 65% (1) Kid Monk Baroni 79 min PASSED [Action, Drama, Sport] [Harold D. Schuster] [01 May 1952]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Allene Roberts, Bruce Cabot, Mona Knox, Richard Rober Writer: Aben Kandel (original screenplay), Dick Conway (additional dialogue) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Paul Baroni, known as Monk because of his misshapen face, is part of a New York street gang. Under the influence of his parish priest, Father Callahan, Paul learns to box and becomes a success. But his insecurities over how he looks lead him to throw away both success and his relationships...until a sudden change shows him a new way of looking at himself. Rotten Tomatoes: In this youthful drama, a caring parish priest attempts to help a street kid, Paul 'Monk' Baroni, walk the straight and narrow. Monk got his name from his misshapen face. First the priest teaches him how to box; then he gets him involved in church activities. Monk is making good progress until the boy smacks the priest during a gang brawl, leaves the town, and goes on to become a professional fighter. He is quite successful and even goes under corrective plastic surgery. With his handsome new face, and success in the ring, the young man begins to become egotistical and vain. Things do not improve when he takes up with a golddigger. Because he does not want to damage his pretty new face, the boxer begins deliberately losing; he soon loses the girl. Time passes and eventually he sees the error of his ways and returns to his old neighborhood where he becomes the church's new athletic director. 1 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  67% (1) Fancy Pants 92 min APPROVED [Comedy, Musical, Western] [George Marshall] [19 Jul 1950]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Bob Hope, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood, Lucille Ball Writer: Harry Leon Wilson (story), Edmund L. Hartmann (screenplay), Robert O'Brien (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: An American actor (Arthur Tyler) impersonating an English butler is hired by a nouveau riche woman (Effie Floud) from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter (Aggie). The complications increase when the town believes Arthur to be an Earl, and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit. Rotten Tomatoes: Fancy Pants is a musicalized remake of the oft-filmed Harry Leon Wilson story Ruggles of Red Gap, tailored to the talents of 'Mr. Robert Hope (formerly Bob)'. The basic plotline of the original, that of an English butler entering the service of a rowdy nouveau-riche family from the American West, is retained. The major difference is that main character (Bob Hope) plays a third-rate American actor who only pretends to be a British gentleman's gentleman. Social-climbing American heiress Lucille Ball hires Hope to impress her high-society English acquaintances, then takes him back to her ranch in New Mexico. Though there are many close shaves, Hope manages to convince the wild and woolly westerners that he's a genuine British Lord--even pulling the wool over the eyes of visiting celebrity Teddy Roosevelt (John Alexander). Never as droll as the 1935 Leo McCarey-directed Ruggles of Red Gap, Fancy Pants nonetheless works quite well on its own broad, slapsticky level. If the ending seems abrupt, it may be because the original finale, in which a fleeing Bob Hope and Lucille Ball were to be rescued by surprise guest star Roy Rogers, was abandoned just before the scene was shot. 2 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 70% (1) Sorrowful Jones 88 min N/A [Comedy, Drama] [Sidney Lanfield] [04 Jul 1949]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Bob Hope, Bruce Cabot, Lucille Ball, William Demarest Writer: Melville Shavelson (screenplay), Edmund L. Hartmann (screenplay), Jack Rose (screenplay), Damon Runyon (adapted from a story by), William R. Lipman (adapted from a screenplay by), Sam Hellman (adapted from a screenplay by), Gladys Lehman (adapted from a screenplay by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving. Rotten Tomatoes: This second of four film adaptations of Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker is tailored to the talents of Bob Hope. A shifty Broadway bookie, Sorrowful Jones (Hope) becomes a reluctant foster parent when an anxious gambler leaves behind his little girl Martha Jane (Mary Jane Saunders) as a 'marker,' or IOU. When the father is killed by mobster Big Steve Holloway (Bruce Cabot), Sorrowful decides to hide Martha Jane from the authorities, lest the poor girl get tossed in an orphanage. Lucille Ball co-stars as Sorrowful's erstwhile girlfriend Gladys, who along with Mary Jane is instrumental in 'reforming' the cynical Jones. The climactic scenes, wherein Sorrowful tries to smuggle a horse into a hospital in order to bring the little girl out of a coma, deftly combines slapstick with pathos. A remake of 1934's Little Miss Marker, which starred Shirley Temple in the title role, Sorrowful Jones was itself remade in 1962 as the Tony Curtis vehicle Who's Got the Action; it was filmed again in 1980, once more as Little Miss Marker, with Curtis as the villain and Walter Matthau in the Bob Hope role. 3 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  70% (2) Angel and the Badman 100 min Approved [Romance, Western] [James Edward Grant] [15 Feb 1947]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 71%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Bruce Cabot, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, John Wayne Writer: James Edward Grant External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Notorious gunman Quirt Evans is wounded and on the run. He arrives at a Quaker farm owned by Thomas Worth and his family where he collapses from exhaustion. Evans asks Thomas and his daughter Penelope to drive him into town in their wagon in order to send an urgent telegram. The telegram contains a land claim and is sent to the land recorder's