
John Brown
Oyuncu · 1904 – 1957 · Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley,[2] played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma, both "Gillis" and Digby "Digger" O'Dell in The Life of Riley, (a role he reprised for the first incarnation of the television show), "Broadway" in The Damon Runyon Theatre, and "Thorny" the neighbor on the radio version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Perhaps his most memorable piece of work is the ‘Broadway’ role; once heard, many find it impossible to think of the narrator of Damon Runyon’s stories as anyone else. It was a measure of Brown’s talent that this quintessentially American character was portrayed by an Englishman. Brown appeared in some notable films: as the inebriated professor in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, uncredited), and The Wild One (1953); he supplied the voice of "Ro-Man" in the 1953 cult science fiction B-film Robot Monster.
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Film7.7SuçGerilimBir trende karşılaşıp birbirlerinin babası ile karısını öldürmeyi düşünen iki kişinin hikâyesi, on yıldır ABD'de olan İngiliz Alfred Hitchcock'un ilgisini çekti. Yönetmen, her zamanki gibi, fiyatı düşürmek için adını vermeden kitabın film haklarını 7 bin 500 dolara aldı. Hikâye malum: Zengin psikopat Bruno (Robert Walker), tenis yıldızı Guy'a (Farley Granger), onun karısı ile kendisinin babasını öldürme işini değiş-tokuş etmelerini teklif eder. Derken fikrini uygulamaya koyar ve Guy'dan karşılığını bekler...
Film7.4Bilim KurguGerilimWashington'da aniden ortaya çıkan bir uçan dairede uzaylı Klaatu ve robotu Gort vardır. Klaatu gemisinden çıktığında yaşanan panikte bir asker tarafından yaralanır. Oysaki uzaylı adam, 2. Dünya Savaşı'nın hemen sonrasında geldiği bu dünyaya bir mesaj ve istekle gelmiştir. Bunu sunmak için dünya liderleriyle toplanmak ister ama bir hastanede tecrit edilen Klaatu'nun isteği reddedilir. Uzaylı adam kaçar ve dünyalıları daha yakından incelemek için kimliğini gizleyerek bir eve sığınır. Burada bir dul bir anne ile oğlu yaşamaktadırlar. Aralarında gelişen güven ortamı Klaatu'nun kimliğini açıklamasıyla sonuçlanır. Bir süre sonra uzaylı harekete geçer ve dünyayı adeta durdurur. Gezegendeki tüm elektrik aniden kesilir. Klaatu, sözünü dinletmek için artık farklı bir yaklaşım kullanmaktadır ve vereceği bir mesajı vardır.
Film6.5DramSuçGenç ve öfkeli bir Marlon Brando, 50'lerin bu kült klasiğinde beyaz perdeyi fethediyor. Brando'nun canlandırdığı Johnny, küçük, uyuşuk bir California kasabasını ele geçiren motosikletli çetenin lideridir. Deri ceketli genç motorcu, kasabanın en güzel kızı Kathie'ye âşık olana kadar sadece yıkımla ilgileniyor gibidir. Ancak Johnny'nin şanssızlığı, psikopat rakibi Chino tarafından tehdit edilmesi ve bunun üstüne, kasaba halkının düşmanlığı ve önyargılarıdır.
Film7.2GerilimSuçII. Dünya Savaşı'nda dehşet verici katliamlara ortak olan Robinson, Amerikalı bir kadınla evlenir ve Connecticut'a yerleşir... Hikáyede Robinson'un peşini bırakmaya niyetli olmayan kahraman bir dedektif de yer almakta. Orson Welles'in dar bir bütçeyle kotardığı ama heyecanı fazlasıyla verdiği sıkı bir kara film. ‘‘Bir Naziden başka kim, Karl Marx'ın Alman olduğunu inkar eder... Karl Marx'da bir Yahudi değil miydi?’’ gibi Orson Welles'e ait ince zekanın ürünü repliklerin yer aldığı film, ‘‘En İyi Özgün Senaryo’’ dalında Oscar'a aday gösterilmişti.
Film6.4DramRomantikSan Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
The Bigamist
1953 · 125 votes
Film6.2AileKomediA small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
Hans Christian Andersen
1952 · 77 votes
Film5.9KomediFantastikA 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 exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945 · 22 votes
Film8.0KomediInspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-father with no shortage of family problems.
The Life of Riley
1949 · 2 votes
Film7.0AnimasyonKomediSpike explains to his son the rules of being a dog: 1: be man's best friend (begging, lying at feet); 2: bury bones; 3: chase cats. Just then, Tom (and Jerry) run by, offering the perfect practice subject. Spike lectures Tom to be scared by the pup or else; Jerry overhears, and is soon doing his best dog impersonation, while Tom works on various strategies to neutralize Tyke
That's My Pup!
1953 · 38 votes
Film4.5Bilim KurguKorkuRo-Man, an alien robot who greatly resembles a gorilla in a diving helmet, is sent to earth to destroy all human life. Ro-Man falls in love with one of the last six remaining humans, and struggles to understand how his programming can instruct him to kill her while his heart demands that he can't.
Robot Monster
1953 · 107 votes
Film6.9AnimasyonKomediJohn Pettibone (Droopy), a dog whose love of Dixieland music is not appreciated by those around him, has a lucky meeting with Pee-Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland band at the circus.
Dixieland Droopy
1954 · 24 votes
Film8.0Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
A Peach of a Pair
1934 · 2 votes
Film5.8DramThe story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
Crazylegs
1953 · 4 votes
Film6.0GerilimGizemA young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.
Jennifer
1953 · 15 votes
Film7.0DramThree women come to Hollywood to break into the movies.
Man Crazy
1953 · 2 votes
Film7.3AnimasyonKomediAt the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
Symphony in Slang
1951 · 46 votes
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Dizi7.9KomediAileCuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
I Love Lucy
1951 · 265 votes
Dizi7.2KomediBurns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950 · 20 votes
Dizi8.0KomediRiley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this is!"
The Life of Riley
1949 · 3 votes
Dizi7.2DramKomediSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · 5 votes