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Dana Andrews
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Sleepwalking the nightmare 21 May 2004
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Great film noir detective story. 18 August 2004
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Classic American Film 3 November 2004
Dana Andrews - filmography
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In Harm's Way
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Director: Otto Preminger
Certificate: 
In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell ..read more »

65%
from 382 members
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The Loved One
(1965)
Starring: Robert Morse, Rod Steiger, Jonathan Winters
Director: Tony Richardson
Certificate: 
Outrageous black comedy, promoted as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone!," stars Robert Morse as a British poet who visits California and, after his uncle's death, is introduced to the seamier side of the funeral industry.

60%
from 18 members
Currently unavailable
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate: 
Hoping to expose fatal flaws in the legal system, a writer (DANA ANDREWS, Laura) places a bet that he can have himself convicted of murder on purely circumstantial evidence by planting false clues at a crime scene, before sensationally revealing his trick at the last minute. However, a series of ..read more »

68%
from 116 members
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Smoke Signal
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Piper Laurie
Director: Jerry Hopper
Certificate: 
Dana Andrews and Piper Laurie star in this gripping drama set during the unforgiving time and the merciless surroundings of the Wild West.
When an isolated cavalry fort is besieged by Indians, a small group of survivors are left with only one route of escape - the uncharted rapids of the wild ..read more »

55%
from 10 members
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Elephant Walk
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch
Director: William Dieterle
Certificate: 
When Ruth agrees to marry plantation owner John, she is filled with excitement. The excitement is short lived, however, as she soon begins to feel trapped within her banal life. When Dick Carver visits the plantation, she immediately falls in love, but it's not long before tragedy strikes...

57%
from 138 members
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Sealed Cargo
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Carla Balenda, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Werker
Certificate: 
During the height of the Second World War, the whaler Daniel Webster sights a shell-damaged Danish schooner eerily adrift in the waters off Newfoundland. Unable to gain any response from the schooner s crew Pat Bannon (Dana Andrews) boards the helpless ship and finds its Captain (Claude Rains) ..read more »

59%
from 26 members
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Where The Sidewalk Ends
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill
Director: Otto Preminger
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Dana Andrews stars as brutal cop Mark Dixon who previously had been in trouble with his superiors for his brutal methods. When Dixon accidently kills a murder suspect he knows his career will be over if he is discovered. He decides to dispose of the body and pin the murder on someone else. However ..read more »

69%
from 751 members
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My Foolish Heart
(1949)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward
Director: Mark Robson
Certificate: 
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events ..read more »

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from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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The Best Years Of Our Lives
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Virginia Mayo, Fredric March, Myrna Loy
Director: William Wyler
Certificate: 
Perhaps the most memorable film about the aftermath of World War II, it unfolds with the homecoming of three veterans to the same small town. The leads all touch emotional truths: Loy seems able to express longing, joy, fear and surprise - mostly with her back turned - in a particularly poignant ..read more »

70%
from 2,354 members
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Fallen Angel
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell
Director: Otto Preminger
Certificate: 
Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), is a down-on-his-luck press agent who isliving in a small Californian town and begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats" , where he meets a beautiful waitress by the name of Stella (Linda Darnell). He falls for Stella but she is not interested in him. Eric decides ..read more »

63%
from 541 members
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State Fair
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes
Director: Walter Lang
Certificate: 
In this rousing celebration of love and laughter in America's heartland, each member of the Frake family is out for a different prize when they attend their state fair. Father wants a blue ribbon for his favourite pet pig. First prize, and only first prize, will do for Mom's entry in the pie-baking ..read more »

61%
from 388 members
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A Walk In The Sun
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne
Director: Lewis Milestone
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The setting is WWII Italy, with Dana Andrews starring as Sgt. Tyne, one of the officers leading a platoon in an attempt to take a farmhouse in the Italian countryside, which is now a German stronghold. As the troops prepare to attack, they contemplate the lives that have led them to this place and ..read more »

57%
from 120 members
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Wing And A Prayer
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, William Eythe
Director: Henry Hathaway
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A story of a Pacific-based aircraft carrier set in the early days of the war, charting the frustrations of the crew as the boat evades warfare on its mission simply as a decoy. Jerome Cady was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but Glen MacWilliams' cinematography (which ..read more »

55%
from 82 members
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The Purple Heart
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger
Director: Lewis Milestone
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One of Hollywood's most striking films of World War II has very little war in it, yet it whips up a fearsome power. A U.S. bomber that took part in the Doolittle raid on Tokyo crash-lands in Japanese-occupied China afterward. Captured, the officers and crew are hauled before a Japanese court and ..read more »

47%
from 39 members
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Crash Dive
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews
Director: Archie Mayo
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In this thrilling, Academy Award-winning WWII drama (Best Special Effects, 1943), Tyrone Power plays Navy Lieutenant Ward Stewart, a crewmember aboard a sub responsible for investigating a suspicious tanker in the Atlantic. Initially Stewart takes a liking to his commander - Dewey Connors (Dana ..read more »

57%
from 40 members
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The Ox-Bow Incident
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Director: William A. Wellman
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Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done ..read more »

72%
from 349 members
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Ball Of Fire
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka
Director: Howard Hawks
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Professor Bertram Potts is the youngest of eight bookish academics assembling a dictionary of slang. They find a perfect "research associate" in the curvaceous form of strip-tease dancer Kathryn "Sugar Puss" O'Shea, who has hidden out at the professors' domicile to escape Joe Lilac, her gangster ..read more »

72%
from 107 members
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Swamp Water
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Walter Brennan, Dana Andrews
Director: Jean Renoir
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A hunter encounters a young girl living with her fugitive father in the swamps of Georgia. He falls in love with her and tries to persuade the fugitive to move with his daughter back into town.

60%
from 99 members
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December 7th
on DVD
Starring: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews
Director: John Ford
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During World War II, director John Ford joined the ranks of the many Hollywood actors and filmmakers who
participated in the war's film propaganda effort. At the behest of the United States' military, John Ford and
legendary cinematographer Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath) mounted ..read more »

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from 1 member
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