The best Tom Ewell’s movies

Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell

29/04/1909- 12/09/1994
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The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/06/1955
  • Character: Richard Sherman
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/03/1974
  • Character: Mourner (uncredited)
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.

Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib
7.4/10
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels.

Easy Money

Easy Money
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/08/1983
  • Character: Scrappleton
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/11/2016
  • Character: Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.

A Life of Her Own

A Life of Her Own
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1950
  • Character: Tom Caraway
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

The Girl Can't Help It

The Girl Can't Help It
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/12/1956
  • Character: Tom Miller
A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do when he finds out that she has no talent? And what is going to happen when the two fall in love?

Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/01/1962
  • Character: Abe North
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.

Marilyn

Marilyn
7.8/10
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.

They Only Kill Their Masters

They Only Kill Their Masters
6.2/10
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relationships centering on the victim; the scattered trail of evidence ranges from a mysterious photograph to the victim's own dog. During the investigation, the sheriff meets and becomes romantically involved with a woman whose connection to the murder is ambiguous.

Tropic of Desire

Tropic of Desire
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/06/1979
  • Character: Hadley Crabtree
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various political intrigues.

They Knew What They Wanted

They Knew What They Wanted
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/10/1940
  • Character: New Hired Hand
When visiting San Francisco, Tony Patucci, an ageing winegrower from the Napa Valley, sees waitress Amy Peters and falls in love. Returning home, he persuades his foreman Joe, an incorrigible womanizer, to write her a letter in Tony's name. Tony's courtship by mail culminates with a proposal, and when she requests a picture of him, he sends one of Joe. Amy accepts and goes to Napa to be married. Although horrified to discover that her prospective husband is the portly Tony, she decides to go through with the marriage. However, while Tony is in bed after an accident, Amy and Joe has an affair. Two months later, as Tony plans the wedding, she discovers that she is pregnant. Upon learning this, Tony pummels Joe, who leaves the vineyards. but forgives Amy, and insists that they still be married, But she is unable to forgive herself, so she leaves with the priest who's come to marry them, while Tony looks on, hoping that she will return one day.

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

American Guerrilla in the Philippines
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 08/11/1950
  • Character: Jim Mitchell
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.

To Find a Man

To Find a Man
7/10
  • Release: 31/01/1972
  • Character: Dr. Hargrove
A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/09/1970
  • Character: Billy Joe Davis
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries to keep the peace. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a stereotypical dumb hick sheriff who's quick to call in the local militia. Tony Curtis plays a skirt-chasing sergeant who can't stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. Things get more chaotic after that.

State Fair

State Fair
5.9/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 09/03/1962
  • Character: Abel Frake
Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on winning the competitions for livestock and cooking. However, their restless daughter Margy and her brother Wayne meet attractive new love interests.

Promise Him Anything

Promise Him Anything
4.8/10
A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." When he takes her out and finds out that she didn't live up to her description, he sues her for breach of contract.

Mr. Music

Mr. Music
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/12/1950
  • Character: 'Cupcake' Haggerty
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.

The Great American Pastime

The Great American Pastime
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/11/1956
  • Character: Bruce Hallerton
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.

Desert Bandit

Desert Bandit
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/05/1941
  • Character: Texas Ranger Ordway
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.

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