Ace in the Hole (1951), Libeled Lady (1936), Fury (1936), Love Actually (2003), Ask a Policeman (1939), Love Affair (1939), Seabiscuit (2003), A Star Is Born (1937) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Radio Announcer movies.
Storyline: Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in an old Indian dwelling. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth - until things go terribly wrong.
Plot Keywords: media manipulation, journalism, dysfunctional marriage, media circus, new mexico, cave, newspaper ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. When a 5 million dollar lawsuit is filed by Connie Allenbury for falsely printing she is a marriage-breaker, he plans a marriage in words only between Gladys and the Don Juan Bill Chandler. The goal is to catch Connie alone with a married man.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: automobile accident, camera, carnival barker, champagne, cigarette smoking, city hall, clock ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to make money. But things go disastrously wrong for Joe when he stops in a small town and is mistaken for a wanted kidnapper. Through the course of the movie, Fritz Lang shows us how a decent and once civilized man can become a ruthless and bitter man.—Andre'a M. Thompson <athompso@ziggy.st.hmc.edu>
Plot Keywords: mob, lynch mob, xenophobia, social injustice, memento, miscarriage of justice, black american ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Against the backdrop of aged has-been rock star Billy Mack's Christmas themed comeback cover of "Love Is All Around" which he knows is crap and makes no bones about it much to his manager Joe's chagrin as he promotes the record, several interrelated stories about romantic love and the obstacles to happiness through love for Londoners are presented in the five weeks preceding Christmas. Daniel's wife has just passed away, leaving him to take care of his adolescent stepson Sam by himself. Daniel is uncertain how to deal with Sam and his problems without his wife present, especially in light of a potential budding romance within their household. Juliet and Peter have just gotten married. They believe that Peter's best friend and best man Mark hates Juliet but won't say so to his or her face. Others looking at the situation from the outside believe Mark is jealous of Juliet as he is in love with Peter himself. Jamie, a writer, is taking a writing retreat by himself in rural France ...
Plot Keywords: christmas, adultery, love at first sight, female rear nudity, female nudity, woman on top, sex on floor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Turnbottom Round prides itself as the village without crime; there has not been an arrest recorded by the local police for years. Unfortunately, this is more to do with the inability of Sgt Dudfoot and his constables Jerry and Harbottle to so much as recognise a crime. With their jobs on the line, the trio attempt to stage a crime of their own, only to inadvertently uncover a smuggling ring and a headless horseman...—D.Giddings <darren.giddings@newcastle.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: jewel robbery, jealousy, jacket, investigator, investigation, interrogation, horn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, after he has had a chance to earn a decent living.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: doorman, snowing, music teacher, audience, wristwatch, lighting a cigarette, cigarette lighter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the Depression, and everyone needs to hold onto a dream to get them through the bad times. Car maker Charles Howard is no different, he who is trying to rebuild his life after the tragic death of his only child and the resulting end of his first marriage. With second wife Marcela at his side, Charles wants to get into horse racing and ends up with a team of underdogs who are also chasing their own dream. The first is trainer Tom Smith, who has a natural instinct to spot the capabilities of horses. The second is the horse Tom chooses for Charles, Seabiscuit, an unconventional choice as despite his pedigreed lineage, Seabiscuit is small at fifteen and a half hands tall with a slight limp. But Tom can see something in Seabiscuit's nature to make him a winner, if only Seabiscuit can be retrained from his inbred losing ways. And third is the jockey they decide to hire, Johnny "Red" Pollard, so nicknamed because of his hair color. Like Tom, Red has always shown a natural way with ...
