The Balcony

1963

English

5.9

♡ 5

60%

Joseph Strick Director

Lee Grant as Carmen

Kent Smith as General

Joyce Jameson as Penitent

Peter Falk as Police Chief

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Cops and Robbers

1973

English

6.4

♡ 11

28%

Action

brooklyn, new york city

Aram Avakian Director

Kent Smith as Bit part

Lucy Martin as Joe's Wife

John P. Ryan as Patsy O'Neill

Delphi Lawrence as Rich Lady

Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.

Billy Jack Goes to Washington

1977

English

4.5

♡ 7

Tom Laughlin Director

Lucie Arnaz as Saunders McArthur

Bill Walker as Security Guard

Kent Smith as Senator Joe Foley

Pat O'Brien as Vice President

After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state governor must decide on a person who will play along with their shady deals and not cause any problems. They decide on Billy Jack, currently sitting in prison after being sent to jail at the end of his previous film, as they don't expect him to be capable of much, and they think he will attract young voters to the party.

The Trouble with Angels

1966

English

7.3

♡ 13

75%

Ida Lupino Director

Hayley Mills as Mary Clancy

Harry Harvey as Mr. Grisson

June Harding as Rachel Devery

Kent Smith as Uncle George

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

Moon Pilot

1962

English

5.4

♡ 7

50%

James Neilson Director

Bert Remsen as Agent Brown

Sally Field as Beatnik Girl in Lineup

Brian Keith as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman

Kent Smith as Secretary of the Air Force

An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy succeeds in making contact with the captain. The captain eventually discovers that this woman is not an enemy but rather a friend from a very unusual source.

My Foolish Heart

1949

English

6.8

♡ 5

49%

Action

Drama

Romance

Mark Robson Director

Phyllis Coates as College Girl on Phone

Todd Karns as Her escort

Kent Smith as Lew Wengler

Phillip Pine as Sgt. Lucey

After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.

Games

1967

English

6.4

♡ 4

63%

48%

Action

games

manhattan, new york city

mind game

Thriller

Curtis Harrington Director

Stuart Nisbet as Detective

Kent Smith as Harry Gordon

Marjorie Bennett as Nora

William O'Connell as Party Guest

A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.

The Night Stalker

1972

English

7.4

♡ 20

88%

John Llewellyn Moxey Director

Ralph Meeker as Bernie Jenks

Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak

Kent Smith as D.A. Paine

Peggy Rea as Switchboard Operator

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.

Death of a Gunfighter

1969

English

6.2

♡ 5

83%

Don Siegel Director

Kent Smith as Andrew Oxley

Robert Sorrells as Chris Hogg

Darleen Carr as Hilda Jorgenson

Jacqueline Scott as Laurie Mills

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.

Lost Horizon

1973

English

5.2

♡ 5

14%

based on novel or book

Drama

Fantasy

himalaya

himalaya mountain range

Charles Jarrott Director

Kent Smith as Bill Fergunson

James Shigeta as Brother To-Lenn

Bobby Van as Harry Lovett

Sally Kellerman as Sally Hughes

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.

Magic Town

1947

English

6.4

♡ 7

50%

William A. Wellman Director

Regis Toomey as Ed Weaver

Vic Perrin as Elevator Starter

Ann Doran as Mrs. Weaver

Kent Smith as Professor Frederick Hoopendecker

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.

Sayonara

1957

English

7.0

♡ 18

82%

79%

Action

air force

based on novel or book

Drama

interracial relationship

Joshua Logan Director

James Garner as Captain Bailey

Kent Smith as General Webster

Marlon Brando as Major Gruver

William Wellman Jr. as Stars and Stripes Reporter

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

Pete 'n' Tillie

1972

English

6.2

♡ 7

67%

husband wife relationship

san francisco, california

Martin Ritt Director

Barry Nelson as Burt

Kent Smith as Father Keating

Ray Ballard as Party Guest

Don Diamond as Policeman

A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.

Cat People

1942

English

7.2

♡ 25

92%

Jacques Tourneur Director

Mary Halsey as Blondie

Tom Conway as Dr. Louis Judd

Kent Smith as Oliver Reed

Murdock MacQuarrie as Sheep Caretaker

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

This Land Is Mine

1943

English

7.5

♡ 19

71%

Jean Renoir Director

Casey Johnson as Boy

Trevor Bardette as Courtroom Guard Who Brings Albert's Notes

Maureen O'Hara as Louise Martin

Kent Smith as Paul Martin

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.

Nora Prentiss

1947

English

7.1

♡ 5

70%

Vincent Sherman Director

Kent Smith as Dr. Richard Talbot

Rosemary DeCamp as Lucy Talbot

Robert Alda as Phil Dinardo

John Alvin as San Francisco Bay Ferry Boat Dispatcher

Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.

The Damned Don't Cry

1950

English

7.1

♡ 10

80%

Vincent Sherman Director

Rory Mallinson as Johnny Enders

Kent Smith as Martin Blackford

Ric Roman as Sam Loman - Syndicate Boss

Ned Glass as Taxi Driver

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

The Fountainhead

1949

English

7.0

♡ 9

79%

74%

Action

architect

based on novel or book

King Vidor Director

Kent Smith as Peter Keating

Douglas Kennedy as Reporter

Ann Doran as Wynand's Secretary

John Alvin as Young Intellectual

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.