69% (1) Good Neighbor Sam 130 min, APPROVED, [Comedy] [David Swift] [22 Jul 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Dorothy Provine, Jack Lemmon, Mike Connors, Romy Schneider
Writer: James Fritzell (screenplay), Everett Greenbaum (screenplay), David Swift (screenplay), Jack Finney (novel)
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Plot: Sam Bissel is a wholesome family man with a loving wife, Min, and two loving daughters. They lead a happy suburban life. The only part of Sam's life that he is not happy about is his job as a lowly cog in the art department of the advertising firm of Burke & Hare. Sam's professional life takes a major turn when he is made executive of the Nurdlinger Dairy account. Simon Nurdlinger is a wholesome family man who wants a wholesome family man with wholesome family ideals heading his account, Sam the only one in Burke & Hare that fits the bill. Sam's home life also takes a major turn when Min's college friend, Janet Lagerlof, moves in next door. Janet stands to inherit $15 million from her grandfather's estate, but the will has a clause that she must be happily married to inherit the money. Janet is technically divorced from Howard Ebbets, and states that getting back with Howard is not worth $15 million. But when Jack Bailey and Irene Krump - two of Janet's relatives who would like to find any excuse to contest the will - come by for an unexpected visit, Janet impetuously introduces Sam as her husband, Howard. Things get more complicated for Sam when he is later forced to introduce Janet as Mrs. Bissel to both Burke and Nurdlinger. Sam and by association Min go along with the ruse, and for their troubles Janet offers to give them $1 million of her inheritance. After that, further complications occur: Janet notices a private investigator snooping around the neighborhood, the P.I. hired by Janet's relatives; Howard, Janet's ex-husband comes back wanting to reconcile with her; and without Sam's knowledge, the Nurdlinger creative includes billboards featuring a wholesome couple espousing the goodness of Nurdlinger milk, that wholesome couple being Sam and Janet as Mr. & Mrs. Sam Bissel. They just have to continue dealing with these complications until the legal hearing. But Min may just have had enough of this plan before they get the money.
Rotten Tomatoes: Jack Lemmon is Sam Bissel, a happily married ad man who finds himself in an awkward position. Mr. Nurdinger, Sam's new and wealthy client, prizes a wholesome lifestyle above anything else. He puts his faith in wholesome Sam to handle the campaign for his product. Sam has a dilemma, however, when he is offered $1 million to pretend he is the husband of his attractive and vivacious neighbor, Janet Lagerlof (Romy Schneider, in her first U.S. film role). Janet's grandfather has recently passed away and bequeathes her $15 million--provided she is living with her husband. As luck would have it, Janet's husband just recently walked out on her, so she begs Sam to play along. Janet must work quickly as her cousins have hired a private detective to catch her living apart from her husband. Sam's wife, Minerva (Dorothy Provine), obliges the two, but it is the ad agency and Mr. Nurdinger that Sam must contend with. Things begin to get really crazy, however, when huge billboards begin sprouting up--using the faces of Janet and Sam as the perfectly married couple endorsing Nurdinger Dairy products. Based on a book by Invasion of the Body Snatchers author, Jack Finney.
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66% (1) Where Love Has Gone 111 min, [Drama] [Edward Dmytryk] [02 Nov 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations.
Actors: Bette Davis, Joey Heatherton, Mike Connors, Susan Hayward
Writer: John Michael Hayes, Harold Robbins (novel)
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Plot: After his teenage daughter Danny is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's current lover, Luke Miller recalls his marriage to Valerie Hayden and the subsequent events which led to the tragedy. The lurid story seems to have been suggested by the real-life Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato/Cheryl Crane murder scandal of six years earlier when Lana's daughter Cheryl stabbed her mother's boyfriend (Stompanato) to death in the bedroom of Lana's Beverly Hills home.
Rotten Tomatoes: Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, this drama follows the events that befall Luke Miller when he discovers that his daughter has been arrested for murdering his ex-wife's lover. However, when Luke arrives to take part in his daughter's trial, he must relive his painful past.