office. The Quaker family is ignoring the town doctor's advice to rid themselves of the gunfighter and they compassionately tend to the delirious Evans. Penny Worth becomes intrigued by his ravings of past loves.When Evans regains consciousness, Penny explains to him about the Quaker credo of non-violence and way of life. Three weeks later, two desperadoes, Laredo Stevens and Hondo Jeffries, ride into town looking for Evans.Penny's younger brother, Johnny, rushes home to inform Evans of his visitors and Evans prepares to flee. Penny, now smitten with Evans, offers to run off with him. Upon hearing the sound of approaching horses, Evans grabs his revolver and, to his horror, discovers that it has been emptied. His life is in serious danger. Rotten Tomatoes: One of John Wayne's most mystical films, Angel and the Badman is also the first production that Wayne personally produced. The star plays a wounded outlaw who is sheltered by a Quaker family. Attracted to the family's angelic daughter Gail Russell, the hard-bitten Wayne undergoes a slow and subtle character transformation; still, he is obsessed with killing the man (Bruce Cabot) who murdered his foster father. The storyline traces not only the regeneration of Wayne, but of the single-minded sheriff (Harry Carey) who'd previously been determined to bring Wayne to justice. Not a big hit in 1947, Angel and the Badman has since become the most frequently telecast of John Wayne's Republic films, thanks to its lapse into Public Domain status in 1974. 4 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 66% (1) The Flame of New Orleans 79 min Passed [Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance] [René Clair] [25 Apr 1941]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Bruce Cabot, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer, Roland Young Writer: Norman Krasna External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker who is her fiance that she is two different women -- a deception made necessary by the arrival of a man acquainted with the swath she cut across Europe. Giraud has been about to foreclose on a $150 loan made to a sea captain who needed the funds to court Claire. Get Claire's 'cousin' out of New Orleans before the wedding, Giraud tells the sea captain and the debt will be paid. Rotten Tomatoes: Acclaimed French filmmaker Rene Clair made his American debut with this period comedy/drama. Claire Ledeux (Marlene Dietrich) leaves her native France and arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1841, with one goal in mind: marrying a wealthy man. Posing as a pillar of society and a woman of means, Claire sets her sights on Charles Giraud (Roland Young), who is good looking and rich, but she soon discovers that ship captain Robert Latour (Bruce Cabot) is also vying for her hand. However, when Zoltov (Mischa Auer), who knew Claire from the old country, starts dropping heavy hints about her scandalous reputation in Europe, Claire tries to convince everyone that he's really talking about her cousin, even going so far as to disguise herself as the phantom cousin to add weight to her ruse. Three Stooges fans should keep an eye peeled for a brief appearance by Shemp Howard, who plays a waiter; Andy Devine, Franklin Pangborn, and Clarence Muse also appear in the supporting cast. 5 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  86% (2) Dodge City 104 min Approved [Western] [Michael Curtiz] [08 Apr 1939]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland Writer: Robert Buckner (original screen play) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. Even going on a children's Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do. What the place needs is a fearless honest Marshal. A guy like Wade Hatton, who helped bring the railroad in. It may not help that he fancies Abbie Irving, who won't have anything to do with him since he had to shoot her brother. But that's the West. Rotten Tomatoes: Dodge City and Stagecoach were released the same year and though featuring two very different plots, are both credited with breathing new life and legitimacy into the flagging western genre. Starring dashing Errol Flynn and beauteous Olivia de Havilland, Dodge City begins with a nailbiting race between a stagecoach and locomotive--representing the transition from the Old West to the new one. The story itself begins as an itinerant cattleman rides into the title town and ends up its appointed sheriff and assigned to rid the town of a troublesome villain and his outlaw gang. Along the way, he finds himself falling in love with a lovely saloon girl. The film's highlight is a barroom brawl that is so exciting and fast-paced that it set the standard for western movie bar fights in countless films to come. 6 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 89% (2) Fury 92 min Not Rated [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller] [Fritz Lang] [05 Jun 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 79%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations. Actors: Bruce Cabot, Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel Writer: Bartlett Cormack (screen play), Fritz Lang (screen play), Norman Krasna (based on a story by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Based on the story 'Mob Rule' by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to make money. But things go disastrously wrong for Joe when he stops in a small town and is mistaken for a wanted murderer. Through the course of the movie, Fritz Lang shows us how a decent and once civilized man can become a ruthless and bitter man. Rotten Tomatoes: Fritz Lang's first American film is a vigorous and perceptive indictment of mob law, starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney. Katherine (Sidney) leaves her boyfriend, Joe Wilson (Tracy), behind in their Midwestern hometown when she takes a job in another city. Joe is a decent, hard-working soul, who wants to save up to buy a gas station and looks forward to the future when he and Katherine can get married. A year later, Joe is traveling to meet Katherine so that they can be married. Driving through a small town, Joe is stopped by a deputy sheriff waving a shotgun. Apparently there has been a kidnapping, and the fact that Joe has peanuts in his pocket circumstantially incriminates him in the crime. Joe is arrested and jailed. As Joe sits in his jail cell, the local townspeople begin to talk and whisper and spread rumors. Finally, a lynch mob forms and heads toward the jail. The mob tries to storm the jail and frustrated over their inability to penetrate the prison walls, they set the jail on fire. Joe barely manages to escape ('I could smell myself burning'), but the mob thinks that Joe has been burned to death. Behind the scenes, and with the help of his brothers, Joe tries to rig the verdict in the impending trial of the 22 vigilantes. 