Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 1 of 9
OLLI: Spring 2013: Hollywood Blacklist: DVDs in Class Portable Library HB: Hollywood Blacklist connection: key: *: blacklisted; #: "friendly witness"; *#: blacklisted & later gave "friendly" testimony FILM YEAR DIRECTOR ACTORS PLOT / HB: BLACKLIST CONNECTION ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET 1948 Charles Barton Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chnaey 2 hapless freight handlers encounter famous monsters; HB: Robert FRANKENSTEIN Jr., Bela Lugosi Lees*, Frederic I. Rinaldo* ALL THE KING'S MEN 1949 Robert Rossen Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Rise & fall of corrupt politician who makes his friends richer & Joanne Dru, Mercedes McCambridge retains power thru populist control; HB: Robert Rossen# AMERICA AMERICA 1963 Elia Kazan Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, Karam, Harry Davis, Estelle Hemsley dreams of going to America; HB: Elia Kazan# THE ASPHALT JUNGLE 1950 John Huston Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Major heist goes off as planned, then things start to unravel; HB: Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Marilyn Monroe Ben Maddow*#; Sterling Hayden#, Sam Jaffe*, Dorothy Tree* BACK TO BATAAN 1945 Edward Dmytryk John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah The US Army is helped in its defense of the Philippines by heroic Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo Filipinos; HB: Edward Dmytryk*#, Ben Barzman* BIG CITY 1937 Frank Borzage Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Charles Proletarian solidarity featured in tale of Russian refugee Rainer Grapewin, Janet Beecher married to cab driver Tracy; HB: Hugo Butler* THE BIG KNIFE 1955 Robert Aldrich Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Successful Hollywood actor must make critical decisions regarding Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger his career & his morality; HB: Clifford Odets#, theme BLOCKADE 1938 William Dieterle Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo A Spanish peasant caught up in the Civil War falls for a Russian Carrillo, John Halliday spy's daughter; HB: John Howard Lawson* BOOMERANG! 1947 Elia Kazan Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. True story of prosecutor's attempt to prove innocence of man Cobb, Cara Williams, Arthur Kennedy accused of murder; HB: Elia Kazan#, Lee J. Cobb# THE BOSS 1956 Byron Haskin John Payne, William Bishop, Gloria True story of power-hungry politician who takes over city in the McGehee, Doe Avedon, Roy Roberts US with frightening results; HB: Dalton Trumbo* THE BRAVE ONE 1956 Irving Rapper Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Elsa A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from Cårdenas, Carlos Navarro, Joi Lansing going against a celebrated matador; HB: Dalton Trumbo* THE BREAKING POINT 1950 Michael Curtiz John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Captain of a charter boat gets financially strapped & is drawn into Thaxter, Juano Hernandez illegal activities; HB: John Garfield* THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER 1957 David Lean William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack British colonel oversees construction of railway bridge at KWAI Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa Japanese PoW Camp; HB: Michael Wilson*, Carl Foreman* BRUTE FORCE 1947 Jules Dassin Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles In a tough penitentiary, a prisoner plans to rebel against the power- Bickford, Yvonne DeCarlo, Ann Blyth mad chief guard; HB: Jules Dassin*, Jeff Corey* CABIN IN THE SKY 1943 Vincente Minnelli Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" All-black musical about dying gambler whose soul becomes Anderson, Lena Horne battleground for 2nd chance; HB: Yip Harburg* CARNIVAL STORY 1954 Kurt Neumann Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle An American carnival in Germany sets the scene for sin, sex & Bettger, George Nader melodrama; HB: Dalton Trumbo* CASABLANCA 1942 Michael Curtiz Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, In unoccupied Africa during early days of WWII, American Paul Henreid, Claude Rains expatriate meets former lover; HB: Howard Koch* CASS TIMBERLANE 1947 George Sidney Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Story based on Sinclair Lewis book about judge who marries Scott, Tom Drake, Mary Astor woman from wrong side of tracks; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart* CAUGHT 1949 Max Ophuls James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, An innocent woman meets & marries a rich man & her world Robert Ryan, Frank Ferguson becomes a nightmare; HB: John Berry* Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 2 of 9
