WAIChallenge: New Year, New Releases
As listed in the Jan 9, 2015 "New on Instant" newsletter from @WarnerArchive. The challenge: watch and rate all the flicks in this list. Use Twitter hashtag #WAIChallenge to spread the word and chart your progress. Watch'em and tweet'em y'all!
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- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsSteve CochranPhilip CareyMari AldonAn American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsWayne MorrisLola AlbrightLloyd CorriganWhen Yance Carter, Andy and Bart, professional killers, murder his father, 13-year-old Johnny Yorke is adopted by Thad Kring, owner of a traveling minstrel show, featuring Sam Cooper as his ace sharpshooter. For the next ten years, while working in the show and becoming an ace sharpshooter with Cooper as his mentor, the adult Johnny maintains a relentless search for Yance, whom he knows only as a big man with a missing finger and a high piercing laugh. In an attempt to find a restraining influence on the revenge-mad Johnny, Thad hires pretty Ann Walker to be Johnny's assistant in his sharp-shooting act, but Johnny's desire for revenge precludes marriage. When Yance, Andy and Bart hold up a train on which the minstrel troupe is traveling, Johnny gives pursuit, despite the pleadings of Ann and Thad. He trails the killers for several months without success, eventually winding up in Silver Springs, where the ministrel show is playing. Johnny agrees to perform his act with the troupe and, during the show, he hears Yance's peculiar laugh coming from the audience.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsRod CameronJane NighMorris AnkrumA greedy Missouri merchant overcharges the westbound settlers for goods and for passage to California while also stealing the Osages' supplies who consequently start attacking all passing wagon trains.
- DirectorThomas CarrStarsBill ElliottVirginia GreyHarry MorganDuring California's gold-rush, an undercover marshal, posing as a gunfighter, investigates the murder of another marshal who had been assigned to the region.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsErrol FlynnJoanne DruPeter FinchDuring the fourteenth century when the Hundred Years War between France and England is beginning the English occupation of French Aquitainia, rebel French Knights vow to oust Edward, Prince of Wales, ruler of Aquitaine.
- DirectorHarmon JonesStarsRichard ContePeggie CastleCharles BronsonSet during the Korean War, a unit of American soldiers, together with three British tank crew, find themselves trapped behind enemy lines.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsChad EverettMarilyn DevinDean JaggerIn WW2, highly decorated Marine Sgt. Jack Connell comes home to the USA from the Pacific War and trains recruits for the army until his fighting spirit prods him to request a return to active duty on the front lines.
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsVictor HenrySusan GeorgeJack ShepherdAn irresponsible window cleaner believes he has found true love with a woman he picked up in a tavern.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsWayne MorrisVirginia GreyGeorge TobiasThree men on camels chase a couple carrying gold through Death Valley.
- DirectorThomas CarrStarsWayne MorrisJimmy LydonBeverly GarlandFrom 1870 to 1873, Texas suffered under the carpetbag administration of Reconstructionist Governor E. J. Davis (the name and the stated conditions were about the only things authentic in this film) and his despotic state police commanded in John's City by Captain Jake Thornton. Two young men, Tom Cameron and Ray Novack, flee to the Big Bend area to escape persecution. Ray pretends to be Tom's friend but actually hates him because he is madly jealous that Laura Bannerman is to become Tom's wife. They join forces with Sam Garrett, a killer with a price on his head. Ray tries to kill Garret to collect the reward, but Tom saves Garrett's life and Ray flees back to John's City, where he is taken prisoner. Ray kills Thornton and another trooper, but Tom is blamed for the crimes. Garrett can clear him, but will he?
- DirectorLouis KingStarsSteve CochranWildfire the HorseRay TealIn this B-Feature western, a cowboy who snared a wild stallion and sells it to a cruel rodeo owner attempts to buy the horse back.
- DirectorTom McGowanStarsRobin HughesLuis ÁlvarezJames WilsonAdventurer George M. Dyatt is sent to find a fellow adventurer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, who went missing in the Amazon jungle in 1925 while searching for the lost city of Z (changed to El Dorado in the movie). Based on true events.
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsJimmy WakelyDub TaylorVirginia BelmontJimmy arrives in Rainbow's End, mistaken for an outlaw. He joins the sheriff's deputies to stop the Drago gang, from sabotaging the town's bid to become the new county seat through criminal means.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsBurt ReynoldsKieu ChinhDanielle AubryA young CIA agent is assigned to Saigon to stop a planned political assassination.
- DirectorRichard WilsonStarsErnest BorgnineZohra LampertAlan AustinBetween 1906-1909, NYPD Lieutenant Joe Petrosino heads the 'Italian Squad' and tries to stamp out organized crime from the city, often times amid assassination attempts by the Mafia.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsGeorge PeppardElizabeth AshleyRoddy McDowallA man involved in a car crash and suffering from amnesia, appears he has killed his sleazy nymphomaniac mistress, and is treated hostilely and coldly by his wife and despised by her cousin.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsViveca LindforsKent SmithJanis PaigeA drifter is bailed out of jail by a lawyer, who hires him to impersonate a millionaire until the man can be declared legally dead and the estate settled. However, the man soon finds out that things are not exactly how they seem.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsDavid JanssenJeanne CrainDina MerrillA famous movie star's fan-club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? Tom Alder investigates.
- DirectorHoward W. KochStarsMamie Van DorenLori NelsonJohn RussellTwo vagrant sisters work for crooked characters at a rock'n'roll prison-farm.
- DirectorThomas CarrStarsWhip WilsonTommy FarrellPhyllis CoatesWhen newcomers Whip and Bob break up a saloon fight they are made town Marshals. This puts then in the middle of the range war between large ranch owner Howard and the small ranchers. Everyone thinks Howard is the culprit but Whip believes otherwise.
- DirectorTerry O. MorseStarsNick AdamsRobert ConradJohn AshleyJohn Dillinger first goes to jail after attempting to rob his girlfriend's father at her suggestion. Falling in with the likes of Nelson and Floyd, he arranges their escape and they start on an escalating series of hold-ups.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsGlenn FordRuth RomanDenise DarcelA young lawyer encounters problems while relocating his family.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsKate ReidJohn AndersonA MartinezA female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murder of an international banker.