Alice Adams 1935   N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
aka: Booth Tarkinson's Alice Adams
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Ann Shoemaker, Evelyn Venable, Charley Grapewin, Hedda Hopper, Hattie McDaniel, Frank Albertson, Jonathan Hale, Grady Sutton
Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) believes in upward mobility (socially at least) as she tries to step from the lower-middle-class surroundings of her parents (Fred Stone and Ann Shoemaker) into the upper-class world. After meeting affluent Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray) who, believing that her family is wealthy, is attracted to her, Alice invites Arthur to her parents home for a dinner party. The dinner proves to be a disaster and is made even more so when her parents hire Malena Burns (Hattie McDaniel) to serve as their dinner maid for the party, and she arrives drunk. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Actress (Hepburn). 1 User Review
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 Dracula 1973   TV, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Fantasy
aka: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Director: Dan Curtis
Cast: Jack Palance, Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Brown, Fiona Lewis, Penelope Horner, Murray Brown, Virginia Wetherell, Barbara Lindley, Sarah Douglas, George Pravda, Hana Maria Pravda, Fred Stone, Reg Lye, Roy Spencer
This version of Bram Stoker's novel, about the vampire Count Dracula who feeds off the blood of London's citizens in order to survive, features Jack Palance as the terrible Count Dracula. When Jonathan Harker (Murray Brown) travels to Transylvania to purchase property in Whitby, Count Dracula allows his three brides (Virginia Wetherell, Barbara Lindley, and Sarah Douglas) to take Jonathan. Later, Jonathan's fiancee Mina (Penelope Horner) comes to Whitby to visit her friend Lucy (Fiona Lewis) who she finds ill. Lucy's fiance Arthur Holmwood (Simon Ward) consults with Dr. Van Helsing (Nigel Davenport) who believes a vampire is responsible for Lucy's declining condition and sets off in pursuit of the Count.
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Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi, Robert Barrat, Samuel S. Hinds, Henry Brandon, Fuzzy Knight, George "Spanky" McFarland, Otto Fries, Alan Baxter, Margaret Armstong, Fern Emmett
Jack Hale (Fred MacMurray) arrives in the Appalachian Mountains to buy land from the Tolliver family so that he can run his railroad through the mountains. Jack falls in love with June Tolliver (Sylvia Sidney), and that causes a love triangle because Jane's cousin Dave (Henry Fonda) also loves June. Meanwhile, the elder Tollivers–Melissa and Judd (Beulah Bondi and Fred Stone)–continue their long-standing feud with Buck Falin (Robert Barrat) and his family. The feud escalates, and young Buddy Tolliver (George "Spanky" McFarland) is killed, which is the tragedy that finally brings everyone to their senses.
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The Westerner 1940  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Dana Andrews, Chill Wills, Forrest Tucker, Tom Tyler, Charles Halton, Julian Rivero, Lilian Bond, Trevor Bardette, Lucien Littlefield, Hank Bell, Jack Pennick
Walter Brennan plays the "hanging lawman" Judge Roy Bean who conducts trials from his saloon in Vinegaroon, Texas, and often uses hanging as his sentence. Judge Roy Bean just might meet his match in Cole Hardin (Gary Cooper) who is charged with stealing a horse. Cole talks his way into a delay for his hanging by convincing Judge Bean that he is a friend of actress Lily Langtry (Lilian Bond) who the Judge adores. Cole says he can give the Judge a lock of her hair. When Cole says it will take two weeks to get the lock of hair, his hanging is delayed. Meanwhile, Cole becomes involved in a range war and even gets to see Lily Langtry when she arrives in Texas. Walter Brennan won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and two other nominations were received.
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| 1. Alice Adams (1935)
aka: Booth Tarkinson's Alice Adams
2. Dracula (1973)
aka: Bram Stoker's Dracula
3. Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
4. The Westerner (1940)
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