2025-10-22 Detour (1945) imdb.com
Director: Edgar G. UlmerSynopsis: The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Cast: Tom Neal as Al Roberts, Ann Savage as Vera, Claudia Drake as Sue Harvey, Edmund MacDonald as Charles Haskell Jr.
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| Al, Vera at the diner | Al, Vera in the hotel | Trying to sell the car | ||
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2025-10-21 The Reckless Moment (1949) imdb.com
Director: Max OphülsSynopsis: After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Cast: James Mason as Martin Donnelly, Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, Geraldine Brooks as Bea Harper, Shepperd Strudwick as Ted Darby, David Bair as David Harper
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| Lucia, Bea, David | Lucia, Bea | Bea | Darby | ||
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| Darby, Bea | Dead Darby, Lucia | Lucia | Donnelly | ||
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2025-10-12 Tension (1949) imdb.com
Director: John BerrySynopsis: Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it. He decides to assume a new identity in order to murder his wife's lover without leaving a trace. Along the way, his plans are complicated by an attractive neighbor, as well as a shocking discovery that opens up a new world of doubts and accusations.
Cast: Richard Basehart as Warren Quimby, Audrey Totter as Claire Quimby, Cyd Charisse as Mary Chanler, Lloyd Gough as Barney Deager, Barry Sullivan as Lt. Collier Bonnabel, William Conrad as Lt. Edgar Gonsales, Tom D'Andrea as Freddie
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| Warren Quimby | Claire, Warren Quimby | Freddie, Quimby | Claire leaves Quimby | ||
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| Claire, Warren Quimby | Quimby | Claire, Barney Deager | Quimby beaten | Barney Deager, Claire | Claire |
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| Lt. Edgar Gonsales, Quimby, Lt. Collier Bonnabel | Quimby, Mary Chanler | Mary Chanler, Claire | Lt. Collier Bonnabel, Claire | Mary Chanler, Lt. Collier Bonnabel, Quimby | |
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2024-10-22 High Sierra (1941) imdb.com
Director: Raoul WalshSynopsis: Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Cast: Ida Lupino as Marie, Humphrey Bogart as Roy Earle, Alan Curtis as Babe, Arthur Kennedy as Red, Joan Leslie as Velma, Henry Travers as Pa, Elisabeth Risdon as Ma, Henry Hull as 'Doc' Banton, Donald MacBride as Big Mac, Cornel Wilde as Louis Mendoza
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| Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Ida Lupino | Mendoza, Red, Roy, Babe, Marie | Mendoza | Roy, Red | Marie | Marie, Roy |
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| Velma | Roy, Pa, Velma, Doc, Ma | Robbing the resort | Roy, Jake Kranmer | Doc, Roy | |
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| Roy, Marie | Marie, cop | Pard the dog | Roy writes the final letter | The sharpshooter | |
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2024-10-20 They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) imdb.com
Director: Alberto CavalcantiSynopsis: After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Cast: Sally Gray as Sally Connor, Trevor Howard as George Clement 'Clem' Morgan, Griffith Jones as Narcy, Rène Ray as Cora, Mary Merrall as Aggie, Maurice Denham as Mr. Fenshaw, Vida Hope as Mrs. Fenshaw
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| Coffin smuggling, Aggie (in the center) | Narcy | Failed heist | Narcy threatens Sally | Cora tortured | |
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| Sally | Sally, Clem | Clem, Mr. Fenshaw | Mr. Fenshaw kills her husband | ||
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2024-10-17 Hardly a Criminal (1949) imdb.com
Director: Hugo FregoneseSynopsis: A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…
Cast: Jorge Salcedo as José Morán, Sebastián Chiola as Rosatto, Linda Lorena as Laura
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| José Morán, Laura | José's Mother | In the prison | José Morán |
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2024-10-13 The Small Back Room (1949) imdb.com
Director: Emeric PressburgerSynopsis: At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
Cast: David Farrar as Sammy Rice, Kathleen Byron as Susan, Michael Gough as Capt. Dick Stuart, Cyril Cusack as Cpl. Taylor
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Youtube. Full movie
| Sammy Rice, Susan | Susan, Sammy at the restaurant | Sammy Rice, Susan | The bar scene | |
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| Cpl. Taylor, Sammy Rice | Susan's cat | Sammy's nightmare | Capt. Dick Stuart | Sammy Rice defuses the German bomb |
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2024-10-13 Without Pity (1948) imdb.com
Director: Alberto LattuadaSynopsis: An Italian sex worker falls in love with a black American soldier during World War II.
Cast: Carla Del Poggio as Angela, John Kitzmiller as Jerry, Giulietta Masina as Marcella
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| Jerry, Angela | Marcella, Angela | ||||
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| Gangster, Angela, Marcela | Jerry arrested | Jerry, gangsters | Jerry wounded, Angela | |
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2024-10-12 Odd Man Out (1947) imdb.com
Director: Carol ReedSynopsis: Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Cast: James Mason as Johnny McQueen, Robert Newton as Lukey, F.J. McCormick as Shell, Kathleen Ryan as Kathleen Sullivan, W.G. Fay as Father Tom, Denis O'Dea as Inspector, Maureen Delaney as Theresa O'Brien, Elwyn Brook-Jones as Tober
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| Dennis | Planning the robbery | Robbing the bank | Johnny | Rosie, Tom |
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| Theresa O'Brien, informer | Tober | Tober, Johnny | Lukey, Johnny, Tober, Shell | Lukey, Johnny |
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| Father Tom, Inspector | Inspector | Kathleen | Kathleen, Johnny | |
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2024-08-28 Intruder in the Dust (1949) imdb.com
Director: Clarence BrownSynopsis: Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
Cast: David Brian as John Gavin Stevens, Claude Jarman Jr. as Chick Mallison, Juano Hernández as Lucas Beauchamp, Elzie Emanuel as Aleck, Porter Hall as Nub Gowrie, Elizabeth Patterson as Miss Eunice Habersham, Charles Kemper as Crawford Gowrie, Will Geer as Sheriff Hampton, Harry Antrim as Mr. Tubbs, prison warder, David Clarke as Vinson Gowrie
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Youtube. Quicksand
| Chick at Lucas house | Lucas, Chick | Chick, John Stevens | ||
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| Chick, Miss Habersham, John Stevens | Miss Habersham | John Stevens, Chick, Aleck | Lucas | Prison warder Mr. Tubbs, John Stevens, Chick |
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| Crawford Gowrie, Chick | Lucas, Sheriff | Sheriff, Nub Gowrie | Sheriff | John Stevens, Lucas, Chick |
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2024-08-26 Adam's Rib (1949) imdb.com
Director: George CukorSynopsis: A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Cast: Spencer Tracy as Adam Bonner, Katharine Hepburn as Amanda Bonner, Judy Holliday as Doris Attinger, Tom Ewell as Warren Attinger, David Wayne as Kip Lurie
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| Warren Attinger, his gf, Doris Attinger | Amanda, Doris | Doris, Amanda at court | Adam Bonner at court | ||
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| Adam, Amanda | Adam, Amanda at home | Adam Bonner, Kip Lurie, Amanda Bonner | |||
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2024-08-19 Woman of the Year (1942) imdb.com
Director: George StevensSynopsis: Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Cast: Spencer Tracy as Sam Craig, Katharine Hepburn as Tess Harding, Minor Watson as William J. Harding, Fay Bainter as Ellen Whitcomb, Ludwig Stössel as Dr. Lubbeck, George Kezas as Chris
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| Sam, Tess at the stadium | Tess | Sam, Tess | |||
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| Dr. Lubbeck, Sam | Sam, Tess, Greek orphan | William J. Harding, Ellen Whitcomb wedding | Tess in Sam's kitchen | ||
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2024-03-19 Colorado Territory (1949) imdb.com
Director: Raoul WalshSynopsis: In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
Cast: Joel McCrea as Wes McQueen, Virginia Mayo as Colorado Carson, Dorothy Malone as Julie Ann Winslow, Henry Hull as Fred Winslow
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laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com
| McQueen | McQueen, Julie, Mr. Winslow | Julie, her father Fred Winslow | Fred Winslow, Colorado, McQueen | Julie, Colorado |
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2023-10-24 Cry of the City (1948) imdb.com
Director: Robert SiodmakSynopsis: Cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
Cast: Victor Mature as Lt. Candella, Richard Conte as Martin Rome, Tommy Cook as Tony Rome, Mimi Aguglia as Mama Roma, Debra Paget as Teena Riconti, Hope Emerson as Rose Given, Shelley Winters as Brenda Martingale
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criterionforum.org
| In the hospital. Martin Rome, Candella | Martin Rome, Teena | Martin Rome, Rose Given | Tony, Candella | Mama Rome, Martin Rome |
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| Candella, Tony, Martin Rome, Mama Rome | Candella, Martin Rome | Tony, Martin Rome | Martin, Brenda | |
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| Martin Rome, Teena | Candella, Brenda | Rose Given, Martin Rome | Martin Rome, Candella | |
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2023-10-21 All My Sons (1948) imdb.com
Director: Irving ReisSynopsis: During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson as Joe Keller, Burt Lancaster as Chris Keller, Mady Christians as Kate Keller, Louisa Horton as Ann Deever, Howard Duff as George Deever, Frank Conroy as Herbert Deever, Harry Morgan as Frank Lubey, Elisabeth Fraser as Lydia Lubey
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| Kate, Ann, Chris | Ann, Chris, Kate, Joe | Chris, Ann, Lydia, Frank | Ann, Joe, Kate, Chris | Joe, Chris at work | Chris, Ann |
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2023-10-21 Call Northside 777 (1948) imdb.com
Director: Henry HathawaySynopsis: In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Cast: James Stewart as P.J. 'Jim' McNeal, Richard Conte as Frank W. Wiecek, Lee J. Cobb as Brian Kelly, Helen Walker as Laura McNeal, Betty Garde as Wanda Skutnik, Kasia Orzazewski as Tillie Wiecek, Joanne De Bergh as Helen Wiecek
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| Wanda Skutnik, officer killed | Tomek Zaleska, Frank Wiecek at the court | McNeal | Tillie Wiecek | |
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| McNeal | In prison | Lie detector | Police record | Picture with dated newspaper |
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2023-10-20 Hollow Triumph (1948) imdb.com
Director: Steve SekelySynopsis: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Cast: Paul Henreid as John Muller / Dr. Bartok, Joan Bennett as Evelyn Hahn, Eduard Franz as Frederick Muller, Leslie Brooks as Virginia Taylor, John Qualen as Dr. Swangron
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| Evelyn, Muller | Muller, Evelyn, Dr.Swangron | Dr.Swangron, Muller | Dr.Bartok, Evelyn | Virginia, Muller | |
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2023-10-19 So Evil My Love (1948) imdb.com
Director: Lewis AllenSynopsis: In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
Cast: Ray Milland as Mark Bellis, Ann Todd as Olivia Harwood, Geraldine Fitzgerald as Susan Courtney, Raymond Huntley as Henry Courtney, Moira Lister as Kitty Feathers
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| Mark Bellis | Olivia Harwood | Olivia, Mark with her portrait | Mark, Olivia | Kitty | |
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| Kitty, Mark | Susan | Susan, Henry Courtney | Olivia, Henry | Olivia, Susan at court | Olivia visits Susan in prison |
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2023-10-18 The Hunted (1948) imdb.com
Director: Jack BernhardSynopsis: A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
Cast: Preston Foster as Johnny Saxon, Belita as Laura Mead
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2023-10-17 Larceny (1948) imdb.com
Director: George ShermanSynopsis: John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Payne falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
Cast: John Payne as Rick Mason, Joan Caulfield as Deborah Owens Clark, Dan Duryea as Silky Randall, Shelley Winters as Tory
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| Rick Mason | Meeting with scouts | Deborah | Rick, Deborah | |
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2023-10-17 The Big Clock (1948) imdb.com
Director: John FarrowSynopsis: John Farrow's movie adaptation of Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock, based on a screenplay by Jonathan Latimer (and produced by future James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum), is a near-perfect match for the book, telling in generally superb visual style a tale set against the backdrop of upscale 1940s New York and offering an early (but accurate) depiction of the modern media industry. Told in the back-to-front fashion typical of film noir, it opens with George Stroud (Ray Milland) trapped, his life in danger, his survival measured in the minute-by-minute movements of the huge central clock of the office building where he's hiding. In flashback we learn that Stroud works for media baron Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton), loosely based on Henry Luce, as the editor of Crimeways magazine. Janoth is a manipulative, self-centered megalomaniac with various obsessions, including clocks; among other manifestations of the latter fixation, the skyscraper housing his empire's headquarters has as one of its central features a huge clock that reads out the time around the world down to the second.
Twenty-four hours earlier, on the eve of a combined honeymoon/vacation with his wife, Georgia (Maureen O'Sullivan), that has been put off for seven years, Stroud was ordered by Janoth to cancel the trip in order to work on a special project, and he resigned. As the narrative picks up speed, in his depression, Stroud misses the train his wife is on and crosses paths with Pauline York (Rita Johnson), a former model for Janoth's Styleways magazine, who is also Janoth's very unhappy mistress, and the two commiserate by getting drunk together in a night on the town. While hurriedly leaving Pauline's apartment, he glimpses Janoth entering. Janoth and York quarrel, and the publisher kills her in a jealous rage, using a sundial that she and Stroud picked up the night before while wandering around in their revels. Janoth and his general manager, Steve Hagen (George Macready), contrive to pin the murder on the man that Janoth glimpsed leaving York's apartment, whom he thinks was named Jefferson Randolph -- the name Stroud was drunkenly bandying about the night before. He gets Stroud back to Crimeways to lead the magazine's investigators in hunting down "Jefferson Randolph," never realizing that this was Stroud. And Stroud has no choice but to return, desperately trying to gather evidence against Janoth and, in turn, prevent the clues gathered by the Crimeways staff from leading back to him. The two play this clever, disjointed game of cat-and-mouse, Janoth and Hagen planting evidence that will hang "Randolph" (and justify his being shot while trying to escape), while Stroud, knowing what they don't about how close the man they seek to destroy is, arranges to obscure those clues and, in a comical twist, sends the least capable reporters and investigators to follow up on the most substantial clues.
Janoth sometimes seems to be unraveling at the frustrating pace and lack of conclusion to the hunt, but Stroud can't escape the inevitable, or the moments of weakness caused by fear and his own guilt over his near-unfaithfulness to his wife or the inscrutable gaze of Janoth's mute bodyguard Bill Womack (Harry Morgan), a stone-cold killer dedicated to protecting his employer. The trail of proof and guilt winds ever tighter around both men, taking some odd twists courtesy of the eccentric artist (Elsa Lanchester) who has seen the suspect. Milland is perfect in the role of the hapless Stroud, and Laughton is brilliant as the vain, self-centered Janoth, but George Macready is equally good as Hagen, his smooth, upper-crust Waspy smarminess making one's skin crawl. Also worth noting is Harry Morgan's sinister, silent performance as Womack, and sharp-eyed viewers will also recognize such performers as Douglas Spencer, Noel Neill (especially memorable as a tart-tongued elevator operator), Margaret Field ({%Sally}'s mother), Ruth Roman, and Lane Chandler in small roles. Additionally, the Janoth Publications building where most of the action takes place is almost a cast member in itself, an art deco wonder, especially the room housing the clock mechanism and the lobby and vestibules, all loosely inspired by such structures as the Empire State Building and the real-life {~Daily News} headquarters on East 42nd Street. This film was later remade as No Way Out. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Ray Milland as George Stroud, Charles Laughton as Earl Janoth, Maureen O'Sullivan as Georgette Stroud, George Macready as Steve Hagen, Rita Johnson as Pauline York
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| George and his family | George, his boss Hagen | George, Pauline York | ||
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| George confronts Janoth | George, Pauline in the bar | George, Pauline in the morning | Pauline confronts Janoth | Janoth, Hagen discuss Pauline's murder |
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| George to wife: I am fired | Janoth orders 'investigation' | Janoth gets massage | George accuses Hagen of Pauline's murder | George looks for Janoth in the elevator shaft |
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2023-10-14 Act of Violence (1948) imdb.com
Director: Fred ZinnemannSynopsis: A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
Cast: Van Heflin as Frank R. Enley, Janet Leigh as Edith Enley, Robert Ryan as Joe Parkson, Mary Astor as Pat, Phyllis Thaxter as Ann, Berry Kroeger as Johnny, Taylor Holmes as Gavery
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2023-10-14 Raw Deal (1948) imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: A revenge-seeking gangster is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. After seducing a beautiful young woman, he uses her to help him carry out his plot for vengeance, leading him to the crazy pyromaniac who set him up.
