The best John Alvin’s movies on YouTube

John Alvin

John Alvin

24/10/1917- 27/02/2009
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Somewhere in Time

Somewhere in Time
7.2/10
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.

Milk Money

Milk Money
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 31/08/1994
  • Character: Rich Old Guy
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom, a single father who is unaware of her real profession.

Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 05/06/1963
  • Character: Customer #2
A Parisian policeman gives up everything for the love of a free-living sex worker.

Objective, Burma!

Objective, Burma!
7.3/10
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, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo
7.1/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 31/12/1943
  • Character: Sound Man
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/06/1949
  • Character: Young Intellectual (uncredited)
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/09/1950
  • Character: Danny (uncredited)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 25/06/1948
  • Character: Charles - Travel Agent (uncredited)
Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Carrie

Carrie
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/07/1952
  • Character: Stage Manager
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.

San Antonio

San Antonio
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/12/1945
  • Character: Pony Smith
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.

The Beast with Five Fingers

The Beast with Five Fingers
6.5/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 08/02/1947
  • Character: Donald Arlington
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.

Deep in My Heart

Deep in My Heart
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMusic
  • Release: 09/12/1954
  • Character: Mr. Mulvaney (uncredited)
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

April in Paris

April in Paris
5.9/10
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.

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