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Robert Stell Heflin (uncle) Howell Heflin (nephew) Alma mater. Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College. James Thomas Heflin (April 9, 1869 – April 22, 1951), nicknamed "Cotton Tom", was an American politician who served as a United States representative and United States senator from Alabama.
Joseph Cotten. Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (1939) and Sabrina Fair (1953). He then gained worldwide fame for his collaborations with Orson Welles ...
Joseph Cotten was an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen. Cotten's most notable projects include his collaborations with Orson Welles. He portrayed Jed Leland in Citizen Kane (1941), Eugene Morgan in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Howard Graham in Journey into Fear (1943). He continued to act alongside Welles in films ...
The Prowler. (1951 film) The Prowler is a 1951 American film noir thriller film directed by Joseph Losey that stars Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes. [1] The film was produced by Sam Spiegel (as S.P. Eagle) and was written by Dalton Trumbo. [2] Because Trumbo was blacklisted at the time, the screenplay was credited to his friend, screenwriter Hugo ...
Cotton Comes to Harlem is a 1970 American neo-noir [2] action comedy film [3] co-written and directed by Ossie Davis and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx. [4] The film, later cited as an early example of the blaxploitation genre, is based on Chester Himes ' novel of the same name . [ 5 ]
Plot. With a million dollars cash in the vault, Jim Osborne (Joseph Cotten), a long term bank employee who has advanced to assistant bank manager in Los Angeles, is tempted to steal from his own bank and flee the country. Doing research at the library, he learns that Brazil has no extradition treaty with the United States.
New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther was tough on the film when it was first released. He wrote, "The R. K. O. film, Walk Softly, Stranger, which came to the Globe on Saturday and which has Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli, the popular stars of The Third Man, in its top roles, actually was made before the latter picture and apparently withheld from release in the expectation of enhancement ...
High Noon. High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, which occurs in real time, centers on a town marshal whose sense of duty is tested when he must decide to either face a gang of killers alone, or leave town with his ...