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The Turning Point is a 1952 American film noir crime film directed by William Dieterle and starring William Holden, Edmond O'Brien and Alexis Smith. It was inspired by the Kefauver Committee's hearings dealing with organized crime. [1]
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 5 Fingers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie: Drama: 20th Century Fox: Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick: Claude Binyon
Return of the Texan (1952) as Stud Spiller; Love Is Better Than Ever (1952) as Mr. Charles E. Macaboy; Lure of the Wilderness (1952) as Zack Taylor; The Turning Point (1952) as Matt Conroy; Ruby Gentry (1952) as Jud Corey; The Jazz Singer (1952) as Dan McGurney; Trouble Along the Way (1953) as Father Malone; The Moon Is Blue (1953) as Michael O ...
She had an uncredited role in the film noir The Turning Point (1952). [10] She also had an uncredited role as Mrs. Kirk in the Western film Arrowhead (1953), co-starring with Charlton Heston. [11] The following year, she had a supporting role as Betsy Williams in the Western comedy film Ricochet Romance (1954). [12]
O'Brien followed this with a number of important roles, including the second lead in the musical crime film Pete Kelly's Blues, the lead in the dystopian political movie 1984 and the noir A Cry in the Night (1956), co-lead in the World War II drama D-Day the Sixth of June and the lead in the comedy The Girl Can't Help It, [4] all in 1956.
May 26 – Decision reached in Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson determining that certain provisions of the New York Education Law allowing a censor to forbid the commercial showing of any non-licensed motion picture film, or revoke or deny the license of a film deemed to be "sacrilegious," was a "restraint on freedom of speech" and thereby a ...
Margaret Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born American actress, pin-up girl and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972 for the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical Follies.
He continued to make American films in the 1950s, including the film noir The Turning Point (1952) and Salome (1953) with Rita Hayworth. Production for Elephant Walk (1954) with Elizabeth Taylor was held up for three months when the State Department would not allow Dieterle to travel to Ceylon.