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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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“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. — Directed by Max Nosseck, produced by Maurice Kosloff, screenplay by Sam Neuman and Nat Tanchuck, story by …
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“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 …
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“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 …
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“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 …
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Ella Bishop is a dedicated teacher at a small Mitwestern college. The story shows her live between 1880s and 1930s — from her freshman years up to retirement. A big crises comes up when her fiancé, the lawyer Delbert Thompson, gets her vixenish cousin Amy pregnant. The two run off, but Amy dies in childbirth. …
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Jim Fallon a lumberman is greatly interested in logging the big sequoia redwood trees in northern California. A Quaker colony and their religous leader Elder Bixby have a special relationship to those trees and try to save them from logging. Jim falls for the leaders daughter, Alicia, but does not change his plan to log …
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“Bank Alarm” is a 1937 American film directed by Louis J. Gasnier. The movie is about an FBI agent who is investigating the recent bank robberies and finds out much later that his sister is the girlfriend of the gang’s leader. — Directed by Louis J. Gasnier, produced by George A. Hirliman and Charles J. …
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