TV Guide: Arthur Kennedy

Listing: Champion

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:45:00 -0500

Tue Dec 9 07:45 AM TCM

Listing: Bend of the River

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:45:00 -0500

Sat Dec 6 09:45 AM AMC

Video: City for Conquest

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:58:53 -0500

Ex-Golden Gloves fighter Danny Kenny has it all worked out. He'll turn pro to bankroll his brother's dream of writing a symphonic paean to the teeming city where they both live: New York. But life pulls the sidewalk out from under Danny when he's blinded during a brutal 15-round welterweight title bout. James Cagney plays Danny in this heart-tugging melodrama co-starring Ann Sheridan, Anthony Quinn, film-debuting Arthur Kennedy and in a rare acting turn before becoming a director, Elia Kazan. Among familiar studio players, there's an unbilled one: a vivid backlot and rear-screen Manhattan. "Sometimes we wonder," The New York Times' Bosley Crowther wrote, "whether it wasn't really the Warner brothers who got New York from the Indians, so diligent and devoted have they been in feeling the great city's pulse."

Video: Rancho Notorious - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:10:22 -0500

A cowboy (Arthur Kennedy) infiltrates a bandit hideaway in search of a killer in Rancho Notorious (1952).

Video: Day Of The Evil Gun - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:09:40 -0500

Glenn Ford is an ex-gunfighter trying to talk sense to revenge-fueled farmer Arthur Kennedy in Day Of The Evil Gun (1968).

Video: Badmen of Missouri - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:09:24 -0500

The Younger Brothers become outlaws to fight off carpetbaggers in Badmen of Missouri (1941) starring Dennis Morgan and Arthur Kennedy.

Video: Knockout - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:33:49 -0500

A prizefighter's swelled head endangers his marriage in Knockout (1941) starring Arthur Kennedy and Anthony Quinn.

Video: Air Force

iTunes — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:37:28 -0500

Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Arthur Kennedy ("Lawrence of Arabia," "Peyton Place") stars in this exciting action/adventure about a bomber crew that battles over the Pacific in World War II. Oscar and Golden Globe-winner Gig Young ("They Shoot Horses, Don't They?") and Oscar-nominee John Garfield ("Body and Soul") co-star in this powerful film. Received multiple Oscar-nominations, including nods for Best Original Screenplay, and won for Best Film Editing. Directed by Oscar- honoree Howard Hawks ("Bringing Up Baby").

Video: Signs Of Life

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:27:07 -0500

Co-produced by the folks from PBS' American Playhouse series, Signs of Life (alternate title: One For Sorrow, Two For Joy) stars veteran actor Arthur Kennedy as a cranky, set-in-his-ways Maine shipbuilder. Unable to keep apace with the 1980s, Kennedy is forced to close up shop. The film probes the various effects this decision has on Kennedy's employees. Beau Bridges has a wife (Kathy Bates) and four kids to support, with a fifth on the way. Kevin J. O'Connor would like to take a salvage-diving job in another state, but must first break off his long-standing relationship with waitress Mary Louise Parker. And Vincent D'Onofrio, who'd managed to find a job for his retarded brother Michael Lewis at Kennedy's establishment, is forced to consider having Lewis institutionalized. Though screenwriter Mark Malone isn't completely successful in avoiding the Obvious, there is much to cherish in Signs of Life. The film represented Arthur Kennedy's return before the cameras after ten years' retirement; after one additiona

Video: Some Came Running

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:37:49 -0500

After the success of From Here to Eternity, pairing Frank Sinatra with another James Jones novel made perfect sense. Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film stars Sinatra as a recently discharged soldier whose promising writing career has derailed. After a drunken card game, Sinatra finds himself aboard a bus for his Indiana hometown of Parktown, with recent acquaintance Shirley MacLaine in tow. An unrefined good-time girl, MacLaine allows her affections to settle on the hard-drinking Sinatra, who wants little to do with her as he reluctantly sets about re-establishing ties he thought to have abandoned over a decade before. These include a brother (Arthur Kennedy) unable to discard his salesman's persona, his disapproving wife (Leora Dana), and their teenage daughter (Betty Lei Keim). Meanwhile, Sinatra makes a variety of new acquaintances both respectable and otherwise, including a local gambler (Dean Martin) and a creative writing instructor (Martha Hyer) smitten with his writing and possibly with hi

Video: Elmer Gantry

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:47:08 -0500

Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons). Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Sister Sharon's operation rises to fame and fortune, enough so that Sharon realizes her dream of building her own enormous tabernacle. These ambitions are put in jeopardy when a prostitute (Oscar-winning Shirley Jones), a former minister's daughter who'd been deflowered by Gantry years earlier, lures Gantry into a compromising situation and has photographs taken. It took several years for any Hollywood studio to take a chance with Sinclair Lewis' novel, and when it finally did arrive on the screen, producer/director Richard Brooks was compelled to downplay some of the more sacrilegious passages in the original. Also appearing in Elmer Gantry are Arthur Kennedy as an H.L. Mencken-style atheistic journalist, and Edward Andrews as George Babbitt,

Video: Anzio

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:00:53 -0500

This Dino De Laurentiis-produced re-creation of the decisive Italian military operation top-bills Robert Mitchum as a battle-weary war correspondent. Robert Ryan and Arthur Kennedy play generals, Peter Falk is the lovable Brooklynese corporal, and Earl Holliman is the country-boy sergeant. Anzio was based on the book by Wynford Vaughan Thomas. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: High Sierra

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:52:40 -0500

In a manner of speaking, Humphrey Bogart had George Raft to thank for his ascendancy to stardom: after all, if Raft hadn't turned down both High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, Bogart might have continued playing second-billed gangsters to the end of his days. Adapted from W. R. Burnett's novel by Burnett and John Huston, High Sierra opens with gangster Roy Earle (Bogart) being paroled after a lengthy prison term. Though he enjoys the fresh air and sunshine of the outside world, Earle has no intention of giving up his criminal ways. In fact, his parole has been arranged by Big Mac (Donald MacBride), so that Earle can mastermind a big-time heist at a fancy California resort hotel. After a few unkind words with a crooked cop, Kranmer (Barton MacLane), in Big Mac's employ, Earle heads toward a fishing resort, where he is to commiserate with his inexperienced, hot-headed cohorts Babe (Alan Curtis) and Red (Arthur Kennedy). En route, he befriends a farm family, heading to LA in search of work. He falls in love with