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Ransom! (1956) MGM
Director: Alex Segal
Screenplay:Cyril Hume & Richard Maibaum
Cast: Glenn Ford (David G. Stannard), Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen, Juan Hernandez, Robert Keith, Juanita Moore, 
Donna Reed, Glenn Ford Ford was spellbinding as he radiated controlled misery and dogged tenacity as his refusal to meet the demands of his son's kidnappers leaves him isolated but ultimately vindicated.
It was another filmed TV play that came out a great classic suspense. (remade in 1996 with Mel Gibson)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) MGM
Director: Russell Rouse
Screenplay: Frank D. Gilroy
Cast: Glenn Ford (George Temple), Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn, Leif Erickson, Allyn Joslyn, John Dehner, Noah Beery,Jr, Virginia Gregg 
Sincere Western with a moral is different but very good.
GF is a peace loving store-keeper trying to live down renown as gunslinger, but there is always someone wanting to challenge him.
Don't Go Near the Water (1957) MGM
Director: Charles Walters
Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley from a novel by William Brinkley
Cast: Glenn Ford (Lt. Max Stegel) Gia Scala, Anne Francis, Earl Holliman, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark, Eva Gabor, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards, Mickey Shaughnessy. 
Gia Scala, Glenn Ford After the success of the "teahouse" GF was casted in another military comedy this time in the South Pacific where a group of officers , under bumbling,officious Clark try to build a recreation hall.
The result was a good light entertainment and fun.
The Sheepman (1958) MGM
Director: George Marshall
Screenplay: William Bowers
Cast: Glenn Ford (Jason Sweet), Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan, Pernell Roberts, Slim Pickens,
Lively Comedy-Western, from the director of 1939 "Destry rides again", with stranger GF siding with sheepmen and muscling in on cattle country and stealing MacLaine from Nielsen. Wonderful performance from Edgar Buchanan as a local Wind-bag. The cast is great, the action and the comedy well balanced and the film a delight.One of Ford's best and best remembered. 
Shirley MacLaine, Glenn Ford and Director George Marshall on the set of "The Sheepman" 
Torpedo Run (1958) MGM
Director: Joseph Pevney
Screenplay: William Wister Haines
Cast: Glenn Ford (Lieut.Comm.Barney Doyle), Ernest Borgnine,Dean Jones, Diane brewster, L.Q. Jones, Philip Ober, Paul Picerni
Submarine skipper Ford corners Japanese aircraft carrier in Tokyo Bay, but it is shielded by a freighter carrying prisoners of war, among them his wife and children.Sometime sluggish the film nevertheless is entertaining and the performances first grade, especially by Ford who conveys the anguish of the commander who has to sacrifice his family to complete his mission. |  |
Jubal (1956) Columbia
Director: Delmer Daves
Screenplay:Delmer Daves & Russell S. Hughes from The novel "Jubal Troop" by Paul I. Wellman
Cast: Glenn Ford (Jubal Troop), Rod Steiger, Ernest Borgnine, Valerie French, Felicia Farr, Basil Ruysdael, Noah Beery jr., Charles Bronson, Jack Elam Ernest Borgnine, Valerie French, Glenn Ford The Grand Teton country in Wyoming provided the colorful background (in Cinemascope and Technicolor) for a steamy psychological Western which top starred Ford as an itinerant cowpoke who takes a job on Borgnine's cattle-ranch. The catalyst of the drama was Valerie French as Borgnine's amoral wife who has been hitting the hay with cowpoke Steiger and now turns her charms to Ford. Drama ensues. Ford kills Borgnine in selfdefence,escapes hanging and finds happiness with good girl Farr while Miss French, after being brutally raped by Steiger,pays with her life for her infidelity.Though Steiger gave the most high profile performance of all, there was very good work from all the other stars.
The Teahouse of the August Moon(1956) MGM
Director: Daniel Mann
Screenplay:John Patrick from his own Play
Cast: Glenn Ford (Captain Fisby) Marlon Brando, Machiko Kyo,
Eddie Albert, Paul Ford, Jun Negami, Harry morgan 
American army officers involved in Americanization of post WWII Okinawa are involved in an outstanding comedy. The film was,and is, warm and memorable and Paul Ford, recreating his Broadway role nearly steals the show. 
3:10 to Yuma (1957) Columbia
Director: Delmer Daves
Screenplay: Halsted Welles from a story by Elmore Leonard
Cast: Glenn Ford (Ben Wade),Van Heflin, Leora Dana, Felicia Farr, Henry Jones, Richard Jaeckel, 
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin 
Bearing more than just a passing resemblance to "High Noon" (1952), this was the story of an ordinary, peace loving cowboy (Heflin) whose sense of morality imbues in him the courage to stand up to a ruthless law-breaker (GF). The action is mostly confined to a hotel room where Helfin waits the train that will bring Ford to the Yuma penitentiary. Heflin gives one of his best performances and Ford manages to turn the bad-guy into more than just a conventional Western villain up to the end. The film was tense and a critic and box office success.
Cowboy (1958) Columbia
Director: Delmer Daves
Screenplay:Edmund H. North based on Frank Harris's "My reminiscences as a cowboy"
Cast: Glenn Ford (Tom Reese),Jack Lemmon, Brian Donlevy, Anna Kashfi, Richard Jaeckel, Dick York, Victor Manuel Mendoza 
Victor Manuel Mendoza, Glenn Ford, Though the filmwas intended to de-glamorize the myth of the old West, a hard-core vein of nostalgia coursed through it.(with entertaining results) Lemmon and Ford co-starred as a tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk who sign on for a rugged trail drive led by a stern, tough, no-nonsense trail boss (GF). They are both in top form and with the help of a strong supporting cast the episodic adventure was highly entertaining. 
Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Brian Donlevy, Richard Jaeckel
Imitation General(1958) MGM
Director: George Marshall
Screenplay:William Bowers
Cast: Glenn Ford (master Sergeant Murphy Savage), Red Buttons, Tige Andrews, Taina Elg, Dean Jones, Kent Smith, 
Glenn Ford, Red Buttons Uneasy mixture of farce and straight war drama in which Sergeant Ford assumes the identity of a dead general to blunt a German Attack. The tepid, sometimes tasteless material defeats the good cast
It Started With a Kiss (1959) MGM
Director: George Marshall
Screenplay:Charles Lederer & Valentine Davies (story)
Cast: Glenn Ford (Sergeant Joe Fitzpatrick), Debbie Reynolds, Fred Clark,Eva Gabor, Gustavo Rojo, Edgar Buchanan, Harry Morgan
Breezy comedy, set in Spain, about zany night club dancer Reynolds and her army officer husband Ford trying to make a go of an unlikely marriage. Highly entertaining |