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe as Joe Sullivan, Claire Trevor as Pat Cameron, Marsha Hunt as Ann Martin, Raymond Burr as Rick Coyle, John Ireland as Fantail, Curt Conway as Spider
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| Fantail attacks Joe | Rick | Spider, Rick, Fantail | Fantail, Ann |
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| Ann shoots Fantail | Joe, Ann | Pat on the ship | Joe wounded |
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2023-10-13 Pitfall (1948) imdb.com
Director: André de TothSynopsis: An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
Cast: Dick Powell as John Forbes, Lizabeth Scott as Mona Stevens, Jane Wyatt as Sue Forbes, Raymond Burr as MacDonald, Byron Barr as Bill Smiley
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| Mona, John, Mac | Mona, Mac | John, Smiley | John, Mona in prison |
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2023-07-10 The Hard Way (1943) imdb.com
Director: Vincent ShermanSynopsis: Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Cast: Ida Lupino as Helen Chernen, Joan Leslie as Katherine 'Katie' Blaine, Dennis Morgan as Paul Collins, Jack Carson as Albert Runkel, Gladys George as Lily Emery, Roman Bohnen as Sam Chernen
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| Helen, Katie | Albert, Sam, Helen | Albert, Helen | ||
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| Lily Emery, Helen | Paul performs | Paul, Katie | Paul, Katie, Helen | |
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2023-07-03 A Stolen Life (1946) imdb.com
Director: Curtis BernhardtSynopsis: A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
Cast: Bette Davis as Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth, Glenn Ford as Bill Emerson, Dane Clark as Karnock, Walter Brennan as Eben Folger, Charles Ruggles as Freddie Linley
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Youtube. Pat, Kate on Bill
Youtube. The Doppelgänger Motif in 'A Stolen Life'
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| Kate, Karnock | Kate survives the storm | Bill, Kate | |
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2023-07-03 The Big Sleep (1946) imdb.com
Director: Howard HawksSynopsis: Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe, Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge, Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood, Charles Waldron as General Sternwood, Sonia Darrin as Agnes, John Ridgely as Eddie Mars, Bob Steele as Lash Canino, Louis Jean Heydt as Joe Brody
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Youtube. Marlowe, Carmen
Youtube. In the book shop
Youtube. Marlowe brings drugged Carmen
Youtube. Marlowe, Vivian
| Philip Marlowe, Carmen | With General | In the book store | Marlowe, dead Geiger |
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| Marlowe, drugged Carmen | Marlowe, Vivian, Carmen | Marlowe, Vivian | |
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| Marlowe, Vivian | Marlowe, Vivian, Lash Canino | Lash Canino | |
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2023-06-17 All That Money Can Buy (1941) imdb.com
Director: William DieterleSynopsis: Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
Cast: Edward Arnold as Daniel Webster, Walter Huston as Mr. Scratch, James Craig as Jabez Stone, Jane Darwell as Ma Stone, Anne Shirley as Mary Stone, Simone Simon as Belle
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Stephen Vincent Benet. The Devil and Daniel Webster
| Stone's house | Jabez Stone, Mary | Mary | Ma | Scratch, Jabez Stone | |
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2023-06-15 Frenchman's Creek (1944) imdb.com
Director: Mitchell LeisenSynopsis: An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Cast: Joan Fontaine as Dona St. Columb, Arturo de Córdova as Jean Benoit Aubrey, Basil Rathbone as Lord Rockingham, Cecil Kellaway as William, Ralph Forbes as Harry St. Columb
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2023-06-14 The Maltese Falcon (1941) imdb.com
Director: John HustonSynopsis: A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart as Samuel Spade, Mary Astor as Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo, Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman, Lee Patrick as Effie Perine, Gladys George as Iva Archer, Elisha Cook Jr. as Wilmer Cook
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| Miles Archer, Sam Spade | Iva Archer, Sam Spade | Effie Perine, Sam Spade, Brigid | Effie Perine | Sam Spade | |
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| Sam, Gutman | Gutman, Cairo, Sam | Gutman, Cairo | Wilmer | Sam, Cairo, Brigid, Gutman with fake Falcon | |
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2023-06-06 The Letter (1940) imdb.com
William WylerFilm
Tim Dirks
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Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie, Herbert Marshall as Robert Crosbie, James Stephenson as Howard Joyce
| Leslie shoots Hammond | Leslie, Robert | Howard, Chinese informant | ||
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| The trial | Robert reads the letter | The trial. Leslie acquitted | Leslie killed | |
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2023-05-08 Sleep, My Love (1948) imdb.com
Director: Douglas SirkSynopsis: A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Cast: Claudette Colbert as Alison Courtland, Don Ameche as Richard W. Courtland, Robert Cummings as Bruce Elcott, Rita Johnson as Barby, Hazel Brooks as Daphne, George Coulouris as Charles Vernay, Keye Luke as Jimmie Lin, Marya Marco as Jeannie Lin
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| Charles Vernay, Daphne, Richard | Richard, Daphne | Charles Vernay | ||
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2023-04-30 Summer Storm (1944) imdb.com
Director: Douglas SirkSynopsis: It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
Cast: George Sanders as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff, Linda Darnell as Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin, Anna Lee as Nadina Kalenin, Edward Everett Horton as Count 'Piggy' Volsky, Hugo Haas as Anton Urbenin, Laurie Lane as Clara Heller
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| Nadena | Clara, Volsky, Fedya | Urbenin | Wedding: Olga, Volsky, Urbenin | Olga | Fedya, Olga |
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| Olga | OLga dead, Urbenin, Fedya | Clara | Fedya investigates Clara | ||
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2023-02-05 Gaslight (1944) imdb.com
Director: George CukorSynopsis: A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Cast: Charles Boyer as Gregory Anton, Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist, Joseph Cotten as Brian Cameron, May Whitty as Bessie Thwaites, Angela Lansbury as Nancy Oliver, Barbara Everest as Elizabeth Tompkins, Heather Thatcher as Lady Mildred Dalroy, Lawrence Grossmith as Lord Dalroy
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| Gas light | Paula | Gregory, Paula | |
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| At the concert. Lord Delroy, Cameron, Lady Mildred Dalroy | At the concert | Cameron | |
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| Cameron, Paula | Cameron, Bessie Thwaites | Gregory arrested, Paula | |
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2022-11-19 Lured (1947) imdb.com
Director: Douglas SirkSynopsis: Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Cast: Lucille Ball as Sandra Carpenter, George Sanders as Robert Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke as Julian Wilde, Charles Coburn as Inspector Harley Temple, George Zucco as Officer H.R. Barrett, Boris Karloff as Charles van Druten, Ann Codee as Matilda, Tanis Chandler as Lucy Barnard
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| Sandra | Lucy Barnard, Sandra | Sandra, Inspector Temple, detectives | Inspector Harley Temple | Officer Barrett, Sandra | Literature expert |
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| Charles van Druten | Sandra, van Druten | Matilda, Sandra | Julian Wilde, Fleming at the concert | Robert Fleming, Sandra | |
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| Lucy's corpse IDed | Fleming interrogated | Wilde, Sandra visit Fleming in jail | Wilde, Sandra | Lucille Ball and Charles Coburn | Wilde, Inspector Temple |
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2022-11-15 Railroaded! (1947) imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
Cast: John Ireland as Duke Martin, Sheila Ryan as Rosie Ryan, Hugh Beaumont as Police Sergeant Mickey Ferguson, Ed Kelly as Steve Ryan, Charles D. Brown as Police Captain MacTaggart, Jane Randolph as Clara Calhoun
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Film
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classicfilmfreak.com
Youtube. Full movie
| The heist. Weston, Clara, robbers | Duke | Captain MacTaggart | |
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| Steve, Detective, Marie Weston, Rosie, Captain, Mickey | Steve | Rosie, Mickey | Rosie visits Steve in jail |
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| Mickey, Rosie, Duke | Rosie, Duke | Clara, Duke | |
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2022-10-27 Secret Beyond the Door (1947) imdb.com
Director: Fritz LangSynopsis: After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
Cast: Joan Bennett as Celia Lamphere, Michael Redgrave as Mark Lamphere, Anne Revere as Caroline Lamphere, Barbara O'Neil as Miss Robey, Mark Dennis as David
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| Celia | Mark | ||
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2022-10-25 The Red House (1947) imdb.com
Director: Delmer DavesSynopsis: An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson as Pete Morgan, Judith Anderson as Ellen Morgan, Allene Roberts as Meg, Lon McCallister as Nath Storm, Julie London as Tibby Renton, Rory Calhoun as Teller
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| In the school bus: Meg, Tibby, Nath | Pete, Ellen Morgan | Meg, Pete | |||
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| Nath, Meg, Pete, Ellen | Meg, Nath | Meg, Nath, Pete | Nath, Tibby, Pete, Meg | ||
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| Tibby, Nath, Meg | Teller, Tibby | Meg, delusioned Pete | |||
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2022-10-23 Born to Kill (1947) imdb.com
Director: Robert WiseSynopsis: Helen Brent has just received a Reno divorce. That night, she discovers her neighbor Laury Palmer and a gentleman caller murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is her neighbor's other boyfriend Sam Wilde, an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone 'cutting in' on him.
Cast: Claire Trevor as Helen Brent, Lawrence Tierney as Sam Wild, Phillip Terry as Fred Grover, Audrey Long as Georgia Staples, Elisha Cook Jr. as Marty, Walter Slezak as Matthew Arnett
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| Sam, Helen in the Casino | Sam | Sam, Marty | Sam, Helen | Helen, Fred, Georgia, Sam | |
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| Helen, Georgia | Georgia | Georgia, Sam's wedding | Helen, Marty, Sam | Sam, Helen | Georgia, Fred Grover |
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| Marty, Helen | Fred Grover, Sam | Sam, Georgia, Fred, Helen | Det. Arnett, Helen | Marty, Mrs. Kraft | Helen, Mrs. Kraft |
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2022-10-23 The Unfaithful (1947) imdb.com
Director: Vincent ShermanSynopsis: Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Cast: Ann Sheridan as Christine Hunter, Lew Ayres as Larry Hannaford, Zachary Scott as Bob Hunter, Eve Arden as Paula, John Hoyt as Det. Lt. Reynolds, Steven Geray as Martin Barrow, Marta Mitrovich as Mrs. Tanner
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| Christine | Bob, Christine | ||
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| Larry, Christine | Christine, Paula | Larry, Bob, Christine | Christine, Bob, Larry, Det. Lt. Reynolds |
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| Larry, Det. Lt. Reynolds | Mrs. Tanner, Martin Barrow | Larry, Christine | |
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| In Court. Larry, Christine | In court | Bob, Paula | |
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2022-10-22 The Unsuspected (1947) imdb.com
Director: Michael CurtizSynopsis: The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
Cast: Joan Caulfield as Matilda Frazier, Claude Rains as Victor Grandison, Audrey Totter as Althea Keane, Hurd Hatfield as Oliver Keane, Ted North as Steven Francis Howard, Constance Bennett as Jane Moynihan, Fred Clark as Richard Donovan, Jack Lambert as Mr. Press
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| Roslyn Wright hanging | Victor, Matilda | Steven, Matilda | |
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| Athea, Steven | Athea | Victor, Oliver | |
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| Steven, Jane | Oliver, Steven, Jane | Donovan | Victor |
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| Victor, Press | Victor, Steven, Matilda, dead Athea | Victor, Matilda | |
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2022-10-21 They Won't Believe Me (1947) imdb.com
Director: Irving PichelSynopsis: On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Cast: Robert Young as Larry Ballentine, Susan Hayward as Verna Carlson, Jane Greer as Janice Bell, Rita Johnson as Greta Ballentine, Tom Powers as Trenton
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| Larry in court | The jury | Greta | Larry, Janice | |
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| Larry, Verna | Trenton | Larry gives $25K check to Verna | Ring for Verna | |
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| Larry's last letter to Greta | Verna, Larry in the car | Verna dies in the car accident | Larry in the hospital | Larry, Janice |
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| Larry at the beach | Greta's and Larry's horses | Greta's horse shot | Janice visits Larry in Jail | |
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2022-10-20 Open Secret (1948) imdb.com
Director: John ReinhardtSynopsis: A couple discovers that their friend has gone missing. Their investigation leads them to believe that anti-semites are behind the disappearance.
Cast: John Ireland as Paul Lester, Jane Randolph as Nancy Lester, Sheldon Leonard as Detective Sgt. Mike Frontelli
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Film
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Youtube. Full movie
| Paul, Nancy | White supremacist booklet | ||
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2022-10-17 Desperate (1947) imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Cast: Steve Brodie as Steve Randall, Audrey Long as Anne Randall, Raymond Burr as Walt Radak, Freddie Steele as Shorty, Douglas Fowley as Pete, Carol Forman as Mrs. Henry Roberts
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Youtube. Clock scene
| Steve, Anne | Anne | Mrs. Henry Roberts, Anne | Steve, Anne | Steve | |
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2022-10-17 T-Men (1947) imdb.com
Director: Anthony MannSynopsis: Two U.S. Treasury ('T-men') agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien / Vannie Harrigan, Mary Meade as Evangeline, Alfred Ryder as Tony Genaro / Tony Galvani, Wallace Ford as The Schemer, Charles McGraw as Moxie
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| Elmer Lincoln Irey | Tony Genaro / Tony Galvani, Dennis O'Brien / Vannie Harrigan | O'Brien, mobsters | Moxie, O'Brien | ||
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| O'Brien, Evangeline | Evangeline | Paul Miller | Schemer | Schemer, O'Brien | Schemer cooked by Moxie |
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2022-10-16 Nightmare Alley (1947) imdb.com
Director: Edmund GouldingSynopsis: Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with 'Mademoiselle Zeena' and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
Cast: Tyrone Power as Stanton 'Stan' Carlisle, Helen Walker as Lilith Ritter, Coleen Gray as Molly Carlisle, Joan Blondell as Zeena Krumbein, Mike Mazurki as Bruno, James Burke as Rural Marshal, Taylor Holmes as Ezra Grindle
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| Zeena | Zeena, Stan | Zeena | Molly | |
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| Stan, Molly | Bruno, Molly | Marshal, Molly, Stan | Marshal, Stan | |
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| Stan performs | Molly, Stan | Zeena, Molly, Bruno | Lilith Ritter | Stan, Lilith Ritter |
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2022-10-15 Crossfire (1947) imdb.com
Director: Edward DmytrykSynopsis: A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
Cast: Robert Young as Finlay, Robert Mitchum as Peter Keeley, Robert Ryan as Montgomery, Gloria Grahame as Virginia 'Ginny' Tremayne, Sam Levene as Samuels, Jacqueline White as Mary Mitchell, Steve Brodie as Floyd, George Cooper as Mitchell, William Phipps as Leroy, Marlo Dwyer as Miss Lewis
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| Finlay | Keeley, Monty, Finlay | Monty, Keeley, Finlay | Ginny, Finaly | Monty |
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| Monty, Leroy | Leroy, Monty, Miss Lewis, Samuels | Michell, Keeley | Monty, Samuels, Floyd | Samuels |
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2022-10-14 The Lady from Shanghai (1947) imdb.com
Director: Orson WellesSynopsis: A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Cast: Rita Hayworth as Elsa Bannister, Orson Welles as Michael O'Hara, Everett Sloane as Arthur Bannister, Glenn Anders as George Grisby, Ted de Corsia as Sidney Broome
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Youtube. Eddie Muller's intro
Youtube. Mirror scene
| Michael, Elsa | Arthur Bannister hires Michael | Michael | Michael, Elsa | ||
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2022-10-01 Front (1943) imdb.com
Director: George VasilievSynopsis: Front commander Gorlov is a military commander who went through a civil war, unable to apply new methods of warfare in the fight against fascists.
