75% (2) The Wild One 79 min, Not Rated, [Drama] [Laslo Benedek] [01 Feb 1954]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 81%, External Reviews
Actors: Lee Marvin, Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
Writer: John Paxton (screenplay), Frank Rooney (based on a story by)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: Cop-hating Johnny Strabler is recounting the fateful events that led up to the "whole mess" as he calls it, his role in the mess and whether he could have stopped it from happening. The Black Rebels, a motorcycle gang of which Johnny is the leader, cause a ruckus using intimidation wherever they go, with their actions bordering on the unlawful. On the day of the mess, they invade a motorcycle racing event, at which they cause a general disturbance culminating with one of the gang members stealing a second place trophy to give to Johnny. Despite not being the larger winning trophy, it symbolizes to Johnny his leadership within the group. Their next stop is a small town where their disturbance and intimidation tactics continue. Some in town don't mind their arrival as long as they spend money. Harry Bleeker, the local sheriff, doesn't much like them but is so ineffective and weak that he doesn't do anything to stop them, much to the annoyance of some of the other townsfolk, who see the gang as being a criminal element not to be tolerated. Johnny is attracted to the innocent Kathie Bleeker, the waitress at the local café, who is initially intimidated by Johnny and the gang. His feelings change when he learns she is Sheriff Bleeker's daughter. The actions of the gang escalates when the Beetles, a splinter group of the Black Rebels, arrive in town. As things start to get out of hand between the gangs, some of the townsfolk, such as Charlie Thomas who is in his own right a bully albeit one of the "establishment", decide to take matters into their own hands. But Kathie may make Johnny change his beliefs, especially about what is happening this day in the town.
Rotten Tomatoes: Johnny and his vicious biker gang invade a small, sleepy 1950s California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a good girl whose father happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny, his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival, Chino, plus the hostility and prejudice of the townspeople. All their smoldering passions explode in an electrifying climax!
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65% (1) A Man Alone 96 min, Approved, [Romance, Western] [Ray Milland] [28 Oct 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Mary Murphy, Ray Milland, Raymond Burr, Ward Bond
Writer: John Tucker Battle (screenplay), Mort Briskin (story)
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Plot: A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
Rotten Tomatoes: When a gunfighter is accused of murder and ready to be lynched by an angry mob, he lays low in the sheriff's house while figuring out the truth with the lawman's daughter. Ray Milland starred in the film, and it was his directorial debut as well.
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59% (1) Hell's Island 84 min, APPROVED, [Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir] [Phil Karlson] [06 May 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, External Reviews
Actors: Eduardo Noriega, Francis L. Sullivan, John Payne, Mary Murphy
Writer: Maxwell Shane (written for the screen by), Jack Leonard (story), Martin Goldsmith (story)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Spanish Country: USA
Plot: Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this drama, an alcoholic lawyer's drinking causes him to be barred from his profession. To pay the bills, he takes a job as a bouncer at a Vegas casino. There he is offered $5,000 to find a ruby that vanished during a plane crash in the Caribbean.
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59% (1) Beachhead 90 min, Approved, [Drama, War] [Stuart Heisler] [05 Feb 1954]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, External Reviews
Actors: Eduard Franz, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Tony Curtis
Writer: Richard Alan Simmons (screenplay), Richard G. Hubler (novel)
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Plot: On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Trapped on the island, they must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. They must battle nature, hard terrain, and advancing Japanese troops.
Rotten Tomatoes: Set in the Philippines during WWII, this suspenseful and realistic war drama chronicles the courage of a unit of U.S. Marines as they try to save a plantation owner/Allied spy and his beautiful daughter from the Japanese who have taken over a densely jungled island.
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57% (1) Sitting Bull 105 min, APPROVED, [Western] [Sidney Salkow] [06 Oct 1954]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, External Reviews
Actors: Dale Robertson, J. Carrol Naish, John Litel, Mary Murphy
Writer: Jack DeWitt (screenplay), Sidney Salkow (screenplay)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: Mexico, USA
Plot: Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf.
Rotten Tomatoes: This western offers a fairly historically accurate account of the Battle of Little Big Horn. The story centers on a major in the cavalry who believes the Indians have the same rights as other Americans. Despite his efforts to stop Custer from embarking on his ill-fated mission, the general carries on.
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