Released Date:
1949-07-01
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1686 Reviews)
Director:
Joseph L. MankiewiczPhilip Yordan (screenplay)
Jerome Weidman (novel)
In New York, after seven years in prison, the lawyer Max Monetti goes to the bank of his brothers Joe, Tony and Pietro Monetti and promises revenge to them. Then he visits his lover Irene Bennett that asks him to forget the past and start a new life. Max recalls the early 30s, when he is the favorite son of his father Gino Monetti, who has a bank in the East Side. Gino is a tyrannical and egocentric self-made man that raises his family in an environment of hatred and Max is a competent lawyer engaged with Maria Domenico. When Max meets the confident Irene, he has a troubled love affair with her. In 1933, with the new Banking Act reaches Gino for misapplication of funds. Max plots a plan to help his father but is betrayed by his brothers. Now Max will see his brothers that have also being raised under the motto "Never Forgive, Never Forget".
Released Date:
1951-08-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (1244 Reviews)
Director:
Henry KingPhilip Dunne (written for the screen by)
Though David has all the wealth, power, wives & children inherent for the King of Israel he does not have what he craves most: the true love of a woman who loves him as a man instead of as King. He is attracted to Bathsheba, the wife of one of his soldiers who is more devoted to army duty than to his wife. David & Bathsheba succumb to their feelings. Their affair, her resulting pregnancy, & David's resolve to have her husband killed so Bathsheba will be free to marry, bring the wrath of God upon the kingdom. David must rediscover his faith in God in order to save Bathsheba from death by stoning, his kingdom from drought & famine, & himself from his many sins.
Released Date:
1951-03-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1313 Reviews)
Director:
Henry HathawayVinnie Holt, a single woman traveling with her toddler niece, becomes stranded at Rawhide, a desert stagecoach stop managed by stationmaster Sam Todd and his assistant Tom Owens. Owens is quickly impressed by Vinnie's independent self-confidence. Jim Zimmerman, a fugitive murderer from Huntsville Prison disguised as a deputy, and three other ruthless escapees take over the station, intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment. After murdering Sam, Zimmerman knows they must keep Tom alive in order to complete their plans. Owens does not correct Zimmmerman's assumption that Vin is his wife, correctly sensing that the misconception might be the key to her survival also.
Released Date:
1952-12-18
Languages:
English, French, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (3365 Reviews)
As writer Harry Street lays gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he feverishly reflects on what he perceives as his failures at love and writing. Through his delirium he recalls his one true love Cynthia Green who he lost by his obsession for roaming the world in search of stories for his novels. Though she is dead Cynthia continues to haunt Street's thoughts. In spite of one successful novel after another, Street feels he has compromised his talent to ensure the success of his books, making him a failure in his eyes. His neglected wife Helen tends to his wounds, listens to his ranting, endures his talk of lost loves, and tries to restore in him the will to fight his illness until help arrives. Her devotion to him makes him finally realize that he is not a failure. With his realization of a chance for love and happiness with Helen, he regains his will to live.
Released Date:
1952-04-04
Languages:
English, Portuguese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
117 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (929 Reviews)
Director:
Walter LangJane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon, and she is partially crippled. Unable to walk without crutches, Jane nevertheless goes on to entertain the Allied troops in World War II.
Released Date:
1955-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1246 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel MannHelen Deutsch (screenplay)
Jay Richard Kennedy (screenplay)
Lillian Roth (book)
Mike Connolly (book)
Gerold Frank (book)
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, Wallie, followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman. After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world, not counting the first twenty with her mother.
Released Date:
1958-11-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (3995 Reviews)
Director:
Robert WiseNelson Gidding (screenplay)
Don Mankiewicz (screenplay)
Ed Montgomery (newspaper articles)
Barbara Graham (letters)
Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police to arrest them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.
Released Date:
1964-11-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (868 Reviews)
Director:
Edward DmytrykGenres:
DramaJohn Michael Hayes
Harold Robbins (novel)
After his teenage daughter Danny is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's current lover, Luke Miller recalls his marriage to Valerie Hayden and the subsequent events which led to the tragedy. The lurid story seems to have been suggested by the real-life Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato/Cheryl Crane murder scandal of six years earlier when Lana's daughter Cheryl stabbed her mother's boyfriend (Stompanato) to death in the bedroom of Lana's Beverly Hills home.
Released Date:
1955-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1246 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel MannHelen Deutsch (screenplay)
Jay Richard Kennedy (screenplay)
Lillian Roth (book)
Mike Connolly (book)
Gerold Frank (book)
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, Wallie, followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman. After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world, not counting the first twenty with her mother.
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