One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Rapper
Actors: Beulah Bondi, Elisabeth Fraser, Frankie Thomas, Fredric March, Gene Lockhart, Grant Mitchell, Harry Davenport, Laura Hope Crews, Martha Scott, Moroni Olsen
The White King
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah…
Stage Mother
A conservative church-choir director moves to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son’s drag club.
Leave of Absence
A man asks his wife for a ‘leave of absence’ in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
The Bravados
Jim is a rancher and a widower, and he rides into Rio Arriba, where four men are awaiting execution. He wants to see the hanging, but the town has issued…
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
This film features a large extended family (and associates) even more extensive than the one portrayed by Ozu in “End of Summer”. The central character is Setsuko Hara — a…
Last Chance Harvey
In London for his daughter’s wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub,…
Marty
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married…
Welcome to L.A.
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer’s album. The gig, unbeknownst…
Thunder Birds
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with…
The Moromete Family
Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more.
The Trouble with Bliss
35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall) is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has…
Our Blushing Brides
Three department store girls–Connie, Franky, and Jerry–share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Jerry is the sensible…