Dorothy Malone

[7] Lauren Bacall finds herself in a love triangle with two best friends played by Rock Hudson and Robert Stack. She marries Stack, the rich playboy, while Hudson continues pining for her. After moving into the family home, Stack’s sister (Dorothy Malone), the town slut, tries to drive a wedge between them and blackmail Hudson into marrying her. Add to this storyline a heap of …

[6] A mutant terrorizes a small Idaho town in this low budget creature feature that stars no less than three Academy Award winners. Martin Landau (Ed Wood) is the industrialist trying to hide the fact that his company’s toxic waste is poisoning the town’s water supply. Next, there’s José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac) as the town’s boozy mayor, and finally we have Dorothy Malone (Written on …

[6] Decades before James Cameron sank the Titanic and twelve years before Irwin Allen took us on The Poseidon Adventure, writer/director Andrew L. Stone took a pioneering step into the disaster film genre. While Cameron and Allen certainly had more pyrotechnics at their disposal, Stone does a remarkable job utilizing a real luxury liner and building suspense throughout The Last Voyage‘s brisk 91-minute run-time. In …

[6] Dorothy Malone and Errol Flynn play father and daughter John and Diana Barrymore, real-life members of Hollywood’s famous Barrymore family, both of whom suffered famously from alcoholism. Flynn is very good here in the final noteworthy role of his career. Malone, two years after her Oscar win for Written on the Wind, is hit and miss — less convincing as the younger Diana but …