Stars: Wynne Gibson, Kane Richmond, John Miljan
Director: Albert H. Kelley
Writers: John A. Albert (original story), Milton Raison (screenplay)
A gambling joint run by Fay Saunders is raided by the police. Fay grabs the pistol of her sweetheart, police officer Steved Bronson, and kills one of the raiding policemen.Steve seizes the gun from her and is riddled by hie fellow officers who think he has turned on them. Steve, on his hospital death-bed tells his friend and fellow officer, Jim Murray, the real story, and Jim sets out to clear Steve’s name.
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Stars: Michael Whalen, Anne Nagel, William Bakewell
Director: Albert Herman
A Nazi spy ring is after a U.S. Army formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline!
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Stars: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks and Charles Arnt
Director: William Berke
Writer: Daniel Mainwaring (original screenplay
Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.
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Stars: Arline Judge, John ‘Dusty’ King, Mantan Moreland
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writers: George Bricker (original screenplay)
A former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless!
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Stars: Edgar Kennedy, Richard Cromwell, Gale Storm, Mantan Moreland
Director: James Tinling
Writers: Walter Gering (original story and screenplay)
An amateur detective and a janitor attempt to uncover a kidnapped heiress!
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Joan Crawford and Walter Huston give powerful performances in this drama directed by Lewis Milestone. Controversial for its time, the film tells the story of prostitute Sadie Thompson and the lustful preacher who tries to ‘save her’ when their ship makes an unscheduled stop over on the South Sea island of Pago Pago.
While down-and-out American Casey Morrow is quietly getting drunk in a London nightclub, a beautiful blonde approaches him and offers to buy him a drink. After Casey tells her that he is broke, they leave the club together and she offers him five hundred pounds to marry her. He quickly agrees but the next morning, he wakes up in artist Maggie Doone’s studio unable to remember what happened after he and the woman left the club. On the street, he sees a newspaper headline stating that Darius Brunner has been murdered and that his heiress daughter, Phyllis, is missing. A photograph of the daughter reveals that she was the woman Casey may have married the night before.
Suddenly (1954) is an American film noir directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale. The drama features Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates, among others. The tranquility of a small town is jarred when the U.S. President is scheduled to pass through and a hired assassin takes over the Benson home as a perfect location to ambush the president.
In post-war America, the President of the United States is scheduled to journey through the small town of Suddenly, California. Claiming to be checking up on security prior to his arrival, a group of FBI agents arrive at the home of the Bensons, on top of a hill that looks down upon the station where the Presidential train is due to stop. However, they soon turn out to be assassins led by the ruthless John Baron (Frank Sinatra), who take over the house and hold the family hostage. Sheriff Tod Shaw (Sterling Hayden) arrives with Dan Carney (Willis Bouchey), a Secret Service agent in charge of the President’s security detail. When he does, Baron and his gangsters shoot Carney and a bullet fractures Shaw’s arm. Baron sends one of his two henchmen to double-check on the President’s schedule but he is killed in a shootout with the police. Jud (James O’Hara), a television repairman, shows up at the house and also becomes a hostage. Pidge (Kim Charney) goes to his grandfather’s dresser to fetch some medication and notices a fully loaded revolver which he replaces with his toy cap gun.
Baron is confronted by the sheriff on the risks and meaning of killing the President and Baron’s remaining henchman begins showing some reluctance. For Baron, however, these are the very least of his concerns and it soon becomes clear that he is a psychopath whose pleasure comes from killing — who and why he kills being the least of his problems.
A sniper’s rifle has been mounted on a metal table by a window. Jud discreetly hooks the table up to the 5000 volt plate output of the family television. Pop Benson (James Gleason) then spills a cup of water on the floor beneath the table. Although the hope is that Baron will be shocked to death, his remaining henchman touches the table first and is electrocuted, firing the rifle repeatedly and attracting the attention of police at the train station as he struggles to free himself. Baron shoots Jud, disconnects the electrical hookup and aims the rifle as the president’s train arrives at the station, but to his surprise, doesn’t stop (having been alerted to the risk). Ellen Benson (Nancy Gates) shoots Baron in the chest and Shaw shoots him again. Baron’s last words are, “Don’t… please.”
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Directed by Lewis Allen, produced by Robert Bassler, written by Richard Sale, starring Frank Sinatra as John Baron, Sterling Hayden as Sheriff Tod Shaw, James Gleason as Peter “Pop” Benson, Nancy Gates as Ellen Benson, Kim Charney as Peter Benson III (Pidge), Paul Frees as Benny Conklin, Baron’s Accomplice (also TV announcer voice), Christopher Dark as Bart Wheeler, Willis Bouchey as Dan Carney, Chief Secret Service Agent, Paul Wexler as Deputy Slim Adams, James O’Hara as Jud Kelly, Kem Dibbs as Wilson, Clark Howat as Haggerty, Charles Smith as Bebop, Dan White as Desk Officer Burg
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Source: “Suddenly (1954 film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 24 September 2012. Web. 15 October 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddenly_(1954_film).
When Kathy Acton is found dead, her parents, Tom and Carol, swear they will find her assailant. But as the investigation gets under way, it appears that the only remaining suspect is the girl’s father. Carol is torn between the love for her husband and the story the police tells.