Released Date:
1950-05-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(15133 Reviews)
Director:
Nicholas RayAndrew Solt (screenplay)
Edmund H. North (adaptation)
Dorothy B. Hughes (story)
Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect; his record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor tell against him. Fortunately, lovely neighbor Laurel Gray gives him an alibi. Laurel proves to be just what Steele needed, and their friendship ripens into love. Will suspicion, doubt, and Steele's inner demons come between them?
Released Date:
1950-12-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
85 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (510 Reviews)
Director:
Cy EndfieldJo Pagano (written for the screen by)
Jo Pagano (novel)
A man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal.
Released Date:
1953-04-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (10721 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè De TothCrane Wilbur (screenplay)
Charles Belden (story)
Professor Henry Jarrod is a true artist whose wax sculptures are lifelike. He specializes in historical tableau's such a Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc. His business partner, Matthew Burke, needs some of his investment returned to him and pushes Jarrod to have more lurid exposes like a chamber of horrors. When Jarrod refuses, Burke set the place alight destroying all of his beautiful work in the hope of claiming the insurance. Jarrod is believed to have died in the fire but he unexpectedly reappears some 18 months later when he opens a new exhibit. This time, his displays focus on the macabre but he has yet to reproduce his most cherished work, Marie Antoinette. When he meets his new assistant's beautiful friend, Sue Allen, he knows he's found the perfect model - only unbeknown to anyone, he has a very particular way of making his wax creations.
Released Date:
1953-10-16
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
71 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(3707 Reviews)
Director:
Ida LupinoCollier Young (screenplay)
Ida Lupino (screenplay)
Robert L. Joseph (adaptation)
Two friends on a fishing trip pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be a psychotic escaped convict. This sociopath has already murdered other good Samaritans in his efforts to evade authorities. He sadistically taunts and threatens the two men and perversely delights in telling them that he has them both marked for death sometime before the end of the trip. His destination is a ferryboat in Baja, California, which he hopes will help him get to the mainland. The hostages hope to stay alive long enough to escape or be rescued by Mexican authorities.
Released Date:
1955-07-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (2136 Reviews)
Director:
Anthony MannValentine Davies (screenplay)
Beirne Lay Jr. (screenplay)
Beirne Lay Jr. (story)
Lt. Col. Robert (Dutch) Holland was a third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, not a pitcher. While at spring training a B-36 flew over the field and Dutch was standing on third base. Brewster was his third base replacement when he, Dutch was re-called to duty. The movie clearly depicts this.
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