Released Date:
1948-09-29
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1142 Reviews)
Director:
Robert SiodmakRichard Murphy (screenplay)
Henry Edward Helseth (novel)
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
Released Date:
1950-11-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (555 Reviews)
Director:
Walter LangGenres:
ComedyJohn McNulty (New Yorker article)
Phoebe Ephron (screenplay)
Henry Ephron (screenplay)
Bill Lawrence wins a slew of prizes on a radio quiz program. His happiness is short-lived when he discovers he'll have to sell the prizes in order to pay the taxes on them.
Released Date:
1956-08-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (1072 Reviews)
Director:
Richard QuineAbe Burrows (screen play)
George S. Kaufman (from the play by)
Howard Teichmann (from the play by)
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations. These are not the questions which the board expected to be asked of them, especially since they are all crooked, except for Edward McKeever, the current CEO who has resigned in order to take an advisory position at the Pentagon. Following the meeting, he bumps into Laura and offers to drive her home. On the way there, Laura displays her enthusiasm for being a stockholder, as a result, Edward takes a liking to her. With Edward in Washington, John Blessington and Clifford Snell establish their hold on International Projects - They see greater riches now that Edward has influence with the US senate, especially with the awarding of federal contracts, unfortunately for them he is honest, and won't do their bidding. In the meantime, Laura continues to be a nusance to the board. Blessington believes the only way to silence her, is to give her a high paying position with the company. The idea is for her to do absolutely nothing - Laura has other plans. She begins to correspond with other small stockholders in the company - a problem for the board. They decide to use her influence on Edward and send her to Washington to get contracts. Laura now knowing their true intentions for her, has her own agenda, that is, get Edward back in charge of the company.
Released Date:
1958-12-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
143 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(7695 Reviews)
Director:
Morton DaCostaBetty Comden (screenplay)
Adolph Green (screenplay)
Patrick Dennis (from the novel: "Auntie Mame" by)
Mame is an unconventional individualist socialite from the roaring 20's. When her brother dies, she is forced to raise her nephew Patrick. However, Patrick's father has designated an executor to his will to protect the boy from absorbing too much of Mame's rather unconventional perspective. Patrick and Mame become devoted to each other in spite of this restriction, and together journey through Patrick's childhood and the great depression, amidst some rather zaney adventures.
Released Date:
1959-10-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
(847 Reviews)
Director:
George MarshallWilliam Roberts (screenplay)
H.E. Bates (novel)
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter, Mariette...
Released Date:
1960-11-14
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
126 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1986 Reviews)
Director:
Vincente MinnelliBetty Comden (screen play)
Adolph Green (screen play)
Betty Comden (musical play "Bells Are Ringing")
Adolph Green (musical play "Bells Are Ringing")
Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls in love with one of her clients, the playwright Jeffrey Moss, and is determined to meet him. The trouble is, on the phone to him, she always pretends to be an old woman whom he calls "Mom."
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