6.5

Artists and Models

1955, USA

• Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone, Eddie Mayehoff, Eva Gabor, Anita Ekberg, George Winslow, Jack Elam, Herbert Rudley, Richard Shannon, Richard Webb, Alan Lee, Otto Waldis, Nancy Abbate, Rosemarie Ace, Gertrude Astor, Babette Bain, Sharon Baird, Art Baker, Margaret Barstow, Marcella Becker, Sara Berner, Ralph Brooks, Dolores Brown, Susan Brown, Sue Carlton, Frank Carter, Nick Castle, Evelyn Ceder
• Genre: Comedy, Musical
• Director(s): Frank Tashlin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Eugene and Rick are two struggling artists who share apartment. However, Rick has problems with that, because Eugene is obsessed with pulp fiction comic books and has nightmares because of that. However, Rick soon finds that those nightmares could be excellent material for his own comic books.

  6.7

Daddy Long Legs

1954, USA

• Actors: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark, Charlotte Austin, Larry Keating, Kathryn Givney, Kelly Brown, Ray Anthony, Robert Adler, Gertrude Astor, Paul Bradley, Tim Cagney, Kathryn Card, John Carlyle, Janice Carroll, Barrie Chase, Ann Codee, James Conaty, James Cromwell, Lillian Culver, Sayre Dearing, Guy Des Rochers, Shirley Doble, Ralph Dumke, George Dunn, Pat Ferguson, Steven Geray, Kelly Gordon
• Genre: Musical, Romance
• Director(s): Jean Negulesco
• Available languages:
  • English English.

On a trip to France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton sees an 18 year old girl in an orphanage. Enchanted with her, but mindful of the difference in their ages, he sponsors her to college in New England. She writes him letters, which he doesn't read. After 3 years, he goes to visit her at a dance, not telling her that he is her benefactor. They fall in love, but the usual movie-type difficulties get in the way before they can get together at the end.

  7.1

The War of the Worlds

1952, USA

• Actors: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Houseley Stevenson Jr., Paul Frees, William Phipps, Vernon Rich, Henry Brandon, Jack Kruschen, Cedric Hardwicke, Cliff Clark, Rudy Lee, Peter Adams, Eric Alden, Hugh Allen, Ruth Barnell, Edgar Barrier, Russ Bender, Paul Birch, Hazel Boyne, Tony Butala, Mushy Callahan, Ann Codee, Edward Colmans, James Conaty, Russ Conway, Martin Coulter
• Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Byron Haskin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life is this tale of alien invasion. The residents of a small town in California are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. Their joy is tempered somewhat when they discover that it has passengers who are not very friendly. The movie itself is understood better when you consider that it was made at the height of the Cold War--just replace Martian with Russian....

  7.6

All the King's Men

1949, USA

• Actors: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Mercedes McCambridge, Shepperd Strudwick, Ralph Dumke, Anne Seymour, Katherine Warren, Raymond Greenleaf, Walter Burke, Will Wright, Grandon Rhodes, Beau Anderson, Sam Ash, Richard Bartell, Mary Bear, Helena Benda, Stanley Blystone, Marshall Bradford, William Bruce, Wheaton Chambers, Edwin Chandler, Alden 'Stephen' Chase, James Conaty, William Cottrell, Kenneth Cutler, Roy Darmour, Earle S. Dewey, King Donovan
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Robert Rossen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. What's special about this nobody running for county treasurer? He's supposedly an honest man. Burden discovers this to be true when he sees Stark delivering a speech and having his son pass out handbills, while the local politicians do their best to intimidate him. Willie Stark is honest and brave. He's also a know-nothing hick whose schoolteacher wife has given him what little education he has. Stark loses the race for treasurer, but later makes his way through law school, becoming an idealistic attorney who fights for what is good. Someone in the governor's employ remembers Stark when the governor needs a patsy to run against him and split the vote of his rival. The fat cats underestimate Stark; but Jack Burden, Stark's biggest supporter, overestimates the man's idealism. To get where he wants to go, Willie Stark is willing to crack a few eggs - which include his tough-talking assistant, Sadie Burke; Jack's poised and elegant fiancée, Anne Stanton; and even Jack Burden himself.