John Forbes (poet)

Imaginary Playmate (2006)

Actors: Don Cook (actor), Denis Corbett (actor), Grant Elliott (actor), Kurt Evans (actor), Jeffrey Flieler (actor), Gil Hayward (actor), Rick Ravanello (actor), Jim Shepard (actor), Yolanda Corbett (actress), Asia Lim (actress), Dina Meyer (actress), Nicole Muñoz (actress), Rosalynd Roome (actress), Cassandra Sawtell (actress), Pablo Coffey (actor),

Plot: Suzanne and her stepdaughter Molly move into a new house, hoping to start afresh after Molly's mum passed away. When the seven-year-old makes an 'imaginary friend' named Candace, Suzanne assumes it's just her way of coping with everything that's happened. But as Molly's behaviour becomes ever more erratic, Suzanne begins to suspect that her stepdaughter's new playmate might not be so imaginary after all.

Keywords: cemetery, ghost-story, imaginary-friend
Genres: Thriller,
Taglines: The past never dies.

Ski Lift to Death (1978)

Actors: Howard Duff (actor), Charles Frank (actor), Don Galloway (actor), Clu Gulager (actor), Trevor Hayden (actor), Pierre Jalbert (actor), Don Johnson (actor), Jim Love (actor), Don MacKay (actor), Bruce MacLeod (actor), Walter Marsh (actor), Graham McPherson (actor), Jack Olsen (actor), Steve Orchin (actor), Glenn Beck (actor),

Plot: A sports promoter tries to matchmake for a pair of ski champions and as a result, they end up trapped in a derailed ski-lift car, along with a gangster and the hitman sent to kill him.

Genres: Drama,

The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)

Actors: Rafael Alcayde (actor), Milton Bernstein (actor), José Chávez (actor), Richard H. Cutting (actor), Eduard Franz (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Lorne Greene (actor), Jock Mahoney (actor), Lee Morgan (actor), Ralph Neff (actor), Eduardo Noriega (actor), Edward Platt (actor), Carl Benton Reid (actor), Francisco Reiguera (actor), Gilbert Roland (actor),

Plot: A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.

Keywords: cowboy, cowboy-boots, cowboy-hat, cowboy-shirt, cowboys-and-outlaws, fistfight, gunfight, gunfighter, gunslinger, hands-tied-behind-back
Genres: Western,
Taglines: His Name Was Written With Bullets...

Quotes:

Brad Ellison: You wanted to see me?::John Forbes: I wanted to see the winner.::Brad Ellison: Nobody wins in a gunfight.

Maria O'Reilly: Do you know that every time you look at me, I feel like I am running around without any clothes on?::Brad Ellison: Gonna get mighty chilly when the sun goes down.

Brad Ellison: I've met a lot of men in my time. A woman they forget, a mine busting with gold, even the faces of their own children. But I've never met a man who forgot a grave he dug.

Pitfall (1948)

Actors: Byron Barr (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Raymond Burr (actor), Ben Erway (actor), Don Haggerty (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Jimmy Hunt (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), John Litel (actor), David McMahon (actor), Dick Powell (actor), Cap Somers (actor), Dick Wessel (actor), Ann Doran (actress), Lizabeth Scott (actress),

Plot: John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has embezzled from a store insured by Forbes' company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair. The only problem is that MacDonald, a private dick who freelances for the insurance company, has had his eyes on Mona first. The obsessed MacDonald turns the soon-to-be-released boyfriend against Forbes.

Keywords: based-on-novel, boat-ride, detective-agency, ex-cop, extramarital-affair, family-man, hard-boiled, insurance, modeling, modelling
Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller,
Taglines: A man can be as strong as steel...but somewhere there's a woman who'll break him! Her love was Pitfall... to the only man she didn't want to hurt...

Quotes:

Tommy Forbes: Dad was a boxer in college!::Doctor: I think he was wise to go into insurance.::Doctor: [handing a prescription to Sue Forbes] Take this up to the drug store.::Sue Forbes: What is it?::Doctor: A course in boxing.

John Forbes: How does it feel to be a decent, respectable married man?

Return of a Stranger (1937)

Actors: Howard Douglas (actor), David Farrar (actor), Peter Gawthorne (actor), James Harcourt (actor), Griffith Jones (actor), Cecil Ramage (actor), Harold Scott (actor), Athole Stewart (actor), Rosalyn Boulter (actress), Constance Godridge (actress), Ellis Jeffries (actress), Sylvia Marriott (actress), Edie Martin (actress), John Stafford (producer), Reginald Long (writer),

Plot: James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.

Keywords: 1930s, accident, attorney, b-movie, clue, death, disguise, doctor, engagement, england
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Streamline Express (1935)

Actors: Sidney Blackmer (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Morgan Brown (actor), Tommy Bupp (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Clay Clement (actor), Ralph Forbes (actor), Joseph W. Girard (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Victor Jory (actor), Lee Moran (actor), George Offerman Jr. (actor), Vince Barnett (actor),

Plot: A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.

Keywords: b-movie, baggage, bartender, blackmailer, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, california, cigarette-smoking, detective, diamond, diamond-theft
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance,

Anne Against the World (1929)

Actors: James Bradbury Jr. (actor), Thomas A. Curran (actor), Billy Franey (actor), Boris Karloff (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Henry Roquemore (actor), Isabelle Keith (actress), Shirley Mason (actress), Belle Stoddard (actress), Trem Carr (producer), Arthur Hoerl (writer), Duke Worne (director), J.S. Harrington (editor),

Genres: Drama,

Midnight Madness (1928)

Actors: Sidney Bracey (actor), James Bradbury Sr. (actor), Clive Brook (actor), Clarence Burton (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Emmett King (actor), Walter McGrail (actor), Louis Natheaux (actor), Broderick O'Farrell (actor), Oscar Smith (actor), Vadim Uraneff (actor), Jacqueline Logan (actress), Virginia Sale (actress), Hector Turnbull (producer), Richard N. Lee (writer),

Genres: ,
Taglines: The Most Dramatic Picture of the Season! He loved the girl who became his wife, but when he made the galling discovery that she had married him for his money, he took her to Africa to ---make her love him!---Did he succeed?---Come, see this amazing drama of love in jungle wilds.

When Youth Is Ambitious (1915)

Actors: Robert Cain (actor), George Clarke (actor), Kempton Greene (actor), Francis Joyner (actor), Betty Brice (actress), Mary Charleson (actress), Mary Crouse (actress), Leila Frost (actress), Mrs. Magee (actress), Siegmund Lubin (producer), Daniel Carson Goodman (writer), Joseph Kaufman (director),

Genres: Drama, Short,

A Face from the Past (1913)

Actors: Harry Beaumont (actor), Frank McGlynn Sr. (actor), Richard Neill (actor), Augustus Phillips (actor), John Sturgeon (actor), Mary Fuller (actress), Mary Fuller (actress), Frank Blighton (writer), Walter Edwin (director),

Genres: Drama, Short,