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 »
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They Live by Night (1948) Nicholas Ray, Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
Chickamaw, T-Dub and Bowie have just escaped from prison. While Chickamaw and T-Dub are hardened criminals Read More »
Side Street (1950) Anthony Mann, Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
Joe Norson, a poor letter carrier with a sweet, pregnant wife, yields to momentary temptation Read More »
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) Richard Fleischer, Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is the true story of Evelyn Nesbit Shaw, a beautiful showgirl caught Read More »
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. Read More »
Hans Christian Andersen (1952) Charles Vidor, Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire
The inimitable Danny Kaye stars as famed storyteller Hans Christian Andersen in this charming fictionalized biopic that blends music Read More »
I Want You (1951) Mark Robson, Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger
In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning Read More »
Senso (1954) Luchino Visconti, Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti
Venezia, spring of 1866, in the last days of the Austrian occupation. Read More »
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 »
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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