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HOT RODS TO HELL (1967)

Christmas Eve HOT RODS FOR HELL celebration. Dana Andrews on the phone with daughter Laurie Mock while wife Jeanne Crain look on: but for traveling salesman dad, a car crash ruins the holiday but primes the road movie plotline: A nuclear family vs teen "animals" in a speeding convertible across the sunlight desert hwy. 

THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1963)

Dana Andrews in The Twilight Zone: No Time Like The Past from the hour-long Season Four: A time-traveler tries fixing past tragedies, from Hitler to the A-bomb: Towards the end, Rod Serling teases the following week's The Parallel, with Dana's little brother, Steve Forrest: so technically, both siblings appear on the same Zone...

CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957)

Primal font for Jacques Tourneur's CURSE OF THE DEMON; a British horror thriller from 1957 and one of Dana Andrews's best latter films.  Add caption

COMANCHE (1956)

Heavily drinking, and married, Dana Andrews fell for co-star Linda Cristal, best known later for MR. MAJESTYK: In a strange turn of somewhat creepy evens, he wanted his wife to meet her as he starred in the politically-correct Western, COMANCHE: Simply put, Dana needed to sober, and smarten, up at this point of his career, and life.

DUEL IN THE JUNGLE (1954)

Another shot from DUEL IN THE JUNGLE , which was STATE FAIR beauty Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews' adventure safari flick. 

DUEL IN THE JUNGLE (1954)

Title credit of Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain's second film after STATE FAIR: An England-to-Africa set adventure titled DUEL IN THE JUNGLE . With a British-spelled "Colour" but not on the word "Technicolor." You can't change the name of a product.

STATE FAIR (1945)

Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain begin their four movie, three decade collaboration in STATE FAIR: She's a naive young farm girl and he's a slightly older, slightly worldly newspaper man, and they make terrific sparks together. Opposites do attract here.

CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957)

Dana in a jet plane, on the way to England in Jacques Tourneur's classic British horror/thriller CURSE OF THE DEMON. Kept awake by cute Peggy Cummins, they'll soon realize each are connected to the film's spooky title. One of Dana's best latter films, and Dana and Jacques finished together with THE FEARMAKERS the following year.

SEALED CARGO (1952)

Other than, the next decade, appearing in back-to-back TWILIGHT ZONE episodes, Dana Andrews and younger brother Steve Forrest only appeared in together once, in one movie, and it was Dana's World War II Noir SEALED CARGO where Andrews is a reluctant-to-get-involved ship captain and his square-jawed, blond-haired brother, a Nazi soldier under the command of a sneaky Claude Rains...