, 1h20 Directed byRobert Benton OriginUSA GenresComedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime, Romance ActorsJeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Rip Torn, Gwen Verdon, Glenne Headly, Jerry Stiller Roles Le présentateur télé Rating55% L'action se déroule en 1954 à Austin (Texas). Alors qu'elle se rend chez un photographe pour récupérer des photos de charme dont elle souhaite se débarrasser, Nadine est témoin de son meurtre. Paniquée, elle s'enfuit en emportant avec elle la pochette contenant ses photos, mais celle-ci contient en réalité les plans secrets d'une autoroute. Le propriétaire des plans n'est autre que Buford Pope, un truand prêt à tout pour les récupérer. Nadine se rapproche de Vernon, son mari avec qui elle est en instance de divorce, pour qu'il l'aide à récupérer ses photos, sans oser lui annoncer qu'elle est enceinte de lui...
, 1h53 Directed byRobert Wise OriginUSA GenresDrama, Biography ThemesSports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise ActorsPaul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Angela Cartwright, Sal Mineo Roles Zale Ring Announcer (uncredited) Rating74% Rocky Barbella (Paul Newman) grandit à New York à la fin des années 1930, au sein d'une bande de petits délinquants. Il fait plusieurs séjours en maison de correction. Déserteur de l'armée américaine, il intègre la salle d'un manager de boxe (Everett Sloane). Repris par les autorités, il est incarceré dans une prison militaire. Cette forte tête est prise en main par un sergent, et lui fait comprendre qu'il a de l'or dans les poings et qu'il vaut mieux mettre sa force et son courage en devenant un vrai boxeur qu'au service du mal. Rendu à la vie civile, il se consacre entièrement à la carrière de boxeur professionnel et gravit progressivement tous les échelons jusqu'à devenir champion du monde sous le nom de Rocky Graziano.
, 1h23 Directed byJerry Hopper OriginUSA GenresComedy ActorsMaureen O'Hara, John Forsythe, Barry Atwater, Timothy Hovey, Frank Faylen, Philip Bourneuf Roles Doctor Rating62% A schoolboy who has been urged to always tell the truth blurts out that an uncle of his has received a payoff from a politician. Chaos ensues, as teacher Joan Madison fights the school principal's decision to expel the boy from classes and enlists a newspaper columnist, Ernie Miller, to help support her cause.
, 1h48 Directed byRudolph Maté OriginUSA GenresDrama, Romance ThemesFilms about religion, Political films ActorsJane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle, Fred Clark, Eileen Heckart, Josephine Hutchinson Roles McGuire Rating70% In 1942, a few months after America's entry into World War II, secretary Ruth Wood (Jane Wyman) lives quietly in New York City with her physically and emotionally fragile mother, Agnes (Josephine Hutchinson). Ruth's co-workers at Excelsior Shoe Manufacturing Company are her best friend Grace Ullman (Eileen Heckart) and Millie Kranz (Peggie Castle), an attractive blonde involved in an affair with her married boss, Stephen Jalonik (Fred Clark). Also in the office is Monty (Arte Johnson), a young shipping clerk classified by the draft as 4-F, who monitors the war's campaigns on a world map pinned to the wall. One evening after work, when a cloudburst forces Ruth and other pedestrians to take shelter in the vestibule of an office building, Arthur Hugenon (Van Johnson), a cheerful, talkative G.I. stationed in the area, surprises the shy Ruth by starting a conversation. When he invites her to dinner, she declines, saying that her housebound mother is expecting her. Undeterred, Art buys food for three at a delicatessen and accompanies Ruth home. Agnes, who has distrusted men since her husband Harry left her for another woman ten years earlier, receives Art with little enthusiasm. During the meal, Art, who grew up on a Tennessee farm, captivates Ruth with his stories and afterward entertains them by playing the piano. Upon finding the manuscript of an unfinished song Harry composed, Art asks permission to take it back to camp, where he and his army buddy Dixie will write lyrics for it. On the weekend, Art takes Ruth and Grace to a matinee. On their way to a restaurant, they stop at an auction and Ruth impulsively bids on an antique Roman coin, which she gives to Art for good luck. At the Café Normandy, where they have dinner, Ruth is unaware that the piano player is her father (William Gargan), whom she has not seen since he left Agnes. However, Harry recognizes Ruth and confides to his bartender friend Andy that he has been too ashamed to return to his family.
