Frank Gerstle Movies

In the late 1930s, Sheilah Graham’s Hollywood column quickly becomes popular for its biting tone. At a party, she meets author F. Scott...

The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild...

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the...

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.

Christine Jorgensen goes to 1950s Denmark and makes headlines for having the first sex-change operation.

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous...

Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law...

A small Army patrol unit and a couple of former Confederates reluctantly throw in their lot together after being attacked by a band of Native...

Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.

A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's...

A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made...

Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not...

For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of...

This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots...

1959 television science fiction

The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are...