Oliver Blake
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1905-04-04
Locus Natus: Centralia, Illinois, USA
Et ut: Oliver Prickett
Julius Caesar
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
release : 1953.06.04popularis : 18.586
The Lemon Drop Kid
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas....
release : 1951.04.02popularis : 3.891
Conflict
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
release : 1945.06.15popularis : 4.469
The Guilty
Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.
release : 1947.03.22popularis : 5.583
Bells Are Ringing
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest...
release : 1960.06.23popularis : 4.041
The Senator Was Indiscreet
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary...
release : 1947.12.31popularis : 5.712
Blonde Alibi
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot...
release : 1946.03.01popularis : 1.808
The Horn Blows at Midnight
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at...
release : 1945.04.28popularis : 2.829
House of Wax
A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who...
release : 1953.04.16popularis : 21.329
The Stooge
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned...
release : 1951.11.15popularis : 6.1
Giant from the Unknown
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former...
release : 1958.01.03popularis : 2.408
The Cobweb
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
release : 1955.06.07popularis : 8.954
The Doughgirls
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade,...
release : 1944.11.25popularis : 2.619
Brigadoon
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in...
release : 1954.09.08popularis : 4.628
Colorado Territory
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going...
release : 1949.06.11popularis : 12.007
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which...
release : 1957.11.26popularis : 4.708
Moonrise
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most...
release : 1948.10.01popularis : 7.564
Face to Face
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on...
release : 1952.11.01popularis : 1.108
So This Is Love
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
release : 1953.07.15popularis : 2.546
Wake Up and Dream
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
release : 1946.12.02popularis : 2.307
Let's Dance
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and...
release : 1950.11.29popularis : 4.334
Casanova's Big Night
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little...
release : 1954.04.07popularis : 2.654
Son of Paleface
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
release : 1952.07.14popularis : 4.412
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young...
release : 1941.12.04popularis : 4.994
Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
release : 1943.01.15popularis : 26.477
Cry of the City
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his...
release : 1948.09.29popularis : 9.132
Shed No Tears
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
release : 1948.06.09popularis : 2.101
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. Judges are a comin' to award a child with a...
release : 1954.03.10popularis : 2.853
A Medal for Benny
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they...
release : 1945.04.16popularis : 2.296
Up in Arms
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
release : 1944.02.17popularis : 4.039
Greenwich Village
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
release : 1944.09.27popularis : 4.584
Gypsy Wildcat
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The...
release : 1944.08.02popularis : 2.412
Drum Beat
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy...
release : 1954.11.10popularis : 7.796
Christmas Holiday
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin...
release : 1944.07.31popularis : 2.64
Feudin' Fools
Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a...
release : 1952.09.21popularis : 3.655
Castle in the Desert
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert...
release : 1942.02.02popularis : 2.3
Raintree County
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by...
release : 1957.12.20popularis : 8.027
The Walls of Jericho
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
release : 1948.11.22popularis : 6.334
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether...
release : 1951.05.10popularis : 3.184
My Reputation
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her...
release : 1946.01.25popularis : 5.572
Merton of the Movies
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...
release : 1947.10.11popularis : 4.064
Out of the Past
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But...
release : 1947.11.25popularis : 12.342
Hell's Outpost
A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
release : 1954.12.15popularis : 3.251
Inside Job
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it...
release : 1946.06.14popularis : 1.266
Room for One More
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her...
release : 1952.01.10popularis : 3.265
Summer Holiday
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the...
release : 1948.04.15popularis : 4.627
The Greatest Show on Earth
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won...
release : 1952.02.16popularis : 9.094
The Mighty McGurk
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.
release : 1947.01.02popularis : 6.168
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he...
release : 1952.10.27popularis : 3.112
Susan Slept Here
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant...
release : 1954.07.28popularis : 3.248
Saboteur
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
release : 1942.04.24popularis : 6.839
The Pirate
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and...
release : 1948.06.11popularis : 11.713
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...
release : 1941.10.31popularis : 2.415
Get Hep to Love
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
release : 1942.10.02popularis : 2.89
Design for Scandal
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
release : 1941.12.01popularis : 3.297
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter...
release : 1952.07.11popularis : 3.159
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from...
release : 1955.04.01popularis : 1.334
Father of the Bride
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding...
release : 1950.05.18popularis : 9.909
Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
release : 1943.09.29popularis : 6.793
A Woman's Secret
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal...
release : 1949.01.13popularis : 4.842
Let's Live a Little
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former...
release : 1948.12.09popularis : 1.104
Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
release : 1943.04.29popularis : 7.106
The Iron Mistress
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge...
release : 1952.11.19popularis : 6.402
The Miracle of the Bells
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three...
release : 1948.03.27popularis : 2.017
Alias Jesse James
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent...
release : 1959.03.20popularis : 4.723
Shadow of the Thin Man
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
release : 1941.11.21popularis : 6.571
The Challenge
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
release : 1948.04.02popularis : 1.496
Ginger
The adventures of a boy and his dog in a small town.
release : 1947.01.04popularis : 1.185
The Fearmakers
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works...
release : 1958.10.01popularis : 3.383
Fancy Pants
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The...
release : 1950.07.19popularis : 3.76
Rhubarb
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...
release : 1951.08.29popularis : 2.939
So You're Going to Be a Father
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
release : 1947.05.10popularis : 1.539
Reunion in France
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get...
release : 1942.12.25popularis : 4.586
The Seven Little Foys
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While...
release : 1955.09.30popularis : 3.517
The Long, Long Trailer
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their...
release : 1954.02.19popularis : 4.154
Nightmare Alley
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her...
release : 1947.10.09popularis : 13.057
Chain of Circumstance
A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.
release : 1951.08.23popularis : 1.359