Van Cleave

Nascimento : 1910-05-08, Bayfield, Wisconsin, USA

Morte : 1970-07-02

Filmes

Project X
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A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-advanced technologies to try to uncover the secret.
Assalto a um transatlântico
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Um grupo de aventureiros desencalha um submarino alemão da Segunda Guerra Mundial e pretende usá-lo para realizar algo grande: assaltar o navio The Queen Mary em pleno alto mar.
Assalto a um transatlântico
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Um grupo de aventureiros desencalha um submarino alemão da Segunda Guerra Mundial e pretende usá-lo para realizar algo grande: assaltar o navio The Queen Mary em pleno alto mar.
Sylvia
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Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
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Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Blueprint for Robbery
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A gang of career criminals plots the robbery of an armored car company's headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it's not long before the gang members are fighting among themselves over everybody's share of the loot and trying to avoid capture by the police, who are pouring all their resources into capturing the robbers. Based on a real-life 1950 Brinks Armored Car Co. robbery in Boston.
Hey Boy! Hey Girl!
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Meant primarily as TV fare, this standard, song-filled romantic drama stars Louis Prima as himself, and his real-life wife Keely Smith as Dorothy Spencer, a devout woman with a good singing voice. Dorothy is active in her local parish which like all parishes, is constantly thinking of ways to raise funds. One of the needy projects is a boys' camp, so when Dorothy is approached by Louis Prima to sing with his band she agrees only on one condition -- that he perform a concert benefit for the parish church and boys' camp. The interactions between Dorothy and Prima lead toward romance and a happy ending, as well as a popular album with the same title song featured in this film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi (NY Times Review).
The Colossus of New York
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A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
Mensagem do Planeta Desconhecido
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A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kids start doing the alien's bidding as the adults try to find out what's happening to their unruly offspring.
The Devil's Hairpin
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Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now holds a trendy café who keeps him busy full time until one day, Tony Boari, a new champion racer, challenges him.
O Bandoleiro Solitário
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Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
Cinderela em Paris
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Um famoso fotógrafo de modas, Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), trabalha para a Quality Magazine, uma conceituada revista feminina. Dick cumpre as determinações da editora da revista, Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), que não está satisfeita com os últimos resultados e tenta encontrar "um novo rosto". Dick o acha em Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn), uma balconista de uma livraria no Greenwich Village onde um ensaio fotográfico ocorrera recentemente. Após certa resistência, Maggie aceita Jo como a modelo que irá à Paris para fotografar e ser o símbolo da Quality. Jo só concorda pois lá poderá conhecer Emile Flostre (Michel Auclair), um intelectual cujas ideias ela idolatra. Entretanto, ao chegarem em Paris as coisas não correm como o planejado.
O Bobo da Corte
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A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
Lucy Galante
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Director Robert Parrish's 1955 drama, spanning many years, stars Jane Wyman as a spirited western shopkeeper who watches as her small store flourishes and grows into a hugely profitable business empire. The cast also includes Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter, William Demarest and Wallace Ford.
A Conquista do Espaço
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A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Natal Branco
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Um dos clássicos absolutos do Natal, este musical conta com os insuperáveis Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen e Rosemary Clooney que cantam temas de Irving Berlin como Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep ou o lendário White Christmas. O filme, sobre dois ex-soldados que tentam montar um espetáculo de Natal na estância de férias de um antigo general, é um semi-remake de Michael Curtiz do também natalício Holiday Inn, de 1942, para o qual foi criado o tema do título e que ganhou então o Óscar de Melhor Canção.
Natal Branco
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Um dos clássicos absolutos do Natal, este musical conta com os insuperáveis Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen e Rosemary Clooney que cantam temas de Irving Berlin como Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep ou o lendário White Christmas. O filme, sobre dois ex-soldados que tentam montar um espetáculo de Natal na estância de férias de um antigo general, é um semi-remake de Michael Curtiz do também natalício Holiday Inn, de 1942, para o qual foi criado o tema do título e que ganhou então o Óscar de Melhor Canção.
