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The Big Jack Webb Memorial List of The Big Titles AKA things that are not small.
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- DirectorHoward HawksStarsHumphrey BogartLauren BacallJohn RidgelyPrivate detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsGlenn FordGloria GrahameJocelyn BrandoTough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJeff BridgesJohn GoodmanJulianne MooreJeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsAnil ChatterjeeMadhavi MukherjeeJaya BachchanLife at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
- DirectorRobert ClampettArthur DavisStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer Fudd walks out of a typical Bugs cartoon, so Bugs gets back at him by disturbing Elmer's sleep using "nightmare paint."
- DirectorRon WinstonStarsRod SerlingIvan DixonSteven PerryAn aging boxer finds himself the winner of a match he thought he had lost, the result a six-year-old's frantic wish. But can a world-weary, embittered man still believe in miracles, or will he turn his back on them?
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsKirk DouglasDewey MartinElizabeth ThreattThe success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.
- DirectorRichard CondieStarsJay BrazeauIda OslerRandy WoodsA couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsJack PalanceIda LupinoWendell CoreyHollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsRay MillandMaureen O'SullivanCharles LaughtonA magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckJean SimmonsCarroll BakerA New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsMarcello MastroianniMichel PiccoliPhilippe NoiretA group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.
- DirectorJim McBrideStarsDennis QuaidEllen BarkinNed BeattyA corrupt lieutenant in the homicide division is threatened by the righteous DA while trying to solve a string of mysterious murders.
- DirectorKing VidorGeorge W. HillStarsJohn GilbertRenée AdoréeHobart BosworthA young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
- DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsTom BerengerGlenn CloseJeff GoldblumA group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsLee MarvinMark HamillRobert CarradineA hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe.
- DirectorGeorge W. HillWard WingStarsChester MorrisWallace BeeryLewis StoneA convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsCornel WildeRichard ConteJean WallaceA police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsRobert MitchumJane GreerWilliam BendixAn army lieutenant accused of robbery pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's fiancee.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsAlfred HitchcockGeorge MathewsBeverly MichaelsGangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.
- DirectorSergio SollimaStarsLee Van CleefTomas MilianWalter BarnesAn unofficial lawman and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a young girl.
- DirectorJohn SwanbeckStarsKevin SpaceyDanny DeVitoPeter FacinelliTwo veteran salesmen dissect a sales pitch to a particular client, through their young protégé.
- DirectorChristopher GuestStarsKevin BaconJennifer Jason LeighEmily LongstrethFilm school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.
- DirectorZion MyersJules WhiteThis MGM short, which stars an all-dog cast, is about Trixie and Fido and their evil boss. They all work at the Dogville Department Store, but the boss has his eye on Trixie and so frames Fido for murder. Trixie is convinced that her man (er, dog rather) is innocent and works feverishly to save him from the electric chair.
- DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierAnitra FordCandice RomanGrier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsJoseph BolognaStockard ChanningJohn BeckA nuclear powered bus driving cross-country, from New York City to Colorado, is destined for disaster due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsRichard JoyRed SkeltonShirley JonesA down-and-out vaudeville comedian, Buddy McCoy, becomes a successful silent movie star, but experiences tragedy in his personal life. May Marley is an alcoholic friend who Buddy tries to help.
- DirectorAdam McKayStarsChristian BaleSteve CarellRyan GoslingIn 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.
- DirectorJack HillStarsRoberta CollinsPam GrierJudith BrownBeautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJohn Drew BarrymorePreston FosterJoan LorringA teenager comes of age while seeking revenge on the man who beat up his father.
- DirectorLarry PeerceStarsJoan BaezGene ClarkMike ClarkeLive performances by some of the top rock-and-roll acts of the mid 60s. Includes Ray Charles, The Byrds, Joan Baez, Ike and Tina Turner, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, and several more.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenJames P. HoganStarsW.C. FieldsMartha RayeDorothy LamourThe Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
- DirectorRaoul WalshLouis R. LoefflerStarsJohn WayneMarguerite ChurchillEl BrendelBreck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsMaurice ChevalierClaudette ColbertFrank LyonA tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.
