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Duck and Cover
1952 • Animation • Family
An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increa…
Why matched: genres Animation, Family
Love Me Tender
1956 • Music • Drama • Romance
At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Red Sundown
1956 • Western
When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Riding into town he finds the only jo…
Why matched: genres Western
The Proud Ones
1956 • Western
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a c…
Why matched: genres Western
The Law and Jake Wade
1958 • Western
Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small…
Why matched: genres Western
Hell Bent for Leather
1960 • Western
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, an…
Why matched: genres Western
Friendly Persuasion
1956 • Drama • War
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Tarnished Angels
1957 • Drama
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When n…
Why matched: genres Drama
Don't Give Up the Ship
1959 • Comedy
The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970 • Comedy • Western
Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.
Why matched: genres Comedy, Western
The Court Jester
1955 • Music • Adventure • Comedy
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
Why matched: genres Music, Adventure
The Big Combo
1955 • Drama • Crime
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Which Way to the Front?
1970 • Comedy • War
Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not take "No" for an answer and r…
Why matched: genres Comedy, War
The Great Impostor
1960 • Drama • Comedy
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 • Western
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife a…
Why matched: genres Western
The Desperate Hours
1955 • Thriller • Crime
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
The Silver Chalice
1954 • Drama • Romance • History
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventuall…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance