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Tag Archives: Jean Simmons
Footsteps in the Fog (1955) Arthur Lubin, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Read More »
She Couldnt Say No (1954) Lloyd Bacon, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt
As usual with most of the RKO films from this era “presented” by RKO-owner Howard Hughes, Read More »
The Clouded Yellow (1950) Ralph Thomas, Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When Secret Service agent David Somers is fired, he takes a quiet job with the Fentons at their country estate – cataloging butterflies, hence the title insect. Read More »
Uncle Silas (1947) Charles Frank, Jean Simmons, Derrick De Marney, Katina Paxinou, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Elmer Gantry (1960) Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Drama
Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. Read More »
Hilda Crane (1956) Philip Dunne, Jean Simmons, Guy Madison, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Drama, Romance
Twice divorced Hilda Crane feeling she’s run out of chances returns to her mother’s house in her small hometown and tries to decide what to do next while still hoping to hold onto her independence. That proves to be a challenge. Read More »
Angel Face (1953) Otto Preminger, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Read More »
Mister Buddwing (1966) Delbert Mann, James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Drama
A man wearing an expensive gray suit finds himself in Central Park in New York City not knowing who he is or how he got there. Read More »
Désirée (1954) Henry Koster, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte Read More »
This Earth is Mine (1959) Henry King, Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Claude Rains, Drama
In 1931, Elizabeth Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle of a winemaking dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. Read More »
Home Before Dark (1958) Mervyn LeRoy, Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Drama
A wealthy but emotionally damaged woman is released from a sanitarium a year after suffering a mental breakdown. Read More »
Cage of Gold (1950) Basil Dearden, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Crime, Drama
A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her “dead” husband comes back and tries to extort money from her.
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So Long at the Fair (1950) Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher, Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
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The Big Country (1958) William Wyler, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Romance, Western
Retired, wealthy sea Captain Jame McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless civil war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.
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