Martin (1978), Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), Genghis Blues (1999), Meet John Doe (1941), Radio Days (1987), Talk to Me (2007), Talk Radio (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Radio movies.
Storyline: A radio-singer, Bing Hornsby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his fiancée, Anita Rogers, station manager Leslie McWhinney buys the station, gives Hornsby his job back, and goes on a honeymoon with Anita.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: star, millionaire, secretary, love interest, singer, tycoon, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970's college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio.
Plot Keywords: radio personality, wife, friend, colleague, executive, boss, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The professional and personal life of actor and comedian Peter Sellers was a turbulent one. His early movie fame was based primarily on his comic characterizations, often of bumbling and foreign-accented persons, characters which he embodied. As his movie fame rose, he began to lose his own personal identity to his movie characters, leading to self-doubt of himself as a person and a constant need for reassurance and acceptance of his work. This self-doubt manifested itself in fits of anger and what was deemed as arrogance by many. In turn, his personal relationships began to deteriorate as his characterizations were continually used to mask his problems. His first wife, Anne Howe, left/divorced him and his relationships with his parents and children became increasingly distant. His relationship with his second wife, Swedish actress Britt Ekland, was based on this mask. In his later life, he tried to rediscover himself and his career with what would become his penultimate film role, ...
Plot Keywords: mother, actor, director, performer, cheeky, creative, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.—Robert Dennys <robertd@psy.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: drifter, radio host, bar owner, emotional, engaging, los angeles, bar ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiance and a friend to further this goal. Wally is "The Fox", a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: actor, cult member, thug, amusing, madcap, plane, radio station ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: veteran, electrician, singer, wealthy man, friend, cheery, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
Plot Keywords: disc jockey, producer, technician, reporter, doctor, zombie, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations via the radio 'Voice of Terror', the Homeland Security Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help in the crisis. Holmes and his companion, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), receive a visitor on the first night of their investigation; a man falls dying from a knife in the back on their doorstep. His last word leads Holmes into the slums where he encounters Kitty (Evelyn Ankers), the sweetheart of the slain man, who promises to help the investigation in any way she can.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@sudenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, widow, impostor, spy, british intelligence agent, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
Plot Keywords: brother, baseball pitcher, wife, manager, baseball fan, radio personality, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be the candidate by backers he later exposes as crooks.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: singer, dancer, manager, politician, wife, rival, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the first entry of an unintended-series that turned into a long-running series for RKO, Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle, Matthew Lindsay, aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: advertising executive, singer, uncle, fiancée, wealthy man, wrestler, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Q-SKY is the #1 radio station in Los Angeles mainly because of the music they play, and running the station the way they want to. It has led them to a ratings success. The interesting radio personalities include: Jeff Dugan, rebellious head of the radio station; Mother, who is burned out from being a DJ; Eric Swan, a self centered romantic who wants more than just being a DJ; The Prince of Darkness, the hip night DJ; and Laura Coe, the easy-going type. The movie focuses on the battle between Jeff and his corporate bosses, who want more advertising and less music.—Pat McCurry <ccgrad97@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: radio personality, radio station manager, sales manager, boss, dj, fan, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Carruthers has sold shares in a phony oil well and when Gene investigates he finds the well is a fake. Gene has a plan to recoup everyone's money. Pouring some oil in a recommended location gets Corruthers to drill a real well. Gene plans to let him know it's a fake and redeem the shares before the oil comes in.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: gene autry, sidekick, beautiful woman, mexican, swindler, radio personality, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Monika, the host of a daily radio call-in show on the verge of beco- ming a thirtysomething, has almost given up all hopes of finding the man of her dreams when her gay brother convinces her to try it one last time -- via a contact advertisement. Suprisingly, she finds some- one she instantly falls in love with, only to find out that her "Mr. Perfect" is already married -- to her best friend...—Kasi Mir <senoucci@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Plot Keywords: radio personality, brother, boyfriend, friend, love interest, dentist, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must make a decision between the two men.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: physician, daughter, farmer, fiancé, intense, engaging, solemn ...
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