Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Patton (1970), Some Came Running (1958), The Man With the Golden Arm (1955), On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), Anchors Aweigh (1945), Von Ryan's Express (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Frank Sinatra movies.
Storyline: Charlie Reader is a successful theater agent. He is also successful with young ladies. One day he is visited by his old friend Joe, married with three children. Joe falls in love with Charlie's girl Sylvia while Charlie spends his time with young actress Julie.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, love, marriage, new york, 1950s, female independence, dating culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick, the janitor of his old High School, and get a job as a singer in a music store. He also meets Leo, a talented pianist and his teacher Anne, whose dream is to singing Opera. When Jamie arrives from England, Danny tries to show him the Brooklyn experience and help him compose modern swing music. Together, these four also try to help Leo get the Brooklyn Music scholarship.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, world war ii, veteran, new york, love story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.—Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, song and dance, classic, hollywood, composer, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At a Mayor's convention in San Francisco, California, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is Mayor of Puget City, and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is Mayor of Winona, Maine, and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract, and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, classic film, black and white, 1950s, love story, small town life, political satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, hollywood, classic, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble's hotel...on credit. The mounting bill is driving Gribble frantic. Chaos increases when playwright Glen Russell, whose dramatic play he thinks Miller is producing, arrives. But it turns out Russell can sing like Sinatra, and Miller has leading lady Christine turn on the charm. Can Miller's crazed machinations save the show?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, black and white, classic hollywood, song and dance, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Under very suspicious circumstances, the telegraph line is out in Medicine Bend, a dusty town in 1870s Indian Territory. To investigate the situation and shed light on the mystery, U.S. Cavalry First Sergeant Mike Merry assembles a detail and proceeds at once to the town, along with Sergeant Chip Deal and Sergeant Larry Barrett. On their way, they cross paths with the trumpet-playing former slave, Jonah Williams, who joins in, dreaming of becoming a trooper. Now, against the backdrop of the picturesque but unforgiving landscapes of the Wild West, a sinister conspiracy is afoot as no Sioux is on the warpath. But, who is behind the Medicine Bend incident? Can the three sergeants get to the bottom of it and live to tell the tale?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: war, western, comedy, action, adventure, drama, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is a Miami based detective who while diving in the ocean finds the body of a young woman. He is hired by Waldo Gronsky (Dan Blocker) to find her killer. Tony has to sift through a stack of suspects, plus trying to elude the Police.—Kelly
Plot Keywords: crime, mystery, film noir, detective, murder, thriller, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bank teller Johnny Dalton, too poor to marry his sweetheart 'Mibs' Goodhug, saves a big-time bookie from a beating and receives a munificent reward...which just happens to match a mysterious shortage at the bank! Will Johnny's pal, eccentric waiter Emile, get him out of trouble...or in so deep he'll never get out?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, love, song and dance, classic, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled OSS operatives are in WWII Burma to arm and train the Kachin natives. But jungle combat, particularly against a Japanese army as familiar with the terrain as the Kachin, is hazardous. Some respite is found during leaves in the arms of beautiful gold digger Carla, but after Chinese raiders cross the border to loot and murder American soldiers, Reynolds abandons all notions of "military protocol" and seeks requital.—Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>
Plot Keywords: war, action, drama, historical, world war ii, military, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rosa (Virna Lisi), Vic (Tony Franciosa) and their boat captain (Alf Kjellin) are searching for sunken treasure. They hire Mark (Frank Sinatra) as their diver and begin their treasure hunt. Mark soon spots a long-buried German U-boat, and the plan to search for gold quickly turns into a scheme to use the submarine to rob the HMS Queen Mary. After enlisting the help of a mechanic (Richard Conte), the foursome set their plan in motion while Vic and Mark battle for Rosa's affections.
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, crime, thriller, ocean, heist, submarine ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An intern (Robert Mitchum) marries a nurse (Olivia de Havilland) who can pay the bills on his way up as a doctor.
Plot Keywords: drama, medical, romance, marriage, ethics, coming of age, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Con men (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin) and their girlfriends fight, then unite, over a floating casino in 1870 Galveston.
Plot Keywords: western, comedy, crime, action, adventure, drama, american film ...
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