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61% (1) Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious 97 min, [Comedy, War] [Gottfried Reinhardt] [14 Jan 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: Alec Guinness, Anita Höfer, Mike Connors, Robert Redford
Writer: Silvia Reinhardt (screenplay), Jan Lustig (adaptation), Robert Shaw (novel)
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Plot: During World War II, two Americans are forced to bail out and parachute into a small German town. Herr Frick, being equal parts patriotic and lonely, keeps them as prisoners of war in his bomb shelter. While his prisoners go stir crazy, Herr Frick must decide if he's willing to lose their companionship by letting them know the war has ended.
Rotten Tomatoes: A pair of American Allied fliers (Michael Connor and Robert Redford in his second feature film appearance) are shot down in a small German village near the end of WW II and end up captured and held prisoner in the wine cellar of a lonely old man (Alec Guiness). The old man likes having the two around and so endeavors to keep them in his cellar even though the war is over. The two remain there for seven years and while they wait, the old man regales them with tales of a wonderful Nazi world. The strange plot of this comedy is based on a novel by Robert Shaw.
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60% (1) Stagecoach 115 min, Approved, [Action, Adventure, Western] [Gordon Douglas] [15 Jun 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, External Reviews
Actors: Alex Cord, Ann-Margret, Mike Connors, Red Buttons
Writer: Joseph Landon (screenplay), Dudley Nichols (based on a screenplay by), Ernest Haycox (from a story by)
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Plot: A group of unlikely traveling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a traveling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gunslinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband. All have secrets but when they are set upon by an Indian war party and then a family of outlaws, they find they must all work together if they are to stay alive.
Rotten Tomatoes: Outbound from a small town recently besieged by Indians, a stagecoach carries several diverse characters. They include rummy sawbones Josiah Boone (Bing Crosby), dance-hall girl and prostitute Dallas (Ann-Margret), embezzling bank clerk Gatewood (Robert Cummings), pregnant army officer's wife Lucy Mallory (Stefanie Powers), policeman Curly (Van Heflin), and several others. En route, the drunken Doc Boone is forced to sober up and deliver Lucy's baby, and the travelers are joined by Ringo (Alex Cord), an outlaw falsely accused of killing his own father and brother. Despite being arrested by Curly, Ringo helps fight off Indians and falls for Dallas. Once the coach reaches its destination, Luke Plummer (Keenan Wynn) and his two sons, the real killers of Ringo's family, shoot Gatewood for his stolen loot and wound Curly. A showdown between the Plummers and Ringo is inevitable. Famed painter Norman Rockwell, who rendered cast portraits for the film's closing credits sequence, appears in a brief cameo.
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58% (1) Panic Button 90 min, [Comedy] [George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo] [01 Apr 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, External Reviews
Actors: Eleanor Parker, Jayne Mansfield, Maurice Chevalier, Mike Connors
Writer: Hal Biller, Morton Friedman (story), Stephen Longstreet (adaptation)
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Plot: A businessman plans to solve his tax problems by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet". He hires Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield to play the title roles, and Akim Tamiroff to...
Rotten Tomatoes: A businessman enlists the acting talents of two cinematic stars in the comedic romp Panic Button. After developing some tax problems, Frank Pagano (played by Michael Connors) decides to make a feature film version of William Shakespeare's +Romeo and Juliet, and hires two star talents (played by real-life stars Jayne Mansfield and Maurice Chevalier) to act in it, and lands a top-notch director (Akim Tamiroff) to helm the movie. The film becomes an unexpected smash, as critics and audience alike view it as a comedy and it premieres to acclaim at a popular film festival. The film is directed by George Sherman and Giuliano Carnimeo.
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56% (1) Nightkill 97 min, R, [Crime, Horror, Mystery] [Ted Post] [18 Dec 1980]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Jaclyn Smith, James Franciscus, Mike Connors, Robert Mitchum
Writer: Joan Andre (screenplay), John Case (story)
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Plot: The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to escape the results of her actions, she too falls victim to deception.
Rotten Tomatoes: Robert Mitchum as a detective investigating the disappearance of a wealthy industrialist. Jaclyn Smith, Mike Connors, James Franciscus. Herbert: Fritz Weaver. Monica: Sybil Danning. Consuela: Tina Menard. Christine: Belinda Mayne.Ted Post directed.
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