Clay and Will, two friends who graduated from West Point, visit Braxton, another friend at his plantation in Georgia in 1861. Clay was and is still in love with Kathy, Braxton’s wife. After war is declared Clay and Will find themeselves fighting on opposite sides. Clay is now an Field Artillery Major doing many suicide …
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Madeleine has two lifes: during the day she is a fashion editor of a New Yorker magazine — at night she is a party girl. She has a breakdown after the pressure at her job increases and her bad luck with men. With the help of a psychiatrist she quits the job and starts a …
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Stars: Chester Morris, Thelma Todd, Fred Kohler Director: Roland West Writers: Walton Green (novel), Josephine Lovett (screenplay) A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas. source
Bill Carver is a young medical-school graduate who has been sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. After excaping and hiding in a town in Arizona, he starts a new life and a romance. Everything changes when Joe Mallaon and his gang show up. Joe was the gangster who got Bill in …
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Ken Baxter, Pancho and Panhandle find the wounded archeologist Dr. Wahl who works for the Government and take him to Blue Mesa Trading Post. Also staying there are two other archaeologists Dr. Floto and Baron Starkoff. Their main goal is to secure the helium supply in an Indian cave. Dr. Wahl is found stabbed dead. …
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The ranchers of Sundown have to sell their cattle at a loss after they have been hit by a drought. This is the only way to meet their mortgage payments. But then the hoof-and-mouth disease breaks out among the cattle. Therefore, Sheriff Tex has to quarantine all the cattle on local ranches. As Steve does …
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Stars: Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan Director: Sam Newfield Writers: Arthur Caesar (original story), Harry L. Fraser (screenplay) Young man goes to work for gangsters to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend. source
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Edgar Buchanan Director: Felix E. Feist Writers: John Twist (screenplay), James R. Webb (screenplay) A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron. source
Stars: Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell Director: Roger Corman Writers: Robert Hill (screenplay), Victor Stoloff (screenplay) Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls. source
Scarlet Street is an American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on the French novel La Chienne (The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir. The principal actors Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and …
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