List of the best Mary Alan Hokanson movies: Desperate Characters(1971), Them!(1954), Lonelyhearts(1958), The Private War of Major Benson(1955), Tea and Sympathy(1956), Crime Wave(1954) ... ...
Drama
USA|UK
1971
91 Minutes
Flo Holstein
Shirley MacLaine Kenneth Mars Gerald S. O'Loughlin Sada Thompson Jack Somack Chris Gampel Mary Alan Hokanson Robert Bauer Carol Kane Michael Higgins Michael McAloney
housewife lawyer old friend activist police chief emotional disheartening brooklyn, n.y. row house cottage depression weekend getaway middle age urban crime failing marriage wretched excess transformation 1970s
Marriage of a midlife, middle-class, childless couple is in a rut. Sophie has become depressed, frigid and slightly paranoid and Otto is stuck in optimistic denial. Things escalate at their summer cottage, but no one dares call it quits.
Sci-Fi
USA
1954
94 Minutes
Mrs. Lodge
James Whitmore Edmund Gwenn Joan Weldon James Arness Onslow Stevens Sean McClory Chris Drake Sandy Descher Mary Alan Hokanson Fess Parker William Schallert
police officer partner fbi agent entomologist general young girl frightening gripping outlandish creepy new mexico desert los angeles monsters radiation uncontrollable experiment animals attacking rescue quest 1950s
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.
Drama
1958
101 Minutes
Montgomery Clift Robert Ryan Myrna Loy Dolores Hart Maureen Stapleton Frank Maxwell Jackie Coogan Mike Kellin Frank Overton John Washbrook Onslow Stevens
columnist editor wife alcoholic girlfriend disheartening intricate melodramatic bar newsroom family history newspapers relationships abusive marriage advice column career vs. love fall love quest 1950s
A Midwestern reporter's (Montgomery Clift) cynical editor (Robert Ryan) makes him write an advice column for the lovelorn.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1955
105 Minutes
Charlton Heston Julie Adams William Demarest Tim Considine Sal Mineo Nana Bryant Kay Stewart Mary Field Tim Hovey Donald Keeler Don Haggerty
As a disciplinary measure, the Army transfers a heavy-handed Major to a ROTC academy where he must shape-up cadets and improve the school's overall ratings.
Drama
USA
1956
122 Minutes
Deborah Kerr John Kerr Leif Erickson Edward Andrews Darryl Hickman Norma Crane Dean Jones Jacqueline de Wit Tom Laughlin Ralph Votrian Steve Terrell
student teacher wife father tramp melodramatic emotional prep school homosexuality infidelity friendship bullying love growing up discovery forbidden love 1950s
A new senior at a boy's prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach's wife.
Crime, Drama
USA
1954
74 Minutes
Sterling Hayden Gene Nelson Phyllis Kirk Ted de Corsia Charles Bronson Jay Novello Nedrick Young James Bell Dub Taylor Gayle Kellogg Mack Chandler
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.