Mackinlay Kantor


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Gun Crazy (1949) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Sure Scare Him Off Fresh from their bank robbery in western gear, Annie (Peggy Cummins) and Bart (John Dall) switch to a nerd look for their escape from Hampton, in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy, 1949.
Gun Crazy (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Told You I Was No Good Newlyweds Annie (Peggy Cummins) and Bart (John Dall) discuss their future, considering their gun skills, in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy, 1949, from a MacKinaly Kantor story.
Gun Crazy (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Nice Get-Up Brief establishing shot then a technical marvel, director Joseph H. Lewis' one-shot bank robbery, with Peggy Cummins (as "Annie") and John Dall (as "Bart"), in Gun Crazy, 1949.
Gun Crazy (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Do I Hear A Challenge? Newly discharged soldier Bart (John Dall) at the carnival with buddies (Harry Lewis, Nedrick Young), meets sharpshooter Annie (Peggy Cummins) and her boss Packett (Berry Kroeger) in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy, 1949.
Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He's Home! Among the most famous, and probably best scenes Myrna Loy ever played, as Milly, wife of WWII veteran Al Stephenson (Fredric March), surprising her and the kids (Teresa Wright, Michael Hall) with his slightly-early return home, in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.
Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Wanna See The Freak? Big moment for novice actor Harold Russell, in the role that won him two Academy Awards, as veteran Homer, some weeks into his return home, girlfriend Wilma (Cathy O'Donnell) insisting nothing has changed, Marlene Aames his young sister, in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946,
Romance Of Rosy Ridge, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Rakin' Oats Drifter Henry (Van Johnson) charming all with a song and work in the fields, with Lissy Anne (Janet Leigh), her mother (Selena Royle), and father (Thomas Mitchell), still vexed over his loyalties in the recently-ended Civil War, in The Romance Of Rosy Ridge, 1947.
Romance Of Rosy Ridge, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) News Of Ben Burning map, quasi-Klansmen, and a camera turn under a bonnet begins Janet Leigh's movie career, as "Lissy Anne," misinterpreting a message from "Ninny Nat" (O.Z. Whitehead), opening MGM's The Romance Of Rosy Ridge, 1947.
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Nervous Out Of The Service De-mobbed Fred (Dana Andrews), Al (Fredric March) and Homer (Harold Russell), chatting in the nose of the plane, headed home to Boone City, early in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.
Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Looking For My Wife Newly back in town Fred (Dana Andrews), having crashed at her place after carousing with her fellow-veteran father, is delivered by teen Peggy (Teresa Wright) indirectly to his wife (Virginia Mayo), whom he is seeing for the first time, in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.
Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) I Just Dropped Bombs Just home from the war, decorated Air Force captain Fred (Dana Andrews) really isn't seeking his old job, but visiting his old boss (Erskine Sanford), and meeting the man (Howland Chamberlin) from the chain that bought him out, in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.
Gun Crazy (1949) -- (Movie Clip) He Was Always Good The heady opening from director Joseph H. Lewis, featurng "Rusty" Tamblyn as young Bart, Anabel Shaw as his mother, Morris Carnovsky as the juvenile court judge, from Gun Crazy, 1949, from a story by MacKinlay Kantor.

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