Around the World in 80 Days sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days is a 1956 Technicolor epic action adventure comedy film starring David Niven and Cantinflas, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.
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From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. The picture deals with the tribulations of three U.S. Army soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra, stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed portray the women in their lives and the supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden, Mickey Shaughnessy, Claude Akins, and George Reeves.
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The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film with elements of film noir, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. Although the addictive drug is never identified in the film, according to the American Film Institute most contemporary and modern sources assume that it is heroin, in contrast to Algrens book which named the drug as morphine. 3 The film stars Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin. It was adapted for the screen by Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer and Ben Hecht uncredited, and directed by Otto Preminger. 4 The films initial release sparked controversy due to its serious, indepth treatment of the thentaboo subject of drug addiction. 3 5
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Cool World is a 1992 American liveactionanimated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi, 1 and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne and Brad Pitt. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he thinks he created, and is seduced by one of the characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to be real. Cool World marked Bakshis return to feature films after nine years. The film was originally pitched as an animated horror film about an underground cartoonist who fathers an illegitimate halfhumanhalfcartoon daughter, who hates herself for what she is and tries to kill him.
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Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by MGM. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway musical by composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows based on The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure, two short stories by Damon Runyon. 1 Dances were choreographed by Michael Kidd, who had also staged the dances for the Broadway production.
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Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 American musical film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Bing Crosby. The picture features Peter Falk, Barbara Rush, and Edward G. Robinson in an uncredited cameo.
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The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American blackandwhite Cold War neo noir suspense thriller, produced by George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Janet Leigh, costarring are Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, and James Gregory. The screenplay by George Axelrod is based on the 1959 novel by Richard Condon.
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Never So Few is a 1959 CinemaScope war film, directed by John Sturges and starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul Henreid, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jones, Charles Bronson, and Philip Ahn, and featuring uncredited roles by renowned Asian actors Mako, George Takei and James Hong. The script was loosely based on an actual OSS Detachment 101 incident recorded in a 1957 novel by Tom T. Chamales. 3 Sinatras character of Captain Tom Reynolds is based on a real OSS officer and, later, sheriff of Sangamon County, Illinois, U.S. Navy Lt. Meredith Rhule. 4 5
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Till The Clouds Roll By is a 1946 Technicolor American musical film made by MGM. The film is a fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern, portrayed by Robert Walker. Kern was originally involved with the production of the film, but died before it was completed. Till the Clouds Roll By has a large cast of wellknown musical stars of the day who appear performing Kerns songs. It was the first in a series of MGM biopics about Broadways composers it was followed by Words and Music Rodgers and Hart, 1948, Three Little Words Kalmar and Ruby, 1950, and Deep in My Heart Sigmund Romberg, 1954. 1
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High Society is a 1956 American musical comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. The film was produced by Sol C. Siegel for MetroGoldwynMayer, and shot in VistaVision and Technicolor, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Based on the play The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry, with a screenplay by John Patrick, the film is about a successful popular jazz musician who tries to win back the affections of his exwife, who is preparing to marry another man. The jazz musician encounters additional competition from an undercover tabloid reporter, who is also in love with his exwife, who now must choose among three very different men. High Society was the last film appearance of Grace Kelly, before she became Princess consort of Monaco.
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Pal Joey is a 1957 American Technicolor musical film, loosely adapted from the musical play of the same name, and starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. Jo Ann Greer sang for Hayworth, as she had done previously in Affair in Trinidad and Miss Sadie Thompson. Kim Novaks singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin. George Sidney directed, with the choreography managed by Hermes Pan. Nelson Riddle handled the musical arrangements for the Rodgers and Hart standards The Lady is a Tramp, I Didnt Know What Time It Was, I Could Write a Book and Theres A Small Hotel.
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On the Town is a 1949 musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944 which itself is an adaptation of the Jerome Robbins ballet entitled Fancy Free which was also produced in 1944, 2 although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage version for instance, most of Bernsteins music was dropped in favor of new songs by Edens, who disliked the majority of the Bernstein score, for being too complex and too operatic. This caused Bernstein to boycott the film.
