The More the Merrier (1943), Gilda (1946), Skyfall (2012), Born Yesterday (1950), Bell, Book and Candle (1958), The Tall T (1957), You Were Never Lovelier (1942), It Should Happen to You (1954) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Columbia Pictures movies.
Storyline: During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'.—Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>
Plot Keywords: adventure, science fiction, fantasy, action, thriller, mystery, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After his wife discovers a telltale diamond bracelet, impresario Martin Cortland tries to show he's not chasing after showgirl Sheila Winthrop. Choreographer Robert Curtis gets caught in the middle of the boss's scheme. Army conscription offers Robert the perfect escape from his troubles- or does it?—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, dance, broadway, world war ii era, fred astaire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bart Allison arrives in Sundown planning to kill Tate Kimbrough. Three years earlier he believed Kimbrough was responsible for the death of his wife. He finds Kimbrough and warns him he is going to kill him but gets pinned down in the livery stable with his friend Sam by Kimbrough's stooge Sheriff and his men. When Sam is shot in the back after being told he could leave safely, some of the townsmen change sides and disarm the Sheriff's men forcing him to face Allison alone. Taking care of the Sheriff, Allison injures his gun hand and must now face Kimbrough left-handed.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, revenge, 1950s, gunfight, outlaw, sheriff, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him. This puts a strain on his marriage and loyal wife Althea, who begins to crack under the pressure. When all medical attempts to change his skin back to his former color fail, Jeff accepts that Kharma has caught up with him. Jeff tries to see the light of being a persecuted black man in this cruel and segregated world with the help of some of some new black friends, some of whom were people he, as a white man, taunted and harassed.—matt-282
Plot Keywords: comedy, race, satire, social issues, black comedy, american film, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An efficient secretary at a department store marries her boss, but discovers that taking care of him at home is a lot different to taking care of him at work.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, workplace, marriage, love, social norms, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Private Hogan must raise his ability to scheme and plot to a new level to put on a madcap dance to celebrate the closing of an Army surgical hospital in post WWII France while evading the stickler-for-details Captain Lock - and win the heart to the beautiful nurse Lieutenant Betty Bixby.—Rick Munoz <munozrd@mymail.com>
Plot Keywords: 1950s, american film, black comedy, prank, columbia pictures, classic comedy, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After eight years of marriage, Robert and Nina divorce. He takes up with his womanising Navy buddy Charlie Nelson while she looks to her interfering mother for guidance. Both start dating other people, but although they try and ignore each other whenever they accidentally meet, it is obvious the past is not dead. Then one night they find themselves in a nightclub doing the mambo together.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, divorce, marital relationship, humor, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, classic, 1930s, american film, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During WW2, in Nazi-occupied Norway, most locals hate the Germans but a few collaborate with them. Norwegian Nicole Larsen is engaged to be married to the regional German commandant, Maj. Paul Dichter. Being on the side of the Germans has its advantages for Nicole, who is despised by most of the patriotic locals. Unknown to them is the fact that Nicole is a member of the Resistance, an agent of the British S.O.E. and has been sent to her native Norway to collect intelligence. Her relationship with German Maj. Paul Dichter is just a front, an excuse to be around him, his military plans and around German military installations without raising the Nazis' suspicions. She regularly passes the information she collects to a contact man in town, her optometrist, who passes it to London. However, after a few successful British air raids against secret German installations and after several sabotage actions against the local German garrison, the German commanders become suspicious of her. At first, her German fiancé and lover vehemently denies she could be a Resistance fighter and staunchly defends her in front of his suspicious superiors and colleagues. Later, however, he becomes suspicious of her himself and agrees to test her loyalty to Germany by setting up a trap for Nicole. Sensing danger, Nicole contacts London. Her London bosses decide to send a British commando, Capt. Allan Lowell, to rescue Nicole and possibly kill Maj. Paul Dichter.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: war, romance, drama, historical, world war ii, spy, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, professor, journalist, scandal, misunderstanding, love triangle, reputation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and quits dancing, but before that, she meets with the handsome and very rich Bradley. Barbara eventually starts dancing again, since her marriage is plagued by financial tension, and Bradley begins visiting her again. Eddie becomes jealous, accusing his wife of infidelity. He sees that alleged infidelity as an excuse to steal money from Bradley.—Ulf Kjell Gür
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, romance, dance, working class, nightclub, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1864 Cavalry Captain John Hayes reluctantly follows orders to become the civilian boss of the Overland Stage Line, which keeps the flow of Western gold to the Union and will help it win the Civil War. Headquarters for the stage line is a small Colorado town with Southern sympathizers who will do anything they can to sabotage his mission. Resistance to his efforts is led by former friend ad colleague Clay Putnam, who has taken advantage of Hayes' absence and married his former sweetheart.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: western, action, adventure, drama, war, historical, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man, despondent over the death of his wife, wants to commit suicide but can't bring himself to do it. He hires a man to hire a professional killer to do the job. However, he soon finds out that his wife isn't really dead - but the man he paid to hire the hitman is, and he has no idea who the man hired or how to get him to call off the hit.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, film noir, crime, murder, psychological, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, 1950s, american film, black and white, lighthearted, everyman ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, workplace, 1930s, american film, classic, light comedy ...
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