A colonial police detective in an Eastern seaport seeks a stolen gem, and infiltrates the underworld by posing as a look-alike wharfside bar owner.
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Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, produced by Ray Kirkwood, written by Norman Springer, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Detective Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain, Sheila Terry as Edith Bentley, Zarah Tazil as Mora, Philip Ahn as Wu Ting, John Ince as Joe Bentley, Manuel López as Johnny Fly, Richard Cramer as Inspector Green, Merrill McCormick as Jalla (the Money-Lender) and John Lester Johnson as John, the Bartender.
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Source: “A Scream in the Night” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 8 June 2013. Web. 24 July 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scream_in_the_Night.
Glenn Ford stars as an American paratrooper who travels to France after the end of World War II to try to recover a jewel-encrusted glove that had been stolen from a country church during the war. His quest leads him to a beautiful young tour guide (Geraldine Brooks), and a Nazi collaborator (George Macready) whom he had fought during the war. The movie was shot mostly on location in France and Monaco. It was based on actions that took place during Operation Dragoon.
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Directed by Rudolph Maté, produced by Georges Maurer, written by Charles Bennett, starring Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks and Sir Cedric Hardwick.
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Source: “The Green Glove” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 19 July 2013. Web. 24 July 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Glove.
Cornelia Bullock, a spoiled socialite offers a vagrant, Godfrey Smith, five dollars to be her “forgotten man” for a scavenger hunt during the Great Depression. Godfrey is seriously angry and causes her to fall on a pile of ashes. Cornelia leaves in a fury — much to the joy of her younger sister Irene who is very kind. At the Waldorf-Ritz Hotel Godfrey is proofen to be as a „forgotten man”, but he also addresses the rich. This makes Irene apologetic and therefore, she offers him a job as a butler.
Tommy, a family guest is curious to know what one of the elite “Parkes of Boston” is doing as a butler. Godfrey explains that a love affair had left him broken, but the optimistic attitude of the men living at the dump changed his spirit.
Different schemes develop in the Bullock household between the two daughters, the finanical problems of the father and Godfrey. All this changes Godfrey’s situation — but he never forgets his time at the dump and gives back.
Edward Shaw a LA builder and architect is out of work. He meets Doris Hillmann who has a business proposal for him. They would buy land together, Edward would build houses, Doris would sell them and her husband Gus will contribute half a million dollars as capital. Soon after accepting the proposal and starting an affair with Doris, Edward finds out that their main interest is not the profits, but the key man insurance of $175,000. The younger sister of Doris, Madge, falls for Edward as well and tells him that Doris former husband died when his car crashed over a bridge. Now, Edward is drugged by Gus and barely keeps his car from going over the bridge as well.
Different people search for different reason for “The Green Goddess”, the Guatemalan idol. A friend of Tarzan, D’Arnot, has crashed in Guatemala and is now held by a jungle tribe. Two other expeditions, one lead by Major Martling and one by Ula Vale whose fiance died in an earlier one, are looking for the valuable idol, too. Raglan, Ula’s lawyer, is searching as well, but only to keep it to himself. Tarzan, Ula and Major Martling rescue D’Arnot and find the idol that is worhiped by the natives. More adventures follow through the jungle of losing and recapturing the idol.
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Directed by Edward Kull and Wilbur F. McGaugh, produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ashton Dearholt and George W. Stout, written by Edwin Blum, Bennett Cohen, Basil Dickey, Charles F. Royal and Edgar Rice Burroughs, starring Herman Brix, Ula Holt, Ashton Dearholt, Frank Baker and Lewis Sargent.
“The Hoodlum” is a 1951 American film noir directed by Max Nosseck featuring Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan and Lisa Golm. The movie is about an ex-convict, who plans a bank robbery that implicates his brother.
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Directed by Max Nosseck, produced by Maurice Kosloff, screenplay by Sam Neuman and Nat Tanchuck, story by Sam Neuman and Nat Tanchuck, starring Lawrence Tierney as Vincent Lubeck, Allene Roberts as Rosa, Marjorie Riordan as Eileen, Lisa Golm as Mrs. Lubeck, Edward Tierney as Johnny Lubeck, Stuart Randall as Police Lt. Burdick, Angela Stevens as Christie Lang, John De Simone as Marty Connell, Tom Hubbard as Police Sgt. Schmidt, Eddie Foster as Mickey Sessions, O.Z. Whitehead as Mr. Breckenridge. Richard Barron as Eddie Bright and Rudy Rama as Harry Hill.
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Source: “The Hoodlum (1951 film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 21 July 2013. Web. 21 July 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoodlum_(1951_film).
“Jigsaw” is a Film Noir directed by Fletcher Markle, and starring Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace and Marc Lawrence. The feature was produced by Edward J. Danziger and Harry Lee Danziger from a screenplay by Vincent McConnor and Fletcher Markle from a story by John Roeburt. Of note is that the film has cameo appearances by Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, John Garfield, Burgess Meredith, Marsha Hunt, Doe Avedon, Everett Sloane, newspaper columnist Leonard Lyons, and the director Fletcher Markle.
