Lew Ayres

George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. (imdb)

A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. (imdb)

Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business, he rebels (imdb)

Robert Leffingwell is the president's candidate for Secretary of State. Prior to his approval, he must first go through a Senate investigation to determine if he's qualified (imdb)

Ten years after conquering the Earth, ape leader Caesar wants the ruling apes and enslaves humans to live in peace. But warning factions of apes led by a militant gorilla general as well as various human groups threaten the stability. (imdb)

A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder... (imdb)

A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires. (imdb)

Irene (Greta Garbo) is unhappily married to an older businessman, but very much in love with a handsome young lawyer... (imdb)

Damian the Antichrist, now age 13, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan, while dark mystical forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity. (imdb)

When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. (imdb)

In a small fishing village on the island of Cape Breton, Dr. Robert Richardson takes an interest in a sweet deaf mute named Belinda. He teaches her sign language and lip reading, and she soon falls in love with him. When Belinda is left alone one night, she is raped by the town bully, Locky MacCormick. When Robert takes her to see a doctor, it is discovered she is pregnant... (imdb)

A TV adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel. George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his mentally retarded friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to others. After they take a new job at a ranch, Lenny gets into far more trouble than George can talk his way out of, leaving George to decide whether to help him, or leave him to his fate. (imdb)

An astronaut crashes on planet Terra, which looks exactly like Earth, but ruled by an Orwellian government, the Perfect Order. Pilot for a TV-series never made.

A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin. (imdb)

A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell. (imdb)

Surveys the history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios from its creation and rise in the 1920's, its pinnacle in the 30's and 40's to it's decline in the 1950's. (imdb)

Lockwood and Franciosa operate a space station between Earth and the moon and must deactivate an unharnessed atomic bomb. (John Stanley's Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again)

Yet another version of Curt Siodmak's novel about an honest scientist who keeps the brain of a ruthless dead millionaire (Donovan) alive in a tank. Donovan manages to impose his powerful will on the scientist, and uses him to murder his enemies. (imdb)

Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created. (imdb)

Don Camillo (Terence Hill), the parish priest, is no shrinking violet. His straight talk and willingness to use his fists keep getting him into trouble with the church hierarchy. Giuseppe Botazzi, the town mayor known as Peppone (Colin Blakely), is a communist and therefore always arguing with Don Camillo. The fights between the priest and the mayor of the small Italian town are legendary. (xploitedcinema.com)

Rogers plays Abel Frake, patriarch of a family whose individual members are affected by the upcoming Iowa State Fair in various fascinating ways. Abel hopes to enter his prize hog Blue Boy and win the blue ribbon. His wife Melissa wants to enter her mincemeat in a food competition, his son Wayne wants to get even with a carnival sharpster who'd outsmarted him during the last state fair, and daughter Margery just wants to get out of the house for a little fun... (All Movie Guide)

Jeff Holland (Taylor) falls quickly for Linda (Garson), the fiancee of his friend Sky (Ayres). The engagement is broken and Jeff and Linda impulsively marry. The union is strained by Jeff's unrelenting dedication to his work and the couple settles upon divorce. Sky slips each a memory loss drug and the couple forget their prior history and fall for each other anew.

Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik... (imdb)

Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate each other. With the success of his leadership, Louie prospers, marries Doris and retires to Florida to write his autobiography and play golf. In his absence the gang warfare flares, but he does not return as he wants to give a respectable image of life to his wife, younger brother and his Florida neighbors... (imdb)

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Marry gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work. To prove that he can accomplish things on his own, he leaves Hollywood and convinces a former partner to put on an ice revue in Canada. The show is a huge success, but it makes it impossible for him to be with his wife, but the studio boss has a wonderful idea. (imdb)

Fresh out of medical school, young Dr. James Kildare decides to leave his father's country practice and take up a position at a large New York hospital. (imdb)

Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis. (imdb)

Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him for it, he has to try and prove his patient's innocence, especially for his sister Rosalie's sake. (imdb)

A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament. (imdb)

A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic. (TCM.com)

Nurse Mary Lamont is excited about her brother's impending visit. The young man's strange behavior puzzles Dr. Kildare who believes he may be hiding a serious illness. (imdb)

Young Dr. Kildare tries to help an unlucky brain surgeon and his seemingly insane patient. (imdb)

A young doctor with a broken heart succumbs to the lure of a socialite. (TCM.com)

It is a week before Dr. Kildare's wedding to pretty Nurse Mary Lamont. The hospital is a-buzz with preparation for the big day. And good old Dr. Gillespie, despite fatigue, has agreed to help a prominent orchestra conductor regain his hearing. But soon tragedy strikes . . . will the hospital every be the same? (imdb)

The City of Chicago is gripped by an Axe Murderer. The streets are empty at night as there has been six murders and six people have been caught. (imdb)

Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems. (imdb)

Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit, she can't walk, and she tries to sue Kildare for malpractice, and Kildare's entire career and reputation now rests on making a proper diagnosis in the courtroom. (imdb)

Dr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of hysterical blindness. She's also the daughter of a millionaire who could help the hospital. (imdb)

After witnessing a man's death in a bizzare accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest. (imdb)

In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a fence-jumping contest. (imdb)

When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime. The girl, knowing that neither she nor the piano player committed the murder, helps him to escape from the police dragnet and try to find the real killer. (imdb)

Mary Hale (a singer) and Jimmy Seymour (pianist/composer), are a show biz couple working in The Big Apple in small night clubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Larry Bryant (a Broadway producer) spots Mary and is taken with her beauty and golden voice. Larry Bryant asks her to audition for Mr. Collier and have Jimmy accompany her. After hearing Mary, Collier wants Mary to be in his show. Jimmy encourages a reluctant Mary to go on the road without him. (imdb)

Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing policies that will provoke a conflict, and Chief Acoma is not willing to let himself be insulted. (imdb)

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com (imdb)

A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit. (imdb)

Lew Ayres, a plumber, wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. Ginger Rogers, his manicurist girlfriend , stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber. (imdb)

Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage. (imdb)

A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him. (imdb)

A maid's dreams come true - except they are not quite what she expected. (imdb)

Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor. (imdb)

Three play-authors, Horace Dryden, Nick Milburn and "Babe" Lawton, are in an apartment seeking a plot for a new play. They are still on Page 1 when an intoxicated man wanders into their room, collapses and they, looking for identification, find $15,000 in his pockets. On the assumption that me might be a blackmailer, the three decide to build a scenario around him. Thinks become a bit more involved when the man is later found to be murdered.

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. (imdb)

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead she stays and shows up both him and his classmates snooty dates. (imdb)

Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain recognition for her child, the Fullerton family treats her as a blackmailer. But a surprise awaits them all. (imdb)

Story of several passengers, including an escaped killer, on a cross-country bus trip. (imdb)

The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned. (imdb)

Dumb but honest insurance agent Henry Twinkle (Lew Ayres) is in love with Mary Blake (Rita Johnson), the secretary of Henry's boss. To impress Mary, Henry sells a huge policy to wealthy Gus Fender (Lloyd Nolan), who turns out to be a notorious gangster on the lam from the law. If he wants to save his job, Henry will have to protect Fender from being killed. (allmovie.com)

Television's fabulously wealthy amateur crime-fighting duo, Jennifer (Stephanie Powers) and Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) returns. This time the well-groomed twosome and their trusty valet Max team up with a Big Apple gumshoe to discover the identity of the villain who has been sabotaging Jennifer's play. (allmovie.com)

The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.

Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion. (allmovie.com)

Three Marines and a blonde bombshell named Brooklyn try to outwit a Chinese bandit chieftain and the Russian smuggler supplying him with guns. (imdb)

A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" have organized, an Frank wins the right to woo the star of the Folies Bergere, Gaby Aimee, with her garter serving as proof of conquest. Meanwhile Frank has found the one girl-of-his-heart, Patty, and this serves to complicate matters. (imdb)

Diane Martin, a public school teacher who is single, and also a devout Catholic. Coming home from a retreat, she picks up a hitcher, a young man, simply as a good deed. That's her nature. Everything goes well, she takes him as far as she can, then lets him off as she checks into a roadside motel. The story gets going when, at night and raining, the young man has not yet caught another ride.

Story of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub. (imdb)

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

Anthology of famous events of the Old Testament. (imdb)

Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shangahai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the States, so he writes her in a letter, that he will not see her again, but two practical jokers intercept it and write another with an opposite content. Jean comes to the states, but her sailor doesn't acknowledge her, but the two don't give up trying to bring Jean and sailor back together. (imdb)

Joe Collins (Eddie Quillan) arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.

This film is a Christian parable told with puppet animation. It scope is broad: from the creation of the world to the birth of Christ to the atomic destruction of the earth. Extremely preachy, heavy-handed, and basically totally unlike ant other film in Tashlin's body of work (though it has some small connections to his Say One for Me).

A young college man and his best friend both vie for the affections of the same woman while on their Spring Break vacation. (imdb)

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the Circus. (imdb)

A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife. (imdb)

A radio commentator turns sleuth in a case involving kidnap ransom, murder, and a mysterious five dollar bill. (imdb)

A young woman from a suburban neighborhood and a wealthy law professor fall in love, despite coming from different backgrounds. Their love leads them to marriage and the birth of their child, and things go well until tragedy strikes.

Claire Trevor walks out on her fiance Lew Ayres in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers. Ayres comes to the rescue with the help of a circus troupe. The film was based on Man Eating Tiger, an obscure play by Ben Hecht and Rose Caylor.

A librarian is ostracised by neighbours who feel that her involvement with a local lothario makes her guilty of murder.

A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.

Two football players fight over the same girl.

Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.

Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.