Cast: Boris Babochkin as Gen. Ognev, Boris Zhukovsky as Gen. Ivan Gorlov, Pavel Volkov as Miron Gorlov, Nikolay Kryuchkov as Sergey Gorlov, Pavel Geraga as Gen. Kolos, Lev Sverdlin as Gaidar, Vasiliy Vanin as Gen. Khripun, Boris Chrkov as Col. Udivitelnyi
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| Gen. Gorlov | Gen. Ognev | Miron Gorlov, Gen.Gorlov | Gen. Khripun, Gen.Gorlov | Ognev, Golrlov |
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2022-08-02 The Naked City (1948) imdb.com
Director: Jules DassinSynopsis: The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer.
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald as Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon, Frank Conroy as Capt. Donahue, Don Taylor as Det. Jimmy Halloran, Howard Duff as Frank Niles, Dorothy Hart as Ruth Morrison, Enid Markey as Mrs. Edgar Hylton, Ted de Corsia as Willie Garzah aka Willie the Harmonica, House Jameson as Dr. Stoneman, Anne Sargent as Mrs. Halloran, Adelaide Klein as Mrs. Paula Batory, Grover Burgess as Mr. Batory
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| NYC view | Jean Dexter killed | Willie Garzah kills his partner | Jean's housekeeper finds her corpse | Police phone operators |
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| Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon, Capt. Donahue | Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon, Jimmy Halloran | Dan Muldoon | Jean Dexter's parents - Mr. and Mrs. Batory | |
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| Det. Jimmy Halloran, his wife | Frank Niles, Ruth Morrison | Ruth Morrison, Det Jimmy Halloran | ||
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| Howard Duff | Det. Jimmy Halloran, Dr. Stoneman | Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon, Mrs. Edgar Hylton, Jimmy Halloran | Frank Niles, Ruth Morrison | Lt. Dan Muldoon, Frank Niles |
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| Jimmy Halloran, Willie Garzah | Willie Garzah tries to escape | Frank Niles behind bars | ||
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2022-07-24 Kiss of Death (1947) imdb.com
Director: Henry HathawaySynopsis: An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Cast: Victor Mature as Nick Bianco, Brian Donlevy as Asst. DA Louis D'Angelo, Coleen Gray as Nettie, and Voice of Narrator, Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo, Taylor Holmes as Earl Howser, Attorney
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| Asst. DA Louis D'Angelo, detectives, Nick Bianco | Asst. DA, Nick in jail | Nick with attorney | Nick with Tommy Udo | Nick in prison |
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| Nettie visits Nick | With kids in the orphanage | With Nettie | ||
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| Tommy Udo | With Nettie | With Tommy in the restaurant | Nick confronts Asst. DA | |
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2022-07-21 Boomerang! (1947) imdb.com
Director: Elia KazanSynopsis: In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence. Based on a true story.
Cast: Dana Andrews as State's Attorney Henry L. Harvey, Jane Wyatt as Madge Harvey, Lee J. Cobb as Chief Harold F. 'Robbie' Robinson, Cara Williams as Irene Nelson, Arthur Kennedy as John Waldron, Sam Levene as Morning Record's Reporter Dave Woods
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| Pastor shot | Henry L. Harvey, reporter Dave Woods | With 'Robbie' Robinson | Reporter Dave Woods | |
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| With Irene Nelson | With Madge | Presenting ballistic evidence | With John Waldron | |
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2022-07-18 The Quiet Duel (1949) imdb.com
Director: Akira KurosawaSynopsis: Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.
Cast: Toshiro Mifune as Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki, Miki Sanjo as Misao Matsumoto, Takashi Shimura as Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki, Kenjiro Uemura as Susumu Nakada, Chieko Nakakita as Takiko Nakada, Noriko Sengoku as Apprentice Nurse Rui Minegishi
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| Before the war | Hospital in the jungles | Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki | |||
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| With father Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki | Misao | Misao, Kyoji | |||
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| Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki, Misao | Nakada, Kyoji , his father | Nakada | Nakada, Kyoji, Nakada's wife | Nakada's wife Takiko, Rui | |
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2021-10-25 Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) imdb.com
Director: Anatole LitvakSynopsis: While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and attempts to prevent it.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck as Leona Stevenson, Burt Lancaster as Henry Stevenson, Ann Richards as Sally Hunt Lord, Wendell Corey as Dr. Philip Alexander
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Film
Lucille Fletcher. Sorry, Wrong Number
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Bosley Crowther
| Leona | Henry | Henry, Leona | Sally | |
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| Sally, Leona | Leona, Henry | Henry on the phone with Leona | Henry with Dr. Philip Alexander and gangsters | |
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2021-10-24 High Tide (1947) imdb.com
Director: John ReinhardtSynopsis: A reporter hires a bodyguard to protect him from a gang boss he has been investigating. After a car accident traps the two of them inside the car with the tide coming in, the reporter recounts for his bodyguard the circumstances leading up to their predicament.
Cast: Lee Tracy as Hugh Fresney, Don Castle as Tim Slade
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2021-10-23 Moonrise (1948) imdb.com
Director: Frank BorzageSynopsis: Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.
Cast: Dane Clark as Danny Hawkins, Gail Russell as Gilly Johnson, Allyn Joslyn as Sheriff Clem Otis
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2021-10-23 The Chase (1946) imdb.com
Director: Arthur RipleySynopsis: Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman, a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends. The job proves nerve-wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help Eddie's lovely, fearful, prisoner-wife Lorna to escape.
Cast: Robert Cummings as Chuck Scott, Michèle Morgan as Lorna Roman, Steve Cochran as Eddie Roman, Peter Lorre as Gino, James Westerfield as Job - the Butler
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2021-10-21 A Double Life (1947) imdb.com
Director: George CukorSynopsis: A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.
Cast: Ronald Colman as Anthony John, Signe Hasso as Brita, Philip Loeb as Max Lasker
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2021-10-17 Road House (1948) imdb.com
Director: Jean NegulescoSynopsis: Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Jefty is smitten with Lily, who in turn exerts her charms on the more resistant Pete. When Pete finally falls for her and she turns down Jefty's marriage proposal, they must face Jefty's murderous jealousy and his twisted plots to 'punish' the two.
Cast: Ida Lupino as Lily Stevens, Cornel Wilde as Pete Morgan, George Beranger as Jefty, Celeste Holm as Susie Smith
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2021-10-17 The Velvet Touch (1948) imdb.com
Director: Jack GageSynopsis: A Broadway star unintentionally kills her impresario but keeps mum about it when the police investigator targets a rival actress.
Cast: Rosalind Russell as Valerie Stanton, Leo Genn as Michael Morrell, Leon Ames as Gordon Dunning, Claire Trevor as Marian Webster, Sydney Greenstreet as Capt. Danbury
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2021-10-16 Fly-by-Night (1942) imdb.com
Director: Robert SiodmakSynopsis: After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.
Cast: Richard Carlson as Dr. Geoffrey Burton, Nancy Kelly as Pat Lindsey, Albert Bassermann as Dr. Storm
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2021-10-16 Jealousy (1945) imdb.com
Director: Gustav MachatýSynopsis: The wife of an alcoholic writer must take a job as a taxi driver to make ends meet. A young man she picks up as a fare befriends her, but when her husband is found murdered, the police suspect she and her new "friend" committed the m
Cast: Jane Randolph as Janet Urban, Nils Asther as Peter Urban, John Loder as Dr. David Brent, Karen Morley as Dr. Monica Anderson
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2021-10-15 Force of Evil (1948) imdb.com
Director: Abraham PolonskySynopsis: An unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.
Cast: John Garfield as Joe Morse, Thomas Gomez as Leo Morse, Beatrice Pearson as Doris Lowry, Roy Roberts as Ben Tucker, Howland Chamberlain as Frederick 'Freddie'Bauer
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2021-08-29 Sullivan's Travels (1941) imdb.com
Director: Preston SturgesSynopsis: Hollywood film director John L. Sullivan dreams of making a film called Brother, Where Art Thou , dealing with the misery of the poverty-stricken, and convinces the studio executives to allow him to do research by traveling cross-country disguised as a hobo.
Cast: Joel McCrea as John L. Sullivan, Veronica Lake as The Girl,
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2020-11-22 Obsession (1943) imdb.com
Director: Luchino ViscontiCast: Clara Calamai as Giovanna Bragana, Massimo Girotti as Gino Costa, Juan da Landa as Giuseppe Bragana, Giovanna's husband, Elio Marcuzz as the Spaniard, a street artist, Dhia Cristiani as Anita, a prostitute
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2020-11-13 Panique (1946) imdb.com
Director: Julien DuvivierSynopsis: After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.
Cast: Viviane Romance as Alice, Paul Bernard as Alfred, Michel Simon as M.Hire
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2019-12-14 Remember The Night (1940) imdb.com
Director: Mitchell LeisenSynopsis: A romantic comedy drama directed by former art director Mitchell Leisen and based on a skillful Preston Sturges screenplay. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Lee Leander, a New York City shoplifter who is arrested just before Christmas after trying to filch an expensive piece of jewelry. Her trial delayed until after the holiday, Lee comes to the attention of an assistant district attorney, John Sargent (Fred MacMurray). Although he will be expected to prosecute Lee in a few days, John takes pity on the prisoner, who is from his home state of Indiana. He arranges for her to be released for the holidays and escorts her home, but her mother (Georgia Caine) is not interested in a reunion. So John takes Lee to his own festivities, where Lee is bowled over by the love and affection of the Sargent family, particularly John's mother (Beulah Bondi), who is so unlike her own. Lee and John fall in love, but their return to the Big Apple and Lee's trial loom large over their romance. - By Karl Williams
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck as Lee Leander, Fred MacMurray as John Sargent, Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Sargent
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| John, Lee at the restaurant | John, Lee | In John's car with cow | Lee, John's family | John plays piano | Lee, Mrs.Sargent |
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2019-12-07 Miracle on 34th Street (1947) imdb.com
Director: George SeatonSynopsis: Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy's toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen O'Hara soon begins having second thoughts about hiring Kris: it's bad enough that he is laboring under the delusion that he's the genuine Saint Nick; but when he begins advising customers to shop elsewhere for toys that they can't find at Macy's, he's gone too far! Amazingly, Mr. Macy (Harry Antrim) considers Kris' shopping tips to be an excellent customer-service "gimmick," and insists that the old fellow keep his job. A resident of a Long Island retirement home, Kris agrees to take a room with lawyer John Payne during the Christmas season. It happens that Payne is sweet on O'HARA, and Kris subliminally hopes he can bring the two together. Kris is also desirous of winning over the divorced O'HARA's little daughter Natalie Wood, who in her few years on earth has lost a lot of the Christmas spirit. Complications ensue when Porter Hall, Macy's nasty in-house psychologist, arranges to have Kris locked up in Bellevue as a lunatic. Payne represents Kris at his sanity hearing, rocking the New York judicial system to its foundations by endeavoring to prove in court that Kris is, indeed, the real Santa Claus! We won't tell you how he does it: suffice to say that there's a joyous ending for Payne and O'HARA, as well as a wonderful faith-affirming denouement for little Natalie Wood. 72-year-old Edmund Gwenn won an Oscar for his portrayal of the "jolly old elf" Kringle; the rest of the cast is populated by such never-fail pros as Gene Lockhart (as the beleaguered sanity-hearing judge), William Frawley (as a crafty political boss), and an unbilled Thelma Ritter and Jack Albertson. Based on the novel by Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street was remade twice: once for TV in 1973, and a second time for a 1994 theatrical release, with Richard Attenborough as Kris Kringle. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Maureen O'Hara as Doris Walker, John Payne as Fred Gailey, Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle, Natalie Wood as Susan Walker, Gene Lockhart as Judge Henry X. Harper, Porter Hall as Mr. Sawyer
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2019-10-13 The Woman In the Window (1944) imdb.com
Director: Fritz LangSynopsis: Directed by Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, a sadly tragic film noir, is the story of the doomed love of married psychology-professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson), who, with murderous results, meets and falls in love with another woman. Wanley first sees the portrait of a beautiful woman, Alice (Joan Bennett), and then meets the woman herself. After committing murder in self-defense, he finds himself blackmailed by Heidt (Dan Duryea). The script, written by Nunnally Johnson, is carefully structured with crisp dialogue and a convincing ending. Lang is at his best, getting excellent performances from Robinson, as the doomed, naive professor, and Bennett both. The Woman in the Window shows that good and evil are present in all, and that circumstances frequently dictate moral choices. Based on J.H. Wallis' novel Once Off Guard, the film gives viewers their money's worth with not one but two logical and satisfying surprise twists at the end. - By Linda Rasmussen
Cast: Edward G. Robinson as Prof. Richard Wanley, Joan Bennett as Alice Reed, Dan Duryea as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
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2019-10-12 Phantom Lady (1944) imdb.com
Director: Robert SiodmakSynopsis: Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a failed marriage, when he strikes up a conversation with a woman (Fay Helm). She's well dressed, with a very ornate hat topping off her ensemble, and also seems even sadder and more lost than he is. Henderson persuades her to join him in taking advantage of the two theater tickets he has. They attend the show -- a song-and-dance showcase by a Brazilian artist (Aurora) -- and then part company without ever exchanging names. He returns home to find three detectives in his apartment and his wife strangled. Inspector Burgess (Thomas Gomez) questions Henderson and tries to verify his alibi, but no one -- not the bartender, the cabbie who hauled them to the theater, or the drummer in the band who was watching her -- admits to remembering the woman. Henderson can't prove that he was elsewhere when his wife was strangled and is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. His assistant, Carol Richman (Ella Raines), who has watched all of this happen, can't sit by while Scott is destroyed, and decides to get at the truth, joined by Inspector Burgess, who now believes Henderson to be innocent. Carol hounds the bartender (Andrew Tombes) until he seems ready to crack, but before he talks, he tries to get away from her and dies in an accident. The drummer, Cliff Milburn (Elisha Cook Jr.), proves more talkative and reveals that someone paid him 500 dollars to forget about the woman, but before Burgess can question him, he's strangled. It seems as though there's no hope left, even with the added help of Jack Marlow (Franchot Tone), Scott's best friend, newly returned from Brazil, when Carol gets a line on the unusual hat the woman was wearing. She traces the hat to its owner in a mansion on Long Island, where she is recovering from a breakdown over the death of her fiance -- that was her trouble on the night she crossed paths with Scott Henderson. It is only on returning to New York, while awaiting Burgess' arrival, that she realizes that Jack Marlow is the murderer -- that he returned after having dinner with them, following their fight, and strangled Henderson's wife; paid off the bartender, the cab driver, and Cliff Milburn to keep them from revealing the existence of the woman that Scott was with; and killed Milburn to prevent him from talking; and he plans to kill Carol before she can talk to Burgess. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Franchot Tone as Jack Marlow, Ella Raines as Carol "Kansas" Richman, Alan Curtis as Scott Henderson
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2019-07-04 Citizen Kane (1941) imdb.com
Director: Orson WellesSynopsis: Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to be his most important and influential work, a ground-breaking drama loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst which is frequently cited as the finest American film ever made. Aging newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies in his sprawling Florida estate after uttering a single, enigmatic final word -- "Rosebud" -- and newsreel producer Rawlston (Phil Van Zandt) sends reporter Jerry Thompson (William Alland) out with the assignment of uncovering the meaning behind the great man's dying thought. As Thompson interviews Kane's friends, family, and associates, we learn the facts of Kane's eventful and ultimately tragic life: his abandonment by his parents (Agnes Moorehead and Harry Shannon) after he becomes the heir to a silver mine; his angry conflicts with his guardian, master financier Walter Parks Thatcher (George Coulouris); his impulsive decision that "it would be fun to run a newspaper" with the help of school chum Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten) and loyal assistant Mr. Bernstein (Everett Sloane); his rise from scandal sheet publisher to the owner of America's largest and most influential newspaper chain; his marriage to socially prominent Emily Norton (Ruth Warrick), whose uncle is the President of the United States; Kane's ambitious bid for public office, which is dashed along with his marriage when his opponent, corrupt political boss Jim Gettys (Ray Collins), reveals that Kane is having an affair with aspiring vocalist Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore); Kane's vain attempts to promote second wife Alexander as an opera star; and his final, self-imposed exile to a massive and never-completed pleasure palace called Xanadu. While Citizen Kane was a film full of distinguished debuts -- along with Welles, it was the first feature for Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, and Ruth Warrick -- the only Academy Award it received was for Best Original Screenplay, for which Welles shared credit with veteran screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz. - By Mark Deming
