List of the best Philip Ober movies: Beloved Infidel(1959), Come Back, Little Sheba(1952), Washington Story(1952), Escapade in Japan(1957), The Mating Game(1959), The Crimebusters(1961), The Facts of Life(1960), North by Northwest(1959), From Here to Eternity(1953), Never a Dull Moment(1950), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken(1966), Tammy and the Bachelor(1957) ... ...
Biography
USA
1959
123 Minutes
John Wheeler
Gregory Peck Deborah Kerr Eddie Albert Philip Ober Herbert Rudley John Sutton Karin Booth Ken Scott
author columnist editor actress producer doctor melodramatic passionate england new york city los angeles movie studio apartment chicago f. scott fitzgerald writing alcoholism sheilah graham fame hollywood
Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.
Drama
USA
1952
99 Minutes
Ed Anderson
Burt Lancaster Shirley Booth Terry Moore Richard Jaeckel Philip Ober Lisa Golm Walter Kelley
husband wife college student dark emotional family home suburbia midwest marriage alcoholism love mother/child relationship forbidden love transformation 1950s
An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
Drama
USA
1952
81 Minutes
Philip Nunnally
Van Johnson Patricia Neal Louis Calhern Sidney Blackmer Philip Ober Patricia Collinge Moroni Olsen
congressman columnist journalist lobbyist secretary boss emotional patriotic rousing positive washington, d.c. newsroom capitol building massachusetts restaurant politics journalism corruption idealism unlikely romance
Joe Gresham is a hard-working but reticent congressman from Massachusetts. Reporter Alice Kingsley arrives in Washington, DC hired by Gilbert Nunnally, a tabloid columnist and cynic who ... See full summary »
Adventure
1957
92 Minutes
Lt. Col. Hargrave
Teresa Wright Cameron Mitchell Jon Provost Roger Nakagawa Philip Ober Kuniko Miyake Susumu Fujita Katsuhiko Haida Tatsuo Saitô Hideko Koshikawa Ureo Egawa
Rescued from a plane, an American boy (Jon Provost) sets out with a Japanese boy to find his parents (Teresa Wright, Cameron Mitchell) in Tokyo.
Romance
Austria
1959
96 Minutes
Wendell Burnshaw
Debbie Reynolds Tony Randall Paul Douglas Fred Clark Una Merkel Philip Ober Philip Coolidge Charles Lane Trevor Bardette William Smith Addison Powell
irs officer farmer daughter wife government official reverend madcap lighthearted maryland countryside farm hotel tax evasion culture clash outsider bartering opposites attract family discovery transformation
Crime, Drama
USA
1961
88 Minutes
Herman Hauzner
Peter Mark Richman Martin Gabel Carol Rossen Philip Pine Gavin MacLeod Philip Ober Gloria Talbott Judson Pratt Barry Russo John Beradino
A feature film consisting of two 1962 episodes of the crime, drama show Cain's Hundred.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1960
103 Minutes
Doc Mason
Bob Hope Lucille Ball Ruth Hussey Don DeFore Louis Nye Philip Ober Marianne Stewart Peter Leeds Holly Irving William Lanteau Robert F. Simon
suburbanite friend husband wife witty passionate amusing suburbia household abandoned building hotel boat affair marriage friendship vacation love-hate relationship middle age forbidden love temptation
Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1959
136 Minutes
Lester Townsend
Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason Leo G. Carroll Martin Landau Jessie Royce Landis Philip Ober Adam Williams Josephine Hutchinson Edward Platt Robert Ellenstein
ad executive spy secret agent mother henchman police officer amusing suspenseful engaging thrilling new york city long island, n.y. south dakota cornfield mount rushmore hotel room mistaken identity espionage romance fugitives
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.
Drama
USA
1953
118 Minutes
Capt. Dana Holmes
Burt Lancaster Montgomery Clift Deborah Kerr Frank Sinatra Donna Reed Ernest Borgnine Philip Ober Jack Warden Mickey Shaughnessy Harry Bellaver George Reeves
soldier sergeant military officer victim wife passionate powerful sad barracks honolulu beach military injustice love adultery forbidden love underdog sacrifice 1940s
In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.
Comedy
USA
1950
89 Minutes
Jed
Irene Dunne Fred MacMurray William Demarest Andy Devine Gigi Perreau Natalie Wood Philip Ober Ann Doran Margaret Gibson
songwriter cowboy widower ex-girlfriend newlywed daughter lighthearted charming new york city wyoming ranch countryside dance hall studio city vs. country marriage water supply neighbors accident relocation
Sophisticated, successful New York City songwriter Kay Kingsley falls in love with Chris Heyward, a widower rancher she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo, and they get married, and ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1966
90 Minutes
Nicholas Simmons
Don Knotts Joan Staley Liam Redmond Dick Sargent Skip Homeier Reta Shaw Lurene Tuttle Philip Ober Harry Hickox Charles Lane Jesslyn Fax
reporter editor love interest wealthy man coward typesetter lighthearted madcap amusing cheeky small town newsroom mansion ghosts fear haunted houses aspirations mistaken identity mystery underdog
A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter - until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
Romance
USA
1957
89 Minutes
Alfred Bissle
Debbie Reynolds Leslie Nielsen Walter Brennan Mala Powers Sidney Blackmer Mildred Natwick Fay Wray Philip Ober Craig Hill Louise Beavers April Kent
pilot southern belle bootlegger grandfather fiancée friend airy playful charming lighthearted mississippi houseboat airplane swamp house plane crash new life family unlikely romance injury
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
Western
USA
1954
96 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Robert Wagner Jean Peters Richard Widmark Katy Jurado Hugh O'Brian Eduard Franz Earl Holliman E.G. Marshall Carl Benton Reid Philip Ober
rancher son convict brother dark gritty ranch prison inheritance imprisonment revenge stroke trial rivalry revenge 1950s
The saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880's Arizona.
Drama
USA
1960
145 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Jean Simmons Dean Jagger Shirley Jones Arthur Kennedy Patti Page Edward Andrews John McIntire Joe Maross Everett Glass Michael Whalen
con artist preacher prostitute fiery passionate america church revival tent deception faith religion love rise revenge 1960s
A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.