Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jennifer Jones
Cluny Brown (1946) Ernst Lubitsch
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. 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 »
Carrie (1952) William Wyler, Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Drama, Romance
Carrie boards the train to Chicago with big ambitions. She gets a job stitching shoes and her sister’s husband takes almost all of her pay for room and board. Read More »
The Wild Heart (1952) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Drama, Romance
A re-editing of Gone to Earth (1950) after a disagreement and court case between director Michael Powell and producer David O. Selznick. Read More »
Stazione Termini / Terminal Station Indiscretion (1953) Vittorio De Sica, Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Drama, Romance
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) Henry King, Otto Lang, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Biography, Drama, Romance
Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. Read More »
A Farewell to Arms (1957) Charles Vidor, John Huston, Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Drama, Romance, War
Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War Read More »
Beat the Devil (1953) John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Action, Adventure, Comedy
A quartet of international crooks – Peterson, O’Hara, Ross and Ravello – is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs.
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