Cast: Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane, Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander, Ruth Warrick as Emily Norton Kane
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2019-06-16 His Girl Friday (1940) imdb.com
Director: Howard HawksSynopsis: The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Cary Grant plays Walter Burns, Hildy's editor and ex-husband, who feigns happiness about her impending marriage as a ploy to win her back. The ace up Walter's sleeve is a late-breaking news story concerning the impending execution of anarchist Earl Williams (John Qualen), a blatant example of political chicanery that Hildy can't pass up. The story gets hotter when Williams escapes and is hidden from the cops by Hildy and Walter--right in the prison pressroom. His Girl Friday may well be the fastest comedy of the 1930s, with kaleidoscope action, instantaneous plot twists, and overlapping dialogue. And if you listen closely, you'll hear a couple of "in" jokes, one concerning Cary Grant's real name (Archie Leach), and another poking fun at Ralph Bellamy's patented "poor sap" screen image. Subsequent versions of The Front Page included Billy Wilder's 1974 adaptation, which restored Hildy Johnson's manhood in the form of Jack Lemmon, and 1988's Switching Channels, which cast Burt Reynolds in the Walter Burns role and Kathleen Turner as the Hildy Johnson counterpart. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Cary Grant as Walter Burns, Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson, Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin, Helen Mack as Mollie Malloy, John Qualen as Earl Williams
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2019-04-28 Meet John Doe (1941) imdb.com
Director: Frank CapraSynopsis: The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with the end of reporter Ann Mitchell's (Barbara Stanwyck) job. Fired as part of a downsizing move, she ends her last column with an imaginary letter written by "John Doe." Angered at the ill treatment of America's little people, the fabricated Doe announces that he's going to jump off City Hall on Christmas Eve. When the phony letter goes to press, it causes a public sensation. Seeking to secure her job, Mitchell talks her managing editor (James Gleason) into playing up the John Doe letter for all it's worth; but to ward off accusations from rival papers that the letter was bogus, they decide to hire someone to pose as John Doe: a ballplayer-turned-hobo (Gary Cooper), who'll do anything for three squares and a place to sleep. "John Doe" and his traveling companion The Colonel (Walter Brennan) are ensconced in a luxury hotel while Mitchell continues churning out chunks of John Doe philosophy. When newspaper publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), a fascistic type with presidential aspirations, decides to use Doe as his ticket to the White House, he puts Doe on the radio to deliver inspirational speeches to the masses -- ghost-written by Mitchell, who, it is implied, has become the publisher's mistress. The central message of the Doe speeches is "Love Thy Neighbor," though, conceived in cynicism, the speeches strike so responsive a chord with the public that John Doe clubs pop up all over the country. Believing he is working for the good of America, Cooper agrees to front the National John Doe Movement -- until he discovers that Norton plans to exploit Doe in order to create a third political party and impose a virtual dictatorship on the country. The last of Capra's "social statement" films, Meet John Doe posted a profit, although Capra and Riskin were forced to dissolve their corporation due to excessive taxes. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Gary Cooper as Long John Willoughby, Barbara Stanwyck as Ann Mitchell, Edward Arnold as D.B. Norton, Walter Brennan as The Colonel, Spring Byington as Mrs. Mitchell
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2018-10-25 The Killers (1946) imdb.com
Director: Robert SiodmakSynopsis: The Killers uses Ernest Hemingway's short story as a springboard for a complex film noir. Two mysterious men (William Conrad and Charles McGraw) muscle their way into a small town and kill an aging boxer (Burt Lancaster, making his screen debut), who offers no resistance and seems to be welcoming his death. An insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) is hired to locate the beneficiary to Lancaster's policy, and in the course of his investigation reopens a long-dormant robbery case. In a series of flashbacks, O'Brien makes the connection between Lancaster and the robbery and tracks down the "brains" behind the operation. He also comes in contact with Lancaster's former girlfriend (Ava Gardner), whose duplicity played a big part in Lancaster's demise -- and his indifferent reaction to it. Siodmak's hard-edged, moody direction of the Oscar-nominated screenplay by Anthony Veiller, makes The Killers one of the definitive films noirs, including what is considered to be one of the greatest opening sequences in movie history. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Burt Lancaster as Ole "Swede" Anderson, Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins, Edmond O'Brien as Jim Reardon, Albert Dekker as Big Jim Colfax, Sam Levene as Lt. Sam Lubinsky, Virginia Christine as Lilly Lubinsky, William Conrad as Killer, Charles McGraw as Killer
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2018-10-20 I walk alone (1947) imdb.com
Director: Byron HaskinSynopsis: On the run from the cops, bootleggers Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) and Noll Turner (Kirk Douglas), find themselves racing up to an enormous roadblock. The two split up, agreeing that if one was caught, the other would operate their nightclub and save half the profits for his partner. The unlucky Madison is caught and when released from prison 14 years later, he returns to claim his money. Turner, never intending to split the money, tries to distract Madison by offering him the affections of his girlfriend Kay (Lizabeth Scott). Madison's brother Dave (Wendell Corey), Turner's accountant, help's Turner by doctoring the books to hide the lucrative profits of the club. Madison is enraged that he has been swindled by his friend and his brother, and Dave finally helps Madison get his revenge and Kay's love. Byron Haskin, in his directorial debut, brings a post-war idealism into the ordinarily cynical noir sensibility. Wendell Corey is particularly fine as Madison's cowardly brother, who manages to redeem himself, and Lizabeth Scott is touching as the vulnerable, romantic Kay. - By Linda Rasmussen
Cast: Burt Lancaster as Frankie Madison, Lizabeth Scott as Kay Lawrence, Kirk Douglas as Noll Turner, Wendell Corey as Dave, Kristine Miller as Mrs. Richardson
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2018-10-14 The Accused (1949) imdb.com
Synopsis: When college student Bill (Douglas Dick) grows inappropriately fond of psychology professor Wilma (Loretta Young) and tries to rape her, she fights back. But as she defends herself, she accidentally kills her attacker. Wilma then moves Bill's corpse to a nearby beach and makes his death look like the result of a cliff diving accident. But her guilt over the incident builds, and police Lt. Dorgan (Wendell Corey) begins to suspect that Wilma knows more about the death than she's letting on.Cast: Loretta Young as Wilma Tuttle, Robert Cummings as Warren Ford, Douglas Dick as Bill Perry
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2018-10-14 The Threat (1949) imdb.com
Director: Felix E.FeistSynopsis: Homicidal criminal Charles McGraw busts out of jail, kidnapping the three people responsible for his incarceration. The hapless hostages include detective Michael O'Shea, district attorney Frank Conroy, and nightclub singer Virginia Grey. McGraw makes no secret of his plans to kill O'Shea and Conroy once he has successfully made a getaway; he has other plans for Grey, however, and for a while it seems as though she'll willingly play along with him. The cat-and-mouse game reaches its peak of tension some sixty minutes into this 65-minute thriller. Sparse and unpretentious, The Threat contained far more excitement than many a more expensive, star-studded film noir. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Michael O'Shea as Williams, Virginia Grey as Carol, Charles McGraw as Kluger, Frank Conroy as DA Barker MacDonald
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| Police officer checking the cargo | Kluger | Carol, Kluger | Kluger, Williams, Carol | Kluger, DA Barker MacDonald, Ray Williams, Clara | Kluger, DA, Williams |
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2018-10-13 Night Editor (1946) imdb.com
Director: Henry LevinSynopsis: Inspired by the radio program of the same name, Night Editor features Charles D. Brown as the editor of the New York Star. In flashback, the editor tells the tale of police lieutenant William Gargan, who forsakes his happy home life for the love of no-good society dame Janis Carter. Both Gargan and Carter begin cheating on their respective spouses, and while on a romantic rendezvous the couple witnesses a murder. They can't report the crime without revealing their own infidelities, a dilemma which leads to blackmail, double-crossing and a second murder attempt. A twist ending caps this snappy little 65-minute morality play. The script of Night Editor was based on the story "Inside Story" by Scott Littleton, previously dramatized on the Night Editor radio series. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: William Gargan as Tony Cochrane, Janis Carter as Jill Merrill, Jeff Donnell as Martha Cochrane, Coulter Irwin as Johnny
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| Journos playing cards | Tony with son | Tony's wife Martha | Tony with friend |
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2018-10-13 The Blue Dahlia (1946) imdb.com
Director: George MarshallSynopsis: This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay, Raymond Chandler. Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) returns from the war to find his wife Helen (Doris Dowling) having a party and in the arms of another man. Johnny and Helen have a terrible fight, and later Helen is found dead. Johnny must prove his innocence and he enlists the aid of Joyce Haywood (Veronica Lake), the ex-wife of Helen's lover. Pursued by the cops, and never sure if he is being set-up for the murder, Johnny finally solves the murder and clears his name. Alan Ladd is at his hard-boiled, no-nonsense best as Johnny and Veronica Lake is, as always, the perfect noir femme-fatale, mysterious and alluring. Nicely directed by George Marshall, the film moves with great pace to an exciting, satisfying conclusion. The screenplay, the only one written by Chandler directly for the screen, was nominated for an Academy Award. - By Linda Rasmussen
Cast: Alan Ladd as Johnny Morrison, Veronica Lake as Joyce Harwood, William Bendix as Buzz Wanchek, Howard Da Silva as Eddie Harwood, Doris Dowling as Helen Morrison, Will Wright as Dad Newell
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| Buzz Wanchek, George Copeland, Johnny Morrison | Johnny Morrison, Helen | Helen, Eddie Harwood | Helen, Buzz | Johnny Morrison, Joyce Harwood | |
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2018-10-12 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) imdb.com
Director: Alfred HitchcockSynopsis: Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also named Charlie (Joseph Cotten). When young Charlie "wills" that old Charlie pay a visit to her family, her wish comes true. Uncle Charlie is his usual charming self, but he seems a bit secretive and reserved at times. Too, his manner of speaking is curiously unsettling, especially when he brings up the subject of rich widows, whom he characterizes as "swine." When a pair of detectives (MacDonald Carey and Wallace Ford), posing as magazine writers, arrive in town and begin asking questions about Uncle Charlie, young Charlie's curiosity is aroused. Why, for example, has Uncle Charlie torn an article out of the evening newspaper? Rushing to the library, Young Charlie locates the missing item: the headline screams WHO IS THE MERRY WIDOW MURDERER? As the horrified Charlie reads on, the conclusion is inescapable: her beloved Uncle Charlie is a mass murderer, preying upon wealthy old women. And what happens next? Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville (Mrs. Hitchcock) based their screenplay on a story by Gordon McDowell, who in turn was inspired by real-life "Merry Widow Murderer" Earle Leonard Nelson. The casting, from stars to bit players, is impeccable; the best of the batch is Hume Cronyn, making his film debut as a wimpy murder-mystery aficionado. Lensed on location in Santa Rosa, California, The Shadow of a Doubt wasAlfred Hitchcock's favorite film. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Joseph Cotten as Charlie Oakley, MacDonald Carey as Jack Graham, Henry Travers as Joseph Newton, Patricia Collinge as Emma Newton, Hume Cronyn as Herbie Hawkins, Edna May Wonacott as Ann Newton
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| Charles Oakley | Ann on the phone | Joseph Newton, Herb | Charlotte, Charlie | |
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2018-08-19 The Lost Moment (1947) imdb.com
Director: Martin GabelSynopsis: It is said that Henry James' The Aspern Papers were inspired by the romance between Lord Byron and his mistress Claire Claremont, who in her dotage jealously guarded the poems written by Byron in her honor. In the film version of James' novel, The Lost Moment, the Clairemont character, renamed Juliana, is a blind, 105-year-old recluse, played with an abundance of age makeup by Agnes Moorehead (whose amazing cosmetic makeover was the subject of several magazine articles back in 1947). The plot of the film concentrates on the efforts by a publisher named Lewis (Robert Cummings) to obtain the "lost" poems written by a legendary literary figure to the centenarian Juliana. The old lady is fiercely protected by her near-psychotic niece Tina (Susan Hayward), who nonetheless agrees to help Lewis get his hands on the precious documents. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the Venetian mansion where Juliana resides harbors a horrible secret, one that bodes ill for the troubled Tina and everyone with whom she comes in contact. Watching in bewildered silence is Father Rinaldo (Eduardo Cianelli), the film's "voice of conscience". Together with The Heiress, The Lost Moment is one of the few successful attempts to transfer the elusive prose of Henry James to the screen. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Robert Cummings as Lewis Venable, Susan Hayward as Tina Bordereau, Agnes Moorehead as Juliana Bordereau
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| Venice. Juliana's house | Tina with cat | Tina playing | Venable/Burton, Tina |
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2018-08-12 He Walked by Night (1948) imdb.com
Director: Alfred L.Werker, Anthony MannSynopsis: This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Cast: Richard Basehart as Roy Martin/Roy Morgan, Whit Bissell as Paul Reeves an electronics dealer, Roy Roberts as Captain Breen, Scott Brady as Sgt. Marty Brennan
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2018-07-07 My Sweet (1944) imdb.com
Director: Edward DmytrykSynopsis: One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe, the hard-boiled private detective antihero created by novelist Raymond Chandler. Hired by hulking, psychotic Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to locate Moose's old girl friend, Marlowe is pitched headlong into a morass of intrigue and deception. The participants include duplicitous glamour-girl Claire Trevor, sodden slattern Esther Howard, suave blackmailer Otto Kruger and dyspeptic doctor Ralf Harolde. At one point, Marlowe is railroaded into a lunatic asylum, where under the influence of drugs he experiences a surrealistic nightmare the like of which would not be seen on screen again until Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). So fascinating are the "bad" characters in Murder My Sweet that the two 100% "good" characters, heroine Anne Shirley and detective Don Douglas, seem wishy-washy wimps by comparison. After years of insipid golly-gee roles, Dick Powell startled his fans with his cynical, world-weary portrayal of Philip Marlowe. The part put him back on top of the box-office tallies and enabled him to extend his acting career into the 1950s, which led to an even more lucrative "third life" as a powerful TV-studio executive. Murder My Sweet was based on Chandler's Farewell My Lovely, previously filmed in 1942 as The Falcon Takes Over; a remake, Farewell, My Lovely, was produced in 1975, with Robert Mitchum as Marlowe. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe, Claire Trevor as Mrs. Grayle, Anne Shirley as Ann Grayle, Otto Kruger as Amthor, Mike Mazurki as Moose Malloy, Miles Mander as Mr. Grayle, Douglas Walton as Marriott, Esther Howard as Mrs. Florian
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| Marlowe interrogated by the cops | Moose, Marlowe | With Mrs. Florian | With Marriott | With Police Lieutenant Randall | Marlowe, Helen Grayle / Velma Valento |
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2018-06-03 La Otra (1946) imdb.com
Director: Roberto GavaldonSynopsis: The lovely Dolores Del Rio has an acting field day in the Mexican La Otra (The Other). Del Rio plays twin sisters, one the wife of a millionaire and the other a poverty-stricken manicurist. Seething with jealousy, the manicurist kills her wealthy sister and takes her place. Little does the "bad" sister know the mess she's inherited from the "good" sister-who as it turns out wasn't so good after all. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Rian James, La Otra was remade in 1964 as Dead Ringer, with Bette Davis taking over the Dolores Del Rio part (or parts); this film in turn was remade as the 1986 Ann Jillian TV movie The Killer in the Mirror. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Dolores Del Rio as Magdalena Mendez, Maria Mendez, Victor Junco as Fernando, Augustin Irusta as Roberto
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2018-04-27 Pursued (1947) imdb.com
Director: Raoul WalshSynopsis: Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the arrival of the men tracking them, as they try to reason out what has gone wrong in their lives. Jeb can't remember anything about his early childhood except for a horrible incident in which the people around him were killed by a mysterious stranger, whose flashing spurs were all the boy saw. He was raised by Ma Callum (Judith Anderson), alongside her two children, Thorley and Adam, as one of her own. But every time Jeb seemed poised to find peace, or even simple stability in his life, lurking nearby was Grant (Dean Jagger), a one-armed stranger who seemed bent on tormenting Jeb -- Jeb doesn't know who he really is, much less who Grant is, but Grant knows enough about him and is good enough at manipulating human nature to make Jeb a target for jealousy and murder. Making Jeb's life even more complicated is the fact that he and his adopted sister Thorley fell in love with each other, while Adam (John Rodney), his adopted brother, has come to hate him. The machinations around Jeb and Thorley come home to roost in multiple shootings and murder, a deadly chase and a long-planned lynching. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Teresa Wright as Thorley Callum, Robert Mitchum as Jeb Rand, Judith Anderson as Mrs. Medora "Ma" Callum, Dean Jagger as Grant Callum, Ernest Severn as Jeb (younger)
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2018-03-21 Out Of The Past (1947) imdb.com
Director: Jacques TourneurSynopsis: A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.
