Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

Andy Hardy was a fictional character played by Mickey Rooney in an MGM film series from 1937 to 1958. Spanning over 20 years, the 16 movies were based on characters in the play Skidding by Aurania Rouverol.

Mickey Rooney: Forever Young 4 Movie Pack

Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Andrew "Andy" Hardy met his sweetheart Kay Wilson in college, but has since served in the military and is now being discharged. Getting back to Kay may be the hardest thing of them all to accomplish. He arrives in town alright, but things start to go awry from there. Question is, will he succeed?

All Movies in the Andy hardy series are;

1. A Family Affair (1937)
2. You're Only Young Once (1937)
3. Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
4. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
5. Out West with the Hardys (1938)
6. The Hardys Ride High (1939)
7. Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
8. Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
9. Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
10. Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
11. Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
12. The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
13. Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
14. Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
15. Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
16. Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)

 

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Notorious (1946)

Cary Grant, Claude Rains & Ingrid Bergman in this classic Selznick Production of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller; Notorious.

Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the American daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, is recruited by government agent T. R. Devlin (Cary Grant) to infiltrate a group of Germans who have relocated to Brazil after World War II.

While awaiting the details of her assignment in Rio de Janeiro, Alicia falls in love with Devlin. His feelings for her are complicated by his knowledge of her wild past. When Devlin is ordered to convince her to seduce Alex Sebastian (Claude Rains), one of her father's friends and a member of the group, Devlin tries to convince his superiors that Alicia is not fit for the job. But upon seeing Alicia again, he puts up a stoic front, choosing duty over love. Alicia concludes that he does not love her, and she soon marries Alex to better spy on him and his associates.

Alicia and Devlin discover the key element of the plot by accident, but in the process leave a clue that her husband traces back to her. Now Alex has a problem: he must silence Alicia, but cannot expose her without being discredited by his fellow Nazis. Alex discusses the situation with his mother (Leopoldine Konstantin), who suggests that Alicia "die slowly" by poisoning. The poison is initially mixed into Alicia's coffee, and she quickly falls ill. Devlin becomes alarmed when she fails to appear at their next rendezvous. After driving to Sebastian's house, he sneaks into Alicia's quarters, where she tells him that Alex and his mother are poisoning her. After confessing his love for her, Devlin carries her out of the mansion in full view of the conspirators. Alex privately begs to go with them, but they abandon him to the non-existent mercy of the Nazis, who had previously disposed of another co-conspirator for a far lesser indiscretion.

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The Chase

The Chase (1946 Classic Movie)

This dream-like film noir is about Chuck Scott, a World War II vet now a penniless drifter tormented by bizarre dreams, who takes a job as driver to Eddie Roman (Cochran), a vicious gangster. Roman tests his new driver, Scott, by taking control of his car in the back seat, unbeknown to the driver. Roman has an accelerator in the back seat of his car so that he can "take over" total control whenever he wants. This bizarre trick not only unnerves his new driver but Roman's right hand man, Gino (Peter Lorre). Scott passes the test and gets the job. Things get tough for Scott when he falls in love with the gangsters wife, who has attempted to kill herself. They run off together to Cuba and a bizarre chase begins.

Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style by Alain Silver, and Elizabeth Ward notes: "Phantom Lady excepted, The Chase is the best cinematic equivalent of the dark, oppressive atmosphere that characterizes most of Cornell Woolrich's best fiction."

        

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Cast
Robert Cummings as Chuck Scott
Michèle Morgan as Lorna Roman
Steve Cochran as Eddie Roman
Lloyd Corrigan as Emmerich Johnson
Jack Holt as Cmdr. Davidson
Peter Lorre as Gino

It's A Wonderful Life

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern.

The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and the contributions he has made to his community.

Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and a staple of Christmas television around the world. Theatrically, the film's break-even point was actually $6.3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release. An appraisal in 2006 reported: "Although it was not the complete box-office failure that today everyone believes … it was initially a major disappointment and confirmed, at least to the studios, that Capra was no longer capable of turning out the populist features that made his films the must-see, money-making events they once were."
It's a Wonderful Life was nominated for five Oscars without winning any, but the film has since been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made, and placed number one on their list of the most inspirational American films of all time.



