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Tag Archives: King Vidor
Billy the Kid (1930) King Vidor, Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson
In this version of the Billy the Kid legend, Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan’s henchmen for killing Billy’s boss Read More »
Northwest Passage (1940) King Vidor, Jack Conway, Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers’ Rangers Read More »
On Our Merry Way (1948) Leslie Fenton, King Vidor, Paulette Goddard, James Stewart, Henry Fonda
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper Read More »
The Citadel (1938) King Vidor, Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson
Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town Read More »
Cynara (1932) King Vidor, Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Phyllis Barry
London barrister’s marriage is under strain after his affair with a shop-girl who is out to have him. Told in flashback. Read More »
Duel in the Sun (1946) King Vidor, Otto Brower, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Read More »
Man Without a Star (1955) King Vidor, Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. Read More »
Ruby Gentry (1952) King Vidor, Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden
Despite their different social class Ruby and Boake grew up together in the 1950s North Carolina. Read More »
So Red the Rose (1935) King Vidor, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Drama
SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor’s quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation Read More »
Street Scene (1931) King Vidor, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Drama, Romance
In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey. Read More »
Comrade X (1940) King Vidor, Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oskar Homolka, Comedy, Romance
McKinley B. “Mac” Thompson, American reporter in Moscow, smuggles out uncensored news under the alias “Comrade X,” but hotel valet Vanya discovers his secret. Read More »
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) King Vidor, Richard Todd, Ruth Roman, Mercedes McCambridge, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
An actress Shelley Carnes (Ruth Roman), is looking forward to an exciting vacation at a dude ranch, but she gets more than she bargained for,including a perhaps murderous new husband. Read More »
The Fountainhead (1949) King Vidor, Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Drama, Romance
Individualistic and idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from college because his designs fail to fit with existing architectural thinking. Read More »
The Champ (1931) King Vidor, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Drama, Family, Sport
Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy “Champ” Purcell, despite his frequent binges, his frequent gambling and their squalid living conditions. And there’s nothing Andy wouldn’t do for Dink. When Andy wins a race horse gambling, he gives it to Dink and they race it at a Tijuana track. There, Dink meets Linda Carleton, a race horse owner herself, and they have an immediate rapport. But Linda’s rich husband sees Andy and realizes Dink is Linda’s son, who she gave up when she and Andy divorced. Andy is bribed $200 to allow Dink to visit with Linda, but refuses to allow Dink to spend six months with the Carletons. When Andy loses the horse gambling and winds up in jail after a drunken tirade, he realizes Dink’s place is with his mother. Dink tearfully goes but sneaks out and returns at his first opportunity, filling a depressed Andy with a desire to make good. So Andy goes into training after his managers arrange a boxing match with the Mexican champion.
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