Cast: Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey / Jeff Markham, Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat, Virginia Huston as Ann Miller, Kirk Douglas as Whit Sterling, Dickie Moore as The Kid
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2017-12-02 Holiday Affair (1949) imdb.com
Director: Don HartmanSynopsis: A disarming little trifle, Holiday Affair has in the years since its original release become a Yuletide perennial on television. War widow Janet Leigh hasn't the money to buy the model train that her son Gordon Gebert wants for Christmas. Robert Mitchum overhears the boy's plight, and offers to purchase the train for him, even though it will deplete his own money supply. This little gesture of kindness from Mitchum snowballs into a series of comic complications, thanks in part to the unwelcome intervention of Leigh's stuffed-shirt attorney boyfriend Wendell Corey. Harry Morgan shows up towards the end as a flustered night-court judge who helps tie some of the loose plot ends together. Based on a short story by John D. Weaver, A Holiday Affair didn't do too well at the box office, but its afterlife has been most satisfactory. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Robert Mitchum as Steve Mason, Janet Leigh as Connie Ennis, Wendell Corey as Carl Davis, Gordon Gebert as Timothy 'Timmy' Ennis
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| Connie, Steve | At the police station | Coonie searching for Timmy | Steve, Connie | Home Chrismas party | |
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2017-11-19 Rebecca (1940) imdb.com
Director: Alfred HitchcockSynopsis: Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the classic psychological thriller Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock's first American film. Joan Fontaine plays the unnamed narrator, a young woman who works as a companion to the well-to-do Mrs. Van Hopper (Florence Bates). She meets the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) in Monte Carlo, where they fall in love and get married. Maxim takes his new bride to Manderlay, a large country estate in Cornwall. However, the mansion's many servants refuse to accept her as the new lady of the house. They seem to be loyal to Maxim's first wife, Rebecca, who died under mysterious circumstances. Particularly cruel to her is the prim housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson), who is obsessed with Rebecca. She continually attests to her beauty and virtues (referring to her as "the real Mrs. de Winter") and even preserves her former bedroom as a shrine. The new Mrs. de Winter is nearly driven to madness as she begins to doubt her relationship with her husband and the presence of Rebecca starts to haunt her. Eventually, an investigation leads to the revelation about Rebecca's true nature. Producer David O. Selznick had the final cut of the picture, which was drastically altered from Hitchcock's original vision. - By Andrea LeVasseur
Cast: Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter, Joan Fontaine as Mrs. de Winter, George Sanders as Jack Favell, Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers, Florence Bates as Mrs. Van Hopper
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| With Mrs. Van Hopper | Manderley estate | With Maxim | Mrs. de Winter, Mrs. Danvers, Maxim | ||
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2017-10-22 Ivy (1947) imdb.com
Director: Sam WoodSynopsis: To win a wealthy man, a British woman plots to kill her husband and pin it on her lover.
Cast: Joan Fontaine as Ivy Lexton, Richard Ney as Jervis Lexton, Patric Knowles as Roger Gretorex
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| Ivy, Jervis Lexton | Dr. Roger Gretorex | Ivy, Miles Rushworth | Dr. Roger Gretorex in court | ||
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2017-06-14 The Song of Bernadette (1943) imdb.com
Director: Henry KingSynopsis: The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing up in the tiny French village of Lourdes in the 19th century, Bernadette (Jennifer Jones) experiences a vision of the Virgin Mary in a nearby grotto. At least, she believes that she did. The religious and political "experts" of the region cannot accept the word of a silly little girl, and do their best to get her to renounce her claims. Bernadette's vision becomes a political hot potato for many years, with the authorities alternately permitting and denying the true believers' access to the grotto. No matter what the higher-ups may think of Bernadette, there is little denying that the springs of Lourdes hold some sort of recuperative powers for the sick and lame. Eventually, Bernadette dies, never faltering in her conviction that she saw the Blessed Virgin; years later, she is canonized as a saint, and the Grotto of Lourdes remains standing as a permanent shrine. The 20th Century-Fox people knew that The Song of Bernadette would whip up controversy from both the religious and the agnostic. The company took some of the "curse" off the project with a now-famous opening title: "To those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. To those who do not believe in God, no explanation is possible." Jennifer Jones's performance in The Song of Bernadette won her the Best Actress Oscar. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous, Charles Bickford as Peyramaie, Dean of Lourdes, Gladys Cooper as Sister Vauzous, Vincent Price as Dutour, Anne Revere as Louise Soubirous, Roman Bohnen as Francois Soubirous, Aubrey Mather as Mayor Lacade, Charles Dingle as Jacomet
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2017-05-13 The Lady Eve (1941) imdb.com
Director: Preston SturgesSynopsis: (Preston Sturges) wrote and directed this classic romantic comedy starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, who are involved in a scintillating battle of the sexes, as Sturges points up the terrors of sexual passion and the unattainability of the romantic ideal. Henry Fonda plays Charles Pike, the heir to the Pike Ale fortune ("The Ale That Won for Yale"). An ophiologist (a snake expert), he just spent a year "up the Amazon" looking for rare snakes with his cynical and protective guardian/valet Muggsy (William Demarest). He arrives to board the S.S. Southern Queen bound for New York, and immediately becomes the main order of business for a collection of single women looking to nab the eligible bachelor. Amongst those watching Charles board are a trio of con men and cardsharps -- Colonel Handsome Harry Harrington (Charles Coburn), his partner Gerald (Melville Cooper), and the Colonel's daughter Jean (Barbara Stanwyck). All three see Charles as a pushover and at dinner, while all the women are ogling Charles, Jean wins the day by sticking out her foot and tripping him. Complaining to Charles that he should watch where he is going, she gets him to escort her to her cabin so that she can replace her broken heel. Charles is sexually attracted to Jean, but when Charles is about to make a pass at her, she pulls back, telling him, "You ought to be put in a cage." Back in the dining room, Charles is introduced to the Colonel and the three play cards, Charles winning $500 from the Colonel and $100 from Jean. But Charles is merely being set-up for the next game when the Colonel will come in for the kill. Back at Jean's cabin, Charles and Jean sit close and something happens she hadn't planned -- she becomes attracted to Charles too. The next morning, Muggsy warns Charles that the Colonel and Jean are cardsharks, but Charles won't hear of it. Meanwhile, the Colonel is looking forward to fleecing Charles, but Jean doesn't want any part of it. Jean participates in the card game between Charles and the Colonel, making sure than the Colonel doesn't cheat. But while Jean waits on deck for Charles after the game, the Colonel plays Charles a game of double-or-nothing, with Charles losing $32,000. Jean, angry with her father, makes the Colonel tears up Charles' check. The next morning, Muggsy proves to Charles the three are con artists. Devastated, Charles shows Jean the photograph, claiming he knew she was a criminal the morning after he met her. Jean is determined to get even with Charles ("I hate that mug!"). Docking in New York, the Colonel reveals he merely palmed the $32,000 check. But that's not enough revenge for Jean. Impersonating an aristocratic English woman, Lady Eve Sidwich, Jean has herself introduced to Charles. Planning to make Charles to fall in love with her again, she intends to break his heart like he broke her own. As she explains, "I've got some unfinished business with him -- I need him like the axe needs the turkey." - By Paul Brenner
Cast: Henry Fonda as Charles Pike, Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington, Charles Coburn as "Colonel" Harry Harrington, Eugene Pallette as Mr. Pike, William Demarest as Muggsy-Ambrose Murgatroyd
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| Jean, Charles | Playing cards with Jean's Father | Charles proposes | Charles breaks the engagement | |
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2016-10-18 The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) imdb.com
Director: Peter GodfreySynopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays a psychotic killer who disposes of his wives through slow ingestion of poison in The Two Mrs. Carrolls, made in 1945 but shelved for two years because of its similarity to Gaslight. Bogart is Geoffrey Carroll, an artist who paints a portrait of his wife as "The Angel of Death" and then meets Sally Morton (Barbara Stanwyck), with whom he quickly falls in love. In order to get rid of his wife and take up with Sally, Geoffrey slowly poisons his spouse by lacing her nightly glass of warm milk with liberal doses of toxic chemicals. He sends his daughter Beatrice (Ann Carter) away to school and, while the daughter is away, his wife dies. He immediately marries Sally and they appear to be happily together. But a few years pass and Geoffrey begins to work on another "Angel of Death" portrait of Sally, this time after he falls in love with his attractive neighbor Cecily (Alexis Smith). As before, Sally begins to grow weak from the daily nightcap of tainted milk. But complications set in when Cecily demands that she and Geoffrey run away together and the local druggist, Mr. Biagdon (Barry Bernard), presents Geoffrey with a blackmail demand. But Geoffrey overplays his hand when he once again tries to send Beatrice away to school. Sally now begins to suspect her husband is a serial killer. Borrowing a gun from a friend, Sally must defend herself against her deranged and murderous husband. - By Paul Brenner
Cast: Humphrey Bogart as Geoffrey Carroll, Barbara Stanwyck as Sally Morton Carroll, Alexis Smith as Cecily Latham, Nigel Bruce as Dr. Tuttle
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| Carroll, Sally | Carroll, his daughter | Carroll, Sally, Cecily | Carroll shows Cecily the portrait of his first wife | ||
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2016-10-16 Deception (1946) imdb.com
Director: Irving RapperCast: Bette Davis as Christine Radcliffe, Paul Henreid as Karel Novak, Claude Rains as Alexander Hollenius
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2016-10-02 The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) imdb.com
Director: Henry HathawaySynopsis: A mysterious stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl. Much to the dislike of her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.