Plot Synopsis;
It's Christmas Eve and George Bailey (James Stewart) is deeply troubled. George prays for help and Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers), Angel Second Class, is assigned to save him — and thereby earn his wings. Joseph, the head angel, reviews George's life with Clarence. At the age of 12, George (Bobby Anderson) saved the life of his younger brother Harry (Todd Karns) who had fallen through the ice on a pond, though George got an ear infection that impaired his hearing in one ear. Later, as an errand boy in a pharmacy, George saved his grief-stricken boss, druggist Mr. Gower (H.B. Warner), from mistakenly filling a child's prescription with poison.

George's dream has been to see the world and design bridges and skyscrapers. He repeatedly sacrifices his dreams for the well-being of others, until Harry graduates from high school and can replace him at the Bailey Building and Loan Association, vital to the people of Bedford Falls. On Harry's graduation night in 1928, George discusses his future with Mary Hatch (Donna Reed), who has had a crush on him since she was a little girl. Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) and Harry then break the news to George that his father has had a stroke, and later dies.

Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), a heartless slumlord and majority shareholder in the Building and Loan, tries to persuade the board of directors to stop providing home loans for the working poor. George persuades them to reject Potter's proposal, but they agree only on the condition that George himself run the Building and Loan. He stays in Bedford Falls and gives his college money to his brother. Harry graduates from college and brings home a wife, whose father has offered Harry a good job in his company. George and Mary get married, and on their way out of town for their honeymoon, they witness a run on the bank that leaves the Building and Loan in danger of collapse. Potter offers George's clients "50 cents on the dollar," but George and Mary quell the panic by using the $2,000 for their honeymoon to satisfy the depositors' needs until confidence in the Building and Loan is restored. George starts up Bailey Park, an affordable housing project. They and the other residents will no longer have to pay Potter's high rents.

George and Mary raise a growing family. When World War II erupts, George is unable to enlist, due to his bad ear. Harry becomes a fighter pilot and is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for shooting down 15 enemy aircraft, including one that would have slammed into a U.S. transport ship full of troops.

On Christmas Eve 1946, Uncle Billy takes Mr. Potter's newspaper from him to read him the frontpage news about Harry being honored by the President to get a rise out of him but gets carried away and absent-mindedly puts an $8,000 deposit for the Building and Loan into the folded newspaper just before Mr. Potter grabs it angrily out of his hands. Potter keeps the money. When the bank examiner is to inspect the Building and Loan's records, there is a deficit. When George's frantic search fails to uncover the money, he appeals to Potter for a loan to save the company, but Potter swears out a warrant for George's arrest for bank fraud instead.

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George gets drunk and crashes his car into a tree during a snowstorm. He runs to a nearby bridge to commit suicide, feeling he is "worth more dead than alive" because of a $15,000 life insurance policy. Before George can leap in, however, Clarence jumps in first. After George rescues him, he reveals himself to be George's guardian angel.
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Mr Potter slumps in his wheelchair after the board of trustees of the Bailey Building and Loan quashes his grab for power

George bitterly wishes he had never been born, so Clarence shows him what the town would have been like if he had never lived: Bedford Falls is called Pottersville and is mostly a slum filled with bars; Bailey Park was never built; Mr. Gower was convicted of poisoning the child and spent many years in prison; Martini (William Edmunds) no longer owns the bar; Violet (Gloria Grahame) is a dancer who gets arrested as a pickpocket; Uncle Billy has been in an insane asylum for years; Harry is dead, since George was not around to save him, and the men Harry would have saved in the war also died; Mrs. Bailey is an embittered widow running a boarding house; and Mary is an old maid librarian.

George begs Clarence and God to let him live again. His prayer is answered and he returns to the moment he met Clarence on the bridge. George runs home and finds his friends and family have collected a enough money to rescue him from getting arrested as well as to save the Building and Loan. Then Harry arrives and proposes a toast to his brother, "the richest man in town." Seeing how many lives he has touched, and the difference he has made to Bedford Falls (along with helping Clarence earn his wings), George Bailey realizes that he truly has "a wonderful life." Read More...

Classic Christmas Collection (It's a Wonderful Life / White Christmas)

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