- CreatorDarlene HuntStarsLaura LinneyOliver PlattGabriel BassoA suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsJames BrownSheila RyanNoreen NashKen Williams (James Brown), a star basketball player on a college team learns that a police lieutenant (Regis Toomey) is the head of a gambling ring attempting to fix basketball games by bribing the players. With the aid of some of his ex-GI buddies, he exposes the gamblers.
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsRichard ConteConstance SmithBruce BennettRichard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny Denton, who gains notoriety by printing tips on upcoming gangland activities.
- DirectorArvid E. GillstromStarsHarry LangdonVernon DentRuth HiattA would-be photographer gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a gangster and his girl. Two photographers visit the gangster's moll, then wait for an expected robbery, but a policeman threatens to ruin their shot.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsMark StevensJean KentGarry MarshDuring a London reunion of a World War II RAF unit, an American pilot gets into a fight with one of his buddies, who is drunk and belligerent. The next day the pilot wakes up in a strange hotel room with blood on his suit, and can't remember how he got there. Then he discovers that the friend he fought with the night before has been murdered, and he is a prime suspect.
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChaseLucille LundEddie FetherstonSoda jerk reads mystery stories, fancies himself a master detective.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsHoward KeelJohn SaxonSusan KohnerExploring the life of Peter, from being a successful fisherman to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ and being dependent on Jesus Christ.
- DirectorFred WilliamsonStarsFred WilliamsonNancy WilsonJohn SaxonA narcotics detective lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer.
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsHenry FondaLucille BallBarton MacLaneA busboy in unrequited love with a nightclub performer grows closer to her after she is paralyzed in an attack by her gangster boyfriend.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsCharles FarrellBette DavisRicardo CortezRacketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsJean-Marc BarrJean RenoRosanna ArquetteThe rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJackie CondonMickey DanielsThe gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsRory CalhounMary CostaJames GregoryA "confidence couple" pose as husband and wife while attempting a bank heist.
- DirectorSherry ShourdsStarsWayne MorrisLois MaxwellGordon MacRaeA boxer turned minister offers shelter to a tank fighter framed for killing a policeman.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsLana TurnerGeorge ChakirisRichard EganA former actress clashes with her wealthy and spoiled stepdaughter over their inheritance after the death of their protector.
- StarsDaphne YoureeTisha CampbellOlivia BarashThe lives, homes and cultures of children around the world are explored.
- DirectorW. Lee WilderStarsJohn BromfieldMartha VickersRobert HuttonWhen a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsRiccardo ScamarcioJasmine TrincaLuca ArgenteroItalian Revolution, 1968. Police officer Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among the students who are against the government and the Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and she leaves him.
- DirectorDavid StotenTim WattsStarsFrank GorshinIn a witty homage to Kirk Douglas's films, all three characters ARE Kirk Douglas at various stages of his career. The short action takes place in a news room. A young reporter looking for his big chance pleads with his editor to give him a breaking story.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJack OakieGeorge BurnsGracie AllenSpud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyDoris MerrickDuring World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.
- CreatorChuck LorreBill PradyStarsJohnny GaleckiJim ParsonsKaley CuocoA woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.
- CreatorA.I. BezzeridesLouis F. EdelmanStarsRichard LongPeter BreckLee MajorsThe Wild West adventures of the Barkley family in California's San Joaquin Valley.
- DirectorWei LoChia-Hsiang WuStarsBruce LeeMaria YiJames TienA young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesSylvia SymsDick EmeryAn inept gang of bank robbers led by George The Brain is caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they had stolen, which George had hidden in a hollow tree during the chase in which they were caught. The only trouble is that the tree was in the middle of a lonely lane when they were imprisoned; now, 15 years later, it's in the backyard of a police station.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreElaine BlyDan BurnsOn his book tour, Michael Moore exposes more wrongdoing by greedy big businesses and callous politicians around America.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsRobert MitchumSarah MilesRichard BooneGrizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsKirk DouglasEve MillerPatrice WymoreA Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron.
