Oscar Brodney

Oscar Brodney

Total Credits at Criticker: 37 (Writer)

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    Harvey
    Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) is a mild-mannered, pleasant man, who just happens (he says) to have an invisible friend resembling a 6-foot rabbit. (imdb)
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    The Glenn Miller Story
    The biography of the Bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944, with a lot of his arangements, partly in an authentic cast. (imdb)
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    Ghost Fever
    Two policeman are sent on a routine assignment to serve an eviction notice. It becomes anything but run-of-the-mill when they become involved in the ghostly happenings. (imdb)
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    Tammy and the Bachelor
    An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman. (imdb)
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    The Black Shield of Falworth
    In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day they journey to Macworth castle. There Myles falls in love with the Mackworth's daughter Anne, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight so that, through the planning of Mackworth and his friend, Prince Hal, Myles can regain his true birthright from the evil Albon, and bear the black shield of Falworth. (imdb)
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    The Brass Bottle
    Comedy about the proverbial genie who comes out of a bottle to serve his new master. The only problem is that instead of helping his master, the genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of. (imdb)
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    Captain Lightfoot
    A pair of Irish rebels have swashbuckling adventures in 1815. (imdb)
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    Sign of the Pagan
    With the Roman Empire divided, Attila the Hun hopes to conquer. In his way are a brave centurion, a beautiful princess...and Christianity. (imdb)
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    Lady Godiva of Coventry
    Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady. (imdb)
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    Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
    Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers. (imdb)
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    For the Love of Mary
    Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics. (imdb)
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    An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiancée, but problems arise when the fiancée is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness. (imdb)
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    Tammy and the Doctor
    This time around, Tammy, played by Sandra Dee, becomes a nurse's aid to care for an old rich woman and causes a commotion. Since she is charming and warm, everyone likes her--especially Dr. Mark Cheswick (Peter Fonda)--who is warned by boss Dr. Bentley (MacDonald Carey) of the consequences of his pursuit. Fearing for his job, Doc Cheswick backs off, but everything gets complicated by romantic inclinations between head nurse Rachel Coleman (Margaret Lindsay) and head Doc Bentley. (allmovie.com)
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    Tammy Tell Me True
    In this emotional romance, the young backwoods girl Tammy lives in a houseboat on the river. She is very sad because she hasn't heard from her college-student boyfriend in ages. Determined to be near him, she cruises her boat down to his university and enrolls. To pay expenses she gets a job. Her new boss is pleased and ends up borrowing Tammy's boat for a short vacation. She then gives the girl an expensive necklace. Tammy soon finds herself pursued by a handsome professor. (imdb)
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    Comanche Territory
    Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue. (imdb)
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    Francis Covers the Big Town
    A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial. (imdb)
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    Francis Goes to the Races
    The owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters. (imdb)
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    Francis Goes to West Point
    Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point. (imdb)
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    Star in the Dust
    The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law. (imdb)
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    The Gal Who Took the West
    In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two brothers. (imdb)
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    Frenchie
    Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other. (imdb)
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    A Day of Fury
    While on a manhunt the Marshal is saved by a passing gunslinger named Jagade. It is a time when law is coming to the west and when the gunslinger shows up in the Marshals' town the Marshal is caught between the town citezens fears and the debt he owes the gunslinger. The situation is further complicated by a previous relationship between the Marshal's fiancée and Jagade. (imdb)
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    Scarlet Angel
    Pursued by a sea captain, larcenous saloon queen Roxy McClanahan assumes the identity of a Civil War widow with wealthy relatives. (imdb)
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    Walking My Baby Back Home
    Talented GI pals group up to form a band, but do not find true fame until they adopt that lively Dixieland sound. (allrovi.com)
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    The Sword of Ali Baba
    Ali Baba (Peter Mann) battles against the Mongol invaders and fights for the woman he loves.
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    Bobbikins
    Parents Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult. (imdb)
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    When Hell Broke Loose
    Near the end of the war, GI Steve Boland, a self-described "sharp-operator", meets a German girl, Ilsa, and they fall in love. Ilsa's brother Karl and his fellow-Nazi Ludwig visit Ilsa and announce they are "Werewolves", Nazi assassins parachuted behind Allied lines. She and Steve go to Army Intelligence with they information, where Steve is immediately arrest for being A.W.O.L.
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    South Sea Sinner
    A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because "men like her too much." But Coral's slimy boss Cognac gets her a reprieve so she can learn Jake's secret. In the process, Coral gets a bit too fond of Jake, who (suspected of wartime collaboration) resolves on new efforts to clear himself, but more complications arise. (TCM)
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    She Wrote the Book
    A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name.
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    Rhythm of the Islands
    Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief. Joan Holton (Jane Frazee), daughter of a millionaire (Ernest Truex), falls in love with Tommy, unaware that he’s a charlatan.
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    When Johnny Comes Marching Home
    Allan Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation heaped upon him and takes refuge under an assumed name in a theatrical boarding house. Here he befriends orchestra leader Phil Spitalny and his all-girl aggregation, including the inimitable Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. When Army officials trace Johnny to the boarding house, his new friends assume that he’s a deserter and try to convince him to return to duty.
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    If You Knew Susie
    In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker. (imdb)
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    Moonlight in Havana
    Singing Johnny Norton is the star catcher of the Blue Sox baseball team but he is suspended because of insubordination. Producer Barney Crane hears Johnny singing and signs him to appear with Gloria Jackson, with the promise their first engagement will be in Havana. Johnny, hoping to get his baseball job back, is anxious to get to Cuba where the Blue Sox are having spring training. Patsy Clark, daughter of Blue Sox owner, Joe Clark, helps Johnny get another chance with the team.
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    On Stage Everybody
    A vaudevillian (Jack Oakie) who staunchly believes that radio is a threat to his livelihood eventually develops an appreciation of the airwaves.
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    A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to stay married to him.
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    What a Blonde
    Lingerie tycoon F. Farrington Fowler is in a spot as he has ran out of gas-ration coupons. He enlists his butler, Pomeroy, to drum up riders so that he can get extra coupons from the ration board. Pomeroy gets a bunch of showgirls and parks them in Fowler's mansion, this being easy since Mrs. Fowler is away visiting her mother. Leon brings home a young promoter. The showgirls, headed by Pat, run riot on the premises and Fowler passes them off as new domestics when Mrs. Fowler returns.
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    Yes Sir, That\
    At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.
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