Philip Ober Movies

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Cary Grant

When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burt Lancaster

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Genre: War

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Don Knotts

Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes...

Genre: Western

Cast: Spencer Tracy

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Reynolds

Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bob Hope

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.

Genre: War

Cast: Glenn Ford

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Red Skelton

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Calhern

A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Booth

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Don Taylor

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off...

Genre: Family

Cast: Teresa Wright

A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Olive Borden

A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.

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Cast: Van Johnson

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greer Garson

Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gregory Peck

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Patrick O'Neal

Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Irene Dunne

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Reynolds

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burl Ives

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Marlon Brando

A wealthy, aging businessman with political ambitions conducts an adulturous affair with his daughter's roommate.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gary Cooper

A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Randall

An energetic newspaper copyboy in 1889 wants to become a reporter, and he is soon more deeply involved in his stories than he had expected. When he...

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Cast: Roger Mobley

Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: José Ferrer

The automotive glass industry was one of the most competitive industries in America in 1939. Automobile makers were very slow to adopt the much more...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Rennie