- DirectorMark MylodStarsRobin WilliamsGiovanni RibisiHolly HunterTo remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
- DirectorDavid FrankelStarsOwen WilsonJack BlackSteve MartinTwo bird enthusiasts try to defeat the cocky, cutthroat world record holder in a year-long bird-spotting competition.
- DirectorAlex MarchStarsRyan O'NealLeigh Taylor-YoungVan HeflinA Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsHumphrey BogartIrene ManningRichard TravisFearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsAlan LaddVirginia MayoEdmond O'BrienAlan Ladd stars as a Kansas cattle rancher battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande just after the United States Civil War.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsLance SloaneKim EvensonSylvia KristelA 17-year-old high school student who's obsessed with sex tries to seduce both his beautiful older neighbor and the shy new girl in school over a bet, only to end up falling in love.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsMontgomery CliftPaul DouglasCornell BorchersExperiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
- DirectorJeremy KaganStarsRichard DreyfussSusan AnspachBonnie BedeliaAn ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.
- DirectorPichaStarsLuis RegoGeorges AminelPerrette PradierSex farce about Fred, an inept post WWIII superhero garbageman, who must prevent WW4 by disarming the continents of Virginia, where mutated feminists live, and USSSR, where mutated buttless men live. Beautiful Liberty is his only ally.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxA detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsStephen BoydFrance NuyenRay MillandTwo soldiers of fortune are hired by an aging scientist to protect him and his invention, a radar-like mind-control device capable of forcing soldiers to fight. A rival organization kidnaps his son to get the machine.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsMickey RooneyThomas MitchellMichael O'SheaA brash young midget car race driver lives in the shadow of his famous father, a drunken womanizer, who was killed in an accident years earlier.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MockyStarsBourvilJean-Louis BarraultFrancis BlancheTwo police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsLon ChaneyMarceline DayJames MurrayRivalry between two gangs of thieves. The sympathetic group reforms; the others are brought to justice.
- StarsRobert SloaneErnest ChappellBen GrauerBased on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States. Comments from the actual reporter open and close each show but the permanent narrator drives the plot line and a featured actor dramatizes the reporter's role.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsVictor MatureRed ButtonsRhonda FlemingA circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
- DirectorWill CowanStarsWilliam ReynoldsAndra MartinGogi GrantYoung man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsRosanna SchiaffinoElsa MartinelliLaurent TerzieffIn Rome, small-time thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles and catch prostitutes Anna and Supplizia on the street to mislead the police. They seek the jobber Mosciarella, but he is at a funeral and gives them no attention. But Gino "Bellabella" overhears them and offers to deal the merchandise with another contact. He fails and the whores present a deaf-mute acquaintance who lives on the outskirts of Rome to buy the guns; the prostitute Nicoletta who was with the man returns to Rome with the quintet. When the youngsters propose to have sex in the middle of nowhere, the prostitutes believe that they intend to leave them there. Scinttilone, Ruggeretto, and Bellabella sneak out to the car and leave the women in the countryside. Later they discover that the women stole their money. They seek them out on the streets and fight against another gang. However, when the police arrive, the six youngsters leave the place together and head to the house of one of them, and Ruggeretto falls for the host's sister. However, Bellabella steals the host's bountiful wallet and Ruggeretto fights him to get the wallet and return it to the host. While they are fighting, Scinttilone flees with the wallet to the house of his girlfriend Rossana. Ruggeretto chases Scinttilone along a night of alienation, illusions, and adventures.
- DirectorJames TobackStarsEmma AstnerMissy BoydMax BrockmanFilmmaker James Toback poses basic questions in philosophy, such as why we're here and where we're going, to various celebrities and ordinary people.
- DirectorBurt GillettStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigDorothy ComptonRed Riding Hood is accompanied by Fiddler Pig and Piper Pig as she takes a shortcut through the forest to deliver food to her sick grandmother.