CHE! 1969 Richard Fleischer Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Bio-pic of life of Che Guevara, but its sympathetic screenplay was Danova, Robert Loggia, Woody Strode eviscerated by producer Sy Bartlett; HB: Michael Wilson* THE CHILDREN'S HOUR 1961 William Wyler Shirley MacLaine, Audrey Hepburn, A trouble-making student at an all-girls' school accuses 2 teachers James Garner, Miriam Hopkins of being lesbians; HB: Lillian Hellman* CITIZEN KANE 1941 Orson Welles Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy After death of a publishing tycoon, reporters look for meaning of Comingore, Agnes Moorehead his last word; HB: Dorothy Comingore*, Orson Welles CITY FOR CONQUEST 1940 Jean Negulesco James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Arthur Truck driver becomes a boxer & uses his winnings to support his Kennedy, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quinn brother's music career; HB: John Wexley* CLASH BY NIGHT 1952 Fritz Lang Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Cynical woman comes back to her hometown & marries, but she's Douglas, Marilyn Monroe got a roving eye; HB: Clifford Odets# CLAUDINE 1974 John Berry James Earl Jones, Diahann Carroll, Eric Harlem garbageman & single mother of 6 meet while she's working Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as a maid; HB: John Berry* CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY 1939 Anatole Litvak Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, An FBI agent investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the Francis Lederer, Dorothy Tree German-American Bund; HB: John Wexley*, Dorothy Tree* CORNERED 1945 Edward Dmytryk Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Morris Canadian flyer finds his wife has been murdered; HB:Edward Carnovsky, Luther Adler Dmytryk*#, Adrian Scott*, John Wexley*, Carnovsky*, Adler* CRACK-UP 1946 Irving Reis Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Art curator is in train wreck that seemingly never happened; is he Marshall, Ray CollinsWallace Ford cracking up? HB: Jack T. Gross*, Ben Bengal*, Ray Spencer* CRAIG'S WIFE 1936 Dorothy Arzner Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Domineering woman marries wealthy man, then uses her position Burke, Jane Darwell, Dorothy Wilson to gain money & power; HB: Edward Chodorov* CROSS CREEK 1983 Martin Ritt Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings tries to "find herself" by moving Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard to the remote Florida backwoods; HB: Martin Ritt* CROSSFIRE 1947 Edward Dmytryk Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert A man is murdered apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out Ryan, Gloria Grahame of the army; HB: Edward Dmytryk*#, Adrian Scott* THE CRUCIBLE 1996 Nicholas Hytner Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul 17th-century Salem woman accuses an ex-lover's wife of witchery; Scofield, Joan Allen based on play by Arthur Miller; HB: Arthur Miller CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY 1951 Zoltan Korda Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles In the back country of South Africa, a black minister journeys to Carson, Joyce Carey, Geoffrey Keen the city to search for his missing son; HB: John Howard Lawson* CYRANO DE BERGERAC 1950 Michael Gordon José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Rostan's swordsman-poet helps man woo woman he loves; HB: Prince, Morris Carnovsky Michael Gordon*#, Carl Foreman*, José Ferrer#, Carnovsky* DEADLINE AT DAWN 1946 Harold Clurman Susan Hayward, Bill Williams, Paul A sailor on leave appears to have killed a woman & has until dawn Lukas, Joseph Calleia, Osa Massen to find the real killer; HB: Adrian Scott*, Clifford Odets# THE DEFIANT ONES 1958 Stanley Kramer Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore 2 escaped convicts chained together, 1 black & 1 white, try to elude Bikel, Cara Williams, Lon Chaney Jr. capture; HB: Nathan E. Douglas (really Nedrick Young*) DESTINATION TOKYO 1943 Delmer Daves Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, During WWII, US submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay to put spy John Ridgely, Dane Clark team ashore; HB: Albert Maltz*, John Garfield* THE DEVIL DOLL 1936 Tod Browning Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Escaped Devil's Island convict uses miniaturized humans to get Frank Lawton revenge on those who framed him; HB: Guy Endore* DUST BE MY DESTINY 1939 Lewis Seiler John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Ex-con is back in jail on prison farm & falls in love with foreman's Hale, Frank McHugh, Billy Halop daughter; HB: Robert Rossen# DYNAMITE 1929 Cecil B. DeMille Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles A socialite marries a condemned man for money, only to learn he's Bickford, Julia Faye, Joel McCrea been reprieved; HB: John Howard Lawson* Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 3 of 9
