Philip Sutherland is an American news writer stationed in Moscow since the war; while there he falls for a Russian ballet dancer Read More »
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Hollywood Canteen (1944) Delmer Daves, Bette Davis, John Garfield, The Andrews Sisters, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. Read More »
Youngblood Hawke (1964) Delmer Daves, James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Drama
Youngblood Hawke is a truck driver from Kentucky who comes to New York City to become a hot-shot writer. Read More »
A Summer Place (1959) Delmer Daves, Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Drama, Romance
The Hunter family has long owned a mansion on Pine Island, a summer resort located off the Maine coast. Read More »
Broken Arrow (1950) Delmer Daves, James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Drama, Romance, Western
For a decade, the white settlers and the Apaches have been engaged in a bloody war with no peaceful end in sight. When a white scout, Tom Jeffords (James Stewart), has a dangerously close but enlightening encounter with the natives, he begins to see the humanity in these “enemies.” Entering the Apache territory seeking peace, Jeffords forms a friendship with the Apache leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler), although there are people on both sides who resist extending the olive branch.
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Dark Passage (1947) Delmer Daves, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Film-Noir, Thriller
Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a Bogart’s-eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he’s really after is revenge.
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Bird of Paradise (1951) Delmer Daves, Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan, Jeff Chandler
Andre Laurence accompanies his college roommate, Tenga, back to Tenga’s Polynesian island home. There, Andre, assumes the native life and, after many trials with the native customs and their suspicions, marries his friend’s sister, Kalua. Their marriage is barren of children. A final blow to Andre comes with the eruption of a volcano and island’s holy man, The Kahuna, decides that the volcano can only be appeased with the sacrifice of Kalua.
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