Cast: John Wayne as Young Matt, Betty Field as Sammy Lane, Beulah Bondi as Aunt Mollie, Harry Carey as Daniel Howitt, James Barton as Old Matt Matthews
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| Howitt, Sammy, her wounded father Jim | Matt: I will kill my father | At the post office | Sammy, Howitt | Howitt, Sammy, Aunt Mollie |
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| Old Matt, aunt Mollie, their son | Sammy, Howitt | Sammy, Matt | Matt, Howitt fishing | Granny's vision is back |
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| Aunt Mollie shooting | Aunt Mollie's son is dying | The fire | Howitt shoots Matt | Howitt, Sammy, wounded Matt |
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2016-07-17 Black Narcissus (1947) imdb.com
Director: Emeric PressburgerSynopsis: British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' well-ordered existence is disturbed by the presence of a handsome British government agent (David Farrar), whose attractiveness gives certain sisters the wrong ideas. Meanwhile, an Indian girl (Jean Simmons) is lured down the road to perdition by a sensuous general (Sabu). While Kerr would seem most susceptible to fall from grace --we are given hints of her earlier love life in a long flashback--she proves to have more stamina than Byron, who delivers one of moviedom's classic interpretations of all-stops-out, sex-starved insanity. The aforementioned flashback was removed from the US release version of Black Narcissus so as not to offend the Catholic Legion of Decency. While the dramatic content of the film hasn't stood the test of time all that well, the individual performances, production values, and especially the Oscar-winning Technicolor photography of Jack Cardiff are still as impressive as ever. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Deborah Kerr as Sister Clodagh, David Farrar as Mr. Dean, Kathleen Byron as Sister Ruth, Jean Simmons as Kanchi, May Hallatt as Angu Ayah
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2016-07-17 The Red Shoes (1948) imdb.com
Director: Emeric PressburgerSynopsis: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's influential musical tragedy set the stage for the climactic dance ballets that became a staple of the Arthur Freed-MGM musicals (An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon) of the early 1950s. Hans Christian Andersen's tragic fairy tale forms the basis of this film about betrayal, love and art. The story begins as struggling composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring) attends a performance of the Lermontov Ballet Company and recognizes his own score in the production of "Hearts of Fire." Julian protests to ballet company director Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) about the unauthorized use of his music. Impressed by Julian's talent, Boris hires him to compose the score for his next ballet -- a dance version of "The Red Shoes." Boris also hires an attractive young dancer, Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), to perform in the ballet. When the lead ballerina announces that she plans to get married, Boris, in a pique over being abandoned, casts Victoria in the starring role. As Julian works on the score and Victoria struggles to perfect her dance technique, the two fall in love. When "The Red Shoes" ballet is premiered -- seen in a stunning and glorious fifteen-minute sequence -- it is a raging success and it makes Victoria a star. But when Boris learns that Julian and Victoria have fallen in love, Boris, who is secretly in love with Victoria, in a fit of rage forces Julian to leave the ballet company; Victoria leaves with him. Since Boris owns the rights to "The Red Shoes" ballet, he forbids Victoria to perform the dance and she becomes unemployable. Time passes and Julian and Victoria are now happily married. Julian's compositions have made him an international success. One day, with Victoria disembarking from a train in Paris, she meets Boris, who implores her to do one performance of "The Red Shoes" in Monaco. Victoria agrees as Julian cancels an engagement in London to travel to Monte Carlo in order to convince his wife not to perform the ballet. But Victoria goes on with the performance, with tragic results. - By Paul Brenner
Cast: Anton Walbrook as Boris Lermontov, Marius Goring as Julian Craster, Moira Shearer as Victoria Page, Léonide Massine as Grischa Ljubov, Albert Basserman as Sergei Ratov, Esmond Knight as Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne, Robert Helpmann as Ivan Boleslawsky, Ludmilla Tcherina as Irina Boronskaja, Derek Elphinstone as Lord Oldham, Irene Browne as Lady Neston, Austin Trevor as Prof. Palmer, Eric Berry as Dimitri, Gordon Littman as Ike, Emeric Pressburger, Michel Bazalgette as M. Rideaut, Jerry Verno as Stagedoor Keeper, Jean Short as Terry, Julia Lang as A Balletomane, Bill Shine as Her Mate, Marcel Poncin as M. Boudin, Yvonne Andre as Vicky's Dresser, Hay Petrie as Boisson, George Woodbridge as Doorman, Denis Carey as Dancer, Robert Dorning as Dancer, Joan Harris as Solo Dancer
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| Victoria with Grischa Ljubov and others | Victoria, Lermontov | Victoria | Dancing with Grischa Ljubov | The ballet | |
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2016-07-09 To Each His Own (1946) imdb.com
Director: Mitchell LeisenSynopsis: Olivia De Havilland won the first of her two Academy Awards for To Each His Own. During World War I, De Havilland falls in love with a young soldier (John Lund). He is killed in battle before they can marry, leaving De Havilland to raise their child alone. She gives the baby up for adoption, then goes to work in the cosmetic business, working her way up to an executive post. While in London on business during World War II, Olivia comes face to face with her grown son (John Lund again), now a military officer himself. Though she resists revealing her true identity, mother and son are brought together by a wise old British peer (Roland Culver). Olivia De Havilland's Oscar win was doubly sweet in that To Each His Own was her first film after an enforced two-year absence, brought about when she sued Warner Bros. to get out of her restrictive contract. Long available only in washed-out TV prints, To Each His Own was eventually restored to its pristine 35-millimeter glory by the American Film Institute. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Olivia de Havilland as Miss Josephine Norris, Mary Anderson as Corinna Piersen, Roland Culver as Lord Desham, John Lund as Capt. Bart Cosgrove, Phillip Terry as Alex Piersen, Bill Goodwin as Mac Tilton
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| Lord Desham, Josephine | Jody, Alex, Mac | Jody, Capt. Bart Cosgrove | Jody, Mac |
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2016-05-21 Duel in the Sun (1946) imdb.com
Director: King VidorSynopsis: In David O.Selznick's florid, overheated melodrama Duel in the Sun Jennifer Jones stars as half-Native American Pearl Chavez, who everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. Her father is Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall), an ill-fated fellow who kills his wife and her lover (Sidney Blackmer) and gets hung for it. Pearl is taken into the home of the greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), who'd once been Scott's sweetheart. McCanles's virtuous son Jesse (Joseph Cotten), befriends Pearl and ffeels some stirrings of attraction to her, though Jesse is far more taken by Helen Langford (Joan Tetzel), the daughter of a wealthy railroad tycoon (Otto Kruger). In the mean time, Pearl catches the eye of Jesse's evil brother, ne'er-do-well Lewt (Gregory Peck), who seduces her but refuses to marry her. Pearl falls for straw boss Sam Pierce (Charles Bickford), who proposes marriage, though the engagement is short-lived: Lewt learns of the couple's involvement and ends up killing Sam; then McCanles turns up and cautions Lewt to stay out of sight until things quiet down. Lewt indeed flees the premises and becomes an outlaw. Meanwhile, McCanles organizes his cattlemen into an enormous stand against Kruger and other railroad men; Jesse initially decides to aid his father but then switches sides at the last moment, and in response, McCanles disowns him. With this film, producer Selznick attempted to recreate the success of Gone with the Wind; it fell far short in terms of box office success, though Duel was critically acclaimed upon release. Many have often jokingly referred to the picture as 'Lust in the Dust,' which eventually became the actual title of a 1985 comedy western by Paul Bartel. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez, Gregory Peck as Lewt McCanles, Joseph Cotten as Jesse McCanles, Lionel Barrymore as Senator McCanles, Lillian Gish as Laura Belle McCanles, Walter Huston as Preacher
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| Pearl, Jesse on the way to the ranch | Pearl, Jesse, Senator, Laura | Senator, Laura | Learning to ride a horse | Brothers McCanles |
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2016-04-21 Hangover Square (1945) imdb.com
Director: John BrahmSynopsis: Set in turn-of-the century London, this period thriller stars Laird Cregar as George Harvey Bone, a composer who suffers from a rather severe case of artistic temperament. Driven to distraction by the discordant sounds of the city, the usually sensitive Bone occasionally snaps when exposed to undue stress, and the results can be deadly; he sometimes blacks out and commits murders that he can't quite recall the next morning. Working on a major concerto, Bone is at his wit's end, and when an antique dealer tries to cheat him, the salesman turns up dead. Dr. Allen Middleton (George Sanders), a psychologist with Scotland Yard, questions Bone about the crime; he claims to know nothing about it, but the perceptive doctor suggests that Bone needs to relax more. Taking Middleton's advice, Bone visits a music hall that evening and sees Netta London (Linda Darnell), a singer with whom Bone immediately becomes entranced. This makes the composer even less patient with his sweetheart Barbara Chapman (Faye Marlowe), whose father, the wealthy Sir Henry Chapman (Alan Napier), has commissioned Bone's latest work. When Barbara tells Bone that his concerto is not up to snuff, she only narrowly escapes with her life, and while Bone believes that he's found true love with the beautiful Netta, the singer finds herself in danger when Bone suspects her of infidelity. Hangover Square gave character actor Laird Cregar his first starring role. Sadly, it was also his last film; Cregar, who struggled with weight problems all his life, tipped the scales at nearly 300 pounds when he made this film. Eager for more starring roles, Cregar went on a dangerous crash diet, and while he soon lost 100 pounds, it put his health into serious disarray, and the actor died of a heart attack at the age of 28, shortly before the release of his first starring vehicle. - By Mark Deming
Cast: Laird Cregar as George Harvey Bone, Linda Darnell as Netta London, George Sanders as Dr. Allan Middleton, Glenn Langan as Eddie Carstairs, Faye Marlowe as Barbara Chapman
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| Bone, Netta | Netta | Dr.Middleton | Dr.Middleton, Bone |
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2015-10-29 Street of Chance (1942) imdb.com
Director: Jack HivelySynopsis: Based on Cornell Woolrich's novel The Black Curtain (later dramatized several times on the radio series Suspense), Street of Chance top-bills Burgess Meredith as an amnesia victim. He awakens in the middle of the street, with nary a clue of who he is or what he's done. Meredith comes to learn that his past year of darkness has been a crowded one--and that he might be a murderer! Louise Platt plays Meredith's wife, but it's total stranger Claire Trevor who seems most interested in probing Meredith's past. Street of Chance is worth spending 74 minutes with, even though the true identity of the killer becomes obvious halfway through. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Burgess Meredith as Frank Thompson, Claire Trevor as Ruth Dillon, Sheldon Leonard as Detective Joe Marucci, Jerome Cowan as Bill Diedrich, Frieda Inescort as Alma Diedrich, Adeline Reynolds as Grandma Diedrich, Louise Platt as Virginia Thompson
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| Frank back with Virginia | Frank back in the office | Frank attacked | Frank says good-bye to Virginia | Frank, Ruth |
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2015-10-25 The Suspect (1944) imdb.com
Director: Robert SiodmakCast: Charles Laughton as Philip, Rosalind Ivan as Cora, Ella Raines as Mary, Henry Daniell as Mr. Simmons, Stanley Ridges as Huxley
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| Philip, his wife Cora | The boy at work is lectured | Philip, Mary in the restaurant | Philip in conflict with Cora on Christmas |
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2015-10-18 The Reckless Moment (1949) imdb.com
Director: Max OphulsSynopsis: A blend of melodrama and film noir, The Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, a suburban housewife whose husband is away on business. Her daughter, Bea (Geraldine Brooks), an aspiring artist, has fallen for Ted Darby (Shepperd Strudwick), a shady older man from Los Angeles who claims to be an ex-art dealer. One night, after a secret rendezvous in the Harpers' boathouse that turns into an argument, Bea accidentally kills Darby. When Lucia discovers his body in the morning, she panics and dumps it in the lagoon instead of contacting the police, who would surely charge her daughter with murder. Her problems only increase when a suave Irish gangster named Donnelly (James Mason) shows up with a package of love letters from Bea to Darby, and blackmail on his mind. With her husband out of town, Lucia has no choice but to give in to his demands, and brings him along on a desperate quest to raise the money that takes them from bank to loan office to pawn shop. Along the way, Donnelly seems to develop sympathy -- even affection -- for her. When his boss shows up to pressure him into finishing the job, Donnelly's surprising decision sets up the film's startling climax. The Reckless Moment was remade in 2001 by Scott McGehee and David Seigel as The Deep End. - By Tom Vick
Cast: James Mason as Martin Donnelly, Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, Geraldine Brooks as Beatrice Harper, Henry O'Neill as Mr. Harper, Shepperd Strudwick as Ted Darby, Roy Roberts as Nagle, Frances Williams as Sybil
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| Lucia finds Darby's corpse | Donnelly blackmails Lucia | Lucia, her daughter Bea | Lucia's family: Mr.Parker, Sybil, son, Lucia, Bea |
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2014-11-16 The Woman on the Beach (1947) imdb.com
Director: Jean RenoirSynopsis: A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a woman, Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett), walking on a beach, picking up pieces of wood. Butler is married to a grumpy, blind painter, Ted Butler (Charles Bickford). Despite his affections for his fiancée Eve (Nan Leslie), whose father is a boat builder, Scott falls in love with Peggy and soon breaks off the engagement. Peggy reveals that she blinded her husband years earlier by throwing a glass at him during an ugly spat, ruining his career and her own ambitions to be an upper-class socialite. Scott fears that Ted is suspicious that he is having an affair with Peggy and becomes so paranoid that he begins to believe that Ted is faking his blindness -- and sets out to prove it. This was the fifth and final American film by the great French writer-director Jean Renoir. - By Michael Betzold
Cast: Joan Bennett as Peggy Butler, Robert Ryan as Lt. Scott Burnett, Charles Bickford as Ted Butler, Nan Leslie as Eve Geddes
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2014-09-08 No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) imdb.com
Director: St. John Legh ClowesSynopsis: James Hadley Chase's 1939 bestseller reached the screen for the first time -- which a lot of critics of the book would have said was one time too many -- in 1948, in somewhat bowdlerized form, under the aegis of Renown Pictures and screenwriter St. John Legh Clowes, making his sole bow as director. Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress (Linden Travers) who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods, in what starts out as a jewel robbery and turns into a kidnapping/murder when one of them (Richard Nielson) kills the bridegroom. More mayhem ensues as the three kidnappers soon end up dead, and Miss Blandish falls into the hands of the Grisson mob, led by Slim Grisson (Jack LaRue), who are pros at what they do, throwing their weight around the underworld at will and not too afraid of the police, either. Slim Grisson isn't really better than any of those around him, but he's smart enough to restrain his worst impulses, which makes him start to look very good to Miss Blandish, who finds herself strangely attracted to him, as the first real man she's ever seen, and also a way out of the sheltered existence she's known all of her life. He's as amazed as anyone around him -- including his own mother (Lili Molnar), who runs the gang in tandem with him -- that he doesn't want to ransom Miss Blandish, or plan on killing her because she knows too much; or that she'll testify on his behalf, if necessary, that the one killing she did see by him was, in fact, a matter of self-defense. They plan to run off together, but neither Grisson's mother nor the rest of the gang can see parting with a potential million dollar ransom, or leaving a witness alive -- even if it means killing Slim Grisson to get to her. And when a nosy reporter named Fenner (Hugh McDermott) starts putting the police on the trail of the gang, Slim himself isn't above committing a few more murders to bury any witnesses. The movie was so violent and amoral, that it appalled critics and social observers on both sides of the Atlantic, whose agonizing over its content actually helped turn the picture into a bigger hit than it might otherwise have been. This was especially true in America, where the movie enjoyed a five week run in one of New York's bigger movie palaces to sell-out business, though it was edited considerably and re-cut twice for US release (the second time, a couple of years later, as Black Dice). Robert Aldrich filmed the same story as The Grissom Gang (1971), with Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, and Irene Dailey. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: Jack LaRue as Slim Grisson, Linden Travers as Miss Blandish, Walter Crisham as Eddie, Leslie E.Bradley as Bailey, Macdonald Parke as Doc, Percy Marmont as Mr. Blandish, Lily Molnar as Ma Grisson, Frances Marsden as Anna Borg
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| Miss Blandish at home | Miss Blandish, her fiance are robbed | Doc, Ma Grisson | Bailey killed by the Grissons | Slim, Miss Blandish |
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| Doc, Eddie | Miss Blandish, Slim | Slim, Miss Blandish, Eddie | Slim, Miss Blandish | Miss Blandish dead |
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2014-06-04 Sergeant York (1941) imdb.com
