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Port of New York (1949) [Film Noir] [Drama]

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“Port of New York” is a 1949 film shot in semidocumentary style. The film is notable for being Yul Brynner’s first movie. He had not begun shaving his hair yet. The film, which is very similar to T-Men (1947), was shot on location in New York City. The movie was directed by László Benedek with cinematography by George E. Diskant.

The film tells the story of a two federal agents, one from Customs and one from Narcotics, out to stop the distribution of opium that came in on a ship in the Port of New York but was smuggled off by drug dealers. The leader of the drug dealers is the suave Vicola (Brynner).

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Directed by László Benedek, produced by Aubrey Schenck, written by Eugene Ling (screenplay) and Bert Murray (story), starring Scott Brady as Michael ‘Mickey’ Waters, Richard Rober as Jim Flannery, K.T. Stevens as Toni Cardell and Yul Brynner as Paul Vicola.

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Source: “Port of New York (film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 14 March 2013. Web. 31 March 2013. Port of New York (film).

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Beware

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Louis Jordan casts as a college alumnus named Lucius Brokenshire Jordan. Ware College, a small black college in Ware, Ohio has financial struggles. Now they try to their allumni for financial help. Unknown to management Louis Jordan is now the king of swing and leader of the Tympani band. When he learns about the college’s issues he supports their fund-raising show and also settles the issues with the crooked grandson, the Dean.

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Behind Green Lights

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A private investigator who was known for blackmailing is found dead in a car. The suspect is the daughter of a mayoral candidate who had visited the blackmailer that day. In order to avoid a story just weeks before the election, the medical officer is commanded to switch the corpse after the daughter has been cleared. Detective Sam Carson is investigating and save the girl he is beginning to fall in love with.

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Battle beyond the Sun

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It is the American version of the Russian epic from 1959. The world has been divided by north-south hemispere (clearly analogues for the United States & Soviet Union). Both launch spaceships to Mars. But the south hemispere ship is low on fuel and has to make an emergency landing on a different planet. They meet monsters, have technical problems and finally return to earth.

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Attack from Space

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Benevolent aliens from the planet Emerald send superhero Starman to protect Earth from invasion by an evil alien race called the Spherions. When Starman arrives on Earth, he discovers a conspiracy involving Earth’s top scientists, and he must root out the traitors and also stop the impending alien invasion.

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Gangster Story (1960) – Crime Film

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Directed by: Walter Matthau
Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that yields him a big bundle. Now he has not only the cops and the FBI after him, but also the local crime boss, who’s outraged that an outsider can pull off a heist like that in his territory and not cut him in on it.
Runtime: 65 min
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Law of the Rio Grande (1931) [Western]

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“Law of the Rio Grande! is a 1931 American film directed by Forrest Sheldon. The movie is about Jim and Cookie. Escaping from the Sheriff, they decide to go straight. But when they meet their old cohort, The Blanco Kid, he tells their new boss they are outlaws and they are in big trouble again…

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Directed by Forrest Sheldon, produced by F.E. Douglas and Harry S. Webb, written by Betty Burbridge (story and scenario) and Bennett Cohen (story and scenario), starring Bob Custer as Jim, Betty Mack as Judy Lanning, Carlton S. King as Colonel Lanning, Nelson McDowell as Wolf Hardy, Harry Todd as Cookie and Edmund Cobb as The Blanco Kid.

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Source: “Law of the Rio Grande” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 9 January 2013. Web. 31 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_Rio_Grande.

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