Jean Harper, a Pomona school teacher on vacation, is taking a bus tour through Mexico. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mary Anderson
Hunt the Man Down (1950) George Archainbaud, Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson
Dishwasher ‘Bill Jackson’ thwarts a robbery; resulting publicity fingers Read More »
To Each His Own (1946) Mitchell Leisen, Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. Read More »
Within These Walls (1945) H. Bruce Humberstone, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Anderson, Edward Ryan
Michael Howland, a stern hanging judge, is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. Read More »
Chicago Calling (1951) John Reinhardt, Dan Duryea, Mary Anderson, Gordon Gebert, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been injured in a car accident outside Chicago. His wife will call later with news, but Bill’s short the $53 he needs to keep his phone from being disconnected. Filled with anguish, he heads out onto the Los Angeles streets to find some way to come up with the cash. As his character encounters expected cruelty and unexpected kindness, Duryea takes what might have been mere melodrama and turns it into a perceptive examination of one shattered soul.
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