Sabrina
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Sabrina é a jovem filha do motorista da família Larrabee, que foi apaixonado por David Larrabee a vida toda. David é muito mimado e louco por mulheres, e ignorou a Sabrina durante anos. Sabrina vai para Paris por alguns anos e quando ela retorna é uma mulher muito atraente e sofisticada, e David fica rapidamente atraído por ela. Linus, o irmão de David, vê isso e teme que o casamento iminente de Davi com uma mulher muito rica pode estar ameaçado. Se o casamento for cancelado um grande negócio corporativo com a família da noiva também será cancelado. Então, Linus tenta manter Sabrina fora da vista de seu irmão, e a melhor maneira de fazer isso é ele mesmo cortejar Sabrina.
O Promotor de Encrencas
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Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn when Bullet gets drafted.
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
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Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.
Darling, How Could You!
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Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
A Montanha dos Sete Abutres
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Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas), é um repórter que aceita um emprego num pequeno jornal do Novo México. O trabalho é bastante monótono, até que ele encontra um homem preso numa mina. Ele vislumbra a possibilidade de, ao prolongar a permanência do mineiro dentro dos escombros, a chance de se tornar famoso.
Dear Brat
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Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
Quebec
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Story of a revolt against England in 1830s Canada.
Um Conde na Sinuca
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Arthur Tyler (Bob Hope), um ator americano na Inglaterra representando um mordomo Inglês, é contratado por Effie Floud, uma mulher nouveau riche do Novo México, para refinar o marido e Aggie (Lucille Ball)), a filha teimosa. As complicações aumentam quando a cidade acredita que Arthur é um Conde, e o presidente Teddy Roosevelt decide fazer uma visita para conhece-lo.
Na Boca do Lobo
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Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
A Confissão de Thelma
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Cleve Marshall is an assistant district attorney who falls for the shadowy Thelma Jordon. With her sordid past -- and her relationship with thief Tony Laredo kept secret from the married attorney, Jordon seduces the easily swayed Marshall, and uses him to cover up her misdeeds. When Jordon becomes the prime suspect for the murder of her wealthy aunt, she turns to Marshall, who goes to great lengths to clear her name.
Tarde Demais
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Uma jovem ingênua se apaixona por um bonito jovem, mas seu pai emocionalmente abusivo suspeita que seja um caçador de fortunas. Em meados do século XIX, a rica família Sloper - o cirurgião viúvo Dr. Austin Sloper, sua filha adulta Catherine Sloper (única filha sobrevivente de Dr. Sloper) e Lavinia Penniman, recentemente viúva irmã de Dr. Sloper - moram em uma casa suntuosa em 16 Washington. Square, Nova York. Apesar de todas as lições que Dr. Sloper pagou para encentivar as graças sociais para ela, Catherine é uma mulher simples, desajeitada e extremamente tímida, que passa todo o seu tempo livre sozinha fazendo bordados quando não está idolatrando seu pai. A falta de charme e beleza social de Catherine é óbvia para o Dr. Sloper, que espera que sua irmã Lavinia atue como sua guardiã e ajude socialmente .O primeiro homem a mostrar interesse por Catherine é o belo Morris Townsend, que ela conheceu em uma festa de família.
Red Hot and Blue
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A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.
Alias Nick Beal
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After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Desfile de Páscoa
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Um artista de nightclub contrata uma ingênua Menina do Coro para ser sua nova parceira de dança para deixar sua ex-parceira ciumenta e para provar que ele pode transformar qualquer parceira em uma estrela. Na véspera da Páscoa em 1911, Don Hewes é surpreendido quando sua parceira de dança (e também sua paixão) Nadine Hale se recusa a renovar o contrato com ele. Para provar que Nadine não é importante para ele, Don contrata uma ingênua Menina do Coro, Hannah Brown, prometendo fazer dela uma estrela a tempo para o desfile de Páscoa do próximo ano. Cheio de Melodia! Cheio de Amor!
The Sainted Sisters
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Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with loot from their latest scam, hide out in a small Maine town, near the Canadian border. However - the residents of this small town aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.
Que Rei Sou Eu?
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In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
The Trouble with Women
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A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.