Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry have both gone straight and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in ""once a criminal always a criminal."" Then when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison and they're
Films Comprise: Stagecoach Fort Apache She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Rio Grande The Quiet Man
Comedy actress Valerie Stanton (Rosalind Russell) and her producer Gordon Dunning (Leon Ames) are the toast ofBroadway, with a host of smash-hit shows behind them. They are also secret lovers.Now, Valerie wants to work with someone new and has met architect Michael Morrell (Leo Genn) and fallen head overheels in love with him. Gordon, however, is unwilling to let her go and threatens Valerie with scandal and ruin...The scene is set for a brutal murder.As New York police captain Danbury (Sydney Greenstreet) investigates, all the clues seem to point to Valerie's co-starMarian (Claire Trevor), but in the world of the theatre, everything may be an elaborate act and an illusion...
A collection of classic Westerns starring the icon John Wayne. Films comprise: 1. Dark Command 2. Tall in the Saddle 3. Angel and the Bad Man 4. The Fighting Kentuckian 5. The War Wagon 6. Rooster Cogburn
In the aftermath of the American Civil War a gang of vanquished Confederate veterans known as the Quantrill Raiders are roaming the West branded as outlaws by the new Yankee government. The gang includes the Younger and James brothers and has refused to lay down their arms after the Civil War peace agreement. But when Major Jefferson Clanton (Robert Ryan) surrounds the outlaws with his overwhelming cavalry forces Bob Younger (Jack Buetel) reluctantly accepts Clanton's offer to surrender and be escorted to camp to swear allegiance to the new government in return for a pardon for their crimes. However Robert Preston (Matthew Fowler) a greedy private detective carpetbagger decides that his agency wants to collect the bounty on the outlaws' heads and a deadly gunfight ensues when one of Preston's men is shot dead by Clanton and the Raiders break free to ride as the Badmen again...
John Wayne, aka The Duke will always be remembered as one of ROOSTER COGBURN ¢ JET PILOT ¢ THE CONQUEROR Hollywood's greatest actors; cast as a lead in over 142 films during his decade spanning career. Here are seven of the best films which display Wayne's meteoric talent in the genres for which he is most fondly remembered war and westerns. Included in this set are his Oscar® nominated performance in Sands of Iwo Jima, his first lead Western role in John Ford's Stagecoach, Rooster Cogburn (the prequel to True Grit) and four other memorable classics - The Conqueror; Jet Pilot; Rio Grande and Flying Tigers.
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for Rick who owes him $50 Grand. Rick sets up an escape for Joe knowing that Joe will be caught escaping and be shot or locked away forever. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann Joe gets further than he's supposed to and we are posed with two very important questions: Is Joe really the cold and heartless criminal he appears to be or is there a heart of gold under that gritty exterior? And does Joe belong with the tough street-wise Pat or with the prim moralizing Ann?
Curse of the Zodiac is inspired by the true story of the infamous serial killer who terrorised Northern California during the late sixties and early seventies. His use of cryptograms (ciphers) and coded messages baffled police and fueled a media frenzy that propelled The Zodiac Killer to America's No.1 most notorious unsolved case. Let horror master Ulli Lommel take you on a chilling adventure in the footsteps of an evil serial killer who is still at large.
THE BIG SLEEP: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and follows a trail peopled with murderers pornographers nightclub rogues the spoiled rich and more. Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe and director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly involving Lauren Bacall) a brisk pace and atmosphere galore in this certified classic. KEY LARGO: A hurricane swells outside but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Awardwinning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted boozy moll. In Huston's hands it becomes a powerful sweltering classic. THE MALTESE FALCON: A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who's gonna take the fall. This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel is a film of firsts: John Huston's directorial debut rotund 62-year-old Sydney Greenstreet's screen debut film history's first film noir and Bogart's breakthrough role after years as a Warner contract player. When George Raft refused to work with a first-time director Bogart took on the role of Spade - and launched the most acclaimed period of his career.
Humphrey Bogart is outstanding (Variety) as a vicious gangster on the run in this masterful gripping drama (Motion Picture Daily) directed by William Wyler (Ben-Hur) and written by Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes). Nominated* for four Academy Awards(r), including Best Picture, Dead End is powerful, entertaining and a true landmark in moviemaking. On the mean streets of New York's Lower East Side, Drina (Sylvia Sidney) hopes to save herbrother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin (Bogart) has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave (Joel McCrea) for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him? *1937: Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Claire Trevor), Cinematography, Art Direction
One of the all time classic Westerns - considered by many to be the movie that propelled John Wayne to stardom back in 1939. ; ; The film is set against the impressive backdrop of Monument Valley in Utah and tells the story of a mixed group of travellers who are making their way across country to Arizona. They are endangered by an Indian War Party, and this along with their various characters results in difficulties for the party...
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