"Raintree County" is an attention-grabbing melodrama about an Indiana man (Montgomery Cliff) who is torn between two women, played by Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint. The story is set in the Civil War in the North, and was criticized as a clone of "Gone With [..]

Movie star Karl Malden occupied the director's chair once in his career for the legal drama "Time Limit." He put together a watchable film with even pacing, telling the story of the trial of an Army major accused of collaborating with the North Koreans while he and his [..]

"Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" is a World War II drama about a U. S. Marine corporal and a Roman Catholic Irish nun stranded on a South Pacific island. When Japanese soldiers invade, they must hide, and the heavy drama begins. Director John Huston ("The Maltese Falcon" 1941) put [..]

"The Pride and the Passion" is a melodramatic war film set in the Napoleonic period in the nineteenth century. Producer-director Stanley Kramer ("Not as a Stanger" 1955) overreached in his adaptation of C. S. Forester's 1933 novel "The Gun." The movie was too long [..]

Robby the Robot made his second movie appearance (after his 1956 "Forbidden Planet" debut) in 1957's "The Invisible Boy." The story depicts Robby and a ten-year-old boy battling a supercomputer who wants to take over the Earth. The black-and-white film is innocuous entertainment, [..]

Debbie Reynolds stars in one of her most famous roles in "Tammy and the Bachelor." The theme song performed by Reynolds was a big hit on the music charts in 1957. The song's composers, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, received the movie's sole Academy Award nomination for Best [..]

"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" is a holiday comedy-drama film about six juvenile delinquent siblings who somehow find themselves starring in their small town's Christmas pageant. They teach a shocked community something or two about the true meaning of Christmas. Director Dallas Jenkins ("The Resurrection of Gavin Stone" [..]

"The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm" has Ma and Pa Kettle (Marjorie Main, Parker Fennelly) helping out a friend turn his city-slicker girl friend into a respectable farm wife. In turn, she hides out at the Kettle farm until her boyfriend can convince her father that he [..]

Director Jack Arnold ("Creature from the Black Lagoon" 1954) and screenwriter Richard Matheson put together a thought-provoking film called "The Incredible Shrinking Man." It is the story of a man who begins to shrink in size due to exposure to a radioactive mist while on a boat [..]

John Wayne always delivers the goods in the films he appears in, and "The Wings of Eagles" is no exception. Here the Duke portrays Frank "Spig" Wead (1895-1947), a pioneer in the U. S. Navy's aviation program who later became a Hollywood screenwriter. Director [..]