'Somers' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Just Ask My Children (2001)
Actors:
Scott Vickrey (editor),
Fred Eldridge (miscellaneous crew),
Patrick Williams (composer),
John Billingsley (actor),
Armin Shimerman (actor),
Gregory Smith (actor),
Virginia Madsen (actress),
Scott Paulin (actor),
Spencer Garrett (actor),
Robert Joy (actor),
Graham Beckel (actor),
Christopher Michael (actor),
Jeffrey Nordling (actor),
Deirdre O'Connell (actress),
J.J. Dalton (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A pedophilia witch-hunt is started in Bakersfield by two teenage girls' foppish child abuse claims. Blindly ambitious justice officials, especially in the prosecutor's office, conspire to arrest loving parents Scott and Brenda Kniffen, whose doted pre-teen sons Brian and Brandon are grilled endlessly until they repeat the vicious lies, the elder even ends up believing them while they pass from one foster home to the next, as even the grandparents are denied custody for not turning on their children. The defense's rights are systematically denied, so the parents go to jail for 240 years. The boys are near adulthood when the political tide finally turns.
Keywords: abuse, beating, black-eye, boy, brother-brother-relationship, child-abuse, custody, grandfather, jail, pedophile-witchhunt
Genres:
Drama,
Quotes:
Brenda Kniffen: Every night I pray and every morning I wake up to an empty room.
Brenda Kniffen: There is no force or pressure or bribe or price that would ever make me say I did that to my children. I would rather die here alone than ever have them think I did such a thing.
The House of Angelo (1997)
Actors:
Edward Woodward (producer),
Sylvia Syms (actress),
Edward Woodward (actor),
Julian Glover (actor),
Anthony Valentine (actor),
Peter Woodward (actor),
Peter Woodward (miscellaneous crew),
Peter Woodward (writer),
Peter Woodward (producer),
Tim Woodward (actor),
Rudolph Walker (actor),
David Robb (actor),
Isla Blair (actress),
Don Reynolds (producer),
Jim Goddard (director),
Genres:
,
The Immigrants (1978)
Actors:
Edward W. Williams (editor),
Gerald Fried (composer),
Susan Strasberg (actress),
John Saxon (actor),
Barry Sullivan (actor),
Lloyd Bochner (actor),
Sharon Gless (actress),
Kevin Dobson (actor),
Richard Anderson (actor),
Don Keefer (actor),
Byron Morrow (actor),
Stephen Macht (actor),
Roddy McDowall (actor),
Regis Cordic (actor),
Aharon Ipalé (actor),
Plot: A young Italian immigrant who loses everything in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake starts over again and builds up a shipping empire, but doesn't find the happiness he thought would come with wealth until he takes up with a young Chinese girl.
Keywords: based-on-novel, italian-immigrant
Genres:
Drama,
The Mango Tree (1977)
Actors:
John Scott (editor),
Tony Barry (actor),
Michael Pate (producer),
Michael Pate (writer),
Geraldine Fitzgerald (actress),
Bill Gooley (miscellaneous crew),
Gerard Kennedy (actor),
Michael Lake (producer),
Tony Bonner (actor),
Jonathan Hardy (actor),
Robert Helpmann (actor),
Gary Day (actor),
Diane Craig (actress),
Gerry Duggan (actor),
Kevin James Dobson (director),
Plot: Jamie is a young man growing up in the small Australian town of Bundaberg during the early 1940's. Jamie loves his tranquil life, surrounded by the friendly locals, and being brought up by his warm caring grandmother. But when a local preacher goes nutty, all hell breaks loose for the community, and Jamie leaves Bundaberg for the city.
Keywords: based-on-novel, independent-film
Genres:
Drama,
Taglines: A town of amazing people. A story that crowds a lifetime into a few, short years. And a young man who experienced it all. As a nation came of age, so did he.
