The movie “Woman on the Run” is a 1950 film noir crime film directed by Norman Foster starring Ann Sheridan and Dennis O’Keefe. The film was based on the April 1948 short story Man on the Run by Sylvia Tate and filmed on location in San Francisco, California. Plot: As the film opens, a man, …
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Drama, War Director: Edward Buzzell Lana Turner … Valerie Parks Laraine Day … Leigh Rand Susan Peters … Ann Darrison Agnes Moorehead … Lieut. Colonel Spottiswoode Bill Johnson … Captain Bill Barclay Natalie Schafer …Harriet Corwin Lee Patrick … Gladys Hopkins Jess Barker … Junior Vanderheusen June Lockhart … Sarah Swanson Marta Linden … Captain …
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“The Way Ahead” is a British Second World War drama released in 1944. It stars David Niven and Stanley Holloway and follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army to fight in North Africa. In the U.S., an edited version was released as “The Immortal Battalion”. The film was written by …
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A young and beautiful woman, Larita Filton, is married to an alcoholic and is cheating him with a young artist. Her young lover canĀ“t take the feelings and the immoral attitude of his beloved and commits suicide. Then the marriage of the Filtons is divorced. Larita flees to France where she continues her immoral life …
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The film was originally to be released under the same title as the novel “Enter Sir John” but this was changed to the simpler “Murder!” during shooting. A number of changes were made from the book including the alteration of the names of the two principal characters. The portrayal of the character Sir John Mernier …
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“Champagne” is a silent comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on an original story by English writer and critic Walter C. Mycroft. The film is about a young woman forced to get a job after her father tells her he has lost all his money. Heiress Betty (Betty Balfour) draws the ire of her …
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Downhill (released in the U.S. as “When Boys Leave Home”) is a 1927 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the play Down Hill. It is Hitchcock’s fifth film as director. At an expensive English boarding school for boys, Roddy Berwick (Ivor Novello) is School Captain and star rugby player. He and his …
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Juno and the Paycock (1930) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O’Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood. The film was based on a successful play by Sean O’Casey. Barry Fitzgerald appears as an orator in the first scene of the film, but has no other role. In the slums …
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A widowed farmer wants to marry again and meets, after intensive consultations with his housekeeping woman, with some candidates. None of these girls will appear as the right one and the girls show only little interest in him. Gradually, the farmer realizes that his housekeeper could possibly be the right one for him. The Farmer’s …
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