Director: Howard HawksSynopsis: When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three conditions: (1) That the film contains no phony heroics, (2) that Mrs.York not be played by a Hollywood "glamour girl" and (3) That Gary Cooper portray York on screen. All three conditions were met, and the result is one of the finest and most inspirational biographies ever committed to celluloid. When the audience first meets young farmer Alvin York (Cooper), he's the cussin'est, hell-raisin'est critter in the entire Tennessee Valley. All of this changes when York is struck by lighting during a late-night rainstorm. Chalking up the bolt from the blue as a message from God, York does a complete about-face and finds Religion, much to the delight of local preacher Rosier Pile (Walter Brennan). Despite plenty of provocation, York vows never to get angry at anyone ever again, determining to be a good husband and provider for his sweetheart Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie). When America goes to war in 1917, York elects not to answer the call when drafted, declaring himself a conscientious objector. Forced to go to boot camp, he proves himself a born leader, yet still he balks at the thought of killing anyone. York's understanding commanding officer Major Buxton (Stanley Ridges) slowly convinces the young pacifist that violence is sometimes the only way to defend Democracy. Later on, while serving with the AEF in the Argonne Forest, Sergeant York sees several of his buddies, including his Bronxite best pal Pusher Ross (George Tobias), killed in an enemy ambush. His anger aroused, York personally kills 25 German soldiers, then single-handedly captures 132 prisoners. As a result, York becomes the most decorated hero of WW1, celebrated by no less than General John J. Pershing as "the greatest civilian soldier" of the war. The film won Gary Cooper his first Academy Award, and also picked up an Oscar for Best Film Editing. Not surprisingly, it ended up as the highest-grossing film of 1941. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Gary Cooper as Sgt. Alvin C.York, Walter Brennan as Pastor Rosier Pile, Joan Leslie as Gracie Williams, Margaret Wycherly as Mother York
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| Pastor, York's Mom | Dinner | Pastor, York | York, Gracie and her suitor | York, Gracie |
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2014-05-01 High Sierra (1941) imdb.com
Director: Raoul WalshSynopsis: In a manner of speaking, Humphrey Bogart had George Raft to thank for his ascendancy to stardom: after all, if Raft hadn't turned down both High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, Bogart might have continued playing second-billed gangsters to the end of his days. Adapted from W. R. Burnett's novel by Burnett and John Huston, High Sierra opens with gangster Roy Earle (Bogart) being paroled after a lengthy prison term. Though he enjoys the fresh air and sunshine of the outside world, Earle has no intention of giving up his criminal ways. In fact, his parole has been arranged by Big Mac (Donald MacBride), so that Earle can mastermind a big-time heist at a fancy California resort hotel. After a few unkind words with a crooked cop, Kranmer (Barton MacLane), in Big Mac's employ, Earle heads toward a fishing resort, where he is to commiserate with his inexperienced, hot-headed cohorts Babe (Alan Curtis) and Red (Arthur Kennedy). En route, he befriends a farm family, heading to LA in search of work. He falls in love with the family's club-footed daughter Velma (Joan Leslie)--though she never really gives him any encouragement--and makes a silent promise to finance an operation on her foot once he's gotten his share of the loot. At the mountain cabin rendezvous, Earle meets Marie (Ida Lupino), Babe's tough-but-vulnerable girlfriend. He angrily orders her to scram, but she stubbornly remains. Earle also finds himself the owner of a "jinxed" dog, whose previous masters have all met with early demises (a none-too-subtle foretaste of things to come). Marie is strongly attracted to Earle, but he refuses to have anything to do with her, reserving his affections for Velma. He arranges an operation for the girl with mob doctor Banton (Henry Hull), never suspecting that the self-serving Velma is planning all along to marry someone else. The robbery goes off without a hitch, save for the fact that "inside man" Mendoza (Cornel Wilde) panics and nearly gives the game away. While escaping, Babe and Red are killed in a car accident, but Earle and Marie escape. Having been disillusioned by Velma's indifference and by the fact that the untrustworthy Kranmer has taken over the late Big Mac's operation, Earle at last realizes that the only person he can truly depend upon is the faithful Marie. With the police hot on his trail, Earle tells Marie to look after herself, then heads alone into the High Sierras--where, in Greek Tragedy fashion, he "busts out" of life. As in Petrified Forest, Humphrey Bogart plays a burnt-out anachronism from an earlier era in crime in High Sierra; in the latter film, however, Bogart has an innate nobility that allows the audience to empathize with him throughout. It is nothing short of amazing that, despite his superb performance in this 1940 film, he still had to wait until The Maltese Falcon for top billing in an "A picture." High Sierra was remade in 1949 as Colorado Territory and in 1955 as I Died a Thousand Times. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Humphrey Bogart as Roy Earle, Ida Lupino as Marie Garson, Arthur Kennedy as Red Hattery, Joan Leslie as Velma, Alan Curtis as Babe Kozak, Henry Hull as Doc Banton, Henry Travers as Pa, Jerome Cowan as Healy, Minna Gombell as Mme. Baughman, Barton MacLane as Jake Kranmer, Elizabeth Risdon as Ma
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2014-04-02 The Shop Around the Corner (1940) imdb.com
Director: Ernst LubitschSynopsis: The Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and newly hired shopgirl Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) hate each other almost at first sight. Kralik would prefer the company of the woman with whom he is corresponding by mail but has never met. Novak likewise carries a torch for her male pen pal, whom she also has never laid eyes on. It doesn't take a PhD degree to figure out that Kralik and Novak have been writing letters to each other. The film's many subplots are carried by Frank Morgan as the kindhearted shopkeeper and by Joseph Schildkraut as a backstabbing employee whose comeuppance is sure to result in spontaneous applause from the audience. Directed with comic delicacy by Ernst Lubitsch, this was later remade in 1949 as In the Good Old Summertime, and in 1998 as You've Got Mail. It was also musicalized as the 1963 Broadway production She Loves Me. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Margaret Sullavan as Klara Novak, James Stewart as Alfred Kralik, Frank Morgan as Hugo Matuschek, Joseph Schildkraut as Ferencz Vadas, Felix Bressart as Pirovitch
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| Pirovitch, Kralik | Klara, Kralik: applying for work | Kralik, his boss Matuschek | Klara sells the muic box | Kralik, Matuschek |
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2014-03-28 Desert Fury (1947) imdb.com
Director: Lewis AllenSynopsis: Desert Fury is a rarety for the 1940s, a Technicolor "film noir." Set in a Nevada gambling town, the story concerns the various misadventures, romantic and otherwise, of Paula Haller (Lizabeth Scott), the rebellious daughter of gambling-house proprietress Fritzie Haller (Mary Astor, who steals the picture). Though no better than she ought to be, Fritzie is determined that Paula will not grow up as a "shady lady", but she'd fighting an uphill battle. John Hodiak plays crooked gambler Eddie Bendix (John Hodiak), who tries to exploit Paula's fascination with him for his own gain. Thank heaven that upright lawman Tom Hanson (Burt Lancaster) is on hand to rescue the heroine from the machinations of Bendix and his partner-in-perfidy Johnny Ryan (Wendell Corey). Desert Fury was adapted from the far racier and more explicit novel by Ramona Stewart. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Burt Lancaster as Tom Hanson, Lizabeth Scott as Paula Haller, Mary Astor as Fritzie Haller, John Hodiak as Eddie Bendix, Wendell Corey as Johnny Ryan, William Harrigan as Judge Berle Lindquist
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| Paula, Tom | Paula, her Mom Fritzie | Paula, Judge, Fritzie | Paula, Eddie | Eddie, Johnnie, Fritzie | Tom, Paula |
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2014-03-07 The Sea of Grass (1947) imdb.com
Director: Elia KazanSynopsis: This western begins with St. Louis resident Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) marrying New Mexico cattleman Col. James B. 'Jim' Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. When she ...
Cast: Spencer Tracy as Col. Jim Brewton, Katharine Hepburn as Lutie Cameron, Robert Walker as Brock Brewton, Melvyn Douglas as Brice Chamberlain, Phyllis Thaxter as Sara Beth Brewton
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2014-02-06 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) imdb.com
Director: Elia KazanSynopsis: One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his "comeback" performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is a likable but irresponsible alcoholic whose dreams of improving his family's lot are invariably doomed to disappointment. The mother, Dorothy McGuire, is the true head of the household, steadfastly holding the family together no matter what crisis arises. The story is told from the point of view of daughter Peggy Ann Garner, a clear-eyed realist who nonetheless would like to believe in her pie-in-the-sky father, whom she dearly loves. Joan Blondell co-stars as the family's brash, freewheeling aunt, whose means of financial support is a never-ending source of neighborhood gossip. This first film directorial effort of Elia Kazan earned a special Oscar for "Most Promising Juvenile Performer" Peggy Ann Garner. A Tree Grows From Brooklyn was remade for TV in 1974, and also served as the basis of a Broadway musical. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Dorothy McGuire as Katie Nolan, Joan Blondell as Aunt Sissy, James Dunn as Johnny Nolan, Lloyd Nolan as Officer McShane, Peggy Ann Garner as Francie Nolan, Ted Donaldson as Neeley Nolan
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2014-02-05 Gilda (1946) imdb.com
Director: Charles VidorSynopsis: Columbia's lush and lavish film noir Gilda offers one of the strangest romantic triangles in any 1940s film. Played by Rita Hayworth in her considerable prime, Gilda is the sexy wife of mysterious, crippled casino owner George Macready. She is also the former love of gambler Glenn Ford, who takes a job as a croupier in Macready's Buenos Aires casino. Realizing that there is some sort of sexual tension between Hayworth and Ford, Macready goes out of his way to throw the two of them together by ordering Ford to act as Hayworth's bodyguard. One has the feeling throughout that Macready lusts after both Hayworth and Ford, but he is obviously harboring rather dark and buried motivations and laying the groundwork for some fairly serious double-dealing and a seemingly endless series of twists and turns. In the film's most famous sequence, Hayworth defies both Ford and Macready by performing an overheated rendition of "Put the Blame on Mame" in front of the panting male casino customers; film historians take note: she was actually dubbed, in this sequence, by Anita Ellis. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson, Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell, George Macready as Ballin Mundson, Joseph Calleia as Obregon, Steven Geray as Uncle Pio
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2013-12-31 White Heat (1949) imdb.com
Director: Raoul WalshSynopsis: In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own performance, he tended to dismiss the picture as a "cheap melodrama." Seen today, White Heat stands as one of the classic crime films of the 1940s, containing perhaps Cagney's best bad-guy portrayal. The star plays criminal mastermind Cody Jarrett, a mother-dominated psychotic who dreams of being on "top of the world." Inadvertently leaving clues behind after a railroad heist, Jarrett becomes the target of the feds, who send an undercover agent (played by Edmond O'Brien) to infiltrate the Jarrett gang. While Jarrett sits in prison on a deliberately trumped-up charge (he confesses to one crime to provide himself an alibi for the railroad robbery), he befriends O'Brien, who poses as a hero-worshipping hood who's always wanted to work with Jarrett. Busting out of prison with O'Brien, Jarrett regroups his gang to mastermind a "Trojan horse" armored-car robbery. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: James Cagney as Arthur Cody Jarrett, Virginia Mayo as Verna Jarrett, Edmond O'Brien as Hank Fallon/Vic Pardo, Steve Cochran as Big Ed Sommers, Margaret Wycherly as Ma Jarrett, John Archer as Phillip Evans, Fred Clark as Daniel Winston, the Trader
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2013-12-24 Holiday Inn (1942) imdb.com
Director: Mark SandrichSynopsis: Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his girlfriend, Crosby decides to retire from the hustle-bustle of big city showbiz. He purchases a rustic New England farm and converts it to an inn, which he opens to the public (floor show and all) only on holidays. This barely logical plot device allows ample space for a steady flow of Irving Berlin holiday songs (including an incredible blackface number in honor of Lincoln's Birthday). Oddly enough, the most memorable song in the bunch, the Oscar-winning White Christmas, is not offered as a production number but as a simple ballad sung by Crosby to an audience of one: leading lady Marjorie Reynolds. Fred Astaire's best moment is his Fourth of July firecracker dance. Ah, but what about the plot? Well, it seems that Astaire wants to make a film about Crosby's inn, starring their mutual discovery Reynolds. Bing briefly loses Reynolds to Astaire, but wins her back during the filming of a musical number on a Hollywood soundstage (eleven years earlier, Bing enjoyed a final clinch with Marion Davies under surprisingly similar conditions in Going Hollywood). As with most of Irving Berlin's "portfolio" musicals of the 1940s, the song highlights of Holiday Inn are too numerous to mention. This delightful film is far superior to its unofficial 1954 remake, White Christmas. - By Hal Erickson
Cast: Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy, Fred Astaire as Ted Hanover, Virginia Dale as Lila Dixon, Marjorie Reynolds as Linda Mason
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Youtube. White Christmas song
Youtube. Washington's birthday
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Youtube. Thanksgiving
Youtube. The ending song
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2013-10-27 Repeat Performance (1947) imdb.com
Director: Alfred L. WerkerSynopsis: Sheila Page, a Broadway star, shoots Barney, her murderous husband on New Year's Eve. She flees her apartment and goes to her Producer, John Friday. When she arrives, it is New Year's day, a year earlier. She has been given the chance to live life over and correct the errors of the past only to find that the end will be the same although the path will be different.
Cast: Louis Hayward as Barney Page, Joan Leslie as Sheila Page, Richard Basehart as William Williams, Virginia Field as Paula Costello, Tom Conway as John Friday
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2013-10-20 Mildred Pierce (1945) imdb.com http:
Director: Michael CurtizSynopsis: After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
Cast: Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce, Jack Carson as Wally Fay, Zachary Scott as Monte Beragon, Eve Arden as Ida, Ann Blyth as Veda Pierce
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Youtube. Mildred confronts Veda
| Monte dead | Mildred's suicide prevented | With Wally | Wally finds dead Monte | Wally, cop |
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2013-07-13 Air Force (1943) imdb.com
Director: Howard HawksSynopsis: On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio man Private Chester (Ray Montgomery) and gunner Sergeant Joe Winocki (John Garfield), assembles for the flight, and in the first 20 minutes, the movie reveals certain things about the crew: the shadowy past of one, the mother of another, and the wife of a third; two of them are good friends with the sister of McMartin (Arthur Kennedy), the bombardier, who lives in Honolulu; the son of the senior member of the crew, Sgt. White (Harry Carey Sr.), is a pilot stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines. Then more characters make entrances: the aircraft commander Quincannon (John Ridgely); Weinberg (George Tobias), a Jewish mechanic from New York; and a man from a farm in the upper Midwest -- they all represent a broad cross-section of America as it saw itself, and the "regular guys" in the Army Air Force as it existed in 1941. The flight proceeds without incident. Winocki, an embittered, washed-out flight school candidate who accidentally killed another pilot, is about to leave the service when the weather report from Hickam Field is interrupted, and the radio man begins picking up transmissions in Japanese. The Mary Ann and the rest of the squadron fly right into the middle of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor unarmed and out of gas, and nearly crack up landing on an emergency field; no sooner do they make repairs than the crew comes under attack, and the plane takes off and makes for Hickam Field, which they find a flaming shambles. They fly on to the Philippines, stopping at Wake Island just long enough to meet a few members of the doomed Marine garrison, taking their company mascot, a dog, with them. At Clark Field, the Mary Ann and her crew finally go into action against the enemy, flying in alone against a Japanese invasion force; Quincannon is mortally wounded in the brief action, which leaves the plane damaged seemingly beyond repair. The remaining crew won't give up the plane, however, even when ordered to abandon and destroy her; they get the bomber off just ahead of the advancing Japanese, and survive to help bring retribution to the invading fleet and the Japanese empire. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: John Ridgely as Capt. Michael A.Quincannon
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2013-05-25 Red River (1948) imdb.com
Director: Howard HawksSynopsis: John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a frontiersman who, with his longtime partner Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), abandons a westbound wagon train in 1851 to make his future as a rancher in Texas. Doing so forces him to abandon Fen (Colleen Gray), his fiancee -- and when she is killed in an Indian raid a short time later, it taints any good that Dunson might find in the future he carves out for himself, destroying any joy he might derive from life. The sole survivor of the raid is Matthew Garth (Mickey Kuhn), a young orphan who is unusually handy with a gun for one his age -- and already knows how to channel his grief and horror at what he's seen, as much as Dunson does. Dunson informally adopts Matt as his son, and over the next 14 years he builds up one of the largest ranches in the entire state of Texas. And all of it is worth nothing, a result of the economic ruin wrought on the state in the aftermath of the Civil War. Matthew (Montgomery Clift), now back from the war and doing some of his own adventuring, finds a darker, more taciturn Dunson than he's ever known -- as Groot tells it, he's afraid because he just doesn't know how to fight the threats he now faces. With Matthew now returned, Dunson decides to move his herd, nearly 10,000 head of cattle, to Missouri, where there is a market for beef, over 1000 miles away through territory controlled by border gangs hundreds of men strong that have stopped every cattle drive up to now, and Indians who have picked off what the gangs missed. Dunson drives his men as hard as he does himself, relentlessly, till even some of his best hands break under the strain -- and he's not above killing anyone who challenges his authority on the drive. He's able to hold them in line as long as Matthew backs him up, and he does until Dunson, exhausted and worn down by lack of sleep, finally goes too far. Matthew steps in, backed by laconic, smirking gunman Cherry Valance (John Ireland) and most of the rest of the men and takes the herd from Dunson. Leaving his father and mentor behind, he heads the herd toward Kansas, where -- so the men are told -- there's a new railroad. Along the way, he meets Tess Millay (Joanne Dru), a card-dealer who falls in love with the young man. But he has to finish the drive and leaves her behind, much as Dunson left Fen. And they all know that Dunson is coming after Matthew to kill him. - By Bruce Eder
Cast: John Wayne as Tom Dunson, Montgomery Clift as Matthew Garth, Joanne Dru as Tess Millay, Walter Brennan as Nadine Groot, John Ireland as Cherry Valance
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2013-04-12 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) imdb.com
Director: Emeric PressburgerSynopsis: Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy...
