Wacky complications ensue when a little boy comes into possession of a ray gun that compels anyone caught in its beam to tell the truth. Read More »
Tag Archives: Charles Coburn
B.F.’s Daughter (1948) Robert Z. Leonard, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Charles Coburn
Polly Fulton is the only daughter of rich industrialist B.F. Fulton. Read More »
Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) Harry Joe Brown, Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling
The wild and woolly early days of New York — when it was still known as New Amsterdam Read More »
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »
Town on Trial (1957) John Guillermin, John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. Read More »
How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957) Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn, Wendy Hiller, Crime, Comedy
The impoverished Clitterburn family live on a grand English estate but times are hard and the head of the household, Sir Henry Read More »
George Washington Slept Here (1942) William Keighley, Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn
Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill’s knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania Read More »
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) Sam Wood, Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
Department store owner J.P. Merrick finds that several of his employees are unionizing to get more money and better working conditions. Read More »
Lured (1947) Douglas Sirk, George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
A serial killer in London is murdering young women he meets through the personal columns of newspapers. Read More »
Mr. Music (1950) Richard Haydn, Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Paul Merrick, a writer of hit musicals, prefers to lie in the sun or play golf. He does so until he goes broke and asks to borrow a large sum of money, against future earnings, from his producer, Alex Conway.
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The More the Merrier (1943) George Stevens, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
It’s World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere – especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter – creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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The Gal Who Took the West (1949) Frederick De Cordova, Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn, Scott Brady, Comedy, Western
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) Douglas Sirk, Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Comedy
Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. But he wants to test the family before leaving his money to them. He takes a room in their home and a job in the father’s shop. He anonymously grants them $100,000. Harriet Blaisdell moves the family into a mansion and makes plans to marry her daughter Millicent off to a socialite rather than her soda jerk boyfriend Dan. The money goes to their heads, and they soon find themselves broke, back in their old house, and back to their old lives. Father back in his shop, Millicent engaged to Dan, and everyone seemingly much happier. Hoping they learned their lesson, Fulton takes his leave of the family.
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