The best Stephen Dunne’s movies

Stephen Dunne

Stephen Dunne

Today we present the best Stephen Dunne’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 Stephen Dunne’s movies.
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
7.8/10
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.

I Married a Woman

I Married a Woman
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/03/1958
  • Character: Bob Sanders
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.

Shock

Shock
6.2/10
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw). As Janet attempts to convince her husband (Frank Latimore) of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.

Doll Face

Doll Face
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 31/12/1945
  • Character: Frederick Manly Gerard (as Michael Dunne)
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/04/1957
  • Character: Tom Crandall
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.

Junior Miss

Junior Miss
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1945
  • Character: Uncle Willis Reynolds
A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.

The Underworld Story

The Underworld Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/07/1950
  • Character: Editor Chuck Lee
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

Mother Wore Tights

Mother Wore Tights
6.5/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 20/08/1947
  • Character: Roy Bivins
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.

The Dark Past

The Dark Past
6.3/10
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.

Above and Beyond

Above and Beyond
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 02/01/1953
  • Character: Maj. Harry Bratton
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.

Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/11/1958
  • Character: Hamilton Gregory
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital. Director Mervyn LeRoy's 1958 drama stars Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Joanna Barnes, Mabel Albertson, Stephen Dunne, Marjorie Bennett, Kathryn Card, Joan Weldon and Eleanor Audley.

Colonel Effingham's Raid

Colonel Effingham's Raid
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1946
  • Character: Professor Edward 'Ed' Bland (as Michael Dunne)
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

Miss Grant Takes Richmond
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/10/1949
  • Character: Ralph Winton
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.

The Death of Me Yet

The Death of Me Yet
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 26/10/1971
  • Character: George Dickman
The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.

Law of the Barbary Coast

Law of the Barbary Coast
5/10
Wayne Adams is murdered in a Barbary Coast saloon and gambling hall in San Francisco in 1880, and his sister, Julie, enlists the aid of the district attorney, Michael Lodge, in gathering evidence in which to convict the owner of the gambling house of the crime. In order to do so, Julie poses as a dance-hall-girl, and soon finds herself in a dangerous situation.

The Return of October

The Return of October
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/10/1948
  • Character: Prof. Stewart
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

Lady Possessed

Lady Possessed
6.1/10
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?

The Explosive Generation

The Explosive Generation
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/10/1961
  • Character: Bobby Herman Sr.
Peter Gifford is a likable, dedicated schoolteacher that teaches a senior life skills class. When student Janet Sommers brings up the topic of sex and dating, he asks students to write questions on the topic, and will cover them in the next class. The parents get wind of what Gifford is about to do, notify the principal, and he warns Peter not to read the questions in class. Gifford decides to go against this and is suspended. The whole student body protests, and the administration gets worried on what to do.

The Late Liz

The Late Liz
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1971
  • Character: Si Addams (as Steve Dunne)
Religion changes a woman's attitude towards alcohol.

The Big Sombrero

The Big Sombrero
5.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/04/1949
  • Character: Jimmy Garland
Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the business affairs of the owner, Estrellita Estrada, who is more interested in going to America than taking care of her Mexican holdings. Gene, discovering Garland's plan to run all the Mexican rancheros off the ranch, turns against his boss and shortly finds himself in the middle of cattle stampedes and an avalanche started by Garland's men.

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