Edwin Blum Movies
Screenwriter Edwin Harvey Blum scripted a number of major features, including Stalag 17 (1953) for which he earned his only Oscar nomination. Other Blum films include The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935), the Basil Rathbone starrer The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), and The Bamboo Prison (1955). A native of Atlantic City, NJ, Blum moved to Los Angeles in 1933 and... (read more) started out as an assistant to Writers Guild of America president Ernest Pascal. During the '60s and '70s, Blum primarily wrote teleplays for such series as The Man From U.N.C.L.E, 77 Sunset Strip, and Hawaii 5-O. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Gung Ho
PG13 1986
Michael Keaton stars as a wheeler-dealer who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Keaton persuades a Japanese...
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The King of Diamonds Affair
1966
In London, a plum-pudding shop owned by the unwitting Victoria Poque (Nancy Kovack) is being used as the headquarters for a diamond-smuggling ring maintained by one Mr. Blodget...
Appointment with a Shadow
1958
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal. The...
Flor de Mayo
1957
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman (Pedro Armendariz) lives with his wife (Maria Felix) and young son (Juanito...
The Midnight Story
1957
In this tense murder mystery, a San Francisco traffic officer vows to find the killer of the kindly priest who raised him. Unfortuantely, his superiors assign the case to others....
The Bamboo Prison
1954
American POWs struggle to escape from a North Korean camp. While this is basically a remake of Stalag 17, it does feature interesting scenes of a North Korean brainwashing. ~...
Stalag 17
1953
The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is overseen by sadistic commandant Oberst Von Schernbach...
South Sea Woman
1953
Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo, the stars of 1950's Flame and the Arrow, are reteamed in the lusty adventure romp South Sea Woman. It all begins at the military...
Down to Earth
NR 1947
A semi-sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia's Down to Earth is a camp- and kitsch-lover's delight. More beautiful than ever, Rita Hayworth stars as Terpsichore,...
Man Alive
1945
Man Alive is an inventive and consistently amusing farce dominated by stars Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou. The former plays Speed, a moderately successful garage owner....
The Canterville Ghost
NR 1944
The whimsical Oscar Wilde fantasy yarn The Canterville Ghost is updated to WW2 in this economical but attractively produced MGM filmization. Charles Laughton plays Sir...
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
1942
Adenoidal teenager Henry Aldrich (James Lydon) "gets glamour" when he wins first prize in a movie-magazine contest. Before he quite knows what's happening, Henry is whisked to...
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
In this silly but enjoyable rip-off of Arsenic and Old Lace, Boris Karloff plays an addlepated scientist who is experimenting with bringing the dead back to life. To do...
The Great American Broadcast
1941
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment The Great American Broadcast. Opening with clips of...
Young People
NR 1940
"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy Young People. After years of trodding the boards...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make their second screen appearances as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Ostensibly based on the...
Kidnapped
1938
Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic subplot, but that didn't stop 20th Century Fox...
The New Adventures of Tarzan [Serial]
G 1935
Unhappy with the Tarzan pictures being made in Hollywood, author Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the "Lord of the Jungle," set up his own production company,...