EARTH VS. THE FLYING 1956 Fred F. Sears Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald ET's in flying saucers have a plan to enslave inhabitants of the SAUCERS Curtis, Morris Ankrum earth; HB: Raymond T. Marcus (really Bernard Gordon*) EAST OF EDEN 1955 Elia Kazan James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie In WWI-era Salinas Valley, Cal competes with his brother Aron for Harris, Burl Ives, Jo Van Fleet their father's love; based on Steinbeck; HB: Elia Kazan# EDGE OF THE CITY 1957 Martin Ritt John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Ruby An army deserter & a dock worker fight corrupt union racketerring Dee, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire on NYC docks; HB: Martin Ritt* EDWARD, MY SON 1949 George Cukor Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Capitalist Arnold Boult will do anything to ensure the success of Hunter, James Donald, Mervyn Johns his only son; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart* EXODUS 1960 Otto Preminger Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Adaptation of Leon Uris' novel about the founding of state of Mineo, Lee J. Cobb, John Derek Israel; HB: Dalton Trumbo*, Lee J. Cobb#, John Derek# A FACE IN THE CROWD 1957 Elia Kazan Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony An Arkansas hobo is an overnight media sensation & becomes Franciosa, Walter Matthau drunk with fame & power; HB: Elia Kazan#, Budd Schulberg# FAIL-SAFE 1964 Sidney Lumet Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Due to a malfunction, American aircraft are sent to deliver a Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy nuclear attack on Moscow; HB: Walter Bernstein* THE FEARMAKERS 1958 Jacques Tourneur Dana Andrews, Dick Foran, Marilee Korean War veteran discovers his Washington-based PR firm has Earle, Veda Ann Borg been taken over by communist infiltrators; HB: theme FIRST COMES COURAGE 1943 Dorothy Arzner Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Norwegian resistance fighter seduces Nazi officer to learn enemy Esmond, Isobel Elsom, Fritz Lieber secrets during World War II; HB: Melvin Levy#, George Sklar* FIVE CAME BACK 1939 John Farrow Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy 12 people board a flagship airliner to South America & the plane Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins crashes in the jungle; HB: Dalton Trumbo* 5 FINGERS 1952 Joseph L. Mankiewicz James Mason, Danille Darrieux, During WWII, the English ambassador to Ankara sells British Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden secrets to the Germans; HB: Michael Wilson* FORCE OF EVIL 1948 Abraham Polonsky John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie An unethical lawyer becomes a partner with a client in the numbers Windsor, Stanley Prager racket; HB: Polonsky*,Stanley Prager*, John Garfield* FOUR DAUGHTERS 1938 Michael Curtiz Claude Rains, John Garfield, May Small-town musical family has their life disrupted when daughter Robson, the 3 Lane Sisters falls for rebellious musician; HB: John Garfield* FRIENDLY PERSUASION 1956 William Wyler Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Story of family of Quakers during the Civil War, whose religion Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer tells them to reject violence; HB: Michael Wilson* THE FRONT 1976 Martin Ritt Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their Bernardi, Michael Murphy work thru; HB: Martin Ritt*, Walter Bernstein*, Zero Mostel* THE GLASS KEY 1942 Stuart Heisler Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian While campaigning for reelection, a crooked politician gets mixed Donlevy, Bonita Granville up with gangsters; HB: Dashiell Hammett* GOD'S LITTLE ACRE 1958 Anthony Mann Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Aldo Ray, A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord, Fay Spain buried by his grandfather; HB: Ben Maddow*# GOLDEN BOY 1939 Rouben Mamoulian Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Despite his musical talent, Joe Bonaparte wants to be a boxer; HB: William Holden, Lee J. Cobb Clifford Odets#, Lee J. Cobb# GUILTY BY SUSPICION 1991 Irwin Winkler Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, Sam Fictitious 1950s Hollywood director is called before HUAC; HB: Wanamaker, Joan Scott Abraham Polonsky*, Sam Wanamaker*, Joan Scott* GUN CRAZY 1950 Joseph H. Lewis John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Young man who's a crack shot is pressured by his marksman wife Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky to go on an interstate robbery spree; HB: Dalton Trumbo* HANGMEN ALSO DIE! 1943 Fritz Lang Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna After Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin Lee, Hans Heidrich von Twardowski tries to elude the Gestapo; HB: John Wexley*, Bertold Brecht* Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 4 of 9
HE RAN ALL THE WAY 1951 John Berry John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Small-time thief & his partner steal $10,000 but it all goes wrong; Ford, Selena Royle, HB: John Berry*, Hugo Butler*, Dalton Trumbo*, John Garfield* HERE COMES MR. JORDAN 1941 Alexander Hall Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Boxer dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake & is given Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson a new life as a millionaire playboy; HB: Sidney Buchman* HIGH NOON 1952 Fred Zinnemann Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas A marshall is personally compelled to face a returning deadly Mitchell, Katy Jurado enemy but his town won't help him; HB: Carl Foreman* HIGH WALL 1947 Curtis Bernhardt Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Brain-damaged man confesses