7 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  67% (1) The Last of the Mohicans 91 min Approved [Adventure, Drama, History, War, Western] [George B. Seitz] [04 Sep 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Binnie Barnes, Bruce Cabot, Henry Wilcoxon, Randolph Scott Writer: James Fenimore Cooper (novel), Philip Dunne (screen play), John L. Balderston (from an adaptation by), Paul Perez (from an adaptation by), Daniel Moore (from an adaptation by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: In the year 1756, Fort William Henry on Lake George is under siege by the French and Hurons under General Montcalm. Alice and Cora Munro, young daughters of the British Commander, Colonel Munro, set out from Albany to join their father at the fort. They are accompanied by Major Duncan Heyward, who has loved Alice for a long time, and by a renegade Huron named Magua. He leads them astray with the view of betraying them into the hands of a wandering party of Hurons, but his plans are foiled by Hawkeye, a Colonial scout, when he and his comrades, Chingachgook and his son Uncas, rescue the party and conduct them safely to the fort. Shortly after wards, Munro surrenders on honorable terms to Montcalm and is permitted to march out of the fort under arms and colors. He is then mortally wounded by Magua during a massacre by the Indians as the fort is being evacuated. Cora and Alice are carried off by Magua and Heyward, aided by Hawkeye, Chingachgook and Uncas, sets out in search of them. Rotten Tomatoes: Randolph Scott has one of his best roles as Hawkeye in this exciting film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's often filmed novel. During the brutal French and Indian War, Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward (Henry Wilcoxon), and the two daughters of Fort William Henry commander Colonel Munro (Hugh Buckler) -- Alice (Binnie Barnes) and Cora (Heather Angel) -- to safety through enemy lines. Hawkeye is assisted by his Indian friend Chingachgook (Robert Barrat), and Uncas (Philip Reed), Chingachgook's son; the two are the last survivors of the Mohican tribe. During their travels to the fort, Alice falls in love with Hawkeye, while Cora falls in love with Uncas. But along the way, the band is continually harassed by the demonic Huron Indian Magua (Bruce Cabot). Magua causes the deaths of Cora and Uncas, while the British are attacked by the Hurons and the French and forced to flee Fort William Henry. Hawkeye is taken prisoner by the brutal Hurons and Maj. Heyward must organize a band to rescue Hawkeye before he is tortured to death. 8 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 89% (3) King Kong 100 min Passed [Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi] [Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack] [07 Apr 1933]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 79%, Rotten Tomatoes: 98%, Metacritic: 90%, External Reviews Awards: 3 wins & 7 nominations. Actors: Bruce Cabot, Fay Wray, Frank Reicher, Robert Armstrong Writer: James Ashmore Creelman (screen play), Ruth Rose (screen play), Merian C. Cooper (from an idea conceived by), Edgar Wallace (from an idea conceived by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann in it's grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts. Rotten Tomatoes: 'How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood?' Enticed by these words, brunette leading lady Fay Wray dyed her hair blonde and accepted the role of Ann Darrow in King Kong -- and stayed with the project even after learning that her 'leading man' was a 50-foot ape. The film introduces us to flamboyant, foolhardy documentary filmmaker Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), who sails off to parts unknown to film his latest epic with leading lady Darrow in tow. Disembarking at Skull Island, they stumble on a ceremony in which the native dancers circle around a terrified-looking young girl, chanting, 'Kong! Kong!' The chief (Noble Johnson) and witch doctor (Steve Clemente) spot Denham and company and order them to leave. But upon seeing Ann, the chief offers to buy the 'golden woman' to serve as the 'bride of Kong.' Denham refuses, and he and the others beat a hasty retreat to their ship. Late that night, a party of native warriors sneak on board the ship and kidnap Ann. They strap her to a huge sacrificial altar just outside the gate, then summon Kong, who winds up saving Ann instead of devouring her. Kong is eventually taken back to New York, where he breaks loose on the night of his Broadway premiere, thinking that his beloved Ann is being hurt by the reporters' flash bulbs. Now at large in New York, Kong searches high and low for Ann (in another long-censored scene, he plucks a woman from her high-rise apartment, then drops her to her death when he realizes she isn't the girl he's looking for). After proving his devotion by wrecking an elevated train, Kong winds up at the top of the Empire State Building, facing off against a fleet of World War I fighter planes. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 9 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |