Dan Duryea
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Criterion collection volume 649
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English
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En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
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Killer classics volume Disc 5
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English
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A bickering couple finds a bag of money in the back seat of their car. The husband wants to turn the illicit cash in, but his money-hungry wife has a different idea -- and she'll do anything to realize it.
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Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results.
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"Richard Wanley is no criminal, at least he wasn't until he met "the woman in the window". From seeing her portrait in a storefront window to running into her in person, what begins as an innocent flirtation grows into something much more dangerous"--Shockdvd.com.au.
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At the end of the Civil War, Confederate soldier Jerry Brewster is jailed for a heist engineered by his buddy Ken Seagall, who escapes with the loot and builds quite a fortune for himself. While suffering behind bars, Brewster realizes he was double-crossed... and vows his revenge.
8) Ball of fire
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Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
9) Black angel
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When the beautiful singer Mavis Marlowe is slain in her apartment, the men in her life become suspects. There is Martin Blair, her alcoholic musician ex-husband, nursing a broken heart; the shady nightclub owner Marko who has been sneaking around her place; and Kirk Bennett, the adulterer who found his mistress's dead body and fled the scene. When Bennett is convicted and sentenced to death, his long-suffering wife Catherine joins forces with the...
10) Night passage
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When the local railroad becomes the constant target of a band of desperadoes, train officials recruit a soft-spoken but life-hardened employee to guard the payroll from any more robberies.
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Jane Palmer and her husband Alan mysteriously have $60,000 literally dropped in their laps. The circumstances seem mighty suspicious to Alan, who wants to turn the money over to the police. But in a materialistic rapture, Jane won't let it go. She doesn't care where it came from, or what danger it might ensue. Enter Danny Fuller, who claims the money belongs to him. Let the games begin!
12) Criss cross
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Burt Lancaster stars as a hardworking armored car driver with a fatal attraction to his ex-wife, Ann, now married to notorious hoodlum Slim Dundee. Unable to keep himself from her, Lancaster has a secret tryst with Ann, only to be discovered by Dundee. To cover up their affair, Lancaster convinces the hoodlum that he only met Ann to get Dundee's help in robbing an upcoming payroll shipment he will be driving. The hood falls for the lie, which triggers...
13) Winchester '73
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Lin McAdam, an engaging frontiersman, attempts to track down his father's murderer and the whereabouts of his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester '73, as it passes among a rogue's gallery of owners including a crazed highwayman, an immoral gunrunner, a young Indian chief, and McAdam's own murderous brother.
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Washed-up, alcoholic vagabond Ben Chamberlain drifts into a godforsaken railhead town looking for a woman named Alma. When that woman winds up dead, Ben finds himself wrongfully accused of murder by the corrupt railroad chief deputy Vince McKay and his trigger-happy posse. McKay gives him a horse; some supplies and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his band of cutthroats after him.
15) Battle hymn
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"As a WWII fighter pilot, Colonel Dean Hess accidentally bombed a German orphanage, killing thirty-seven children. After entering the ministry to atone for the tragedy, Hess eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea, while devoting his spare time to building a shelter for orphans. But now, to protect these children in a territory fraught with danger, he must fight ... and face the past once again!"--Container.
17) James Stewart
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Next time we love (87 min.): "When an ambitious newsman marries an aspiring actress, their love is put to the test as their careers move them in different directions"--Container.
You gotta stay happy (101 min.): "A runaway heiress hooks up with a struggling pilot for a wild cross-country ride in his cargo plane with a group of wacky passengers"--Container.
Thunder Bay (103 min.): "A pair of oil troubleshooters attempt to strike it rich despite devastating...
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"Steel separates 1873 Pittsburgh into rich and poor, master and worker, powerful and powerless. On one side is Paul Scott, the progressive son of a steel mill owner. On the other is Mary Rafferty, daugher of an imbittered laborer who was crippled in a mill accident. When Mary takes a post as a housemaid at the Scott mansion, she and Paul fall desperately in love. But a bloody strike may tear the city, and the lovers, apart"--Container.
19) Storm fear
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"Bank robber Cornel Wilde, after being wounded by a bullet, seeks shelter with his gang at his brother's mountain retreat. There he rekindles his romance with his brother's wife, and reconnects with the boy he believes is his son."--IMDb
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Red house: A crippled farmer living a secluded life has a secret about the red house located on his property. The farmer's ward, Meg and farmhand Nath discover that the mystery of the red house involves Meg's real parents, unrequited love and murder.
Scarlet Street: A married store cashier, who paints in his spare time, falls for a woman who thinks he is a renowned artist. After she helps him set up an art studio to sell his paintings, things begin...