"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 [..]

Jerry Lewis began his solo career after his famous breakup with Dean Martin in "The Delicate Delinquent." Lewis' unique brand of comedy is on full display here as he plays a janitor who is mistaken for a gang member and is arrested with three juvenile delinquents. [..]

"Hard Miles" is a sports drama about a prison social worker who puts together a team of young convicts and takes them on a one thousand mile bicycle ride, from Denver to the Grand Canyon. They learn about life and perseverance along the way. Director R. [..]