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Directed by Anthony Mann,
Alfred L. WerkerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Noir,
CrimeActors Richard Basehart,
Scott Brady,
Roy Roberts,
Jack Webb,
Whit Bissell,
Reed HadleyRating69%
On a Los Angeles street, Officer Rawlins, a patrolman on his way home from work, stops a man he suspects of being a burglar and is shot and mortally wounded. The minor clues lead nowhere. Two police detectives, Sergeants Marty Brennan (Scott Brady) and Chuck Jones (James Cardwell), are assigned to catch the killer, Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart), a brilliant mystery man with no known criminal past, who is hiding in a Hollywood bungalow and listening to police calls on his custom radio in an attempt to avoid capture. His only relationship is with his little dog., 1h38
Directed by Robert Z. LeonardOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Seafaring films,
Monde imaginaire,
Transport filmsActors Robert Taylor,
Ava Gardner,
Charles Laughton,
Vincent Price,
John Hodiak,
Samuel S. HindsRating65%
Federal agent Rigby (Taylor) travels to Los Trancos on the island of Carlota (somewhere off the coast of Central America) to break up a war-surplus aircraft engine racket and finds himself tempted by corruption, namely Elizabeth Hintten (Gardner), a café singer married to Tug Hintten (Hodiak), a drunken ex-pilot., 1h24
Directed by Robert SiodmakOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Burt Lancaster,
Yvonne De Carlo,
Dan Duryea,
Stephen McNally,
Alan Napier,
Percy HeltonRating73%
Reuniting with director Siodmak after their success with Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgment., 1h13
Origin USAGenres Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about children,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Tarzan filmsActors Lex Barker,
Brenda Joyce,
Albert Dekker,
Evelyn Ankers,
Charles Drake,
Alan NapierRating59%
Ankers portrays an aviatrix who walks out of the jungle looking decades younger than her chronological age due to a secret fountain of youth but gradually begins a terrifying accelerated aging process. Against Tarzan's wishes, she and Jane begin a desperate search for the fountain., 1h45
Directed by Jean DelannoyOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
FantasyActors Micheline Presle,
Marcello Pagliero,
Marcel Mouloudji,
Charles Dullin,
Marguerite Moreno,
Fernand FabreRating71%
In a country very similar to France under German military occupation, two people are murdered at the same moment. Ève is poisoned by her influential husband, who wants her money and her naïve younger sister, Lucette. Pierre, a worker and a leader of the resistance, is shot by an informer. Meeting in the afterlife, the two fall in love. As they were fated to do so, but prevented by others, they are granted 24 hours back on earth. Their first mission is to do a favour to a dead man who was worried about his young daughter. Then, after brief sex, they address unfinished business. Ève confronts her evil husband and tries to convince her sister of his treachery. Pierre goes to a meeting of resisters and tries to convince them that their organisation is compromised by traitors. The 24 hours are up and most of the time was spent not on enjoying and deepening their relationship, which was often edgy, but on efforts to help others. Back in the afterlife they agree to part., 1h22
Directed by Fred Zinnemann,
John SturgesOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Noir,
CrimeActors Van Heflin,
Robert Ryan,
Janet Leigh,
Bruce Bennett,
Volkert Kraeft,
Elsa LanchesterRating74%
Frank Enley (Van Heflin), returns home from World War II after surviving a German POW camp where the rest of his comrades had been murdered by guards during an escape attempt. The "war hero" is respected and praised for his fine character and good works in the California town of Santa Lisa, where he, his young wife and baby had settled after moving from the East. What his wife doesn't know is that Frank relocated them to get away from Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan), once his best friend, who also lived through the ordeal, though he was left with a crippled leg. In exchange for food, Frank had alerted the Nazi camp commander to their escape plans, thinking wrongly that the men would not be punished, and Joe is now determined finally to exact justice on Frank, whose location he has learned from a newspaper story commending him for his civic endeavors.Directed by Jules WhiteOrigin USAGenres ComedyThemes Ghost films,
Buddy filmsActors Moe Howard,
Larry Fine,
Shemp Howard,
Phil Arnold,
Nancy Saunders,
Don BrodieRating69%
The Stooges are moving men assigned to move furniture out of the haunted Smorgasbord Castle. All goes well at first, outside of a few scares, until a clanking suit of armor inhabited by the ghost of Peeping Tom (voiced by Phil Arnold) scares the hapless Stooges, until he convinces them that he is, in fact, a friendly spirit. After finally gaining their trust, Tom tells the trio the story of his watching Lady Godiva (Nancy Saunders), only to get a pie in the face. In turn, his ghost is cursed and trapped inside the suit of armor, having been trapped for a thousand years. , 1h20
Directed by Douglas SirkOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Dorothy Lamour,
Don Ameche,
Janis Carter,
Willard Parker,
Adele Jergens,
Leonard CareyRating62%
Un metteur en scène tyrannique, perfectionniste et égocentrique est renvoyé pour avoir poussé à bout son actrice principale française. Dans une fête foraine, il rencontre une jeune danseuse sachant parler avec l'accent français. Il la convainc de le suivre et la fait répéter pour la faire passer pour française. Elle accepte de jouer le jeu auprès du producteur., 1h36
Directed by David ButlerOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedyThemes Musical films,
Films based on playsActors Jack Carson,
Ronald Reagan,
Wayne Morris,
Patricia Neal,
Edward Arnold,
Virginia FieldRating61%
John Lawrence (Ronald Reagan) is a returning GI. Mary McKinley (Patricia Neal in her film debut) is the girl he left behind. But their reunion will have to wait: John has returned with cockney war bride Lilly Herbish (Virginia Field) in tow. It seems that John married Lilly as a favor to get her into the U.S., intending to divorce her so that she can wed her true love, John's old pal Fred Taylor (Jack Carson).