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Hope Summers
Actress 1896 - 1979

Hope Summers

Mattoon, Illinois, USA

Hope Summers could portray a friendly neighbor or companion as she did for Frances Bavier's Aunt Bee character on many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) or a seemingly amiable Satanist in Rosemary's Baby (1968). Born in Mattoon, Illinois, she developed an early... Read full bio →

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19 titles
Foul Play

Foul Play

Colin Higgins 1978 1h 56m 8.0

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

Evil Town

Evil Town

Curtis Hanson, Larry Spiegel 1977 1h 22m 5.0

Passing through a small town, a stranger discovers that a crazed scientist is creating an army of zombies.

Charley Varrick

Charley Varrick

Don Siegel 1973 1h 51m 8.2

Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.

The Learning Tree

The Learning Tree

Gordon Parks 1969 1h 47m

A bittersweet, idyllic story about a year in the life of 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor Black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, and immorality.

Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby

Roman Polanski 1968 2h 18m 8.0

Rosemary’s Baby is a classic physiological horror film from Roman Polanski about a young couple who move into a New York apartment to start a family and have a baby. Things soon turn ugly as Rosemary believes her baby isn’t safe around their strange neighbors.

5 Card Stud

5 Card Stud

Henry Hathaway 1968 1h 43m 5.6

After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against. Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered, one after another; all by hanging.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Alan Rafkin 1966 1h 30m 7.0

A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter--until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.

Penelope

Penelope

Arthur Hiller 1966 1h 38m 6.0

Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of $60,000.

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail

John Sturges 1965 2h 45m 5.5

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

Spencer's Mountain

Spencer's Mountain

Delmer Daves 1963 1h 58m 7.0

Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia.

The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour

William Wyler 1961 1h 48m 8.7

An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.

Homicidal

Homicidal

William Castle 1961 1h 27m 6.0

A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father.

Claudelle Inglish

Claudelle Inglish

Gordon Douglas 1961 1h 39m

A rural southern girl reaches the age where she's ready for a little excitement away from home. Director Gordon Douglas' 1961 drama stars Diane McBain, Arthur Kennedy, Will Hutchins, Chad Everett, Constance Ford, Claude Akins, Frank Overton, James Bell and Hope Summers.

Angel Baby

Angel Baby

Paul Wendkos, Hubert Cornfield 1961 1h 38m

A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South - she to save souls and heal the sick, he to make as much money as he possibly can.

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind

Stanley Kramer 1960 2h 8m 7.6

This gripping adaptation of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play examines an issue that still causes great controversy: the role religion should play in the schools.

Edge of Eternity

Edge of Eternity

Don Siegel 1959 1h 20m 6.0

Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!

Robert Wise 1958 2h 8.3

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police arresting them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.

Zero Hour!

Zero Hour!

Hall Bartlett 1957 1h 21m 7.0

A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie. Written by Michael Brooke

Black Patch

Black Patch

Allen H. Miner 1957 1h 22m

A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil War, takes his job seriously, especially after an old friend, Hank Danner, arrives in ...

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