The best Larry Gates’s movies on Apple iTunes
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Larry Gates’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Larry Gates.
Airport
6.6/10
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
The Sand Pebbles
7.5/10
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
In the Heat of the Night
7.9/10
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
7.9/10
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
7.7/10
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Some Came Running
7.2/10
Hard-drinking novelist Dave Hirsh returns home after being gone for years. His brother wants Dave to settle down, and introduces him to English teacher Gwen French. Moody Dave resents his brother, and spends his days hanging out with Bama Dillert, a professional gambler who parties late into the night. Torn between the admiring Gwen and Ginny Morehead, an easy woman who loves him, Dave grows increasingly angry.
Underworld U.S.A.
7.3/10
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Funny Lady
6.2/10
1930s in New York – The famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub.
Cattle King
5.8/10
A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
Above and Beyond
6.9/10
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
One Foot in Hell
6.2/10
Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff, thereby enabling him to plot an elaborate bank robbery with the help of an artist, a pickpocket, a gunslinger and a bar-girl.
Jeanne Eagels
6.2/10
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920's stage star Jeanne Eagels.
Ada
6.6/10
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine that got him elected. Director Daniel Mann's 1961 political drama stars Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Connie Sawyer, William Walker, Ray Teal, Larry Gates and Kathryn Card.
