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Charles Bickford Movies
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Western
Starring:
Henry Fonda,
Joanne Woodward,
Jason Robards,
Paul Ford,
Charles Bickford,
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Never heard of this wonderful movie till American Movie Classics (bless 'em)
showed it recently. What a cast!! Jason Robards, Charles Bickford, Joanne
Woodward, Henry Fonda, Paul Ford, and Burgess Meredith - how could a movie
with such a blockbuster array have received such little attention? (This was
the seemingly indestructible Bickford's very last movie appearance, and he
lo...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Olivia de Havilland,
Robert Mitchum,
Frank Sinatra,
Gloria Grahame,
Broderick Crawford,
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"Not as a Stranger" is an old fashioned medical
melodrama. The basic plot involves a
young man (Mitchum) who is obsessed with
becoming a doctor. Unfortunately, his
obsession causes pain and unhappiness
for the people around him.Naturally, much of the medical material is
out of date. Some commonplace matters in
1955 now strike us as incredible: a medical
class w...
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Genres:
Western
Starring:
Alan Ladd,
Mona Freeman,
Charles Bickford,
Robert Keith,
Joseph Calleia,
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The opening scenes set the tone of the film… Ladd, an itinerant gunman
known simply as Choya and with the aid of a tattooed birthmark, passes
himself off as the lost son and is accepted wholeheartedly by the
parents (Bickford and Royle) and Ruth (Freeman), the man's sister… Ruth had responded to his arrival on the ranch as any pretty woman
would respond to a mysteriou...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Starring:
Gene Tierney,
Richard Conte,
José Ferrer,
Charles Bickford,
Barbara O'Neil,
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In a movie like "Whirlpool" you must take the good together with the
weaknesses and naivety. The story is reasonably interesting and
entertaining: the quack doctor Korvo (Jose' Ferrer) hypnotizes and cheats
Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), the spouse of a distinguished psychoanalyst
(Richard Conte). A mysterious murder ensues... Unfortunately, some twists
of
the story are unplaus...
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Genres:
War
Drama
Starring:
Clark Gable,
Walter Pidgeon,
Van Johnson,
Brian Donlevy,
Charles Bickford,
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"Command Decision" is a wonderful film filled with several great
performances. It's Gable's movie, but he's very capably supported by
Walter Pigeon, Brian Donlevy and John Hodiak, who nearly equals his
"Lifeboat" performance. Pigeon is especially good in the roll of a senior commander who is
more concerned with the political considerations of the war effort than
the tactical an...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Western
Starring:
Jennifer Jones,
Joseph Cotten,
Gregory Peck,
Lionel Barrymore,
Herbert Marshall,
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King Vidor was a long-serving and much-respected Hollywood grandmaster
who took a serious interest in movie-making… "Billy the Kid" and "Duel
in the Sun" hold an important place in the history of the genre… These
two films in particular, along with "Northwest Passage," show Vidor's
romantic vision of backwoods America and his love of natural landscape;
they share,...
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Genres:
Biography
Drama
Starring:
Jennifer Jones,
Charles Bickford,
Vincent Price,
Lee J. Cobb,
Gladys Cooper,
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Drama
Starring:
Ray Milland,
John Wayne,
Paulette Goddard,
Raymond Massey,
Robert Preston,
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Here's a lavish, exuberant tale of the high seas, produced and directed by
Cecil B. DeMille, and presented with all the excess and spectacle the great
showman built his career on. It involves shipwrecks, deep-sea diving, and
giant squids, among other things. It's that rare kind of movie that's
genuinely fun to watch, where you find yourself smiling because you're so
engrossed...
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Genres:
Biography
History
Romance
War
Western
Starring:
Gary Cooper,
Jean Arthur,
James Ellison,
Charles Bickford,
Helen Burgess,
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I still have the copy my parents gave me of Cecil B. DeMille's
autobiography and he does go into some detail about the research done
for his films. I'm wondering if Paramount decided to save money on the
research for this one.The action of this film takes place from the end of the Civil War until
Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead in Deadwood which was 1876. Now that's
e...
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Genres:
Comedy
Family
Drama
Starring:
Adolphe Menjou,
Dorothy Dell,
Charles Bickford,
Shirley Temple,
Lynne Overman,
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Despite only two songs, it's another entertaining Shirley Temple film.
The story is familiar; it's been done several other times, once under
the name "Sorrowful Jones," with Bob Hope. This movie is a bit
different from that one, so you could own both and have two different
slants on the famous Damon Runyon story.This version has a lot more comedy from the supporting players...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Greta Garbo,
Charles Bickford,
George F. Marion,
Marie Dressler,
James T. Mack,
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This is an amazingly well-filmed early talkie adaptation of the Eugene
O'Neill play. Its major drawback is a static camera, and as a result it
comes off much of the time as the filmed play it is, which is a pity, for
it's a good piece of primitive moviemaking, made at a time when sound was
posing all kinds of technical problems, and as a result most films were
experimental whet...
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