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King Vidor
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review by roncoach from
A film with pretentions, but which utterly fails. 6 November 2011
King Vidor - filmography
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Solomon And Sheba
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders
Director: King Vidor
Certificate: 
Yul Brynner stars as the legendary figure of the Bible in King Vidor's only contribution to this popular 1950s genre. When aged King David (Finlay Currie) has a vision from God telling him that Solomon should succeed him as ruler of the Israelites, David heeds His word. This angers his martial ..read more »
 
60%
from 257 members
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War & Peace
(1956)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer
Director: King Vidor
Certificate: 
Spruced up adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel about the life of a Russian family during the War of 1812. The historical and personal events are seen mostly through the eyes of Natasha, who is 16 years old at the start of the movie. Contains many panoramic shots of battle in action.
61%
from 52 members
Currently unavailable
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Man without a Star
(1955)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Director: King Vidor
Certificate:
Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. She needs a tough new top hand and uses all her means of persuasion to get Rae to take the job. But he doesn't like the way the other settlers are getting treated and ..read more »
56%
from 16 members
Currently unavailable
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Japanese War Bride
(1952)
Starring: Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Cameron Mitchell
Director: King Vidor
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Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes subtle, sometimes overt racism of his family and the townspeople, especially after the birth of their son.
13%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Ruby Gentry
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden
Director: King Vidor
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A hot-tempered girl, hopelessly in love with a handsome gentleman, is broken-hearted when he marries another. She then marries a wealthy man, and uses his money to exact revenge on the man she once loved.
54%
from 30 members
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The Fountainhead
(1949)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey
Director: King Vidor
Certificate:
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards
69%
from 41 members
Currently unavailable
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Duel In The Sun
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Director: King Vidor
Certificate:
Dubbed 'Lust in the Dust' by Hollywood wags and, at $5 million, the most expensive film made up to that time, DUEL IN THE SUN stars Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez, a stunning young mixed-race woman. After her father's death, she's taken in by distant relative Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish), ..read more »
58%
from 468 members
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Northwest Passage
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Spencer Tracy
Director: King Vidor
Certificate:
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
61%
from 131 members
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The Wizard Of Oz
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Frank Morgan
Director: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Certificate: 
Follow the yellow brick road again! Young Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas where a large tornado picks her house, and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. Things in Oz are strange and beautiful, but Dorothy just wants to get back home. She's helped by the Good Fairy of the North, but ..read more »
72%
from 21,980 members
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Stella Dallas
(1937)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck
Director: King Vidor
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Stella Martin marries ambitious Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. But Stella's vulgar ways and resistance to improving herself lead to divorce. Stephen later marries respectable widow Helen Morrison and Laurel becomes the focus of Stella's life and love. Nothing is too good ..read more »
68%
from 25 members
Currently unavailable
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The Texas Rangers
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker
Director: King Vidor
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers, this sprawling historical western stars Fred MacMurray as Jim Hawkins, one of three outlaws working the Lone Star State in the years following the American Civil War.
Both Jim Hawkins and his partner in crime, Wahoo Jones (Jack Oakie), ..read more »
54%
from 53 members
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The Big Parade
(1925)
Starring: John Gilbert
Director: King Vidor
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The idle son of a rich businessman joins the army when the U.S.A. enters World War One. He is sent to France, where he becomes friends with two working-class soldiers. He also falls in love with a Frenchwoman, but has to leave her to move to the frontline.
68%
from 15 members
Currently unavailable
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...No wonder King Vidor never got involved with biblical epics (except, sadly, this one) because this is a truly poor pretentious and badly made in all departments of its pr...
