85% (2) King Creole 116 min, PG, [Crime, Drama, Musical] [Michael Curtiz] [02 Jul 1958]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart, Elvis Presley, Walter Matthau
Writer: Herbert Baker (screenplay), Michael V. Gazzo (screenplay), Harold Robbins (novel)
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Plot: Having flunked graduation for a second time and needing cash to support his crabby (and thus unemployed) father, Danny Fisher takes a job as a singer in the King Creole nightclub - about the only joint around not run by smarmy crook Maxie Fields who wants him for his own place. He gets on pretty well with Fields' floozy though, and all this plus his involvement with Fields' hoods and with innocent five-and-dime store assistant Nellie means Danny finds his world closing in on him all ways round.
Rotten Tomatoes: Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is forced to drop out of school to help support his ineffective father (Dean Jagger). Drawn to trouble like a magnet, Danny is saved from a jail term by New Orleans salloonkeeper Charlie Le Grand (Paul Stewart), who gives the boy a job as a singer. It isn't long, however, before local gang boss Maxie Fields (Walter Matthau), a shadowy figure from Danny's criminal past, puts the muscle on the boy, insisting that Danny sing at his establishment. To lure Danny to his side of the fence, Maxie relies upon the seductive charms of his gun moll Ronnie (Carolyn Jones), while Danny's true love Nellie (Dolores Hart) suffers on the sidelines. In addition to the expected musical numbers (which are cleverly integrated into the storyline), the film's highlight is a brief exchange of fisticuffs between Elvis and Walter Matthau. Together with Jailhouse Rock, King Creole is one of the best filmed examples of the untamed, pre-army Elvis Presley. The picture was adapted from Harold Robbins' novel A Stone for Danny Fisher. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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77% (2) Where the Boys Are 99 min, Approved, [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Henry Levin] [28 Dec 1960]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 nominations.
Actors: Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Jim Hutton, Yvette Mimieux
Writer: George Wells (screen play), Glendon Swarthout (novel)
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Plot: Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie are four Midwestern college co-eds who travel to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for their spring vacation and we follow the episodic series of adventures and romance they all get into with some college guys they meet.
Rotten Tomatoes: Yvette Mimeux, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis, and Dolores Hart star in this frothy teen romance-drama as attractive co-eds who take off from Midwest colleges on the annual spring break to land in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida -- where the boys are. There are plenty of parties, booze, and sex to keep minds off calculus for awhile. Merritt Andrews (Hart) and Ryder Smith (George Hamilton) manage to get together, Tuggle Carpenter (Paula Prentiss) manages to let her comedic talents shine, Angie (Connie Francis) sings the hit title song, but Melanie (Yvette Mimeux) becomes a casualty of too many good times. She will recover, and all the leads will go on to good, even great careers in some cases. Dolores Hart was the only featured player here to leave Hollywood behind -- she became a Benedictine nun in 1963.
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70% (1) Lisa 112 min, [Drama, History, Romance] [Philip Dunne] [24 May 1962]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews
Actors: Dolores Hart, Hugh Griffith, Leo McKern, Stephen Boyd
Writer: Nelson Gidding, Jan de Hartog (novel)
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Plot: When the end came for World War II, many Jews were spread around the free world and desired to return to Palestine. Lisa Held has been promised to be returned to her native land. Inspector Peter Jongman of the Dutch secret police compassionately makes the arrangements for her to be smuggled into her home land.
Rotten Tomatoes: Dutch detective Peter Jongman (Stephen Boyd) closely observes the actions of an ex-Nazi suspected of being a white slave trader. He saves Lisa (Dolores Hart), a victim of Nazi "experiments" after a showdown with the villain in London. Peter takes a liking to the girl since she resembles his late wife who died at the hands of the Nazis during the war. He makes a promise to deliver Lisa to Palestine, and the couple travels to Holland and France in an effort to find someone to smuggle her to her desired destination.
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68% (1) Lonelyhearts 100 min, [Drama] [Vincent J. Donehue] [01 Dec 1958]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Dolores Hart, Montgomery Clift, Myrna Loy, Robert Ryan
Writer: Dore Schary, Howard Teichmann (play), Nathanael West (novel)
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Plot: Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. His editor, Shrike, takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence for her past adultery, and assigning his employees journalistic jobs for which they have little aptitude or interest. Shrike goads Adam into meeting one of his correspondents, Fay Doyle, a teary, self-pitying woman who makes a play for him. Adam is torn between his loyalty to the newspaper and his girl Justy.
