At
Gunpoint
Starring: Walter Brennan, Dorothy
Malone
& Fred
MacMurray
The peace-loving owner of a general store, who became a town
hero when he luckily killed the leader of a gang of bank robbers, is
deserted
by the townspeople who fear the threatened return of the vengeful
bandits.
Banjo On My Knee
Starring: Walter Brennan, Buddy
Ebsen
Barbara
Stanwyck & Joel McCrea
Ernie Holley runs away on his wedding night
because he thinks
he has killed a wedding guest. His father Newt and bride Pearl find him
in New
Orleans and persuade him to come home.
The Cowboy and
the
Lady
Starring: Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper & Patsy Kelly
Poor Mary Smith can't
go
night-clubbing
or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her
father's
political career. She decides to rebel and convinces her two maids to
let
her go along with them on a blind date with some rodeo performers. She
tells her date, Stretch, that she's a parlor maid and that she left
home
because her father beat her. The two fall in love and elope. Now Mary
has
a double dilemma: continuing her charade with Stretch and keeping her
marriage
a secret from her father.
Home in Indiana
Starring: Walter Brennan, June
Haver,
Lon
McCalister,Ward Bond
& Jeanne Crain
A lad with a penchant for trouble is sent to
live
with
his aunt and uncle in Indiana. Though he's not happy about the
arrangement
at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young colt that he
plans to race makes life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish
Char who shares his love for horses. Wonderful film for lovers of
horses
and racing.
Maryland
Starring: Walter Brennan, John Payne & Brenda
Joyce
When a widow, tormented by
the hunting death of her husband, she forbids her son to have anything
to do
with horses. But when her son falls for the daughter of his father's
trainer,
he defies his mother by entering the annual Maryland Hunt.
Nobody Lives Forever
Starring: Walter Brennan,
Geraldine
Fitzgerald
& John Garfield
Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to
fleece
a
rich young widow, but finds himself falling for her for real, much to
the
displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.
Pride of the Yankees
Starring: Walter Brennan,
Gary Cooper, Teresa
Wright,
Dan Duryea & Babe Ruth
This Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig,
famous
baseball
player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to
ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is
followed
from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech
at
his farewell day in 1939.
The Princess & The Pirate
Starring: Walter
Brennan, Bob Hope
& Virginia
Mayo
Princess Margaret is traveling incognito to
elope
with her
true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to.
On the
high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and
plan to
kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom. Little do the cutthroats
know that
she will be rescued by that unlikeliest of knights errant, Sylvester
the Great,
who will lead them on a merry, and madcap, chase.
Stand By For
Action
Starring: Walter
Brennan, Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy
& Charles Laughton
This is a gentle comedy wherein a
Lieutenant fresh from Harvard University sees his first action as
second in command under gruff but human Lt.
Commander on a recommissioned WWI vessel setting out in convoy against
the
Japanese following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Stanley & Livingstone
Starring: Walter Brennan,
Spencer Tracy,
Cedric
Hardwicke
& Nancy Kelly
When American newspaperman and adventurer
Henry M.
Stanley
comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon
Bennett
sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish
missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone blissfully doling out medicine
and
religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved. When
Livingstone later dies, Stanley returns to continue the good doctor's
work.
Swamp Water
Starring: Walter Brennan,
Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter,
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.
Task Force
Starring: Walter
Brennan, Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt,
Julie
London & Tim Holt
After learning the finer points of aerial
combat during WWI,
career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades
promoting
the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red
tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even
consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the
world
enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to
prove to
Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning
the
conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally? This
film is
complete in b&w, with the final
scenes in color as it was originally released.
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Starring: Walter Brennan, Anne Baxter,
Dan Dailey & Rory Callhoun
In 1876 Dawson wants to prevent a train from getting to Tomahawk CO on
time, to keep it from competing with his stage coach line. Kit, who
must get the train to its goal, forces Johnny aboard as the needed
passenger. Madame Adelaide's showgirls (including Marilyn as Clara)
ride along and, en route to Tomahawk
The Wedding Night
Starring: Walter
Brennan,
Anna Stern
Gary Cooper & Ralph Bellamy
A bride-to-be
questions her love for her fiancé
when she meets a new man, who happens to be married and writing a novel
to save his doomed career.