Cast: Roger Livesey as Clive Candy, Deborah Kerr as Barbara Wynne, Anton Walbrook as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff, Roland Culver as Col. Betteridge, Albert Lieven as Von Ritter
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2012-12-09 Brute Force (1947) imdb.com
Jules DassinWiki
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Burt Lancaster as Joe Collins, Charles Bickford as Gallagher, Hume Cronyn as Capt. Munsey, Art Smith as Dr.Walters
Youtube The beginning
Youtbe Flasback with wife
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2012-11-07 Key Largo (1948) imdb.com
John Hustonen.wikipedia.org
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Humphrey Bogart as Frank McCloud
Edward G. Robinson as Johnny Rocco, Lauren Bacall as Nora Temple, Lionel Barrymore as James Temple, Claire Trevor as Gaye Dawn
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2012-11-04 This Gun for Hire (1942) imdb.com
Frank Tuttleen.wikipedia.org
noiroftheweek.com
Youtube. In the train
Youtube. Trailler
Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham, Robert Preston as Michael Crane, Laird Cregar as Willard Gates, Alan Ladd as Philip Raven, Tully Marshall as Alvin Brewster
| Raven after killing the chemist | Gates pays Raven for the killing | Gates infoms the police about Raven | Detective Crane | Gates, Ellen |
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2012-10-30 Dark Passage (1947) imdb.com
Delmer Davesen.wikipedia.org
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2012-10-29 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) imdb.com
Director: John FordSynopsis: The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy," this film stars John Wayne as Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles. In his last days before his compulsory retirement, Brittles must face the possibility of a full-scale attack from the Arapahos, fomented by the recent defeat of General Custer and by double-dealing Indian agents. - By Iotis Erlewine
Cast: John Wayne as Capt. Nathan Brittles, Joanne Dru as Olivia Dandridge, John Agar as Lt. Flint Cohill, Ben Johnson as Sgt. Tyree, Victor McLaglen as Sgt. Quincannon, Mildred Natwick as Mrs. Abby Allshard, Harry Carey, Jr. as Lieutenant Pennell
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Youtube. At the cemetery
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2012-10-23 Scarlet Street (1945) imdb.com
Fritz Langen.wikipedia.org
afilmcanon.com
Edward G. Robinson as Christopher Cross, Joan Bennett as Katherine (Kitty) March, Dan Duryea as Johnny Prince
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2012-10-20 The Great Gatsby (1949) imdb.com
Elliott NugentWiki
BOSLEY CROWTHER
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Alan Ladd as Jay Gatsby, Betty Field as Daisy Buchanan, Macdonald Carey as Nicholas 'Nick' Carraway, Ruth Hussey as Jordan Baker, Barry Sullivan as Tom Buchanan
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2012-10-18 The Sea Hawk (1940) imdb.com
Michael Curtizen.wikipedia.org
diletant.ru
Youtube. Part 1
Errol Flynn as Geoffrey Thorpe, Brenda Marshall as Doña Maria, Claude Rains as Don José Alvarez de Córdoba, Donald Crisp as Sir John Burleson, Flora Robson as Queen Elizabeth of England
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2012-08-26 Leave Her to Heaven (1945) imdb.com
John M. Stahlen.wikipedia.org
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nypost.com
crazy4cinema.com
Gene Tierney as Ellen Berent Harland, Cornel Wilde as Richard Harland, Jeanne Crain as Ruth Berent, Vincent Price as Russell Quinton
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2012-08-16 To Have and Have Not (1944) imdb.com
Howard Hawksen.wikipedia.org
J.Berardinelli
Humphrey Bogart as Harry Morgan, Lauren Bacall as Marie 'Slim' Browning, Walter Szurovy as Paul de Bursac
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2012-08-08 They Were Expendable (1945) imdb.com
John Forden.wikipedia.org
billsmovieemporium.wordpress.com
Youtube
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Youtube. Final scene
Robert Montgomery as Lt. John Brickley, John Wayne as Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan, Donna Reed as Lt. Sandy Davyss
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2012-05-07 They Live by Night (1949) imdb.com
Nicholas Rayen.wikipedia.org
bighousefilm.com
cinepassion.org
epinions.com
sensesofcinema.com
Farley Granger as Bowie Bowers, Cathy O'Donnell as Keechie, Howard Da Silva as Chickamaw, Jay C. Flippen as T-Dub, Helen Craig as Mattie
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2011-11-20 Laura (1944) imdb.com
Otto PremingerTim Dirks
R.Ebert
Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt, Dana Andrews as Det. as Lt. Mark McPherson, Clifton Webb as Waldo Lydecker, Vincent Price as Shelby Carpenter, Judith Anderson as Ann Treadwell
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2011-03-27 Jane Eyre (1943) imdb.com
Robert Stevensonen.wikipedia.org
monstersandcritics.com
Orson Welles as Edward Rochester, Joan Fontaine as Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Taylor as Helen
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| Rochester with bride | Rochester proposed to Jane | Wedding | Wedding canceled | Leaving | |
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2011-02-25 Flying Tigers (1942) imdb.com
David Milleren.wikipedia.org
John Wayne as Capt. Jim Gordon, John Wayne as Capt. Jim Gordon, Anna Lee as Brooke Elliott
youtube.com
| With nurse | With Woody Jason | Woody Jason, nurse | Dinner with nurse | Woody, nurse late for the flight | Firing Woody |
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| Declaration of war with Japan | With commander | Flying to bomb the bridge | |
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2011-01-07 Gentleman's Agreement (1947) imdb.com
Elia Kazanen.wikipedia.org
Gregory Peck as Philip Schuyler Green, Anne Revere as Mrs. Green, Dorothy McGuire as Kathy Lacey, John Garfield as Dave Goldman, Celeste Holm as Anne Dettrey
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| With Kathy, Dave, Anne | In the restricted hotel | With Kathy | |||
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| Son attacked by bullies | With Dave | With the secretary | |||
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| Dave, Kathy | Reuniting with Kathy | |
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2010-10-30 Pitfall (1948) imdb.com
Andre De Tothen.wikipedia.org
cinepassion.org
| Dick Powell as John Forbes, Jane Wyatt as Sue Forbes | Dick Powell as John Forbes, Lizabeth Scott as Mona Stevens | Lizabeth Scott as Mona Stevens, Raymond Burr as MacDonald |
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2010-10-25 Criss Cross (1949) imdb.com
Robert Siodmaken.wikipedia.org
mikegrost.com
.epinions.com
Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo as Anna, Dan Duryea as Slim Dundee
2010-10-22 The Rainbow (1943) imdb.com
Mark Donskoyen.wikipedia.org
fandango.com
Bio tonnel.ru
Nina Alisova as Pusya, Natalya Uzhviy as Olena Kostyuk, Vera Ivashova as Olga, Yelena Tyapkina as Fyodosya, Hans Klering as Captain Kurt Werner
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
| Pusya | Kurt | Pusya, Kurt | Peasant woman | Germans investigate Olena | Peasant boy | |
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| Olena | Collaborator | Guerilla trial | Pusya and her sister | ||
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| Soviet soldiers arrive | Execution of Pusya | Peasant women trying to lynch the German prisoners | ||
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2010-10-17 Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) imdb.com
Boris Ingsteren.wikipedia.org
noiroftheweek.com
John McGuire as Michael 'Mike' Ward, Margaret Tallichet as Jane
John McGuire as Michael 'Mike' Ward, Margaret Tallichet as Jane, Peter Lorre as The Stranger
Picture Gallery
2010-10-16 Border Incident (1949) imdb.com
Anthony Mannen.wikipedia.org
Jonathan Auerbach
Mike Grost
The tractor scene
2010-09-10 Night Train to Munich (1940) imdb.com
Carol Reeden.wikipedia.org
decentfilms.com
Margaret Lockwood as Anna Bomasch, Rex Harrison as Gus Bennett, Paul Henreid as Karl Marsen / Paul von Hernried, James Harcourt as Axel Bomasch
| Nazis are coming to Prague | Arrest | Dr.Bomasch flies from Prague | In the camp | Nazi agents in London | With the British agent |
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| Taken to Germany | With the German agent | With the British agent | In the train | Escape to Switzerland | ||
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2010-03-20 It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) imdb.com
Robert HamerWiki
salon.com
Googie Withers as Rose Sandigate, John McCallum as Tommy Swann filmforum.org
2010-02-27 The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) imdb.com
Sam Woodanswers.com
variety.com
Charles Coburn as Joe O'Brien, Jean Arthur as Mary Jones
2010-02-11 For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943) imdb.com
Sam WoodWiki
robie2008.wordpress.com
Youtube. El Sordo's last stand
Youtube. Final
Youtube 1/12
2010-02-08 Now, Voyager (1942) imdb.com
Irving RapperWiki
Tim Dirks
Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale
Paul Henreid as Jeremiah Duvaux Durrance
Youtube. Don't ask for the Moon
2009-12-24 Christmas Holiday (1944) imdb.com
Robert Siodmaknoiroftheweek.com
Youtube 1
Deanna Durbin as Jackie Lamont/Abigail Manette, Gene Kelly as Robert Manette, Gale Sondergaard as Mrs. Manette, Jean Harens as Lt. Charles Mason
| Officer and his friend | J/A singing | Officer and madam | Officer and J/A | |
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| J/A and Robert | Hotel. Officer and J/A | J/A and Robert | ||
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| J/A, Rober, mom | J/A, mom | J/A, Robert | Happy family | Verdict - guilty |
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| J/A, officer | J/A singing | J/A, Robert dying |
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2009-02-15 Caught (1949) imdb.com
Max Ophulsen.wikipedia.org
filmfanatic.org
cinepassion.org
Barbara Bel Geddes as Leonora Eames, Robert Ryan as Smith Ohlrig
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
2009-02-14 Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) imdb.com
Max OphulsStephan Zweig. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1922) lib.ru
eyeforfilm.co.uk
sfgate.com
Joan Fontaine as Lisa Berndle, John Good as Lt. Leopold von Kaltnegger
Joan Fontaine as Lisa Berndle, Louis Jourdan as Stefan Brand
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
2007-12-25 The Third Man (1949) imdb.com
Carol ReedTim Dirks
R.Ebert
Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, Orson Welles as Harry Lime
Orson Welles as Harry Lime
At the wheel
Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt, Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins
2005-12-11 Christmas in Connecticut (1945) imdb.com
Peter Godfreyreel.com
filmcritic.com
Wiki on Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck as Elizabeth Lane, Dennis Morgan as Jefferson Jones
2005-10-30 The Uninvited (1944) imdb.com
Lewis Allenmoria.co.nz
2005-10-16 The Body Snatcher (1945) imdb.com
Robert Wiseepinions.com
Boris Karloff as Cabman John Gray
Russell Wade as Donald Fettes, Sharyn Moffett as Georgina Marsh
Sharyn Moffett as Georgina Marsh
2005-10-09 Cat People (1942) imdb.com
Jacques Tourneurmembers.aol.com
epinions.com
Simone Simon as Irena Dubrovna Reed
Simone Simon as Irena Dubrovna Reed, Kent Smith as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
2005-08-28 Unfaithfully Yours (1948) imdb.com
Preston SturgesTim Dirks
Christopher Null
Rex Harrison as Sir Alfred De Carter, Linda Darnell as Daphne De Carter
Rex Harrison as Sir Alfred De Carter, Linda Darnell as Daphne De Carter, Kurt Kreuger as Anthony
Rex Harrison as Sir Alfred De Carter, Linda Darnell as Daphne De Carter
Linda Darnell as Daphne De Carter
2005-08-21 Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) imdb.com
Preston SturgesIan Waldron-Mantgani
Eddie Bracken as Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith and his marine friends
Eddie Bracken as Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith aucklandfilmsociety.org.nz
2005-08-07 The Great McGinty (1940) imdb.com
Preston Sturgesepinions.com movies2.nytimes.com
Akim Tamiroff as The Boss, Brian Donlevy as Dan McGinty
Brian Donlevy as Dan McGinty, Muriel Angelus as Catherine McGinty
2005-07-03 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) imdb.com
Michael CurtizTim Dirks
R.Ebert
Enrico Caruso. Over there
James Cagney as George M.Cohan
James Cagney as George M.Cohan, S.Z. Sakall as Schwab, Richard Whorf as Sam Harris
2005-05-13 I Wake Up Screaming (1941) imdb.com
H. Bruce HumberstoneDennis Schwartz
Carole Landis as Vicky Lynn, Victor Mature as Frankie Christopher members.aol.com
2005-03-18 Spellbound (1945) imdb.com
Alfred Hitchcockreel.com
Freudian Themes in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Spellbound'
Gregory Peck as John Ballantine, Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen
Gregory Peck as John Ballantine, Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen
Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen
2005-03-04 Suspicion (1941) imdb.com
Alfred HitchcockBrian Koller
Joan Fontaine as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth and Cary Grant as Johnnie Aysgarth imdb.com imdb.com
Cary Grant as Johnnie Aysgarth and Nigel Bruce as Gordon Cochrane 'Beaky' Thwaite
2004-12-19 Laura (1944) imdb.com
Otto PremingerBrian Koller
Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt
Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb as Laura Hunt, Waldo Lydecker
Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson:
Anna Karenina (1948) imdb.com
Julien DuvivierCasablanca (1942) imdb.com
Michael CurtizDouble Indemnity (1944) imdb.com
Billy Wilderfilmsite.org
R.Ebert
Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff, Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson
Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff, Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes
Gaslight (1944) imdb.com
George CukorTim Dirks
Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist Anton, Charles Boyer as Gregory Anton
Ingrid Bergman as Paula, Joseph Cotten as Brian Cameron
Joseph Cotten as Brian Cameron, Charles Boyer as Gregory, Ingrid Bergman as Paula
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) imdb.com
Frank CapraTim Dirks
pocketthemes.com
Ivan Grozni I (1945) imdb.com
Sergei M. EisensteinThe Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) imdb.com
Director: Felix E. FeistSynopsis: Law-abiding Jimmy Ferguson soon regrets giving a ride to killer Steve Morgan.
Cast: Lawrence Tierney as Steve Morgan, Ted North as Jimmy 'Fergie' Ferguson, Nan Leslie as Carol, Betty Lawford as Agnes Smith
Links
Wiki
tcm.com
classicmovierev.com
| Agnes, Carol | Agnes, Jimmy, Steve, Carol | Steve, Jimmy | Steve driving | ||
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The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) imdb.com
Jean RenoirThe Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948) imdb.com
John HustonR.Ebert
Tim Dirks
Walter Huston as Howard
Humphrey Bogart as Fred Dobbs
Humphrey Bogart as Fred Dobbs, Tim Holt as Bob Curtin
To Be or Not to Be (1942) imdb.com
Ernst LubitschCharles Taylor
filmarchiv.at