Rotten Tomatoes: For his film directorial debut, producer Dore Schary selected a longtime pet property: Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West's trenchant 1933 novel. Montgomery Clift delivers a haunting performance as journalist Adam White, assigned by his cynical editor Adam Shrike (Robert Ryan) to take over a newspaper advice column. Signing himself Miss Lonelyhearts, White is appalled by the human misery pouring out of the letters sent to him (one of his correspndents was born without a nose), but Shrike insists that anyone who'd write to such a column is fake. To find out for himself, White looks up one of the correspondents, unhappily married Fay Doyle (Oscar-nominated Maureen Stapleton). His pity for the seriously disturbed Fay nearly leads to tragedy (in the novel, there's no "nearly"). Meanwhile, Shrike tries to contend with his own tottering marriage to his wife Florence (Myrna Loy). In additional to shortening the title to Lonelyhearts, Dore Schary made a number of radical changes in the original, adding an overabundance of "meaningful" dialogue and softening the character of Florence Shrike. Purists were enraged by Schary's liberties, while critics carped at his perfunctory direction; audiences, however, seemed to like the film.
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65% (1) Francis of Assisi 105 min, [Biography, Drama, History] [Michael Curtiz] [12 Jul 1961]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Bradford Dillman, Cecil Kellaway, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman
Writer: Ludwig von Wohl (novel), Eugene Vale (screenplay), James Forsyth (screenplay), Jack W. Thomas (screenplay)
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Plot: Francis Bernardone (Bradford Dillman) is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. Clare (Dolores Hart) is a young aristocratic woman who, according to the film, is so taken with St. Francis that she leaves her family and becomes a nun. By this time (1212 A.D.), St. Francis has a well-established reputation for his vows of poverty. The movie goes on to note miracles (such as the appearance of the stigmata on Francis's hands and feet) and other aspects of his life, up to and including his death on October 3, 1226.
Rotten Tomatoes: This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious drama on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. After quickly passing over St. Francis' early life as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, the story notes his talents in and out of battle. St. Francis hears the call to the cloth (in his hagiography, the call was repeated several times before he finally responded completely), and gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. The main focus of attention is then on his relationship to Clare (Dolores Hart) a young aristocratic woman who was so taken with St. Francis that she left her family and became a nun. St. Francis by this time (1212 A.D.) had a well-established reputation for his vows of poverty, and aside from the dubious aspersions cast on his interest in Clare, the drama goes on to note miracles and other aspects of his life, up to and including his death on October 3, 1226.
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61% (1) Come Fly with Me 109 min, [Comedy, Romance] [Henry Levin] [27 Mar 1963]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: Dolores Hart, Hugh O'Brian, Karlheinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin
Writer: William Roberts (story), Bernard Glemser (novel), William Roberts
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Plot: Three stewardesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for rich, handsome men to marry.
Rotten Tomatoes: The lives and loves of a trio of airline hostesses is the whole story in this piece of fluff from MGM. Each of these perky women have cute and cuddly romances from an assortment of wealthy men as they offer coffee or tea on a flight from New York to Paris. Dolores Hart is searching for a rich sugar-daddy and thinks she's found one in a well-to-do baron (Karl Boehm). Lois Nettleton, on the other hand, opts for hooking a multi-millionaire Texan (Karl Malden). Pamela Tiffin, unluckier than the other two, finally flies starry-eyed for handsome pilot Hugh O'Brien. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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61% (1) Sail a Crooked Ship 88 min, [Comedy] [Irving Brecher] [01 Dec 1961]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart, Ernie Kovacs, Robert Wagner
Writer: Ruth Brooks Flippen (screenplay), Bruce Geller (screenplay), Nathaniel Benchley (novel)
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Plot: A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston. He steals a mothballed Liberty ship, assembles a nitwit band of meatballs and sets sail on his crazy cruise for crime. To "drive" the ship they shanghai an inept ex-Navy officer who somehow manages to bring them through a hurricane, a fire and a mutiny.
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