Jean Moorhead

Movies12

• Movie6.4

  Romance

  Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.

  Daddy Long Legs

  1955 · 97 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyDrama

  The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

  The Long Gray Line

  1955 · 57 votes

• Movie6.5

  ComedyRomance

  Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.

  Bells Are Ringing

  1960 · 57 votes

• Movie4.7

  Science FictionAdventure

  Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains burns over 90% of his body, he survives. Then he begins to grow, but as he grows he starts losing his mind. By the time he stops he is 50 ft tall, insane and is on the rampage.

  The Amazing Colossal Man

  1957 · 51 votes

• Movie4.5

  RomanceComedy

  Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.

  The French Line

  1954 · 12 votes

• Movie5.1

  HorrorScience Fiction

  A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.

  Attack of the Puppet People

  1958 · 65 votes

• Movie5.4

  Western

  A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.

  Gunmen from Laredo

  1959 · 7 votes

• Movie6.4

  DramaWestern

  Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.

  Golden Girl

  1951 · 5 votes

• Movie5.3

  Science FictionThriller

  Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.

  The Atomic Submarine

  1959 · 49 votes

• Movie5.7

  Drama

  A troublemaker returns to town only to find his old tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club. Friction erupts between him and the new leader about this goody-goody setup, and about the charms of gang moll Terry.

  Motorcycle Gang

  1957 · 6 votes

• Movie7.7

  FamilyDrama

  Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's sent to live with her aunt in Boston.

  Banjo

  1947 · 3 votes

• Movie4.4

  DramaThriller

  A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, and they run afoul of the law, apple pie, and God himself.

  The Violent Years

  1956 · 41 votes