Cast: James Whitmore

Direction Frank Darabont

Cast Tim Robbins · Morgan Freeman · Bob Gunton · James Whitmore

Synopsis The Shawshank Redemption (1994) follows Andy Dufresne, a banker wrongly convicted of murder, as he adapts to life in Shawshank Prison. Over the years, he forms a deep friendship with fellow inmate Red, while navigating the harsh realities of incarceration....

Direction John Huston

Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen

Synopsis Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He puts together a group of men consisting of Dix Handley,...

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Charlton Heston · Roddy McDowall · Kim Hunter · Maurice Evans

Synopsis Complex sociological themes run through this science-fiction classic, about three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves... The stunned trio discovers that these highly intellectual simians can both walk upright and talk. They have...

Direction Richard Fleischer · Kinji Fukasaku · Toshio Masuda

Cast Martin Balsam · Sô Yamamura · Joseph Cotten · Tatsuya Mihashi

Synopsis Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) is a historical war drama that meticulously recounts the events leading up to and including the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The film presents a balanced perspective, depicting both the American and...

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast James Whitmore · Tim O'Connor · James Broderick · Paul Langton

Synopsis A human colony is rescued from a forsaken planet. But their leader is having a hard time accepting that things will change when they get back to Earth.

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Whitmore · Nancy Reagan · Gary Gray · Lillian Bronson

Synopsis "Joe Smith, American" lives in a Los Angeles suburb and works at an aircraft plant. One night Joe hears a voice cut in on a radio program: "This is God. I'll be with you for the next few days." It...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast David Carradine · Liv Ullmann · Gert Fröbe · Heinz Bennent

Synopsis In November of 1923, in a Berlin where a pack of cigarettes costs four million marks and people has lost faith in the present and future days, the alcoholic and unemployed American acrobat Abel Rosenberg loses his brother Max, who...

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Glenn Ford · Nina Foch · James Whitmore · Barry Kelley

Synopsis Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast James Whitmore · Edmund Gwenn · Joan Weldon · James Arness

Synopsis That ol' cinematic devil the A-bomb has spawned a colony of giant murderous ants bent on destroying humanity in this, the seminal big bug movie (an obvious and oft-credited influence for Alien among countless others). The special effects may be...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Van Johnson · John Hodiak · Ricardo Montalban · George Murphy

Synopsis December, 1944. The Nazis, in the face of the onrushing Allies, turned and pushed into the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg for what would be their last major offensive of World War II. During the Battle of the Bulge,...

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Richard Widmark · Henry Fonda · Inger Stevens · Harry Guardino

Synopsis Adapted from Richard Dougherty's THE COMMISSIONER, MADIGAN stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York detective in this warmup for Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. Joined by his partner Rocco Bonaro (Harry Guardino), Madigan raids the apartment of criminal Barney Benesch...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Clark Gable · Ricardo Montalban · John Hodiak · Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but...

Direction Ray Bradbury · Randy Bradshaw · Roger Tompkins · John Laing

Cast Ray Bradbury · Harold Gould · Charles Martin Smith · Michael Sarrazin

Synopsis TV series (1985-1992). 6 seasons. 65 episodes. A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.

Direction Don Siegel

Cast John Cassavetes · James Whitmore · Sal Mineo · Mark Rydell

Synopsis Social worker tries to befriend local slum gang.

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Stewart Granger · Ann Blyth · Betta St. John

Synopsis Sea-faring saga of two brothers (Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger) and the woman they both love. Set against South Pacific islands, this love triangle pits the good brother against the bad as they squabble over Ann Blyth and a bag of...

Direction George Sidney

Cast Tyrone Power · Kim Novak · Victoria Shaw · James Whitmore

Synopsis The era of the big bands, grand ballrooms, and casino nightlife comes alive in The Eddy Duchin Story, a musical biography of the talented pianist and bandleader who set New York society on its ear in the 1930s and 1940s....

Direction George Sidney

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Howard Keel · Ann Miller · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis Fred and Lilly are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the...

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Rod Taylor · John Mills · Ernest Borgnine · Luciana Paluzzi

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Charlotte Greenwood · Rod Steiger

Synopsis Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting his feelings to Laurey, as does she. They both love...