The Highwayman (1958)
Actors:
Louis Hayward (actor),
Robert Day (director),
Sam Kydd (actor),
Adrienne Corri (actress),
Richard O'Sullivan (actor),
Sidney Cole (producer),
Jack May (actor),
Thomas Heathcote (actor),
Carl Bernard (actor),
Michael Peake (actor),
Stanley Van Beers (actor),
Anne Blake (actress),
Peter Coke (actor),
John Dearth (actor),
Peter Retey (actor),
Genres:
Adventure,
Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)
Actors:
James Conaty (actor),
Jack Mower (actor),
John Qualen (actor),
John Alvin (actor),
Tom McGuire (actor),
Bill McLean (actor),
Walter Merrill (actor),
James Griffith (actor),
Creighton Hale (actor),
Harlan Briggs (actor),
Fred Howard (actor),
George Bunny (actor),
Morgan Farley (actor),
Fred Kelsey (actor),
Phil Tead (actor),
Plot: Congresswoman Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for homecoming, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. Their attempts at rekindling any sparks are thwarted by the arrival of another rival for her affections and the showing of her controversial film which could put her former beau's job in jeopardy.
Keywords: based-on-play, college, love-affair, marriage-proposal, old-flame, politician, professor, reporter, rhyme-in-title, student
Genres:
Comedy,
Romance,
Taglines: No one holds a candle to Joan -- when Joan is carrying the torch!
Quotes:
Claude Griswold: I should have known from her voting record in Congress, there was something in her past.
Ellen Griswold: You don't get expelled for staying out all night, unless there is a man connected with it. Who was it, Ag?
Matt Cole: Doesn't the president have anything to say about it?::Doctor Pitt: Oh yes, of course, but only if Mr. Griswold has said it first.
Matt Cole: This overwhelming desire to return to the past... girlhood memories, old pictures, old sofas, old sweethearts. Old hat!::Agatha Reed: You've been on war fronts so long that a decent atmosphere is bound to seem a little incongruous.
Matt Cole: Open your eyes, Aggie. This is a lost world up here. And Merrill's the perfect president for it.
Agatha Reed: We were a nice snapshot but never a family portrait.
Agatha Reed: You mustn't mind Woody, her mind's always on the tip of her tongue.
Miss 'Woody' Woods: I know who you are. You're here to cause trouble, that's who you are.
Virginia Merrill: Come on, Mary Nell, let's leave Miss Reed alone with her memories.::Miss 'Woody' Woods: Miss Reed is alone with her memories; outside under a tree.::Virginia Merrill: Then who're...::Miss 'Woody' Woods: Me? I just carry the typewriter.::Virginia Merrill: Oh, you're her secretary! Oh, I'm so glad!::Miss 'Woody' Woods: Well, don't shoot off any firecrackers!
Miss 'Woody' Woods: [Seeing Agatha searching the desk drawer] May I ask what you're doing?::Agatha Reed: There's a secret compartment in this desk; I used to keep brownies in it to hide them from Ellie.::Miss 'Woody' Woods: Who's Ellie?::Agatha Reed: My roommate. You share your clothes, your perfume, and even your themes with your roommate , but never your... [Pulling out a tin, and opening it] brownies!::Miss 'Woody' Woods: Zooks! they must be stale!::Agatha Reed: [chewing] Fresh this week. go on, have one.::Miss 'Woody' Woods: No thanks. They stick to my teeth.
Follies Girl (1943)
Actors:
Arthur Pierson (miscellaneous crew),
Jack Lambert (actor),
Larry Ceballos (miscellaneous crew),
William Rowland (director),
Marcy Klauber (writer),
Arthur L. Jarrett (writer),
William Rowland (producer),
Virginia Mayo (actress),
Wendy Barrie (actress),
Marcy Klauber (writer),
Arthur Pierson (actor),
Cora Witherspoon (actress),
Gordon Oliver (actor),
William Harrigan (actor),
J.C. Nugent (actor),
Genres:
Comedy,
Music,
Taglines: A RHYTHM-JAMMED JAMBOREE OF MIRTH! (original poster-all caps) Stars...and Song...and Glamour to whirl you into a world of new show wonders! (original poster) With 4 Great Band Leaders in One Great Extravadanza! (original poster) Featuring RADIO'S FAMOUS BAND LEADERS - JOHNNY LONG - BOBBY BYRNE - RAY HEATHERTON - ERNIE HOLST (original poster)
Confidential Lady (1940)
Actors:
Samuel Sax (producer),
Ben Lyon (actor),
Gibb McLaughlin (actor),
Gordon McLeod (actor),
Stewart Rome (actor),
Brock Williams (writer),
Jean Cadell (actress),
Bretton Byrd (composer),
Frederick Burtwell (actor),
Athole Stewart (actor),
Arthur B. Woods (director),
Derek N. Twist (writer),
Jane Baxter (actress),
Ronald Ward (actor),
Vera Bogetti (actress),
Genres:
Romance,