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Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by George Sidney and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, in which two sailors go on a fourday shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at MetroGoldwynMayer. In addition to a liveaction Kelly dancing with Jerry Mouse the cartoon mouse, the movie also features Jos Iturbi, Pamela Britton, Dean Stockwell, and Sharon McManus. 3
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Kings Go Forth is a 1958 blackandwhite World War II film starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood. The screenplay was written by Merle Miller from the novel of the same name by Joe David Brown, and the film was directed by Delmer Daves. The plot involves friends of different backgrounds manning an observation post in Southern France who fall in love with the same French girl. She proves to be of American Mulatto ancestry. Themes of racism and miscegenation provide the conflict elements between the leading characters, something that was out of the ordinary for films of the time, while the setting during the socalled Champagne Campaign remains unique.
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Some Came Running is a CinemaScope 1958 in Metrocolor American film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine, based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It tells the story of a troubled Army veteran and author who returns to his Midwestern hometown after 16 years, to the chagrin of his wealthy, socialclimbing brother.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a 1949 Technicolor musical film starring Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, and Gene Kelly. The movie was directed by Busby Berkeley. The title and nominal theme is taken from the unofficial anthem of American baseball, Take Me Out to the Ball Game. The movie was released in the United Kingdom as Everybodys Cheering.
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The House I Live In is a tenminute short film written by Albert Maltz, produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Frank Sinatra. Made to oppose antiSemitism at the end of World War II, it received an Honorary Academy Award 1 and a special Golden Globe award in 1946.
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Not to be confused with the similarly named Pride and Prejudice.
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The Detective is a 1968 Neo Noir film directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp.
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Assault on a Queen is a 1966 American actionadventure film, directed by Jack Donohue, starring Frank Sinatra and Italian beauty Virna Lisi. Based on a 1959 novel by Jack Finney, it was adapted for the screen by Rod Serling and released by Paramount Pictures on June 15, 1966.
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CanCan is a 1960 musical film made by SuffolkCummings productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Jack Cummings and Saul Chaplin, from a screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer, loosely based on the musical play by Abe Burrows with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, with some songs replaced by songs from earlier Porter musicals. Art direction was by Jack Martin Smith and Lyle R. Wheeler, costume design by Irene Sharaff and dance staging by Hermes Pan. The film was photographed in ToddAO. It was, after BenHur, the top grossing film of 1960, although it was a box office disappointment failing to make back its production costs.
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Suddenly is a 1954 American film noir 1 thriller directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale. The drama features Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates, among others. 2
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None but the Brave, also known as Ysha nomi , None but the brave men? in Japan, is a 1965 war film starring Frank Sinatra although in a supporting role, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands and Brad Dexter. This is the only film directed by Frank Sinatra, and the first JapaneseAmerican coproduction, 2 produced by Sinatra for Warner Bros. and Kikumaru Okuda for Toho Studios.
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The Miracle of the Bells is a 1948 film produced by RKO. It stars Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, and Lee J. Cobb. Directed by Irving Pichel, with a script by Quentin Reynolds and Ben Hecht.
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Cannonball Run II is a 1984 American comedy film starring Burt Reynolds and an allstar cast, released by Warner Bros. and Golden Harvest. Like the original Cannonball Run, it is a set around an illegal crosscountry race.
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The First Deadly Sin is a book written by Lawrence Sanders in 1973 and a 1980 movie produced by and starring Frank Sinatra. The film also features Faye Dunaway, David Dukes, Brenda Vaccaro, James Whitmore, Martin Gabel in his final role and Bruce Willis in his film debut.
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Sergeants 3 is a 1962 remake of Gunga Din 1939 set in the American West, directed by John Sturges and featuring Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. It was the last film to feature all five members of the Rat Pack due to Sinatras falling out with Lawford.
