67% (1) Ride a Crooked Trail 88 min, Approved, [Romance, Western] [Jesse Hibbs] [23 Nov 1958]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Henry Silva, Walter Matthau
Writer: Borden Chase (screenplay), George Bruce (story)
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Plot: After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy.
Rotten Tomatoes: Un honesto policía de un pueblo en el Lejano Oeste se ve envuelto en un robo y luego intenta salvar su honor.
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66% (1) The Garment Jungle 88 min, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich] [25 Apr 1957]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Gia Scala, Kerwin Mathews, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Boone
Writer: Lester Velie (articles), Harry Kleiner (story and screenplay)
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Plot: The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.
Rotten Tomatoes: Based on a series of "expose" articles by Lester Velie, The Garment Jungle stars Lee J. Cobb as self-made dress factory owner Walter Mitchell. Resisting all efforts to unionize his shop, Mitchell finds himself under increased pressure from dedicated shop steward Tulio Renata (Robert Loggia). Unfortunately, Mitchell's anti-union stance plays right into the hands of protection racketeers, resulting in a brace of brutal and unecessary murders. With such powerhouse performers as Cobb, Richard Boone, Gia Scala, Harold J. Stone and Joseph Wiseman on hand, nominal leading man Kerwin Mathews (cast as Mitchell's sensitive son) seems rather lost; Mathews was seen to better advantage in the like-vintage Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Officially directed by Vincent Sherman, The Garment Jungle was heavily gone over before its release by uncredited director Robert Aldrich. It is difficult to tell where Sherman left off and Aldrich began, though reports indicate that Aldrich helmed most of the scenes involving Mitchell's girlfriend Lee Hackett (Valerie French). Best scene: the elevator murder.
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63% (1) Don't Go Near the Water 107 min, APPROVED, [Adventure, Comedy, Romance] [Charles Walters] [01 Dec 1957]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
Actors: Anne Francis, Earl Holliman, Gia Scala, Glenn Ford
Writer: William Brinkley (novel), Dorothy Kingsley, George Wells
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Plot: On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy's P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. Max Siegal is the Second in command to a clueless Commanding Officer who believes Sea Duty to be the worst punishment he can give one of his men. Siegal has to keep the foreign correspondents happy, keep his Commander out of trouble and figure out a way for one of the enlisted sailors to date the lady Lieutenant of his dreams - all while convincing a certain island schoolteacher that he's the man for her.
Rotten Tomatoes: Obviously inspired by such service comedies as Mister Roberts and Operation Mad Ball, Don't Go Near the Water is a tribute to those "unsung heroes" of WW2: the men and women of the Navy's Public Relations Department. Thousands of miles away from the shooting war, Lt. Max Siegel (Glenn Ford) and the rest of the PR staff spend their time issuing colorful reports of Naval heroism and sucking up to visiting US dignitaries on a tiny South Sea island. Siegel and company also battle the anal-rententive pettiness of such superior officers as Lt. Cmdr. Clinton T. Nash (Fred Clark) and such potential foes as abrasive war correspondent Gordon Ripwell (Keenan Wynn). The feminine angle is provided by Gia Scala as Melora, a European-educated local girl, Anne Francis as by-the-book nurse Lt. Alice Tomlen, and Eva Gabor as women's magazine writer Deborah Aldrich. Particularly amusing is Mickey Shaughnessy as foul-mouthed seaman Farragut Jones, whose periodic barrages of profanity are invariably drowned out by the sound of a ratchet-horn (this was, after all, 1957). Don't Go Near the Water was based on the comic novel by ex-PR man William Brinkley.
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62% (1) Tip on a Dead Jockey 98 min, Not Rated, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller] [Richard Thorpe] [06 Dec 1957]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, External Reviews
Actors: Dorothy Malone, Gia Scala, Martin Gabel, Robert Taylor
Writer: Charles Lederer (screen play), Irwin Shaw (based on the New Yorker magazine story by)
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Plot: During the 1950s Madrid, an American veteran pilot with a gambling problem is forced to accept a high-paying dangerous smuggling job.