- DirectorTad DanielewskiStarsSessue HayakawaJûzô ItamiMickey CurtisYukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman. The fishermen consult the other village elders and decide that Old Gentleman is wrong and they will go on with their work. Old Gentleman comes down from his home and begs them to send their children to his hilltop home for their safety, but the refuse. That night, after Toru has gone to the home of his friend Yukio, a tidal wave destroys the village, leaving only a few survivors. Old Gentleman offers to take the orphaned Toru as his son but Toru, despite knowing he will live in wealth, decides to stay on with Yukio's poor family. Ten years later, Yukio and Toru are as brothers. Toru is saving his money to buy a boat and Haruko, a diver, offers to sell him one of hers as she has fallen in love with him. Setsu has also fallen in love with Toru, while Yukio loves Haruko. On the day of the annual shark hunt, Yukio convinces Toru to join in helping kill the sharks, and they are joined by Haruko and Setsu. The girls get into a fight over Toru. Toru sees the fight and pulls Haruko off the smaller Setsu. Yukio sees him throw her aside and attacks Toru, declaring his own love for Haruko, while Toru reveals that it is Setsu whom he loves. Later, as Toru and Setsu discuss their wedding, Old Gentleman overhears their plans to go back to fishing. He hates the sea, as it killed his son thirty years ago, and offers them the biggest farm in the village if they will work it. He says he will not warn them of any more waves if the refuse. They do refuse, but tell him he will still warn them as he is a good man, but they will pay heed to his wisdom in the future.
- DirectorDan MartinByron MabeStarsHarry ChestMomoPeggy ChurchGuy in a pickup truck kidnaps 5 women off the street, intending to make them his sex slaves.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisHarold J. StoneSusan Bay NimoyOn a San Diego beach, Gerald Clamson fishes out of the water a look-alike frog man who gives him a map to a stash of stolen-diamonds coveted by several crime syndicates.
- DirectorMack V. WrightJoseph KaneStarsGene AutrySmiley BurnetteKay HughesAt the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsLon McCallisterPeggy Ann GarnerPreston Foster1933. A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by drought, old fights and a cougar. He turns out to be pivotal in all of these.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsPeter BernuthIn the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.
- DirectorNadia TassStarsBen MendelsohnClaudia KarvanMarshall NapierTo impress a girl a shy teenaged boy buys a used Jaguar.
- DirectorJames B. ClarkStarsEsther WilliamsCliff RobertsonNehemiah PersoffThe owner of a German traveling circus is power-mad and exploits everyone in his path, including his family.
- DirectorKevin AllenStarsCraig FergusonChris LanghamDavid RascheThe Big Tease is big fun, a fish-out-of-water tale teeming with charm and a hilariously satiric view of life in L. A.
- DirectorNiall JohnsonStarsAnthony EdridgeSorcha BrooksRichard CherryFive thirty-something couples decide to indulge in some friendly partner swapping with disastrous results for their marriages and friendship.
- DirectorBen BoltHarold BeckerStarsMatt DillonDiane LaneTommy Lee JonesA dice roller falls in love with a talented dancer who happens to be the wife to a gangster.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsStuart ErwinBing CrosbyLeila HyamsA radio-singer, Bing Crosby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his fiancée, Anita Rogers, station manager Leslie McWhinney buys the station, gives Hornsby his job back, and goes on a honeymoon with Anita.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsJack BennyGeorge BurnsGracie AllenThe employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbBen AlexanderJean HowellThe detectives search for a missing mother and child at the behest of her mother-in-law, unaware that the girl's husband has died in action and is not overseas as the woman had claimed.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLloyd BridgesJohn BeradinoDon EitnerA stuntman tries to break the world's skin-diving record.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsJames ArnessDennis WeaverMilburn StoneThe Dodge City Bank's acting manager loses $20,000 of the bank's money when he imprudently makes a loan secured by a seemingly "can't lose" poker hand. Matt makes it apparent to the three "players" that he believes they actually worked together to defraud the bank, so they flee Dodge with Doc as a hostage.