Soundtrack: Joseph Gershenson
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Joseph Gershenson. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Jack Arnold
Cast Grant Williams · Randy Stuart · April Kent · Paul Langton
Plot After an exposure to a strange mist, Scott Carey begins to shrink. After facing such trials as confounded doctors and his angry cat, he accidently gets locked in the basement....
7.6
14K votes
7.6
14K votes
The Far Country
1954 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast James Stewart · Ruth Roman · Corinne Calvet · Walter Brennan
Plot One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his...
7.5
5K votes
7.5
5K votes
Man Without a Star
1955 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Kirk Douglas · Jeanne Crain · Claire Trevor · Richard Boone
Plot Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East.
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Lawless Breed
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Rock Hudson · Julie Adams · John McIntire · Dennis Weaver
Plot Released from jail, John Wesley Hardin leaves an account of his life with the local newspaper. It tells of his overly religious father, his resulting life of cards and guns,...
6.6
644 votes
6.6
644 votes
Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Jack Arnold
Cast Richard Carlson · Julie Adams · Richard Denning · Antonio Moreno
Plot The Creature, an amphibious, prehistoric man-monster, inhabits the primordial depths of a tropical lagoon undisturbed until scientists intrude upon his domain. Variously interpreted as a monster from hell and a...
6.5
3K votes
6.5
3K votes
Snezhnaya koroleva
1957 · Movie · 74 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Lev Atamanov
Plot A young girl journeys to a frigid land to find her friend, imprisoned by a heartless queen.
6.4
235 votes
6.4
235 votes
The Monolith Monsters
1957 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction John Sherwood
Cast Lola Albright · Grant Williams · Les Tremayne · Trevor Bardette
Plot A strange black meteor crashes near the town of San Angelo and litters the countryside with fragments. When a storm exposes these fragments to water, they grow into skyscraper-sized monoliths...
6.3
249 votes
6.3
249 votes
Horizons West
1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Budd Boetticher
Cast Robert Ryan · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams · John McIntire
6.3
484 votes
6.3
484 votes
Seminole
1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Budd Boetticher
Cast Rock Hudson · Barbara Hale · Anthony Quinn · Richard Carlson
6.1
506 votes
6.1
506 votes
Saddle Tramp
1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Hugo Fregonese
Cast Joel McCrea · Wanda Hendrix · John Russell · John McIntire
Plot Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck...
6.0
140 votes
6.0
140 votes
The Strange Door
1951 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast Charles Laughton · Boris Karloff · Sally Forrest · Richard Wyler
Plot Alain, the Sire de Maletroit, plots revenge on his younger brother Edmund for stealing Alain's childhood sweetheart, now deceased. Alain imprisons Edmund in a dungeon for 20 years. He then...
5.8
70 votes
5.8
70 votes
Posse from Hell
1961 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Coleman
Cast Audie Murphy · John Saxon · Zohra Lampert · Vic Morrow
Plot Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and...
5.6
75 votes
5.6
75 votes
The Cimarron Kid
1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Budd Boetticher
Cast Audie Murphy · Yvette Duguay · Beverly Tyler · James Best
Plot Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed...
5.6
142 votes
5.6
142 votes
The Raiders
1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Lesley Selander
Cast Richard Conte · Viveca Lindfors · Barbara Britton · Hugh O´Brian
Plot A band of victimized gold miners strikes back at the organized ruthlessness of a land baron who also is effectively sabotaging a movement to unionize the California Territory.
5.3
44 votes
5.3
44 votes
Francis in the Navy
1955 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Donald O´Connor · Martha Hyer · Richard Erdman · Jim Backus
5.0
31 votes
5.0
31 votes
Flame of Araby
1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Maureen O'Hara · Jeff Chandler · Maxwell Reed · Lon Chaney Jr.
Plot An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.
4.9
100 votes
4.9
100 votes
Francis Joins the WACS
1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Donald O´Connor · Julie Adams · Mamie Van Doren · Joan Shawlee
Plot On arrival at Fort Chase, ex-soldier Peter Stirling, recalled to active duty, is re-united with his old pal Francis the Talking Mule. Gradually, it dawns on Peter that a clerical...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Marjorie Main · Percy Kilbride · Alan Mowbray · Alice Kelley
Plot Elwin Kettle might win a scholarship to an agricultural college. Essay contest judges Mannering and Crosby decide to choose between the two finalists by spending a weekend at the home...
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Take Me to Town
1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Ann Sheridan · Sterling Hayden · Phillip Reed · Lee Patrick
Plot Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three 'cute'...
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Air Cadet
1951 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast Stephen McNally · Gail Russell · Alex Nicol · Richard Long
Plot A new group of plebes (including roommates Joe, Russ, Jerry and Walt) arrive at an Air Force training camp and go through the usual "course of sprouts." Then on to...
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