The best Paul Frees’s drama movies

Paul Frees

Paul Frees

22/06/1920- 02/11/1986
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The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/10/1962
  • Character: Narrator (voice)
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 26/01/1970
  • Character: Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura (voice) (uncredited)
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Grand Prix

Grand Prix
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1966
  • Character: Izo Yamura (voice)
The story tells about the confrontation of four first-class racers of Formula 1. Each of the competitors had their own additional motivation to become a champion. Their world is a risk and extreme, fast driving on the highway. The taste of adrenaline is what race lovers live. Outside of competition, they all experience personal dramas and upheavals, and the more important the desired title becomes for them.

Patton

Patton
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 25/01/1970
  • Character: Voice (voice) (uncredited)
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

Pollyanna

Pollyanna
7.4/10
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/1956
  • Character: Priest
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.

Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba
6.3/10
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/06/1951
  • Character: Reverend Morrison
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.

The Thing From Another World

The Thing From Another World
7.1/10
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/04/1964
  • Character: Narrator (voice)
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruthless. He marries and then quickly abandons sweet, bubbly Monica, turns his young, attractive stepmother Rina into a self-destructive actress and manages to disappoint even his closest friend, cowboy movie star Nevada. Is Jonas beyond redemption?

Suddenly

Suddenly
6.8/10
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.

Once a Thief

Once a Thief
6.5/10
Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike Vido is determined to send Eddie back to prison.

Assignment: Paris

Assignment: Paris
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 04/09/1952
  • Character: Radio Budapest Announcer (uncredited)
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Wild in the Streets

Wild in the Streets
5.9/10
Striking a zeitgeist nerve, Wild in the Streets stars Christopher Jones (Ryan's Daughter) as Max Frost, rock singer and poster boy for the counterculture revolution of the '60s. While performing with his band, The Troopers, at a political rally for Senate candidate Johnny Fergus (Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild), Max seizes the opportunity to spout his own political philosophies which include, among other things, that the voting age should be lowered to 14. And thus begins the tale of Max's meteoric rise. But as he moves further and further into uncharted waters, first as a voice for the youth movement (or is he just a mouthpiece for opportunist politicians?) and then as a nominee for President of the United States, Max will not bend to the will of the old guard. Instead he begins implementing his own ideas of what would make a better world, including re-education camps for those over the age of 35 along with a liberal dosing of LSD.

Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/02/1954
  • Character: Guard Monroe
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

Where the Boys Are

Where the Boys Are
6.6/10
Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.

The Star

The Star
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/12/1952
  • Character: Richard Stanley
A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but continues to desire a comeback.

The World's Greatest Sinner

The World's Greatest Sinner
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/06/1962
  • Character: Narrator
A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, "The Eternal Man" party. He begins to be referred to as "God". Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man.

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows
7.2/10
The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall.

Attack of the Jungle Women

Attack of the Jungle Women
4/10
This is a film comprised primarily from footage shot by the exploring team of Mr. and Mrs. William Phillips, nee Bill and Eve Phillips, a minor league version of the better-known Martin and Osa Johnson. It, between tons of shots of bare-breasted Choco and Cuna Indian women, has a flimsy plot about a party of engineers "seeking" a continental highway route from South America through Central America to the United States.

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