to murder, is committed & a doctor Marshall, Dorothy Patrick tries to prove his innocence; HB: Lester Cole* HITLER'S MADMAN 1943 Douglas Sirk Patricia Morrison, John Carradine, Alan Story of the assassination of a Nazi SS commander by Czech Curtis, Howard Freeman partisans; HB: Melvin Levy#, Bart Lytton# HOLIDAY 1938 George Cukor Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Man's plan to go on holiday for early years goes against fiancee's Nolan, Lew Ayres rich family; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart*, Sidney Buchman* HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST var. var. Hollywood Ten, Betty Garrett, Edward 5 short films: HOLLYWOOD TEN, BETTY GARRETT, Dmytryk, etc. EDWARD DMYTRYK, CENSORING CINEMA, COLD WAR HOLLYWOOD ON TRIAL 1976 David Helpern Walter Bernstein, Alvah Bessie, Lester Documentary examining the causes & effects of HUAC & its Cole, Gary Cooper, Millard Lampell blacklist on the Hollywood film industry; HB: people, theme HONKY TONK 1941 Jack Conway Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Fast-talking con man & grifter rises to be corrupt boss of Yellow Morgan, Claire Trevor, Marjorie Main Creek; HB: Marguerite Roberts*, John Sanford* HOTEL BERLIN 1945 Peter Godfrey Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, At end of WWII, a member of German underground escapes the Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre Gestapo & takes shelter at Hotel Berlin; HB: Alvah Bessie* HUMORESQUE 1946 Jean Negulesco Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a Levant, J. Carroll Naish neurotic sociallite; HB: Clifford Odets#, John Garfield* THE HUSTLER 1961 Robert Rossen Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper An up-&-coming pool player plays a champion in a single high- Laurie, George C. Scott stakes match; HB: Robert Rossen# IF I HAD A MILLION 1932 Ernst Lubitsch, James Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to 8 people picked Cruz, etc. Fields, George Raft, Jack Oakie from the city directory; HB: theme IN A LONELY PLACE 1950 Nicholas Ray Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until he's Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid cleared by lovely neighbor; HB: theme INHERIT THE WIND 1960 Stanley Kramer Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene In 1925, 2 great lawyers argue the case of a science teacher charged Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson with crime of teaching evolution; HB: Nedrick Young* INTRUDER IN THE DUST 1949 Clarence Brown David Bryan, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano In 1940s Mississippi, an independent black man is charged with the Hernandez, Porter Hall, Will Geer murder of a white man; HB: Ben Maddow*# IVANHOE 1952 Richard Thorpe Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Adaptation of Walter Scott's classic novel about a knight who Fontaine, George Sanders wants King Richard back on throne; HB: Marguerite Roberts* THE JOHN GARFIELD STORY 2003 David Heeley narrated by Julie Garfield; with Lee Documentary traces Garfield's life & career from his humble Grant, Joanne Woodward, etc. childhood to being hounded by HUAC; HB: John Garfield* JOHNNY GUITAR 1954 Nicholas Ray Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Woman saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder & bank Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady robbery; HB: Ben Maddow*#, Sterling Hayden#, theme KEEPER OF THE FLAME 1942 George Cukor Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Journalist writing biography of national hero who died becomes Richard Whorf, Howard da Silva involved with his widow: HB: Donald Ogden Stewart*, da Silva* KING AND COUNTRY 1964 Joseph Losey Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo During WWI, an army private is accused of desertion & put on McKern, Barry Foster trial; HB: Joseph Losey* Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 5 of 9
KITTY FOYLE 1940 Sam Wood Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Middle-class woman from Philadelphia meets & falls in love with Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli young sociallite; HB: Dalton Trumbo*, Donald Ogden Stewart* THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI 1947 Orson Welles Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Fascinated by a gorgeous woman, a young sailor joins a bizarre Sloane, Glenn Anders yachting cruise; HB: Orson Welles LAURA 1944 Otto Preminger Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson investigating; HB: Ring Lardner Jr.