, 1h1 Directed byWilliam Beaudine OriginUSA GenresComedy ActorsLeo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey, Benny Bartlett, Barton MacLane Roles Willy, gambling ring thug Rating62% Chuck gets a job working for a newspaper. When promoted, he has to go under cover in the state prison to dig up some information on some of the inmates. When one of the inmates beats Chuck up and lands him in the hospital, it's up to Slip, Sach, and Butch to finish Chuck's job. Slip decides that he and the boys should commit a crime so that they can be sent to jail. Another reporter, Cy Bowman, agrees to inform the penitentiary that the boys are actually working under cover for the newspaper once they get arrested. However, Bowman does not actually keep his promise. Now the trio are forced to spend what they think is a short sentence in jail. While there, the boys dig up some information on Percival P. Lannigan and some other inmates who have been living it up in jail, unknown to the warden. Lannigan soon gets word that Slip and his pals are under cover for Chuck (whom Lannigan had beaten up earlier), and intends to have Chuck and Louie killed. The boys eventually expose the inmates scam and turn them over to the warden, who pardons them and arranges for their release.
, 1h58 Directed byVincente Minnelli, Jerry Thorpe OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy-drama, Romance ThemesFilms about films, Films about television ActorsLana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame Roles Cameraman (uncredited) Rating77% In Hollywood, screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell), movie star Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner), and director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan) each refuse to speak by phone to Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) in Paris. Movie producer Harry Pebbel (Walter Pidgeon) gathers them in his office and explains that Shields was calling them because he has a new film idea and he wants the three of them for the project. Shields cannot get financing on his own, but with their names attached, there would be no problem. Pebbel asks the three to allow him to get Shields on the phone before they give their final answer.
, 1h13 Directed byFrank Tashlin OriginUSA GenresComedy ActorsRobert Cummings, Marie Wilson, Lloyd Corrigan, Moroni Olsen, Mary Costa, Ray Walker Roles Mac Rating70% Bill has an unusual dilemma when he returns home from the war in Korea, where he'd been a pilot. Out of pride, he wants to provide the sole support for Doris and their family, but Doris isn't sure what to do because she has just inherited a fortune.
, 1h30 Directed byFritz Lang OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller, Noir, Crime ThemesFilms about writers, Films about journalists ActorsAnne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, George Reeves Roles Homer Rating68% In Los Angeles, California, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) is a single woman who works as a switchboard operator along with her roommates, Crystal Carpenter (Ann Sothern) and Sally Ellis (Jeff Donnell). On her birthday, she decides to celebrate by dining alone at home, with the picture of her fiancé, a soldier serving in the Korean War. At the candlelight dinner table, she opens the latest letter from him and learns to her shock that he instead plans to marry a nurse he met in Tokyo.
, 1h8 Directed byWilliam Beaudine OriginUSA GenresComedy ThemesMilitary humor in film ActorsLeo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Buddy Gorman, Allen Jenkins Roles Lt. Bradley Rating63% A local charity has raised sixteen hundred dollars and entrusted the boys with it. They are then robbed of the cash by two men dressed as sailors. Believing them to be real sailors, and in order to catch them, they enlist in the Navy under fake names. They spend a year at sea, but cannot locate the thieves. However, Sach is able to win two thousand dollars gambling and the boys return to the Bowery. It is there that they are robbed by the same two men, but with the Navy captain helping, they are able to capture the crooks. They return to the navy office to receive their commendations, but are mistakenly re-enlisted!
, 1h33 Directed byGeorge Sherman OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller, Noir, Crime ActorsShelley Winters, Richard Conte, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford, Alex Nicol, John McIntire Roles Neil (uncredited) Rating63% The film tells of Bruno Felkin (Conte) as a San Francisco crime boss. After he kills off a mob rival, he tries to arrange an alibi with his girlfriend Connie Thatcher (Winters). However, she isn't available, which forces Felkin to hide out on a fishing boat owned by Hamil Linder (Bickford) until Connie his moll can be located.