Philip Ober Movies

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes...

When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her...

Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also...

A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20...

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become...

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.

Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to...

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his...

A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off...

Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little...

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.

A wealthy, aging businessman with political ambitions conducts an adulturous affair with his daughter's roommate.

A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.

A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.