Spencer Tracy is a whisky-drinking priest on a volcanic South Pacific island under French administration. Forever on the scrounge – though sometimes on behalf of a...
Newsman Paul Newman meets up with Joanne Woodward (twice) in the City of Lights in this gossamer romantic comedy. Woodward barely rates a second glance from...
Frank Sinatra plays handsome, talented nightclub crooner and downright cad Joey Evans in this colourful Oscar-winning musical showcase from George Sidney ( Half a Sixpence ,...
Frank Sinatra stars in a WWII thriller as an American flier who leads the inmates of an Italian POW camp on a daring run for freedom...
From Here to Eternity is, in essence, the story of three men – Prewitt, Maggio and Warden, with Prewitt as the pivotal figure. Each man has...
The Pride And The Passion was based on C.S. Forester’s novel The Gun with Napoleon’s Iberian campaign providing an epic historical backdrop to a romance between...
Among the most lauded political thrillers of all time, The Manchurian Candidate was amazingly prescient in light of the recent attraction of conspiracy theories. Korean War...
Frank Sinatra makes it to the top of the credits in Step Lively, a musical version of the Broadway chestnut ‘Room Service’ (also the basis of...
In The List of Adrian Messenger, a retired army officer (George C. Scott) receives a list from a friend who later dies in a plane crash....
4 for Texas is a stylish spoof western from The Dirty Dozen director Robert Aldrich. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra smooth it out as a couple of...
Cole Porter adds the tunes and Frank Sinatra the ring-a-ding to this swinging musical remake of The Philadelphia Story. A prim socialite (Grace Kelly in her...
Claim to Fame: “We were always great in bed,” Ava Gardner smirked about her marriage to Frank Sinatra. “The trouble usually started on the way to...
Singing, dancing, and acting legend Sammy Davis, Jr., got his start in the business early–at age two, he was already hamming it up in his parents’...
Frank Sinatra. No other name so quickly conjures an image in our collective pop consciousness (well, maybe Elvis Presley, but Sinatra was the better actor). Whether...
Gene Kelly for a period in the 1940’s and early 1950’s made a superb series of musicals that remain at the very pinnacle of the genre,...