
Monday, May 6, 2013
Johnny Apollo (1940)

The Gazebo (1959)
The Gazebo, released in 1959 by MGM Pictures, starred Debbie Reynolds, Glenn Ford, Carl Reiner, John McGiver, Jack Kruschen, Martin Landau, Mabel Albertson, Patricia Blair, Helen Kleeb, and Bert Freed; directed by George Marshall. A TV writer buries the body of a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. Although the dastardly deed goes off without a hitch, the body of the blackmailer turns up elsewhere, leaving the man to track down who it was he buried under the gazebo.
Harvey (1950)
Zenobia (1939)


Caught in the Draft (1941)
Caught in the Draft, released in 1941 by Paramount Pictures, starred Bob Hope, Dorothy

Pardners (1956)
Pardners, released in 1956 by Paramount Pictures, starred Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Elam, Lon Chaney, Jr., Lee Van Cleef, Milton Frome, and Lori Nelson; directed by Norman Taurog. Two ranch partners are killed by the 'Masked Raiders' defending their land. Their infant sons are separated, one being raised on the farm and the other being raised in New York. Twenty-five years later, these two boys meet again. They must work through their differences and band together like their fathers before them and defend the ranch against the 'Masked Raiders'.
Ride Lonesome (1959)

James Coburn, James Best, Pernell Roberts, Lee Van Cleef, and Karen Steele; directed by Budd Boetticher. A bounty hunter captures a wanted murderer and escorts him to Santa Cruz to be hanged but allows the outlaw's brother to catch up with him for a showdown over a previous murder.
Yellow Sky (1948)
Yellow Sky, released in 1948 by 20th Century Fox Pictures, starred Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Harry Morgan, John Russell, and Victor Kilian; directed by William A. Wellman. An outlaw leader and his gang take refuge in a frontier ghost town inhabited only by an elderly man and his granddaughter. The old man reveals that there's gold buried in the area, prompting a few of the gang to plot the old man's death and claim the treasure for themselves.
Apartment For Peggy (1948)

Sitting Pretty (1948)
Sitting Pretty, released in 1948 by 20th Century Fox Pictures, starred Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb, Ed Begley, John Russell, Betty Lynn, Richard Haydn, Louise Albritton, and Minerva Urecal; directed by Walter Lang. A suburban couple with three sons and a serious need for a babysitter put an ad in the newspaper for a live-in babysitter and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him who works miracles with the children and with the house.
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

George Washington Slept Here (1942)
George Washington Slept Here, released in 1942 by Warner Brothers Pictures starred Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Hattie McDaniel, Percy Kilbride, Charles Coburn, Franklin Pangborn, Lee Patrick, and William Tracy; directed by William Keighley. Without her husband's knowledge, a woman purchases a dilapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution. They encounter one problem after another trying to get the house renovated.
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