Some of Ronald Reagan's service in World War II included starring in educational short films for the United States military. "Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter" was one such movie, produced by the First Motion Picture Unit of the U. S. Army Air Force. [..]

The Best Picture of 1943 is....."Casablanca." This romantic drama tells the story of the owner of a nightclub in 1941 French Morocco who discovers that an old girl friend is in town with her husband, a Czechoslovak resistance leader who is on the run from the [..]

"Pal Joey" is without a doubt the definitive Frank Sinatra vehicle. The Chairman of the Board put a lot of his own personality into the wise-cracking, hard-shelled, soft-hearted, smooth-singing Joey Evans. The fantastic music was written by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, with flawless arrangements [..]

"Peyton Place" is the quintessential soap opera, the story of the lives of people in a small town in New England. This glossy production by Jerry Wald and top-rate direction by Mark Robson made the film the second highest grossing film of the year. [..]

"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 [..]