Loring “Red” Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. Read More »
Tag Archives: Melville Shavelson
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) Melville Shavelson
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. Read More »
Beau James (1957)
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the ’20s. Read More »
It Started in Naples (1960) Melville Shavelson, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica
Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged “black sheep” brother. Read More »
The Great Houdini (1976) Melville Shavelson, Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Ruth Gordon
A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination Read More »
On the Double (1961) Melville Shavelson, Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White
American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Read More »
A New Kind of Love (1963) Melville Shavelson, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter
The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression Read More »
The Seven Little Foys (1955) Melville Shavelson, Bob Hope, Milly Vitale, George Tobias
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. Read More »
Houseboat (1958) Melville Shavelson, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. Read More »
The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
Charlton Heston stars as an American soldier behind Italian lines in World War II. Read More »