WE WERE SOLDIERS
This compelling War drama depicts the true story of the first major battle between the United States and North Vietnamese forces; Mel Gibson plays Harold G. Moore, the American Lieutenant Colonel; For Hunter Liggett, in the south portion of Monterey County, doubled for Vietnam’s Central Highlands, where the savage battles at IA Drang took place; Numerous locals served as extras during several months of filming.
Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe & Greg Kinnear
Randal Wallace, and Paramount Pictures Films
THE EIGER SANCTION
A spy drama with mountain climbing.
Clint Eastwood & George Kennedy
Clint Eastwood, and Universal Films
THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK
Story about a crusading Indian half-breed who fights corruption.
William Wellman Jr., Delores Taylor & Tom Laughlin
Warner Bros Films
ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
Drama about two orphaned children who grow up on a California Island, protected by wild dogs.
Celia Kaye, Larry Domasin, & George Kennedy
James B. Clark and Universal Films
BACK STREET
A rose hunter remake of a story about a married man with a sweet-tempered mistress who effaces herself and foster, together with him, a passionate affair for over 20 years.
Susan Hayward, John Gavin, & Vera Miles
David Miller Films
THE HORSE WITH A FLYING TAIL
A palimino cow pony, through a series of owners and adventures becomes a champion mount for one of the US equestrian team.
George Fenneman & Nautical the Horse
Larry Lansburgh Films
MIDNIGHT LACE
Mystery-thriller in which Miss Day is terrorized by an unknown phone caller.
Doris Day & Rex Harrison
David Miller and Universal Films
GIFT OF LOVE
20th Century fox; Story about a childless couple who adopt a strange little gril; Karlsson Roth at the age of 11 was a double for Miss Rudie.
Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, & Evelyn Rudie
Jean Negulesco Films
VERTIGO
Thriller about a detective who falls for the woman he stalks; Oscar nominee for art direction; Scenes filmed at Carmel beach and in the Environs of San Juan Bautista, including a shot of a car on Highway 101 between Prundale and San Juan Bautista traveling in the wrong direction (North instead of South) to take advantage of better scenery; When Hitchcock filmed at the Mission in San Juan Bautista, the tower, was long gone; They built the tower for Paramount Studios and through the film editor’s art the tower ended up on the top of the Mission for the movie; One of the first 25 U.S. films put on the National Film Registry as “Culturally, Historically or Aesthetically significant under the National Film Reservation Act.”
James Stewart & Kim Novak
Alfred Hitchcock, and Paramount Films
SHOCK
20th Century Fox; Suspense film about a woman in a Hotel who sees a murder committed and is the target of an elaborate plan to silence her.
Vincent Price. Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore & Annabel Shaw
Alfred L. Werker Films
THE MOON IS DOWN
Drama about Norwegian Village resisting the Nazis.
Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers & Lee J. Cobb
Irving Pichold, and 20th Century Fox Films
DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS
Clone of “Four Daughters,” the Fannie Hurst story; Monterey resident Peter Cardinale was a stand-in for John Garfield in one scene.
Claude Rains, John Garfield, & The Lane Sisters
Michael Curtiz and Warner Bros Films
TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY
(1932) Romantic film about a retired Sea Captain’s daughter who loves the Lord of the Manor. Scenes on 17-Mile Drive.
Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell
Alfred Santell, and Fox Films
NOTORIOUS LADY
A British army officer kills a man he finds in his wife’s room; Although she’s innocent of any wrong the wife claims to be guilty to save her husband from a death sentence.
Lewis Stone & Barbara Bedford
First national Films
THE PRIMROSE PATH
Bruce Armstrong (MacDonald) is quite wealthy also a drinker, a gambler, among others. For some reason, Marilyn Merrill (Bow), a successful dancer, sticks by him; In spite of this, he gambles with her boss, and when he loses, he writes bad checks, in order to avoid jail, Armstrong gets involved in diamond smuggling.
Clara Bow & Wallace MacDonald
Harry Hoyt, and Arrow Films
DARK ANGEL
Story by Frances Marion; Goldwyn first national; Silent; Banky’s first American film, her first teaming with Colman and a mid-1920s hit of Colassal Proportions; From a play by Guy Bolton; Story about a blinded officer in World War I who tries to persuade his fiancée to marry another man without her knowing his own infirmity.
Ronald Colman, & Vilma Banky
George Fitzmaurice Films
SOUL OF THE CYPRESS
A FANTASY SHORT SUBJECT ABOUT A YOUNG COMPOSER WHOSE MUSIC COAXES A DRYAD (A SPIRITUAL NYMPH WHO IS THE SOUL OF A TREE) OUT OF THE TREE SHE DWELLS IN. HE IS IMMEDIATELY SMITTEN, BUT SHE OFFERS HIM A DIFFICULT CHOICE. IF HE WISHES TO STAY WITH HER HE MUST THROW HIMSELF INTO THE SEA SO HIS IMMORTAL SOUL CAN BE RELEASED.
EVERYTHING FOR SALE
When Helen Wainwright (McAvoy) returns from finishing school, her aunt (Kathlyn Williams) wants her to marry Lee Morton (Richard Tucker), the richest man in town, who believes that money can buy anything; Famous Players-Lasky Picture.
Kathlyn Williams, May McAvoy & A. Edward Sutherland
Frank O’Connor Films
THE SNOB
Two school teachers, married for love, are parted by the husband’s obsessive desire for wealth and social position.
Wanda Hawley, Edwin Stevens & Walter Hiers
Sam Wood Films
THE BIRTHMARK
Destitute, the Grief-stricken man decides to go West to build up a fortune; His little babe in arms he leaves on the door-step of a mansion; The child has a birthmark on his arm; A thief picks it up from the doorstep and takes it home, and his childless wife adopts it.
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