The best Philip Coolidge’s movies

Philip Coolidge

Philip Coolidge

25/08/1908- 23/05/1967
Today we present the best Philip Coolidge’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Philip Coolidge’s movies.
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North by Northwest

North by Northwest
8.3/10
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.6/10
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind
8.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 07/07/1960
  • Character: Mayor Jason Carter
This gripping adaptation of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play examines an issue that still causes great controversy—the role religion should play in the schools.

It Happened to Jane

It Happened to Jane
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/05/1959
  • Character: Wilbur Peterson
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".

Boomerang!

Boomerang!
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/02/1947
  • Character: Jim Crossman (uncredited)
In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence. Based on a true story.

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 25/05/1966
  • Character: Mr. Porter
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.

The Tingler

The Tingler
6.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 29/07/1959
  • Character: Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
After much hard work, a pathologist discovers and captures a creature that lives in every vertebrate and grows when fear grips its host. "Scream for your lives!"

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/11/1958
  • Character: Emmett Perkins
Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police arresting them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.

The Mating Game

The Mating Game
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/04/1959
  • Character: Reverend Osgood
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.

Slander

Slander
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/01/1957
  • Character: Homer Crowley
A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer's career.

The Sharkfighters

The Sharkfighters
5.1/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 01/11/1956
  • Character: Lt. Cmdr. Leonard Evans
Landing on a small island not far from Havana, Cuba, Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves joins a Navy scientific project engaged in finding an effective shark repellent to help save the lives of WWII military personnel stranded in shark-infested waters. His zeal for completing the project as fast as possible is explained by his having lost a large percentage of his crew to sharks when his ship was sunk by the Japanese. Against the advice of the others on the project, Staves demands that the new repellent be tested on a live subject surrounded by hungry sharks and will allow no one but himself to be the test subject!

The Bramble Bush

The Bramble Bush
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/02/1960
  • Character: Prosecuting Attorney
A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.

Never a Dull Moment

Never a Dull Moment
6.1/10
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster boss Leo Smooth, who wants Ace to do a job for him. Fearing for his life, Jack plays his role, but always searching for a way out of the well-guarded house.

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
7.7/10
  • Release: 23/09/1964
  • Character: Voltimand
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.

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