Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003), Winchell (1998), Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives (2015), Radio Days (1987), Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017), Pirate Radio (2009), Talk to Me (2007), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Radio movies.
Storyline: After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his 8-year-old son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death. Eighteen months later Sam is still grieving and can't sleep. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despite Sam having not even contemplated dating again. On Christmas Eve, Sam (on Jonah's initiative) ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Among the many women who hear Sam's story and fall in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed, a Baltimore-based newspaper writer. Annie's infatuation with Sam's story and by association Sam himself is despite being already engaged. But Annie's relationship with her straight-laced fiancé Walter is unlike her dream love life in the movie An Affair to Remember (1957). She even writes to Sam proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building on ...
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, romantic comedy, american film, 1990s, tom hanks ...
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: musical, comedy, romance, 1940s, hollywood, song and dance, black and white ...
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: detective, mystery, crime, classic, film noir, world war ii, spy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Conceited singer Gary Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, then must try to sell her to the show's sponsor. As the two work more closely while he tries to make her a star, he falls in love with her. Then Martha meets Gary--and becomes attracted to him.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, hollywood, song and dance, love, entertainers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two smart marketing people, Mike Frye (Fred MacMurray) and Deborah Patterson (Dorothy McGuire), resurrect some old movies starring cowboy "Smoky" Callaway (Howard Keel) and put them on television. The movies are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately, no one can find him. When look-a-like "Stretch" Barnes (also Howard Keel) sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get sticky when the real Callaway eventually shows up.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, western, classic, black and white, hollywood, 1950s, american film ...
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: music, 1970s, rock, rebellion, youth, freedom, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin's aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going to do next.—Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, adaptation, usa, 1990s, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A year after their pious dad's death, just graduated bright, erudite but distracted Matt Anderson, an angelic dreamer who talks with dad's ghost and phones with his confident God, moves in with his only relative, prosaic but well-meaning elder brother Michael 'Mike' Anderson, who has a materialist career in advertising in Miami Beach and tries to push kid brother into professional life too. Matt however, who adores thinking in the bath and watching fish in an aquarium despite a recurring near-drowning nightmare, takes a lifeguard job in the municipal pool well below his brilliant degree and only does some copy-writing for Mike's agency as a reluctant favor to big brother, no praise or fat check can make him like the greedy advertising business. Going along with Mike and his sexy girlfriend Natalie, a bookshop clerk who enjoys private tutoring, and standing in when Mike stands her up, Matt discovers she's rather his type, caring and romantic; soon they are irresistibly drawn to each-other, but even after a ball -a success although Matt can't dance- and a kiss she stole he can't risk losing Mike, who denies it when she dumps him. When it seems Tyler 'T.J.', an obnoxious black rascal Natalie and Matt both tried to take under their wing and teach to swim, has drowned when he was late, gentle Matt's tender heart breaks beyond panic...—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, independent film, american film, 1990s, family, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wayne is back, this time trying to organize a rock festival with help from friend Garth and the spirit of Jim Morrison (Doors). Meanwhile, his girlfriend's manager is busy trying to woo her away from Wayne and move her to LA. Life gets interesting when Wayne must rush from the concert to try and stop the wedding. Aerosmith are featured at the concert.
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, rock, sequel, humor, usa, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: spy, world war ii, british, 1940s, film noir, mystery, war film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three would be rockers Chazz, Rex and Pip, known as The Lone Rangers plan to play their demo on a recording company, but then they're turned down rudely. Then they decide to try the famous rock n' roll radio station, but are not accepted either. Then they decide arm themselves with squirt guns and take the station hostage for not playing their demo. But the three get more than what they have bargained for.
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, rock, band, hostage, humor, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wally Benton (Red Skelton) isn't a detective, but he plays one on the radio. The confusion between Benton and his crime-solving persona results in a rather perilous situation when cult leader Joseph Jones (Conrad Veidt), greedy for the inheritance of one of his flock, blackmails Benton to craft the perfect murder. Under the watchful eye of Jones' burly thug, Sylvester (Rags Ragland), the actor has to hatch a flawless plot -- or improvise his way out of his predicament. He has until 11 o'clock.
Plot Keywords: comedy, mystery, crime, dark humor, detective, kidnapping, wit ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural, and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her, the more he fancies her.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, love, misunderstanding, chicago, female lead, workplace ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, journalism, new york, war, on the run, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Illegal aliens are being flown in from Mexico by small plane. When a Secret Service agent finds out, he is killed and the smuggling is shut down for awhile. Brass, an ex-Navy flyer who is now flying the Pacific Clipper route, is chosen by the Service to find out who is behind this smuggling ring. Since they know that an ex-smuggler named Ace was part of the gang, Brass is put into the general prison population to try to get information from him. It is from Ace that he learns where the smugglers are located, but it is up to Brass to infiltrate the ring and bring the head man across the border to be arrested.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, crime, thriller, spy, aviation, investigation ...
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