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, 1h15
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Art Gilmore
Rating52%
This police training film uses dramatizations of real life events to demonstrate the battle law enforcement faces with narcotics, most specifically barbiturates - also known as "goof balls" - and marijuana - also known as "tea". It shows how to identify certain narcotics, identify the signs that someone is using, identify the signs of where drug deals take place, identify the signs of use in a secluded public place, and apprehend the users in these public settings. As it follows one young woman neglected by her parents, the film also shows the underlying causes of narcotics use, with these underlying causes often the forgotten issue as everyone tends to deal with the symptoms.

, 1h13
Directed by Jodie Copelan
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Western
Actors Scott Brady, Margia Dean, Clint Eastwood, Irving Bacon, Ray Boyle, Baynes Barron
Rating53%
Eastwood appears as a Southern cowboy Keith Williams who is upset over having to join up with a group of Yankees who have been attacked by the same group of Indians. Most film guides include in their entry for this film a quote attributed to Eastwood, "probably the lousiest Western ever made." This film is also notable for a scene in which Brady beats Eastwood in a fistfight.

, 1h18
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Scott Gregory Marlowe, Richard Bakalyan, Gigi Perreau, Dickie Jones
Rating52%
The Cool and the Crazy tells the story of Ben Saul, a reform school graduate who is transferred to a Kansas City high school. There, Ben's clowning in class ticks off the local gang of tough guys, but he soon wins all of their admiration when he begins buying them beer, taking them to dances, giving them "kicks," and then finally turning them on to marijuana. Ben is working as a frontman for a local marijuana ring, but the local police detective is hot on his trail. When a marijuana-crazed addict teenager whom Ben has sold the drug to dies trying to hold up a filling station for drug money, the police question him and events begin to spiral out of Ben's control. In the dramatic (or melodramatic) finale, Ben ends up killing the pusher for more marijuana only to find that there is none, and gets his just deserts in a fiery car wreck. Then there is an obligatory moralizing segment, where a policeman screams at the surviving addicts, "Is this what you call 'kicks'?! Sooner or later, if you don't wise up you're all gonna wind up like this, one way or the other.

, 1h14
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dick Contino, Bruno VeSota, Sandra Giles, Hank Mann
Rating27%
Hotshot street-racer Phil Sandifer (Contino) is working as a truck driver when he is harassed by a sports car driving on the highway. He later meets up with the driver, Jana (Giles), in a local club. Jana challenges Phil to a race; Jana cheats, and Phil loses. At the same time, his best friend Sonny is run off the road and killed by an unidentified assailant (VeSota).

, 1h20
Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Dame Thora Hird, Donald Stewart, Cyril Chamberlain, Lisa Daniely
Rating57%
An American journalist works to expose a criminal gang in London. But his investigation of their counterfeiting activities leads to his kidnapping by the gang.

, 1h31
Directed by Victor Vicas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Patrick, Annemarie Düringer, David Kossoff, Philip Ray, Robert Raglan
Rating64%
Filmed in London, the story concerns the feeding of misinformation to German Intelligence about the exact location of the D-Day landings in 1944. Captain Bill Ranson (Jeffrey Hunter) and Major Julien Howard (Nigel Patrick) are two allied intelligence officers posing as documentary film makers in the occupied Low Countries. Their concerns centre on the credentials of Rolande Hertog (Annemarie Düringer), a new recruit to the intelligence service recently arrived from Holland.

, 1h19
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Mike Connors, John Ashley, Bing Russell, Marjorie Stapp, Hilo Hattie, Sammee Tong
Rating43%
This story takes place during World War II in the Philippines. A group of American soldiers are recruited for a dangerous mission to destroy an enemy base and keep strategic documents out of the reach of the invading Japanese army.

, 1h25
Directed by Hal Kanter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou, Jessie Royce Landis, Nita Talbot, William Redfield
Rating54%

, 1h8
Directed by David Bradley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Gary Clarke, Fay Wray, Yvonne Fedderson, Connie Stevens, Joan Chandler, Steve Ihnat
Rating50%
In a beach community near Malibu, California, a teenager promises his mom he won't get into any more fights — especially like the one that put him in jail a few months back. But when a motorcycle gang begin harassing his drag-racing pals, all hell breaks loose. During the fight one of the cyclists is sent hurtling over a cliff, the teen gets the blame and then attempts to prove his innocence.

, 1h33
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes French war films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Aviation films, Political films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Tab Hunter, David Janssen, Will Hutchins, Etchika Choureau, Paul Fix, Marcel Dalio
Rating55%
Thad Walker (Tab Hunter), a spoiled, rich kid from Boston, who had gotten in serious trouble with the law, fled to France to join the French Foreign Legion in World War I. In Paris, with companions, "Duke" Sinclair (David Janssen), Dave Putnam (Will Hutchins), Tom Hitchcock (Jody McCrea) and Bill Wellman (William Wellman Jr.), the boys stop at a bar and learn of the recent formation of the Lafayette Escadrille made up of American volunteer pilots who fly for France. The group of expatriates join up and learn to fly on training aircraft before becoming combat pilots.

, 1h10
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Vera Ralston, Paul Fix, Leo Gordon, Luana Anders, Tom Brown, Lyle Talbot
Rating60%