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Tag Archives: Elia Kazan
The Sea of Grass (1947) Elia Kazan, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker
This western begins with St. Louis resident Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) marrying New Mexico Read More »
Baby Doll (1956) Elia Kazan, Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach
Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle aged Archie Lee Meighan Read More »
On the Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly Read More »
Wild River (1960) Elia Kazan, Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. Read More »
Gentlemans Agreement (1947) Elia Kazan, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
Philip Green is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. Read More »
Boomerang! (1947) Elia Kazan, Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
Connecticut prosecutor Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews), faced with a political maelstrom in the wake of the shooting death of a Catholic priest on a city street corner Read More »
Panic in the Streets (1950) Elia Kazan, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it’s pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. Read More »
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Drama
Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. Read More »
Viva Zapata! (1952) Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Biography, Drama, History
In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Mestizo from the southern state of Morelos Read More »
A Face in the Crowd (1957) Elia Kazan, Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Drama, Music
“A Face in the Crowd” charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Read More »
Pinky (1949) Elia Kazan, John Ford, Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Drama
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother’s house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Read More »
Man on a Tightrope (1953) Elia Kazan, Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In 1950s Czechoslovakia circus manager Karel Cernik is planning an escape from Communism to freedom. Read More »
East of Eden (1955) Elia Kazan, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Drama, Romance
In this film based on John Steinbeck’s epic novel, Cal Trask (James Dean), the son of a California farmer (Raymond Massey), feels that his father cares only about his brother, Aron (Richard Davalos). When Cal embarks on a business venture to gain the favor of his dad, he finds himself dealing with his estranged mother (Jo Van Fleet), now the owner of a brothel, and tensions in the family rise even further when he begins to fall for Aron’s girlfriend, Abra (Julie Harris).
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