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No Room for the Groom
Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie are terrific together in No Room for the Groom , a rare comedic treat from director Douglas Sirk. On leave for two days, G.I. Alvah Morrell (Curtis) elopes with Lee Kingshead (Laurie) though a case of chicken pox prevents them from consummating their marriage. When he returns home after 10 months overseas, he finds his house overrun by Lee’s manipulative Mama (Spring Byington) who was unaware of the wedding. Determined to keep them apart, Mama uses every dirty trick...
All I Desire
Directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Ross Hunter, All I Desire stars Barbara Stanwyck as a stage actress who returns to the small town and family she abandoned. Ten years ago, a turn-of-the-century scandal forced Naomi Murdoch (Stanwyck) to desert her husband (Richard Carlson) and their children for a stage career. Now, returning to their small Wisconsin town to see her daughter in a play, she has hopes of reconciliation. Her appearance is a shock and the town is curious but unforgiving...
There's Always Tomorrow
Directed by Douglas Sirk, There's Always Tomorrow stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in an absorbing drama about family life, marriage and the temptation of past romances. Clifford Groves (MacMurray) wants to spend more time alone with his wife, Marion (Joan Bennett), but her domestic duties keep her busy. Alone on a getaway weekend he had planned with Marion, Clifford runs into Norma (Stanwyck), a stunning former employee - and old flame - who is now successful, divorced and seemingly...
Never Say Goodbye
Love has a surprising way of reuniting people in the heart-wrenching and bittersweet drama, Never Say Goodbye , starring Rock Hudson. When Dr. Michael Parker (Hudson) unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife (Cornell Borchers) whom he met during WWII and believed to be dead, he is desperate to resume their relationship and re-introduce her to their daughter. However, after a startling accident puts that proposition on shaky ground, the family must come to terms with the possibility that too...
Captain Lightfoot
Michael Martin (Rock Hudson) is a headstrong young patriot who has turned to highway robbery to support his country's cause against England during the Irish revolution. When he is taken under the wing of the famous rebel leader Captain Thunderbolt (Jeff Morrow), he soon finds himself second-in-command with a bounty on his head. Filmed on location in Ireland, Captain Lightfoot features Rock Hudson in a versatile role that allows him to play an action hero with a wry sense of humor as well as a...
Thunder on the Hill
A nun (Claudette Colbert) races against time to prove the innocence of a convicted murderess (Ann Blyth) who is being escorted to prison for a date with the gallows in Thunder on the Hill. Based on the popular British play Bonaventure, this moody mystery serves up many twists and is distinguished by one of Claudette Colbert's most intriguing and least-known performances. In addition to Douglas Sirk's fast-paced direction, the film is enriched by Hans J. Salter's stirring dramatic score, a first...
The Tarnished Angels
Set in the 1930s Depression era during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, The Tarnished Angels covers three days in the lives of a trio of flying-circus performers, headlined by former WWI fighter-pilot hero Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) and his beautiful blonde wife, Laverne (Dorothy Malone). Romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson) falls in love with Laverne while covering their daredevil aerial show. Based on the William Faulkner novel Pylon, this screen...
Imitation of Life (1959)
Living a lie is a poor substitute for living the truth - sometimes it takes the harsh realties of life to help us discover who we truly are. The legendary Lana Turner stars in this 1959 version of Fannie Hurst's emotionally charged drama, which chronicles two widows and their troubled daughters as they struggle to find true happiness amidst racial prejudice. Lana Turner plays Lora, a single white mother whose Hollywood starlet ambitions come at the expense of any meaningful relationship with...
Battle Hymn
Rock Hudson gives an unforgettable performance in this compelling Korean War drama based on actual events. As a WWII fighter pilot, Colonel Dean Hess (Hudson) accidentally bombed a German orphanage, killing thirty-seven children. After entering the ministry to atone for the tragedy, Hess eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea, while devoting his spare time to building a shelter for orphans. But now, to protect these children in a territory fraught with danger, he must...
Taza, Son of Cochise
The two sons of Apache leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler) have conflicting views of the white men who trepass on their land; Taza (Rock Hudson) argues for peaceful co-existence but his younger brother Naiche (Bart Roberts) joins Geronimo on the warpath. One of the few Westerns made in the 1950s that attempted to present a positive view of Native Americans, Taza, Son of Cochise was the second of eight movies that Rock Hudson made with director Douglas Sirk. Filmed on location in Utah, the natural...