Movies: Alvah Bessie
- 1943
Northern Pursuit (1943)
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Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their pl...
- 1945
Objective, Burma! (1945)
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A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base,...
- 1948
Ruthless (1948)
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Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansi...
- 1951
Passage West (1951)
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In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward Califo...
- 1950
The Hollywood Ten (1950)
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A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee and their controversial and self-incriminatory questions during the red scare. With ...
- 1948
Smart Woman (1948)
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A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past....
- 1945
Hotel Berlin (1945)
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An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls....
- 1974
The Sex Symbol (1974)
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A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career....
- 2009
A War in Hollywood (2009)
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The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those w...
- 1944
The Very Thought of You (1944)
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Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory....
- 1986
Hard Traveling (1986)
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Set during the Depression, Dan Bessie's film (based on a novel by his father Alvah) stars Ellen Geer as a widow who begins a romance with an uneducated janitor (J.E. Freeman) who is later accused of murder....
- 1969
Spain Again (1969)
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David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Now a member of a medical convention, he looks up old friends and finds his former lover, now a married woman with a flamenco-dancing da...