Fred Macmurray

Follow Me, Boys!  Movies

Posted by at March 14, 2020
Follow Me, Boys!

Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying to fit in, he volunteers to become scoutmaster of the newly formed Troop 1. Becoming more and more involved with the scout troop, he finds his plans to become a lawyer being put on the back burner, until he realizes that his life has been fulfilled helping the youth of the small town.
Drama  Family 

Double Indemnity  Movies

Posted by at Nov. 12, 2024
Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity (1944)
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
Crime  Thriller 

Murder, He Says  Movies

Posted by at Oct. 27, 2024
Murder, He Says

Murder, He Says (1945)
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
Comedy  Crime  Mystery  Horror 

Quantez  Movies

Posted by at Sept. 26, 2024
Quantez

Quantez (1957)
A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quantez, a small town they find deserted. Their horses tired and near death, they’re forced to stay the night — with the plan to cross the border into Mexico the next day.
Western 

The Lady Is Willing  Movies

Posted by at Oct. 11, 2024
The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing (1942)
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
Romance  Comedy 

No Time for Love  Movies

Posted by at May 24, 2024
No Time for Love

No Time for Love (1943)
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
Comedy  Romance 

The Apartment  Movies

Posted by at Feb. 16, 2025
The Apartment

The Apartment (1960)
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Comedy  Drama  Romance 

Gun for a Coward  Movies

Posted by at Sept. 15, 2023
Gun for a Coward

Gun for a Coward (1956)
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.
Western 

The Far Horizons  Movies

Posted by at July 9, 2024
The Far Horizons

The Far Horizons (1955)
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
Drama  History  Western 

The Princess Comes Across  Movies

Posted by at Aug. 13, 2024
The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across (1936)
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Comedy  Romance  Mystery  Thriller