Rotten Tomatoes: An expatriate American living in Madrid, former Air Force pilot Lloyd Tredman (Robert Taylor) is haunted by his memories of the Korean War and refuses to fly. So when he loses his last dollar on a horserace fixed by a smuggler, he forces himself to accept a $25,000 offer to transport a box of contraband currency from Egypt to Spain. But as Tredman makes the return flight home, he discovers his cargo also includes heroin as he races across the Mediterranean with Interpol hot on his trail. Costarring Academy Award winner* Dorothy Malone and Jack Lord (Hawaii Five-O), Tip on a Dead Jockey was adapted by Charles Lederer (Kiss of Death) from a short story by best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw (The Young Lions). Originally intended for Orson Welles, it was directed instead by Richard Thorpe, the sixth of eight films he would make with Robert Taylor, which include the swashbuckling classics Ivanhoe (1952) and Knights of the Round Table (1953).
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62% (1) I Aim at the Stars 107 min, [Biography, Drama] [J. Lee Thompson] [09 Sep 1960]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, External Reviews
Actors: Curd Jürgens, Gia Scala, Herbert Lom, Victoria Shaw
Writer: Jay Dratler, George Froeschel (story), H.W. John (story), Udo Wolter (story)
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Plot: The story of rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun's career, from the 1920s until the late 1950s.
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60% (1) The Tunnel of Love 98 min, Approved, [Comedy, Romance] [Gene Kelly] [20 Apr 1959]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Doris Day, Gia Scala, Gig Young, Richard Widmark
Writer: Peter De Vries (novel), Joseph Fields (play), Peter De Vries (play), Joseph Fields (screenplay), Jerome Chodorov (play), Jerome Chodorov (screenplay)
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Plot: The Pooles are unable to have a baby after years of trying. They apply to the Rock-A-Bye Adoption Agency, and are assigned Miss Novick as an investigator. Through a farfetched mis-communication she gets a very bad impression of Augie Poole and indicates her report will be unfavorable. Through even more far-fetched circumstances, Augie is able to change Miss Novick's mind, and later comes to believe the baby she is carrying is his. Rock-A-Bye does find the Pooles a baby, and Augie is convinced it is Miss Novick's, and that he is the real father...so much so that his wife comes to believe it, too. She threatens to leave him, but all the misunderstandings are finally cleared up for a happy ending.
Rotten Tomatoes: This light comedy stars Richard Widmark and Doris Day as a married couple who would like to adopt a child. After hubby's confusing evening with the female agent from the adoption clinic, the couple is faced with some troubles when a child is finally granted to them.
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58% (1) The Angry Hills 105 min, APPROVED, [Drama, War, Thriller] [Robert Aldrich] [29 Jul 1959]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, External Reviews
Actors: Elisabeth Müller, Gia Scala, Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker
Writer: A.I. Bezzerides (screenplay by), Leon Uris (based on the book by)
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Plot: In 1941 an American journalist in Greece is given a secret list of collaborators. He is helped by the Greek resistance as he is pursued across the country by the Nazis.
Rotten Tomatoes: Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly) directed this cloak-and-dagger yarn (based on a bestseller by Leon Uris), filmed on sumptuous locations in Greece. Set in Athens in 1941, before the Nazis overran the country, Robert Mitchum plays American war correspondent Mike Morrison, who has come into the possession of a list of 16 Greek underground leaders that he agrees to deliver to British intelligence in London for a $20,000 fee. Trying to keep him from getting there is the local Gestapo chief Conrad Heisler (Stanley Baker) and fifth columnist Tassos (Theodore Bikel). Morrison also becomes involved with a group of Greek freedom fighters -- particularly the beautiful Eleftheria (Gia Scala). But then Morrison comes down from the mountains and back to Athens, where he finds himself trailed, not only by the Nazis, but by charming widow Lisa Kyriakides (Elisabeth Muller).
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