69% (1) Walking My Baby Back Home 95 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Musical] [Lloyd Bacon] [06 Dec 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: Buddy Hackett, Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Lori Nelson
Writer: Don McGuire (screenplay), Oscar Brodney (screenplay)
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Plot: World War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. The band fails to take off and he is forced to join a minstrel show headed by Colonel Wallace. He soon falls for Wallace's niece Chris Hall.
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64% (1) I Died a Thousand Times 109 min, Passed, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller] [Stuart Heisler] [09 Nov 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews
Actors: Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Lori Nelson, Shelley Winters
Writer: W.R. Burnett
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Plot: During the 1950s California aging bank robber Roy "Mad Dog" Earle is pardoned after 8 years in prison.Once out of prison, Roy,at the request of his crime boss "Big Mac",decides to pull one more heist before retiring.His target is a fancy mountain resort hotel where employee Louis Mendoza is Roy's "inside man".Roy Earle's team of robbers include hotheaded Babe,Red and dance-hall girl Marie.Marie falls for Roy but he only thinks of innocent young girl Velma whom he recently met.Velma has a slight foot handicap and smitten Roy plans to pay for her foot surgery with his share of the loot.Unfortunately,the robbery doesn't go as planned.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this remake of High Sierra, Jack Palance stars as over-the-hill gangster Mad Dog Earle, who plans one final heist before giving up his life of crime.
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63% (1) Pardners 90 min, Passed, [Action, Comedy, Music, Romance, Western] [Norman Taurog] [01 Aug 1956]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, External Reviews
Actors: Dean Martin, Jeff Morrow, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson
Writer: Sidney Sheldon (screenplay), Jerry Davis (screen story), Mervin J. Houser (based on a story by)
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Plot: Martin and Lewis are sons of former ranch partners. Lewis, raised by his millionaire mother, follows visiting Martin back to the old West to learn how to be a cowboy. The ranch where Martin is foreman is in financial trouble, and with Lewis's unorthodox help, the good guys win out.
Rotten Tomatoes: This Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis romp is liberally based on the 1936 Bing Crosby film Rhythm on the Range. Set around 1910, the film stars Lewis as the pampered son of female tycoon Agnes Moorehead. Yearning to return to the Wild West where his father was a famed peacekeeper, Lewis purchases a prize bull, destined for the ranch inherited by rodeo star Dean Martin. It so happens that Martin and Lewis' late fathers were "pardners", so Martin takes it upon himself to protect Lewis from the various and sundry tough hombres in the region. Through a series of bizarre plot convolutions, Lewis gains a reputation as a rootin' tootin' gunslinger, and in his hubris he decides to round up a gang of outlaws headed by Jeff Morrow. As a result, he nearly gets himself blown to smitherines, but Martin shows up in the nick of time to rescue Lewis and help him capture the bad guys. Lori Nelson and Jackie Loughery supply the film's peripheral romantic angle. Pardners ends with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis turning to the camera and promising that they'll keep on making pictures for their faithful fans; ironically, the team was breaking up even while the cameras were turning.
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62% (1) The All American 83 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Romance, Sport] [Jesse Hibbs] [01 Oct 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, External Reviews
Actors: Lori Nelson, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Long, Tony Curtis
Writer: D.D. Beauchamp, Leonard Freeman (story), Robert Libott
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Plot: Nick Bonelli, quarterback for Mid-State, proves himself an All American in the championship, but his parents die in an auto accident coming to the game. Nick decides to transfer to Sheridan University to pursue his real interest of studying architecture. His decision not to join the football team causes considerable friction for him at his new alma mater, particularly with Howard Carter who sees him as a rival. Romantic interests complicate Nick's life and he must make decisions about his future.
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59% (1) The Pied Piper of Hamelin 89 min, UNRATED, [Musical, Family, Fantasy] [Bretaigne Windust] [26 Nov 1957]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, External Reviews
Actors: Claude Rains, Jim Backus, Lori Nelson, Van Johnson
Writer: Robert Browning (poem), Hal Stanley, Irving Taylor
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Plot: The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regret.
Rotten Tomatoes: The Pied Piper of Hamelin was originally filmed as a television special, then released theatrically outside the United States. The story is the familiar one: the town of Hamelin, plagued by rats, hires a mysterious piper (Van Johnson) to rid the town of rodents. The piper does so, on the promise that he'll be paid a handsome fee. But the duplicitous burgomeister (Claude Rains), on the advice of his Laurel-and-Hardy council (Doodles Weaver and Stanley Adams), reneges on his promise. In revenge, the piper lures all of Hamelin's children off to parts unknown. In a departure from the original, there's a happy ending this time. Most of the dialogue is spoken in rhyme (quite amusingly by Rains), while the songs are adaptations of Edvard Grieg tunes. In the musical department, Kay Starr comes off best as the grieving mother of one of the missing kids. Because it was filmed in color, The Pied Piper of Hamelin has remained in TV syndication into the 1990s.
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52% (1) Underwater! 99 min, APPROVED, [Adventure, Drama] [John Sturges] [01 Jan 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 52%, External Reviews
Actors: Gilbert Roland, Jane Russell, Lori Nelson, Richard Egan
Writer: Walter Newman (screenplay), Hugh King (story), Robert B. Bailey (story)
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Plot: Dominic Quesada and Johnny Gray, two SCUBA divers searching for sunken treasure off the coast of Cuba, think they've hit the jackpot when they find a 17th century ship on the sea floor. They need working capital however and Johnny is ready to hock his boat but his wife Theresa thinks they're off on another wild scheme that will leave them all poorer than when they started. She comes around however and are soon joined by Gloria, whose boat they will use and Father Cannon, a university professor and archaeologist. Although Dominic hasn't been completely honest with his partners, they may in fact be in the area of a major treasure ship. When they do find it, the ship is teetering on the edge of a 300 foot cliff and dangerous for even the most experienced divers.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this Howard Hughes film, treasure is discovered on the bottom of the ocean when married divers Johnny and Theresa come across a sunken Spanish galleon. With the help of Father Cannon and Gloria, Johnny and Theresa come up with a plan to retrieve the riches.
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33% (1) Untamed Youth 80 min, [Drama] [Howard W. Koch] [19 Jul 1957]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 33%, External Reviews
Actors: Don Burnett, John Russell, Lori Nelson, Mamie Van Doren
Writer: John C. Higgins (screenplay), Stephen Longstreet (story)
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Plot: Sisters Jane and Penny are arrested for hitchhiking on their way to Los Angeles when they stop for a quick skinny-dip in a rural town. Local agricultural magnate Tropp is a sponsor for a ...
Rotten Tomatoes: This campy rock & roll exploitation outing takes viewers inside a juvenile prison camp where two sisters are serving a 30-day sentence after getting picked up for hitchhiking. There they end up working like slaves in the cotton fields along with other inmates.
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