TV Guide: Anne Francis

Listing: Portrait of Jennie

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:30:00 -0500

Wed Dec 10 01:30 AM TCM

Listing: Till Death Do We Volley

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:30:00 -0500

Tue Dec 9 08:30 AM LIFE Dorothy and her "best friend" from high school take their long-standing rivalry to the tennis court. Trudy: Anne Francis. Jack: Robert King. Dorothy: Beatrice Arthur. Woman at Reunion: Jean Palmerton.

Video: Forbidden Planet

iTunes — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:16:36 -0500

A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings. There are many wonders on Altair-4, but none is greater or more deadly than the human mind. Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the remarkable Robby...and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all- electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.

Video: Blackboard Jungle

iTunes — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:43:47 -0500

Glen Ford is riveting as a dedicated teacher whose idealism fades under the tensions that rip his classroom apart. Anne Francis and Sidney Poitier co-star.

Video: Bad Day at Black Rock - (A TCM Featurette)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:04:40 -0500

Anne Francis discusses the making of the suspense thriller Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) with co-star Spencer Tracy.

Video: Forbidden Planet

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:03:48 -0500

MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline based on Shakespeare's {+The Tempest}. In the 23rd century, Cmdr. J.J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) guides United Planets cruiser C-57-D on a rescue mission to faraway planet Altair-4. Twenty years earlier, Earth ship Bellerophon disappeared while en route to Altair-4. Only the ship's philologist, Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), survived; in the intervening decades, Morbius has created an Edenlike world of his own, for the benefit of himself and his nubile young daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis). His private paradise is zealously guarded by Robby the Robot, a piece of technology far in advance of anything on Earth. When Adams and his crew land on Altair-4, Morbius announces that he has no intention of being rescued and returned to Earth. When Adams attempts to contact home base, he finds that his radio equipment has been smashed by some unseen force. Holding Morbius responsible, Adams confronts the

Video: Bad Day At Black Rock

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:54:32 -0500

This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945, the first time the train has stopped there in years. He looks for both a hotel room and a local Japanese farmer named Komoko, but his inquiries are greeted at first with open hostility, then with blunt threats and harassment, and finally with escalating violence. MacReedy soon realizes that he will not be allowed to leave Black Rock; town boss Reno Smith (Robert Ryan), who had Komoko killed because of his hatred of the Japanese, has also marked MacReedy for death. MacReedy must battle town thugs, a treacherous local woman (Anne Francis), and finally Smith himself to stay alive. The entire cast is flawless, especially Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin as the mean-spirited town bullies, and the relentlessly paced action never eclipses the film's sobering themes. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Gu

Video: Little Vegas

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:45:35 -0500

Anthony John Denison stars as Carmine DeCarlo, a man trying to break free of familial mob ties after his middle-aged lover (Anne Francis) dies. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide.

Video: Silent Night, Deadly Night

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:31:24 -0500

Anne Francis guest stars as millionairess Doris Bristol, whose bodyguard, Joe DeLeon is slain after he spots criminal Frank Malloy posing as a dying patient. Hondo and his men, who are at the hospital putting together a Christmas party is the children's ward, find themselves on duty when the discovery of DeLeon's body leaves Mrs. Bristol unprotected and in apparent jeopardy.

Video: Night Of The Owls, Day Of The Doves

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:30:52 -0500

The prostitutes of a bawdy house and their madam (ANNE FRANCIS) turn to Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) for protection against vigilantes.