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The Dana Andrews Collection
Ball of Fire
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Gary Cooper
& Barbara Stanwyck
Sexy, wisecracking nightclub
singer
Sugarpuss O'Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice: mobster
boyfriend
Joe Lilac is suspected of murder and Sugarpuss' testimony could put him
away. Naive Professor Bertram Potts meets Miss O'Shea while researching
an article on slang and in true romantic comedy fashion the two worlds
collide. When Miss O'Shea hides out with Potts and his fellow
professors,
everyone learns something new: the professors how to cha-cha and Potts
the meaning of "yum-yum"!
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Belle Starr
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Gene Tierney & Randolph Scott
The setting is the Civil War
and
its aftermath. Belle's family has lost their land to Yankees. She
marries
Confederate guerilla leader Sam Starr and they continue activities
against
exploiters until she is shot riding to alert Sam to a trap. Highly
romanticized
and little connection with history.
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Berlin Correspondent
Starring: Dana
Andrews & Virginia Gilmore
American correspondent Bill
Roberts
(Dana Andrews) is a thorn in the side of the Nazis, as his paper always
scoops the world with the truth about Germany. Gestapo Captain Carl Von
Rau (Martin Kosleck) means to plug the leak and assigns Karen Hauen
(Virginia
Gilmore), who he attends to wed, to the case. Roberts is obtaining his
information for his stories and broadcasts from an elderly stamp
collector
who, defiantly opposed to the Nazis, sells the "proper" stamps to
Roberts,
giving him the information. Attracted to Karen, Roberts invites her to
his apartment where she learns his secret. The old philatelist is sent
to a concentration camp, and then Karen learns that he is her father
(Erwin
Kalser). She appeals to Roberts for help and he, in loyalty to the old
man and now in love with Karen, agrees to help.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Starring:
Dana Andrews, Fredric Marsh,
Myrna Loy, Theresa Wright,
Virginia Mayo & Harold Russell
Three American servicemen
return
home to Boone City after the war, to find their lives irrevocably
changed
by their military experience. Homer Parrish has lost his hands, and has
become distant from his fiancee and family as he struggles to overcome
his disability. Al Stephenson returns to a family which has grown and
changed
during his three years away. And Fred Derry finds himself stuck in a
lousy
job and a loveless marriage, while at the same time falling in love
with
Al's daughter. Together, the three must find a way to come to terms
with
their experiences and pick up the pieces, lest wartime turns out to be
"the best years of their lives".
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Starring: Dana Andrews &
Joan Fontaine
A writer sets himself up to take murder rap to show
the
errors of circumstantial evidence. With a friend holding back evidence
so he can prove his innocence at the last minute, he goes to trial. But
during the trial, his friend is killed in a car accident.
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Boomerang
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Arthur Kennedy
& Lee J Cobb
This dramatization of a
factual
incident opens in a quiet Connecticut town where a kindly priest is
murdered
while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand
action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a
nervous
out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the
crime,
no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on
the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove
Waldron's
innocence.
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Daisy Kenyon
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Henry Fonda & Joan Crawford
Commercial artist Daisy Kenyon
is
involved with married lawyer Dan O'Mara, and hopes someday to marry
him,
if he ever divorces his wife Lucille. She meets returning veteran
Peter,
a decent and caring man, whom she does not love, but who offers her
love
and a more hopeful relationship. She marries him... just as Dan gets a
divorce.
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December 7th
Starring: Dana Andrews, Walter Huston
& Harry Davenport
This Documentary/Drama shows the bombing of Pearl
Harbor
on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the
improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the
Japanese
enforcements. This is the rarely scene long version of this classic
movie
featuring fictional sequences. The introductory sequence shows Uncle
Sam
on vacation in Hawaii on December 6th. A character embodying the Voice
of Responsibility warns him that ignoring Japanese immigrant Fifth
Column
activity will lead to disaster. The concluding sequence has the ghost
of
a serviceman killed in the attack, discussing how the US will beat the
Japanese with the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier in Arlington
National
Cemetery. Directed by John Ford & produced by the US Dept of War.
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Fallen Angel
Starring: Dana
Andrews & Alice Faye
Eric Stanton, thrown off a bus
for
not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats",
whose
main attraction is a beautiful waitress by the name of Stella seems
disinterested
in Eric, he decides if he had money she would pay attention to his
advances.
He marries June Mills for her money, and Stella is mysteriously
murdered.
Even though June learns of Eric's dishonest plans, she still loves him.
It is with her support that he investigates the killing on his own,
eventually
discovering the shocking identity of the real killer.
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Forbidden Street
Starring: Dana Andrews & Maureen O'Hara
Set in the Victoria era, the
film
focuses upon Adelaide, a young lady of good family who renounces both
name and
fame when she marries an impoverished artist. When her husband is
killed in an
accident, Adelaide is blackmailed by a spiteful old hag, who claims
that the
girl killed her spouse. Enter a handsome young barrister who is the
living
image of Adelaide's late husband. He extricates Adelaide from her
plight,
reunites her with her family, and along the way falls in love with her
himself.
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Hot Rods to Hell
Starring: Dana Andrews & Jeanne
Crain
A man is disabled in a car wreck and decides to move
to
the desert and open a hotel, only to be terrorized by the native kids,
in garish shirts, who chase his family off the road in their souped-up
cars and play loud music.
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The
Iron Curtain
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Gene Tierney & June
Havoc
Kit Carson
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jon Hall,
Lynn Bari
Clayton Moore & Ward Bond
Trapper Kit Carson and his band of men join John C.
Fremont
on his way to California. Enroute they are subjected to Indian attacks
that are propagated by the Mexican Government, that does not want the
contingency
to reach California. Once in California, Fremont and Carson initiate a
campaign to free the state from Mexican control.
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Laura
Starring: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb
& Vincent Price
Detective Mark McPherson investigates
the
killing of Laura,
found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson
builds a
mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews.
He is
helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on
her
apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom
every man
she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds
himself falling
under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his
investigations,
something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case.
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Madison Avenue
Starring: Dana Andrews,
Jeanne Crain & Eleanor Parker
Ad-man,
Clint
Lorimer is fired from his job working for a big ad agency, and he is
determined
to prove himself better than his former bosses. He has two romantic
liaisons,
one with Peggy Shannon and another with Anne Temaine. Anne works as the
advertising agent for a milk company run by a weirdo exec
who plays with toy airplanes in his office,
but as time passes he becomes Machiavellian and ego-maniacal. Anne
herself
changes from a frump to a tough and glossy businesswoman, perhaps
making
Clint's choice of a future bride easier.
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Night Song
Starring: Dana
Andrews & Merle Oberon
Cathy Mallory, a beautiful
socialite
who prefers classical music, is taken by friends to a back-alley dance
club. There, she meets blind pianist Dan Evans, who plays in Chick
Morgan's
swing band but seems to be a composer of great promise. Attracted but
spurned,
Cathy feigns blindness herself to get past Dan's bitter facade,
scheming
to get him to the doctor who can restore his sight...and to Carnegie
Hall.
But her actions bring about several twists in their relationship.
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The Satan Bug
Starring: Dana Andrews, George Maharis,
Richard
Basehart & Anne Francis
Swamp Water
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Brennan,
Walter Huston, John Carradine
& Virginia Gilmore
A hunter happens upon a
fugitive
and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the
girl
and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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Three Hours to Kill
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Donna Reed, Carolyn Jones
& Dianne Foster
A wrongly accused stagecoach
driver
searches for the man who murdered his fiancée’s brother.
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Up In Arms
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Danny Kaye & Dinah Shore
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets
drafted
into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also
lovesick
when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with
his
best friend Joe.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Gene Tierney & Karl Malden
Cop Mark Dixon is already in
trouble
with his superiors for his brutal tactics when he accidentally kills a
murder suspect. To protect himself, he decides to cover it up and pin
the
killing on a racketeer he hates and knows has committed many crimes
like
this in the past, Scalise.
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While the City Sleeps
Starring: Dana
Andrews, Rhonda Flemming,
George Sanders & Vincent Price
Death of media magnet Amos
Kyne
is causing power struggle between his executives. In the meantime New
York
women become prey of a serial killer. Reporter Edward Mobley is in that
circumstances faced with almost impossible missions: to catch the
killer,
to prevent the media empire from falling into the wrong hands and to
save
his romantic relationship from break-up.
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Wing and a Prayer
Starring: Dana
Andrews & Don Ameche
An aircraft carrier is sent on
a
decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus
lulling
Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. All the men have their
individual worries and concerns, but become increasingly frustrated at
their avoidance of combat, for reasons unknown to them. But in the end,
all get their chance to fight.
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