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Terror on a Train /Time Bomb(1953) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Screenplay:Kem Bennett
Cast: Glenn Ford (Peter Lyncort), Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Victor Madden 
Glenn Ford Tense little English film starring Glenn Ford as a man defusing a time bomb placed aboard a train full of high explosives. Good supporting cast and competent direction keep the film above average.
The Big Heat (1953) Columbia
Director: Fritz Lang
Screenplay: Sidney Boehm, William P. McGiven(story)
Photography: Charles Lang
Cast: Glenn Ford (Dave Bannion), Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Jeanette Nolan, Peter Whitney, Carolyn Jones, Robert Burton,
Gloria Grahame,Glenn Ford (publicity still) A classic "Film Noir" which potently conveyed a world of sordid brutality, starred Ford as a cop who takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate and find out who planted the car bomb that killed his wife. The film kept the audience on the edge of their seats while hero and vilain play cat and mouse. The supporting cast is excellent and Gloria Grahame, as a gangster's moll being disfigured by her sadistic,jealous boyfriend(Lee Marvin) when he throws a pot of scalding coffee into her face, is infinitely touching and practically steals the show.
This film, which is one of the most powerful statements on postwar urban crime of the fifties, is one of the best of GF.
Naturally the critics and the Oscars looked the other way. 
Lee Marvin, Glenn Ford 
Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford
City Story (1954) Protestant Film Commission Productions
Director: William Beaudine
Screenplay:Margaret Fitts
Cast: Glenn Ford (narrator) Warner Anderson, Lela Bliss, Ann Doran, GF narrates religious drama in a production distributed by the Protestant Film Commission.
Human Desire(1954) Columbia
Director: Fritz Lang
Screenplay: Alfred Hayes from the novel"La Bete Humaine"by Emile Zola
Cast: Glenn Ford (Jeff Warren), Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case, 
Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford The film that reunited the principals of "The Big Heat" was a gritty remake of Jean Renoir 1938 "La Bete Humaine" and had Ford star as a train driver, Grahame as the married slut who makes a play for him and also added Broderick Crawford as her insanely jealous and violent husband. Together they comprised an unappetizing trio who not only seemed to get on each other's nerves, but on the nerves of the audience as well. 
Broderick Crawford, Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford
Have Faith in Our Children (1955) Glenn Ford introduced his wife, Eleanor Powell in this public service short for the Variety Club in favor of blind babies. |  |
Plunder of the Sun (1953) Warner Bros.
Director: John Farrow
Screenplay:Jonathan Latimer from a novel by David Dodge
Cast: Glenn Ford (Al Colby), Mona Barrie,
Douglass Dumbrille,Diana Lynn, Juan Garcia, Competent cast in above average going-ons. GF is an American insurance agent stranded in Mexico who gets involved with treasure hunting, murder and mayhem.
The Man from the Alamo (1953) Universal International
Director: Budd Boetticher
Screenplay:D.D. Beauchamp & Steve Fisher
Cast: Glenn Ford (John Stroud), Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Hugh O'Brian, Victor Jory, Neville Brand, Jeanne Cooper. 
A good cast and solid performances elevate this typically offbeat Boetticher's exciting Western.
GF escapes from the Alamo to warn others, but too late and is branded as deserter and coward and forced to prove himself anew in further battles against the Mexicans and a band of turncoats. As usual he gives a credible performance.
Appointment in Honduras (1953) RKO
Director: Jacques Tourner
Screenplay: Karen DeWolf, Jack Cornall(story)
Cast: Glenn Ford (Steve Corbett) Zachary Scott, Ann Sheridan, Rodolfo Acosta, Jack Elam, Ric Roman
Idealistic American (GF) out to save Latin-American country, corrals villainous companions into helping crusade. Sheridan and Scott are a couple taken hostage in a perilous trek through the tropical jungle. Nothing that we have not seen before or after, an average adventure flick.
The Americano(1955) RKO
Director: William Castle
Screenplay:Guy Trosper
Cast: Glenn Ford (Sam Dent),Frank Lovejoy, Cesar Romero, Ursula Thiess,Abbe Lane, 
Ursula Thiess, Glenn Ford Western-style action in a Brazilian setting as cowboy GF delivers a consignment of prize Brahma bulls to an opulent South American ranchero and runs into some heavy gunplay.
A solid film with a convincing Ford in the leading role.
The Violent Men (1955) Columbia
Director: Rudolph Mate
Screenplay: Harry Kleiner from a novel by Donald Hamilton
Cast: Glenn Ford (John Parrish), Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, May Wynn, Lita Milan, Richard Jaeckel. 
Edward G.Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Brian Keith, Glenn Ford GF is the hero, a pacifist who nonetheless decides to indulge in a spot of guerilla warfare against a land-grabbing cattle baron (Robinson), who has a lot of home problem with his wife (Stanwyck, back to Columbia after 13 years) having an affair with his brother (Keith).
Two spectacular ranch fires, a horse stampede and an ambush helped, together with the value of the actors and the Technicolor photography, turn a routine Western into a fairly good one
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