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Frank Cavett

Filmography

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7 titles
The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth

Cecil B. DeMille 1952 2h 32m 6.8

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri

William A. Wellman 1951 1h 18m 6.7

In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Stuart Heisler 1947 1h 43m 7.0

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

The Corn Is Green

The Corn Is Green

Irving Rapper 1945 1h 55m 6.0

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

Going My Way

Going My Way

Leo McCarey 1944 2h 6m 6.7

When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of his new assistant.

Syncopation

Syncopation

William Dieterle 1942 1h 28m 6.0

Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues.

Second Chorus

Second Chorus

H. C. Potter 1940 1h 24m 6.0

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

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