*, Vera Caspary* THE LAWLESS 1950 Joseph Losey Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell, Johnny In a small argicultural town, a newspaper editor gets involved Sands, Lee Patrick, Lalo Rios with local fruit pickers; HB: Joseph Losey*, John Hubley* LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962 David Lean Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Story of T.E. Lawrence & his conflicted loyalties during his WWI Quinn, Omar Sharif, Jack Hawkins service in the Middle East; HB: Michael Wilson* THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE 1968 Robert Aldrich Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Dictatorial film director hires unknown actress to play lead in bio- Borgnine, Valentina Cortese pic of late Hollywood star; HB: Hugo Butler* THE LETTER 1940 William Wyler Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Wife on rubber plantation shoots man to death & claims self- Stephenson, Gale Sondergaard defense: HB: Howard Koch*, Anne Froelick*, Gale Sondergaard* LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN 1948 Max Ophuls Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady A pianist recives a letter from a woman he cannot remember who WOMAN Christians, Marcel Journet may hold key to his downfall; HB: Howard Koch* LIFE WITH FATHER 1947 Michael Curtiz William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth A financier from New York rules his large family as meticulously Taylor, Edmund Gwenn as a bookkeeper; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart* LILITH 1964 Robert Rossen Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Mysterious young woman in elite sanitarium in New England Fonda, Kim Hunter, Gene Hackman weaves a magical spell; HB: Robert Rossen#, Kim Hunter*# THE LONG NIGHT 1947 Anatole Litvak Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Police surround the apartment of an apparent murderer as he Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak reflects on his life; HB: John Wexley* LOST HORIZON 1937 Frank Capra Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward A plane crash delivers a group of travelers to the secluded land of Everett Horton, Sam Jaffe Shangri-la; HB: Sidney Buchman*, Sam Jaffe* LOVE AFFAIR 1939 Leo McCarey Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria French playboy & American woman fall in love on sea cruise & Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman arrange to meet in 6 months; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart* MADAMOISELLE FIFI 1944 Robert Wise Simone, Simon, John Emery, Kurt During the Franco-Prussion war, a French laundress shares a coach Kreuger, Alan Napier ride with her social superiors; HB: Josef Mischel* THE MAGNIFICENT 1942 Orson Welles Joseph Cotton, Dolores Costello, Anne Spoiled young heir of decaying family fortune comes between his AMBERSONS Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead wodowed mother & man she loves; HB: Orson Welles MALCOLM X 1992 Spike Lee Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Bio-pic of the controversial Black Nationalist leader; Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee, Albert Hall HB: Arnold Perl* MARK OF THE VAMPIRE 1935 Tod Browning Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allen, Bela When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames Lugosi, Lionel Atwill vampires; HB: Guy Endore*, H.S. Kraft*, Samuel Ornitz* MARKED WOMAN 1937 Lloyd Bacon Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Crusading D.A. persuades clip joint "party girl" to testify against Lane, Isabel Jewell, Mayo Methot her mob boss; HB: Robert Rossen# MEET THE PEOPLE 1944 Charles Reisner Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia Shipyard worker gets beautiful movie star to stage musical tribute O'Brien, Bert Lahr, Rags Ragland to war industry; HB: E.Y. Harburg*, Sol Barzman*, Lucille Ball# THE MIRACLE 1959 Irving Rapper Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter In Napoleonic-era Spain, a young postulant falls in love with a Slezak, Vittorio Gassman British soldier; HB: Jean Rouverol Butler*, Hugo Butler* MISSION TO MOSCOW 1943 Michael Curtiz Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about Homolka, George Tobias the Soviet system; HB: Howard Koch*, theme Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 6 of 9
MONSIGNOR 1982 Frank Perry Christopher Reeve, Geneviéve Bujold, An ambitious priest seduces a nun & leads the Vatican into shady Fernando Rey, Jason Miller business during & after WWII; HB: Abraham Polonsky* THE MORTAL STORM 1940 Frank Borzage Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Family in small German Alps village in early 1930s leads a quiet Robert Young, Frank Morgan life, then Nazis come to power & they're divided; HB: theme THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME 1932 Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Ship is wrecked on island where an insane hunter pursues & tries to Schoedsack Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson kill its stranded passengers; HB: John Bright* MR. SMITH GOES TO 1939 Frank Capra James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Naïve man is chosen to fill vacancy in US Senate, but his plans WASHINGTON Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee collide with political corruption; HB: Sidney Buchman* THE NAKED CITY 1948 Jules Dassin Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Homicide detectives investigate murder of blonde model in semi- Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor doc filmed in NYC; HB: Jules Dassin*, Albert Maltz* NIGHT AND THE CITY 1950 Jules Dassin Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Small-time nightclub tout tries to become big-time player as a Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe wrestling promoter; HB: Jules Dassin* NONE BUT THE LONELY 1944 Clifford Odets Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry An itinerant cockney returns home to help his sickly mother run HEART Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt her shop; HB: Clifford Odets# NORMA RAE 1979 Martin Ritt Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron A young single mother & textile worker agrees to help unionize her Liebman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley mill; HB: Martin Ritt*, Irving Ravetch# THE NORTH STAR 1943 Lewis Milestone Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter A Ukranian villiage must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding of June 1941; HB: Lillian Hellman*, Aaron Copland* OBJECTIVE, BURMA! 