dick
Nascimento : 1920-11-20, Charleston, West Virginia, United States
Morte : 2015-12-19
História
Douglas Dick (November 20, 1920 - December 19, 2015) was a retired American actor and occasional screenwriter. His most famous role came in the 1948 film Rope. In 1971, Dick left the entertainment industry to work as a psychologist.
Self (archive footage)
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly making a movie about gay murderers in the 1940s.
Will Howard
Pacer Burton, filho do rancheiro branco Sam Burton e de Neddy, que pertence à tribo kiowa, se vê envolvido num confronto entre os colonizadores e os nativos. Durante todo o conflito, ele tenta promover a paz entre os dois lados.
Lieutenant
Faroeste que mistura comédia e aventura, cuja ação ambientada durante a corrida do ouro no Alasca, conta a história dos amigos Sam (Wayne) e George (Stewart Granger) se aventurando no garimpo. George pede a Sam que busque sua namorada Jennie em Seattle. Mas quando Sam descobre que ela casou-se com outro, ele arquiteta um plano para levar um novo amor para George e convida uma bela dançarina (Capucine) para ser a substituta de Jennie.
Mel Dobie
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor (Joel McCrea) settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager (Gloria Talbott) as his child's nanny. Directed by Francis D. Lyon and released in 1957, this western also stars Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter, Verna Felton, Esther Dale, Douglas Dick, Michael Pate, Sheb Wooley, Ray Teal, Mimi Gibson and Anthony Caruso.
Henry Johnson
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
Claude St. Germaine
A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.
Bryan Curtis
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
Narcisse de Bornay
Neste filme biográfico, Jim Bowie vai para Nova Orleans, onde se apaixona por Judalon e torna-se amigo de seu irmão, Narcisse. Logo, Jim é forçado a vingar o assassinato de Narcisse, mas Judalon pega outro homem. Jim acaba tendo outro interlúdio romântico com Judalon e é forçado a matar um de seus pretendentes em legítima defesa. Jim deixa a cidade e se apaixona pela filha de um político do Texas, mas seu envolvimento com Judalon continua a atormentá-lo.
Baker
Aging advertising executive Alan Miller is a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called by the elevator operator of a residential hotel to come and intervene in the case of one of the guests, struggling Broadway actress Jenny Carey. The two find they have even more in common than their taste for drink. But Jenny wants to put an end to their romance because Alan is a married man, who moreover is the father of two children. How will Jenny and Alan resolve their feelings without destroying Alan's marriage?
The Lieutenant
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
Major Robinson
A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily of his war-time adventures with four white soldiers on a dangerous reconnaissance mission on a Japanese-held island.
Bill Perry
O estudante universitário Bill se sente atraído pela professora de psicologia Wilma e tenta estuprá-la. Ela se defende e acidentalmente o mata. Então, move o cadáver para uma praia e faz com que sua morte pareça um acidente.
Carlo
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
Kenneth Lawrence
Dois amigos (Farley Granger e John Dall) caçadores de aventura estrangulam seu colega de classe e organizam uma festa para a família e amigos da vítima, servindo refeições em uma mesa que na verdade é um baú que guarda o cadáver dele. Quando a conversa do jantar gira em torno do assassinato perfeito, o ex-professor (James Stewart) fica cada vez mais desconfiado que seus alunos converteram suas teorias intelectuais em uma realidade brutal.
Captain Mike Perry
After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job for profiteers Maris to finance a good time for his buddy. As the plane takes off he shoves Maris' secretary Susan on board. When Mike falls for her, Larry tells her to play along for Mike's sake. She, of course, falls for Larry.
Sam Hazen
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.