88% (2) In a Lonely Place 94 min, Not Rated, [Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller] [Nicholas Ray] [01 Aug 1950]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 80%, Rotten Tomatoes: 97%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Carl Benton Reid, Frank Lovejoy, Gloria Grahame, Humphrey Bogart
Writer: Andrew Solt (screenplay), Edmund H. North (adaptation), Dorothy B. Hughes (story)
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Plot: Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect; his record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor tell against him. Fortunately, lovely neighbor Laurel Gray gives him an alibi. Laurel proves to be just what Steele needed, and their friendship ripens into love. Will suspicion, doubt, and Steele's inner demons come between them?
Rotten Tomatoes: Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hatcheck girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect. His record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor tell against him. Fortunately, lovely neighbor Laurel Gray gives him an alibi. Laurel proves to be just what Steele needs, and their friendship ripens into love. Will suspicion, doubt and Steele's inner demons come between them?
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71% (1) Carbine Williams 92 min, Unrated, [Biography, Crime, Drama] [Richard Thorpe] [01 May 1952]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews
Actors: Carl Benton Reid, James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey
Writer: Art Cohn (screenplay), Art Cohn (story)
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Plot: This is the story of David Marshall 'Marsh' Williams, the real life inventor of the world famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in WWII. It all started when Marsh, who was one to do things his way, was caught distilling moonshine, and was accused and convicted of shooting a federal officer in the process. This at first placed him in the chain gang which labeled him as a hard case. Later, to make room for those more deserving, he was moved to a prison farm, where he came under the direction of Captain H.T. Peoples. The Captain was a mild mannered warden, who did not shy from discipline when necessary, but also believed that given the opportunity, most men will respond to good. Believing that Marsh was just such a person, the Captain gave him every opportunity to reform, so much so, that he eventually allowed Marsh to work in the tool shop on his spare time to develop and build by hand, a working rifle, inside the prison farm itself.
Rotten Tomatoes: This exciting biography chronicles the life of the man who invented the M-1 carbine rifle, a gun that changed the ways in which wars were fought. The tale begins as inventor Marsh Williams serves a 30-year sentence for supposedly killing a revenuer during a raid in a brutal North Carolina prison farm. There he secretly occupies himself by building a new kind of gun. He doesn't plan to use it to escape. The warden finds out about William's illicit activity and takes the prototype. Williams then begs the warden to return it because he believes the weapon can help the boys fighting WW II overseas. When the warden sees that Williams is sincere, he allows him to finish the weapon.
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71% (1) Pressure Point 91 min, Not Rated, [Drama] [Hubert Cornfield, Stanley Kramer] [11 Jul 1963]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews
Actors: Bobby Darin, Carl Benton Reid, Peter Falk, Sidney Poitier
Writer: Hubert Cornfield (screenplay), S. Lee Pogostin (screenplay), Robert M. Lindner (story "The Fifty-Minute Hour")
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Plot: An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Rotten Tomatoes: Unable to get through to a particularly hostile patient, psychiatrist Peter Falk goes to gray-haired senior shrink Sidney Poitier for advice. This prompts Poitier to recall his experiences during World War II. While working on behalf of the government, Poitier was assigned the case of psycho Nazi sympathizer Bobby Darin. A complex flashback structure reveals the various influences that led to Darin's warped state of mind and to his life of crime. Poitier perceives that Darin is potentially dangerous, and insists that he needs further treatment. The government sees things differently, and allows Darin, who on the surface shows signs of recovery, to leave the hospital. The horrible results of this decision serve to convince Poitier to follow his own gut feelings no matter what his fellow "experts" might advise, and to continue probing even the most recalcitrant or deceptively "cured" of patients. Essentially a conformist psychological melodrama, Pressure Point truly comes to life whenever Bobby Darin is on the screen. His performance was outstanding, far better than his Oscar-nominated turn in 1963's Captain Newman MD. Unfortunately, the critics were aligned against Darin, possibly because of the singer/actor's well-publicized arrogance; Judith Crist went so far as to compare Darin to Dr. Samuel Johnson's walking dog, quipping that the most remarkable aspect of Darin's performance was not that he did it well, but that he did it at all.
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68% (1) The Fuller Brush Girl 85 min, Approved, [Action, Adventure, Comedy] [Lloyd Bacon] [15 Sep 1950]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: Carl Benton Reid, Eddie Albert, Gale Robbins, Lucille Ball
Writer: Frank Tashlin (original screenplay)
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Plot: Scatterbrained Sally Elliott gets a job as a Fuller brush girl and, as expected, her attempts at selling cosmetics door-to-door are disastrous. Things get worse when one of her customers is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect. She and her poor fiancé Humphrey find themselves dodging the police while trying to catch the real killer.
Rotten Tomatoes: Hot on the heels of such Red Skelton slapstick comedies as The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man came The Fuller Brush Girl, starring Lucille Ball in a fascinating dry run for her wacky "Lucy Ricardo" TV character. Unable to hold a job because of her tendency to get into trouble, Sally Elliot (Ball) hires on at the Fuller Brush company as a door-to-door cosmetics salesman. After several misadventures involving obnoxious children and snooty matrons, Sally finds herself in the middle of a murder scheme. With reluctant boyfriend Humphrey (Eddie Albert) in tow, Sally gets mixed up in one hilariously life-threatening situation after another, culminating in a prolonged chase sequence on board a tramp steamer. Highlights include Ball's outrageous striptease scene (to the tune of Rita Hayworth's "Put the Blame on Mame") and a choice cameo by Red Skelton as an all-too-cooperative customer. Most of the sight gags in Fuller Brush Girl were cooked up by former cartoon director Frank Tashlin, who'd also contributed to Fuller Brush Man.
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67% (1) The Story of Will Rogers 109 min, [Biography, Comedy, Drama] [Michael Curtiz] [26 Jul 1952]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews
Actors: Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller, Jane Wyman, Will Rogers Jr.
Writer: Frank Davis (screenplay), Stanley Roberts (screenplay), Jack Moffitt (adaptation), Betty Blake Rogers (magazine story)
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Plot: The homespun humorist and social critic starts as a cowboy and goes on to vaudeville, movies, radio.
Rotten Tomatoes: Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's ranch. Rogers eventually strikes out on his own. Attempting to break into vaudeville, Will gets nowhere until he starts cracking extemporaneous jokes about current events.
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60% (1) Indian Uprising 75 min, APPROVED, [Western] [Ray Nazarro] [02 Jan 1952]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, External Reviews
Actors: Audrey Long, Carl Benton Reid, Eugene Iglesias, George Montgomery
Writer: Kenneth Gamet (screenplay), Richard Schayer (screenplay), Richard Schayer (story)
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Plot: It's 1885 in Arizona and an Army Captain has dispersed his troops to keep the whites off of Government land thereby keeping the peace with the Apaches. But there are those in Tucson that want the miners back looking for gold and they put pressure on officials in Washington. Soon a new commander arrives, the troops are recalled, and the miners go after gold. Whites then kill a miner with an arrow so they can attack the Indians hoping the troops wipe them out when they retaliate.
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