85% (2)  The Big Sky  140 min,  APPROVED,  [Drama, Western]  [Howard Hawks]  [27 Nov 1952]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 71%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 nomination.
Actors:  Arthur Hunnicutt, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Kirk Douglas
Writer:  Dudley Nichols (screenplay), A.B. Guthrie Jr. (novel)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English, French    Country:  USA
Plot:  Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.
Rotten Tomatoes:   The Big Sky is based on a popular novel by A.B. Guthrie. Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin play a pair of Kentucky frontiersmen who embark upon the first keelboat trip up the Missouri River way back in 1830. Joining Douglas and Martin are Martin's grizzled old uncle Arthur Hunnicutt and garrulous Frenchman Steven Geray. Running afoul of various Indian tribes, Douglas nonetheless romances Sioux princess Elizabeth Threatt (their off-screen relationship was on the kinky side, as an embarrassed Douglas reveals in his autobiography). Director Howard Hawks leavens the Boys' Own Adventure atmosphere of the film with a few isolated comic sequences, including a sidesplitting scene in which Douglas' gangrenous finger is cut off. Produced for RKO Radio by Hawks' own Winchester Pictures, The Big Sky was released at 141 minutes, though the TV print runs 122 minutes. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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71% (2)  Land of the Pharaohs  106 min,  Approved,  [Adventure, Drama, History]  [Howard Hawks]  [24 Jun 1955]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 67%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 75%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Alexis Minotis, Dewey Martin, Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins
Writer:  William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, Harold Jack Bloom
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Un faraón de Egipto ordena la construcción de la pirámide más grande del mundo.Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Howard Hawks.
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62% (1)  The Proud and Profane  111 min,  [Drama, War]  [George Seaton]  [25 Sep 1956]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 62%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Deborah Kerr, Dewey Martin, Thelma Ritter, William Holden
Writer:  Lucy Herndon Crockett (novel), George Seaton (written for the screen by)
External Links:  Wikipedia  IMDb     Language:  English, French    Country:  USA
Plot:  In the Pacific during WWII, a Roman Catholic widow falls for a tough lieutenant colonel.
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57% (1)  Ten Thousand Bedrooms  114 min,  [Comedy, Musical, Romance]  [Richard Thorpe]  [03 Apr 1957]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 57%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Anna Maria Alberghetti, Dean Martin, Dewey Martin, Eva Bartok
Writer:  László Vadnay, Art Cohn, William Ludwig, Leonard Spigelgass
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this musical comedy, Dean Martin plays the amiable owner of a hotel chain who heads for Rome to inspect his newest purchase. En route, he finds himself getting romantic with the four comely daughters of an acquaintance. The rake is especially smitten by the eldest daughter.
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49% (1)  Prisoner of War  81 min,  Approved,  [Drama, War]  [Andrew Marton]  [04 May 1954]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 49%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Dewey Martin, Oskar Homolka, Ronald Reagan, Steve Forrest
Writer:  Allen Rivkin
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  An American army officer, troubled by reports of brutality, volunteers to investigate conditions inside North Korean POW camps. He parachutes behind enemy lines and infiltrates a group of G.I.s being marched to one of these camps. There, he witnesses scenes of G.I.s being brainwashed, beaten, subjected to mock executions, deprived of food and water, and tortured in a variety of ways under the supervision of a Russian colonel. While reaction to this treatment varies, the officer is heartened to learn that American soldiers are still a courageous and enduring force.
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