In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning; the young men’s biggest concern is the draft board and deferments from the peacetime army. Read More »
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Roseanna McCoy (1949) Irving Reis, Nicholas Ray, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Charles Bickford, Drama
The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn’s Roseanna McCoy. Read More »
Edge of Doom (1950) Mark Robson, Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Drama, Film-Noir
A poor and alienated young man (Farley Granger) who is driven to murder when a priest refuses to give is deceased mother an expensive funeral. Read More »
The Purple Heart (1944) Lewis Milestone, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Drama, History, War
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Read More »
Strangers on a Train (1951) Alfred Hitchcock, Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
In Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s thriller, tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is enraged by his trampy wife’s refusal to finalize their divorce so he can wed senator’s daughter Anne (Ruth Roman). He strikes up a conversation with a stranger, Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), and unwittingly sets in motion a deadly chain of events. Psychopathic Bruno kills Guy’s wife, then urges Guy to reciprocate by killing Bruno’s father. Meanwhile, Guy is murder suspect number one.
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Rope (1948) Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David’s father, his fiancée Janet and their old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect.
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) Richard Fleischer, Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Biography, Crime, Drama
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is the true story of Evelyn Nesbit Shaw, a beautiful showgirl caught in a love triangle with elderly architect Stanford White and eccentric young millionaire Harry K. Thaw.
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Hans Christian Andersen (1952) Charles Vidor, Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire, Biography, Family, Musical
The inimitable Danny Kaye stars as famed storyteller Hans Christian Andersen in this charming fictionalized biopic that blends music, romance, comedy and fantasy to trace the life of Denmark’s literary hero. A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
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Small Town Girl (1953) László Kardos, Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge’s daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.
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