1945 Raoul Walsh Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Platoon of special ops parachutes into remote Burmese jungle to Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull destroy Japanese radar station; HB: Lester Cole*, Alvah Bessie* ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW 1959 Robert Wise Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Racial tensions mount as desperate losers plan a bank robbery with Grahame, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley unexpected results; HB: Abraham Polonsky* OF MICE AND MEN 1939 Lewis Milestone Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, A mentsally disabled giant & his guardian find work at a sadistic Betty Field, Charles Bickford cowboy's ranch; HB: Aaron Copland* ON THE WATERFRONT 1954 Elia Kazan Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Ex-prizefighter turned longshoreman tries to stand up to corrupt Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger union bosses; HB: Elia Kazan#, Budd Schulberg#, Lee J. Cobb# OUR BLUSHING BRIDES 1930 Harry Beaumont Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, 3 department store "girls" share an apartment on West 91st Street in Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian New York City; HB: John Howard Lawson* PARIS BLUES 1961 Martin Ritt Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, 2 expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet & fall in love with Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll 2 young American tourists; HB: Martin Ritt*, Walter Bernstein* THE PHILADELPHIA STORY 1940 George Cukor Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Socialite's ex-husband & a tabloid reporter turn up just before her Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard planned re-marriage; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart*, Waldo Salt* PINKY 1949 Elia Kazan Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Light-skinned black woman returns to her grandmother in south, Waters, William Lundigan after graduating from northern nursing school; HB: Elia Kazan# A PLACE IN THE SUN 1951 George Stevens Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, A poor young man gets a job working for his rich uncle & falls in Shelley Winters, Anne Revere love with 2 women; HB: Michael Wilson*, Anne Revere* PRIDE OF THE MARINES 1945 Delmer Daves John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Real-life WWII Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and Clark, Rosemary DeCamp, Ann doran returns home to be rehabilitated; HB: Albert Maltz THE PROWLER 1951 Joseph Losey Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Woman reports prowler, cop investigates & sparks fly, but she's Maxwell, Katherine Warren married; HB: Joseph Losey*, Hugo Butler*, Dalton Trumbo* THE PUBLIC ENEMY 1931 William A. Wellman James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook underworld; HB: John Bright Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 7 of 9
RACHEL AND THE STRANGER 1948 Norman Foster Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Bride in an arranged marriage during frontier days becomes Mitchum, Gary Gray attracted to lonesome drifter; HB: Waldo Salt*, Howard Fast* RAGE IN HEAVEN 1941 W.S. Van Dyke Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, 2 old friends fall for the same woman; she marries one & stands by George Sanders, Lucile Watson him as he starts acting erratically; HB: Edward Chodorov* RAW DEAL 1948 Anthony Mann Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Thanks to his sentimental moll, a con escapes from prison to track Hunt, Raymond Burr down those he took rap for; HB: Leopold Atlas#, Marsha Hunt* RIFIFI 1955 Jules Dassin Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert 4 men plan a technically perfect crime but the human element Manuel, Janine Darcy, Pierre Grasset intervenes; HB: Jules Dassin*, Ben Barzman* THE ROBE 1953 Henry Koster Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Roman tribune is assigned to crucify Jesus & wins his homespun Mature, Michael Rennie, Dean Jagger robe when gambling at foot of cross; HB: Albert Maltz* ROBINSON CRUSOE 1954 Luis Bunuel Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernandez, Felipe Classical story of a man who winds up on a desert island after a de Alba, Chel Lopez shipwreck; HB: Luis Bunuel*, Hugo Butler* SABOTEUR 1942 Alfred