The title refers to a jigsaw puzzle and the story begins with the murder of a print shop owner that is quickly labeled a suicide. But newspaper columnist Charlie Riggs is convinced that it was a murder related to a white neo-fascist organization called the Crusaders and imparts this suspicion to Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy. He also publishes this opinion in his column. Then Riggs himself is murdered, inducing Malloy to launch an investigation into the Crusaders. Because the group appears to be getting backing from organized crime, Malloy looks there, soon receiving unasked-for help from a crime boss called Angel, who recommends him for the position of special prosecutor.
Later, with further help from a prominent judge’s widow, Malloy is appointed. This is supposed to put him in the pocket of those behind the murders. But Malloy proceeds to investigate the artist who created the Crusaders recruiting poster. Seeing in the artist’s studio a painting of an attractive night club singer, Malloy then proceeds to investigate her. This leads to a series of revelations regarding all of these characters and ends with more people dead and wounded in a fiery exchange at the end.
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Directed by Fletcher Markle, produced by Edward J. Danziger and Harry Lee Danziger, screenplay by Fletcher Markle and Vincent McConnor,story by John Roeburt, starring Franchot Tone as Howard Malloy, Jean Wallace as Barbara Whitfield, Myron McCormick as Charles Riggs, Marc Lawrence as Angelo Agostini, Winifred Lenihan as Mrs. Hartley, Doe Avedon as Caroline Riggs, Hedley Rainnie as Sigmund Kosterich, Walter Vaughan as District Attorney Walker, George Breen as Knuckles, Robert Gist as Tommy Quigley, Hester Sondergaard as Mrs. Borg, Luella Gear as Pet Shop Owner, Alexander Campbell as Pemberton, Robert Noe as Waldron, Alexander Lockwood as Nichols, Ken Smith as Wylie
Alan MacAteer as Museum Guard, Manuel Aparicio as Warehouse Guard and Brainerd Duffield as Butler.
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Source: “Jigsaw (1949 film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 12 July 2013. Web. 21 July 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(1949_film).
“Cheers for Miss Bishop” is a film based on the novel “Miss Bishop” by Bess Streeter Aldrich. This film marked the debut of Rosemary De Camp.
Miss Ella Bishop is a teacher at a small town Midwestern college. The story is told in flashback and takes place over many years, from the 1880s to the 1930s, showing her from her freshman year to her retirement as an old woman. At the beginning, she lives with her mother and her vixenish cousin Amy; she remembers when her father had a farm near the town. Ella is an inhibited girl whose frustration grows as she approaches womanhood. Her ambition to teach causes her to lose her only opportunity for true love, and her life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices.
She is engaged to lawyer Delbert Thompson; but she learns, to her distress, that Amy is pregnant by him. Delbert and Amy run off together; but Amy dies in childbirth, leaving Ella to care for Amy’s daughter Hope. Hope grows up and marries Richard, and they move away and have a daughter named Gretchen. Ella also has a fling with another teacher, the unhappily married John Stevens, but she eventually breaks off the relationship; later, she is distressed to learn that John has been killed.
Through all the years, Ella is supported by her friend Sam Peters, a local grocer. Another source of support is Professor Corcoran, the college president who hires her as a teacher and persuades her to stay when she considers leaving. His death is a blow to Ella. As Ella reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be true fulfillment. However, the years have not been without glory; and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years return to a testimonial dinner at the school to honour their beloved Miss Bishop.
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Directed by Tay Garnett, produced by Richard A. Rowland, written by Bess Streeter Aldrich (novel), Stephen Vincent Benet, Sheridan Gibney and Adelaide Heilbron, starring Martha Scott as Ella Bishop, Edmund Gwenn as Professor Corcoran, Don Douglas as Delbert, William Gargan as Sam Peters, Sterling Holloway as Chris, Dorothy Peterson as Mrs. Bishop, Sidney Blackmer as John Stevens, Mary Anderson as Amy, Marsha Hunt as Hope and Rosemary De Camp as Minna.
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Source: “Cheers for Miss Bishop” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 13 April 2013. Web. 21 July 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheers_for_miss_bishop.
“Blonde Ice” is a 1948 American femme fatale crime film directed by Jack Bernhard and starring Leslie Brooks, Robert Paige and Michael Whalen. It was based on a novel by Whitman Chambers.
Claire is a society reporter who will do whatever she has to for a story. Claire manages to keep herself in the headlines by marrying and romancing a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances. To deflect suspicion from herself, Claire frames her former boyfriend, sportswriter Les Burns.
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Directed by Jack Bernhard, produced by Robert E. Callahan (associate producer) and Martin Mooney (producer), written by Whitman Chambers (novel “Once Too Often”) Kenneth Gamet (writer) and Dick Irving Hyland (adaptation), starring Robert Paige as Les Burns, Leslie Brooks as Claire Cummings Hanneman, Russ Vincent as Blackie Talon (the Pilot), Michael Whalen as Stanley Mason (Attorney), James Griffith as Al Herrick, Emory Parnell as Police Capt. Bill Murdock, Walter Sande as Hack Doyle, John Holland as Carl Hanneman, Mildred Coles as June Taylor, Selmer Jackson as District Attorney Ed Chalmers, David Leonard as Dr. Geoffrey Kippinger and Jack Del Rio as Roberts (the Butler).
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Source: “Blonde Ice” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 12 June 2013. Web. 22 July 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_Ice.