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Tony Rome is a 1967 American Neo Noir detective film starring Frank Sinatra and directed by Gordon Douglas, adapted from Marvin H. Alberts novel Miami Mayhem. It also stars Jill St. John, Sue Lyon and Gena Rowlands.
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A Hole in the Head 1959 is a comedy film directed by Frank Capra, featuring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Dub Taylor, Ruby Dandridge, Eddie Hodges, and Joi Lansing, and released by United Artists. 2 3
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Cast a Giant Shadow is a 1966 bigbudget action film 2 based on the life of Colonel Mickey Marcus, and stars Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra and Angie Dickinson. 3 Melville Shavelson adapted, produced and directed. 4
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Double Dynamite is a 1951 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra. The film was written by Leo Rosten, Mel Shavelson, Mannie Manheim, and Harry Crane.
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Sinatra is a 1992 CBS miniseries biography and drama about singer Frank Sinatra, developed and executive produced by Franks youngest daughter Tina Sinatra and approved by Frank himself. Directed by James Steven Sadwith, produced by Richard M. Rosenbloom, and written by William Mastrosimone and Abby Mann. It stars Philip Casnoff, Olympia Dukakis, Joe Santos, Gina Gershon, Nina Siemaszko, and Marcia Gay Harden, with some of Sinatras vocals recreated by Tom Burlinson. It won two and was nominated for seven Emmy Awards, along with a win and two nominations for a Golden Globe Award. Released on November 8, 1992, it was rereleased on a twodisc DVD Warner Home Video on May 13, 2008.
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A Man Called Adam is a 1966 dramatic film starring Sammy Davis, Jr., Ossie Davis and Cicely Tyson. Directed by Leo Penn, it tells the story of a selfdestructive jazz musician, played by Davis, and his tumultuous relationships with the people in his life. In addition to Davis, the film features appearances by such noted musical names as Louis Armstrong, Mel Torm and Frank Sinatra, Jr. The picture also marked the film debut of Lola Falana.
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The Joker Is Wild is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Charles Vidor, starring Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, and Eddie Albert, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is about Joe E. Lewis, the popular singer and comedian who was a major attraction in nightclubs from the 1920s to the early 1950s.
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4 for Texas is a 1963 American western comedy starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, and featuring screen thugs Charles Bronson and Mike Mazurki, with a cameo appearance by Arthur Godfrey and the Three Stooges Larry Fine, Moe Howard and Curly Joe DeRita. The film was written by Teddi Sherman and Robert Aldrich, who also directed.
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The Naked Runner is a 1967 British espionage film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan and Edward Fox. It was the last film Sinatra made with Warner Bros. and is largely viewed as being a fairly disastrous end to his association with the studio.
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The Tender Trap 1955 is a CinemaScope Eastman Color comedy starring Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, and Celeste Holm.
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Frank Sinatra A Man and His Music was a onehour television special in color, first broadcast by NBC on November 24, 1965, to mark the occasion of Frank Sinatras 50th birthday. It was directed by the multiEmmywinning Dwight Hemion. Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth were the head writers. Telecast at a time when television had just switched to fulltime color programming except for feature films shot in blackandwhite, the show was an enormous success, so much so that it spawned two followups A Man and His Music Part II 1966, featuring Nancy Sinatra, and A Man and His Music Ella Jobim 1967, starring Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobim. An album by Sinatra, also titled A Man and His Music, was released at around the same time as the special.
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Marriage on the Rocks is a 1965 comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin about a businessmans wife who ends up divorced by mistake and then married to his best friend by an even bigger mistake. The film was written by Cy Howard and directed by Jack Donohue.
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Lady in Cement is a 1968 Neo Noir detective film, directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Martin Gabel and Richard Conte.
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Upbeat in Music is a 1943 short film produced as part of The March of Time series distributed theatrically by 20th Century Fox. 1 The film has significant history as being early film appearances of Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. The film also features footage of Glenn Miller in uniform as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force leading the U.S. Army Training Command Band.
