Frank Faylen — Actor (21)
The Lost Weekend (1945) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
The Lost Weekend
director: Billy Wilder actor: Ray Milland / Jane Wyman
other title: Giorni perduti / Forspildte dage
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
Detective Story (1951) [Movie] TMDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb
Detective Story
director: William Wyler actor: Kirk Douglas / Eleanor Parker
other title: Pietà per i giusti / Polizeirevier 21
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Blood on the Moon (1948) [Movie] TMDB
Blood on the Moon
director: Robert Wise actor: Robert Mitchum / Barbara Bel Geddes
other title: Sangue sulla Luna / Nacht in der Prärie
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.
Funny Girl (1968) [Movie] TMDB
Funny Girl
director: William Wyler actor: Barbra Streisand / Omar Sharif
other title: Funny Girl - A Garota Genial / Una chica divertida (Funny Girl)
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
The Lusty Men (1952) [Movie] TMDB
The Lusty Men
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Robert Mitchum / Susan Hayward
other title: Il temerario / Arena der Cowboys
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
The Grapes of Wrath
director: John Ford actor: Henry Fonda / Jane Darwell
other title: Furore / Vredens druer
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Come Live with Me (1941) [Movie] TMDB
Come Live with Me
director: Clarence Brown actor: James Stewart / Hedy Lamarr
other title: Vieni a vivere con me / Komm bleib bei mir
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) [Movie] TMDB
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
director: King Vidor actor: Hedy Lamarr / Robert Young
other title: Il molto onorevole Mr. Pulham / Cenizas de amor
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.
My Favorite Spy (1951) [Movie] TMDB
My Favorite Spy
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Bob Hope / Hedy Lamarr
other title: L'avventuriera di Tangeri / Spione, Liebe und die Feuerwehr
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
Copper Canyon (1950) [Movie] TMDB
Copper Canyon
director: John Farrow actor: Ray Milland / Hedy Lamarr
other title: Le frontiere dell'odio / Flammendes Tal
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.
The Sniper (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Sniper
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Arthur Franz / Adolphe Menjou
other title: Nessuno mi salverà / L'homme à l'affût
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
Alice in Movieland (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Alice in Movieland
director: Jean Negulesco actor: Joan Leslie / Nana Bryant
Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.
The Blue Dahlia (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Blue Dahlia
director: George Marshall actor: Alan Ladd / Veronica Lake
other title: La dalia azzurra / Die blaue Dahlie
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
Fourteen Hours (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fourteen Hours
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Paul Douglas / Richard Basehart
other title: La 14ª ora / Vierzehn Stunden
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
They Won't Forget (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
They Won't Forget
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Claude Rains / Gloria Dickson
other title: Vendetta / La ville gronde
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
They Drive by Night (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
They Drive by Night
director: Raoul Walsh actor: George Raft / Ann Sheridan
other title: Strada maestra / Nachts unterwegs
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
The Gang's All Here (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Gang's All Here
director: Busby Berkeley actor: Alice Faye / Carmen Miranda
other title: Banana Split / Sinfonia de Estrelas
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
Edison, the Man (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Edison, the Man
director: Clarence Brown actor: Spencer Tracy / Charles Coburn
other title: Il romanzo di una vita / Edison, o Mago da Luz
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.