Hitchcock Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto An aircraft factory worker goes on the run across the US when he's Kruger, Alan Baxter, Norman Lloyd accused of being a saboteur; HB: Dorothy Parker* SAHARA 1943 Zoltan Korda Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Tank crew picks up various people while crossing desert to rejoin Carroll Naish, Lloyd Bridges their command; HB: John Howard Lawson*, Lloyd Bridges# SALT OF THE EARTH 1954 Herbert J. Biberman Juan Chacon, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Mexican-American workers in zinc mine & their wives fight for Geer, David Wolfe, Mervin Williams equality; HB: Paul Jarrico*, Biberman*, Michael Wilson*, Geer* SATURDAY'S HERO 1951 David Miller John Derek, Donna Reed, Sibney A star high school football player goes thru "big time" college Blackmer, Alexander Knox athletics; HB: Millard Lampell*, Sidney Buchman*, A. Knox* THE SEA OF GRASS 1947 Elia Kazan Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, St. Louis woman marries New Mexico cattleman & gradually finds Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas out truth about him; HB: Elia Kazan#, Marguerite Roberts* THE SEA WOLF 1941 Michael Curtiz Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John A writer & 2 fugitives are given refuge aboard a seal boat with a Garfield, Alexander Knox cruel captain; HB: Robert Rossen#, John Garfield* THE SEARCH 1948 Fred Zinnemann Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline In post-WWII Berlin, a US soldier tries to help a lost Czech boy MacMahon, Wendell Corey find his mother; HB: Paul Jarrico* THE SEARCHERS 1956 John Ford John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, A Civil War veteran spends years searching for his niece who's Ward Bond, Natalie Wood been captured by Indians; HB: theme SMART WOMAN 1948 Edward A. Blatt Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Barry Genders clash as crusading D.A. Aherne locks horns with defense Sullivan, Michael O'Shea attorney Bennett; HB: Alvah Bessie* SOUNDER 1972 Martin Ritt Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Son of family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Hooks, Carmen Matthews Depression-era south; HB: Martin Ritt* THE SOUTHERNER 1945 Jean Renoir Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carroll Poor Tucker family that worked as cotton pluggers decides to get Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride their own ground but must deal with nature; HB: Hugo Butler* SPARTACUS 1960 Stanley Kubrick Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean A slave leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Simmons, Charles Laughton Republic; HB: Dalton Trumbo*, Howard Fast* STORM CENTER 1956 Daniel Taradash Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Small-town librarian is branded a communist by local politicians Paul Kelly, Joe Mantell when she won't remove a book; HB: Kim Hunter*#, theme THE STORY OF G.I. JOE 1945 William A. Wellman Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins army unit as it fights across N. Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell Africa; HB: Leopold Atlas#, Guy Endore*, Philip Stevenson* THE STORY ON PAGE ONE 1959 Clifford Odets Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig When Jo Morris' marriage turns sour & heartless, she finds Young, Mildred Dunnock sympathy& companionship with widower; HB: Clifford Odets# Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 8 of 9
THE STRANGE LOVE OF 1946 Lewis Milestone Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth The past of a ruthless, domineering woman married to an alcoholic MARTHA IVERS Scott, Kirk Douglas D.A. comes back to haunt her; HB: Robert Rossen# A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951 Elia Kazan Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister & brutish Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond brother-in-law in New Orleans; HB: Elia Kazan#, Kim Hunter*# TALES OF MANHATTAN 1942 Julien Duvivier Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Custom-made tail coat supposed to bring misfortune is traced Rogers, Henry Fonda, Chas. Laughton through 5 owners; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart*, Alan Campbell* THE TALK OF THE TOWN 1942 George Stevens Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald An escaped prisoner & a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a Colman, Lloyd Bridges spirited schoolteacher; HB: Sidney Buchman*, Lloyd Bridges# TARAS BULBA 1962 J. Lee Thompson Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Sam A cossack leader clashes with his rebellious son; HB: Harold Wanamaker, Brad Dexter Hecht#, Waldo Salt* TENDER COMRADE 1943 Edward Dmytryk Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth 4 working women with husbands away serving in army share a Hussey, Mady Christians, Kim Hunter house; HB: Dmytryk*#, Dalton Trumbo*, Christians*, Hunter*# THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING 1941 Ernst Lubitsch Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, A happily married woman is persuaded to see a psychoanalyst Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray about her psychosomatic hiccups; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart* THEODORA GOES WILD 1936 Richard Boleslawski Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Author of a scandalously racy best seller tries to hide it from her Mitchell, Spring Byington provincial small town neighbors; HB: Sidney Buchman* THE THIN MAN 1934 W.S. Van Dyke William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen Nick & Nora Charles, a former detective & his rich, playful wife, O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton investigate a murder; HB: Dashiell Hammett* THIRTEEN WOMEN 1932 George Archainbaud Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Mysterious Eurasian tries to murder 12 boarding school room- Esmond, Myrna Loy, Mary Duncan mates who treated her like an outsider; HB: Sam Ornitz* THIRTY SECONDS OVER 1944 Mervyn LeRoy Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Just after Pearl Harbor, young lieutenant leaves his pregnant wife TOKYO Walker, Phyllis Thaxter to volunteer for secret bombing mission; HB: Dalton Trumbo* THOUSANDS CHEER 1943 George Sidney Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Mary Aerialist, drafted into the army, becomes friendly with colonel's Astor, Marsha Hunt, MGM stars daughter; HB: Paul Jarrico*, Richard Collins#, Marsha Hunt* THREE COMRADES 1938 Frank Borzage Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, After WWI, 3 German soldiers all share a love for the same Franchot Tone, Robert Young woman; HB: theme THREE ON A MATCH 1932 Mervyn LeRoy Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters; HB: Dvorak, Bette Davis, Lyle Talbot John Bright TOGETHER AGAIN 1944 Charles Vidor Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Charles Prim & proper widow who's mayor of provincial town hires a Coburn, Mona Freeman worldly NY sculptor to create a statue; HB: Herbert Biberman* TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY 1951 Felix E. Feist Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Man who has spent his formative years in prison for murder is Tuttle, Ray Teal, Morris Ankrum released & stuggles to adjust to world; HB: Guy Endore* TONIGHT WE RAID CALAIS 1943 John Brahm Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, British Intelligence dispatches a 1-man raid to destroy munitions Beulah Bondi, Howard da Silva plant in France; HB: Waldo Salt*, Lee J. Cobb#, H. da Silva* TOPKAPI 1964 Jules Dassin Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Caper film about the theft of a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul Maximillian Schell, Robert Morley museum; HB: Jules Dassin* TOYS IN THE ATTIC 1963 George Roy Hill Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Ne'er-do-well brother returns home to his 2 sisters with an Mimieux, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney unexpected fortune & a new bride; HB: Lillian Hellman* A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN 1945 Elia Kazan Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Encouraged by her idealistic father, a bright & imaginative girl Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner comes of age in an early 1900s Brooklyn tenement; HB: Kazan# A WALK IN THE SUN 1946 Lewis Milestone Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George In 1943 Italy, a US platoon lands & goes inland to take a fortified Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges farmhouse; HB: Robert Rossen#, Millard Lampell*, Bridges# Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 9 of 9
WATCH ON THE RHINE 1943 Herman Shumlin Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Sara & Kurt Muller & their 3 children return to the US after 18 Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson years in Europe; HB: Lillian Hellman*, Dashiell Hammett* THE WAY WE WERE 1973 Sydney Pollack Barbara Streisand, Robert Redford, 2 desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles views & convictions drive them apart; HB: theme THE WAY WEST 1967 Andrew V. McLaglen Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard In 1843, a former US senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Widmark, Sally Field (debut) Oregon; HB: Ben Maddow*#, Mitch Lindemann* THE WHITE TOWER 1950 Ted Tetzlaff Claude Rains, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, 6 people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a mountain Oskar Homolka, Lloyd Bridges which hasn't been climbed; HB: Paul Jarrico*, Lloyd Bridges# WITHOUT LOVE 1945 Harold S. Bucquet Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, In WWII Washington D.C., a woman enters a loveless marriage Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn with a scientist; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart* WOMAN OF THE YEAR 1942 George Stevens Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Rival reporters Sam & Tess are opposites in everything but fall in Bainter, Reginald Owen love anyway; HB: Ring Lardner Jr.*, Donald Ogden Stewart* YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN 1950 Michael Curtiz Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a Day, Hoagy Carmichael manipulative heiress; HB: Carl Foreman*