Plot Keywords: wedding, bicycle, book, bullfighter, businessman, church, coffin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Plot Keywords: celebrity, movie director, star, racetrack, fame, screen test, cinderella story ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Billy (Tom Courtenay), a young British clerk in a gloomy North Country undertaker's office, is bombarded daily by the propaganda of the media that all things are for the asking. This transparently-false doctrine, coupled with the humdrum job and his wild imagination, leads him on frequent flights to "Ambrosia", a mythical kingdom where he is crowned King, General, lover, or any idealized hero the real situation of the moment makes him desire. His vacillating commitment and post-adolescent immaturity have created situations which make Ambrosia all the more attractive. He's succeeded in becoming engaged to two different girls simultaneously, while in love with a third, Liz (Julie Christie). He's in hot water with his employer, having spent a rather large sum of postage money on his personal frivolities. Last but not least, his dream of becoming a highly-paid, famous scriptwriter in London seems doomed. The only person in his life capable of bringing him down to Earth is Liz, and she's having a difficult time. Finally, he gets his life sufficiently in order to leave for London with his true love, but still hasn't gotten to grips with the real world. He leaves the train to buy milk from a vending machine and watches the train slowly pull out for London with Liz aboard. He returns to the more comfortable shelter of his parents' home, Ambrosia, and his imagination.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: train, liar, based on novel, character name in title, chapel, cannon, cafe ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green Man on the south coast, where Hawkins is planning to retire him for good. But before he can get on with this the hit-man has a procession of unwanted visitors at home to dispose of - one way or another.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: based on play, fake identity, radio announcer, husband wife relationship, corpse, tape recorder, finding a dead body ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of London if the Government don't announce the end of any research in this field within a week. Special agents from Scotland Yard try to stop him, with help from the scientist's assistant future son-in-law to find and stop the mad man.—Jean-Marie Berthiaume <jiembe@videotron.ca>
Plot Keywords: psychotronic film, barber shop, bed and breakfast, bomb threat, evacuation, false name, footsteps ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of a big-city crusading newspaper editor, Tod Swain (Charles Ruggles),who placed principle and honest journalism ahead of life itself, only to have his own daughter, Vina Swain (Frances Farmer), undo his work. Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan, a corrupt politician, sets out to wreak vengeance on Swain's reformist newspaper, by establishing his own scandal-sheet, yellow journalism tabloid which he uses for muck-raking and blackmail purposes. He tries to lure Swain and his best reporter, Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray) by offering them highly-tempting salaries, but they both remain loyal to the large circulation paper they had help build. When Vina, sweetheart of Houston, hears of this she is furious. Unable to understand the principles of her father and sweetheart, she accepts the position of investigative reporter on Gillette's paper. She soon becomes the newspaper sensation of the town. Gillette uses her ability to dig up, of the past, a story of one of the town's most-respected merchants. causing him to commit suicide. Swain's publisher forces him to write the story of the suicide. Sticking to his principle of clean and accurate journalism, he begins the story with the dramatic sentence: Tonight, my daughter killed a man. When Vina's usefulness becomes outlived by Gillette, he decides to have her "put out of the way", fearful that she will reveal the extent of his corruption.—-Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: gangster, bribe, treachery, blackmail, extortion, trap, b movie ...
Movie Details Click Here!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: loss of job, 1930s, quartet, radio announcer, radio program, radio show, singing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A final live variety show broadcast via radio becomes a metaphor for the natural order of life. A concept and script by Garrison Keilor uses every natural and technical element of working with a tight and close ensemble producing a weekly show to sooth us and guide us through the natural but difficult transitions of aging, becoming less relevant and then dying as new, young life develops and strengthens during our final "performances." This is a rare film for it's remarkable cast and crew and one wonders how the great Robert Altman was able to gather them all at the same place and time to shoot this film.
Plot Keywords: singing, entertainer, radio show, country music, backstage, radio, recording ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young mentally-ill killer, Gunther Wyckoff, escapes from a mental institution, murders a bus driver and, then, takes six hostages in a bar. The gun in Wyckoff's hand kills without emotion or pity, wielded by a man bare of emotion. It begins as a moral question whether an insane killer should or should not be sent to the electric chair, but goes elsewhere before it ends.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: psychopath, hysteria, drugstore, doctor patient relationship, radio station, reporter, typewriter ...
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