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Higher and Higher is a 1944 1 musical film starring Michle Morgan, Jack Haley, and Frank Sinatra in his film debut, loosely based on a 1940 Broadway musical written by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan. The film version, written by Jay Dratler and Ralph Spence with additional dialogue by William Bowers and Howard Harris, diverges significantly from its source.
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It Happened in Brooklyn is a 1947 MGM musical romantic comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, and Jimmy Durante and featuring Gloria Grahame and Marcy McGuire. It Happened in Brooklyn was Sinatras third film for MetroGoldwynMayer, who had purchased his contract from RKO because Louis B. Mayer was a huge Sinatra fan. 2 full citation needed
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Not as a Stranger is a 1955 drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Morton Thompson. The romantic melodrama novel was widely popular, topping that years list of bestselling novels in the United States.
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Ship Ahoy is the title of a 1942 musicalcomedy film produced by MGM, starring Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton.
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La Classe amricaine American Class, also known as Le Grand Dtournement The Great Dtournement, is a 1993 French television film, written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mzerette. It consists exclusively of extracts of old Warner Bros. films, put together and dubbed with new lines so as to create an entirely new film.
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Polanski Unauthorized is a theatrically released biographical film about the life of film director Roman Polanski. 1 2 It opened in Los Angeles in February 2009 and was released on DVD in July 2009.
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Dirty Dingus Magee is a comic 1970 antiwestern film starring Frank Sinatra as the title outlaw and George Kennedy as a sheriff out to capture him. The movie was based on the novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee by David Markson and the screenplay was partly written by Joseph Heller. 1 It was directed by Burt Kennedy.
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Meet Danny Wilson is a 1952 film starring Frank Sinatra and Shelley Winters. The movie was directed by Joseph Pevney and written by Don McGuire. Sinatra, during his famous career slump between his bobbysoxer heyday and From Here to Eternity 1953, plays a smalltime singer who vaults to the top of his profession only to be threatened by a gangster Raymond Burr.
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Come Blow Your Horn is a 1963 American comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, directed by Bud Yorkin with a screenplay by Norman Lear, and based on the play of the same name by Neil Simon.
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King Kennedy is an upcoming drama thriller film set in the 1960s made entirely from archive material. The film stars some of the most prominent characters from 1960s America, including US President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, the AfricanAmerican civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, convicted assassins Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan and the film worlds brightest icons of that time Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. The plot line revolves around the concepts of truth and freedom, but pursues further towards deception, intrigue, conspiracy and murder, and features some of the most memorable moments in 1960s America, including Marilyn Monroes world famous Happy Birthday, Mr. President at Madison Square Garden and Martin Luther Kings I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The film is designed primarily to remind, focusing on the characters and events that build up to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King as their apparent determination to shy away from war, discrimination and hatred became ever more publicized.
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Johnny Concho is a 1956 film starring Frank Sinatra, Phyllis Kirk and Keenan Wynn and directed by Don McGuire. This was Sinatras first Western and the role allowed him to play against type in his portrayal of the films villain. This film was unsuccessful for Sinatra, but he made four films the previous year and in 1956 also had a hit in High Society with MetroGoldwynMayer, filmed in Panavision and color.
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The Kissing Bandit is a 1948 film starring Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson. The supporting cast includes Ricardo Montalban, Ann Miller, and Cyd Charisse. The movie was directed by Laslo Benedek.
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Step Lively is a 1944 American musical film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Sinatra. Step Lively was based on the play Room Service, by Allen Boretz and John Murray. This was a remake of the 1938 RKO movie Room Service, starring the Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball, and Ann Miller.
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Road to Victory is a 1944 short film notable for the appearance of Bing Crosby, a major singing and movie star, Cary Grant, a major actor in motion pictures, and Frank Sinatra, a young singer who would soon become a movie star himself. The short also featured Benny Goodman and Harry James. The movie was an edited and truncated rerelease of The Shining Future from the same year.
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A Man and His Music Part II was a 1966 television special starring Frank Sinatra, accompanied by the orchestras of Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins, and also featuring Nancy Sinatra.
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