Ben Hecht
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English
Description
His girl Friday: Ace reporter Hilde Parks is ready to quit journalism and get married, but events--and her ex-husband editor--conspire to prevent it.
Charade: Comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.
Amazing adventure: Upon inheriting a fortune, a man begins to feel guilty and decides to earn his...
42) Notorious
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English
Description
The innocent daughter of a war criminal marries a Nazi renegade in order to help the U.S. agent with whom she has fallen in love to trap him.
43) Barbary Coast
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English
Description
Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s.
44) The Black Swan
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Language
English
Description
A buccaneer tries to stop the pirate ship the Black Swan, a ship on which he was once an officer.
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English
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A young aspiring actress dies after making her first movie. Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the body of the actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her hometown to be buried. To arouse public interest, and to get the reluctant studio head to release the film, he asks all the local churches to ring their bells for three days.
46) The front page
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English
Description
A newspaper editor and his ace reporter battle each other while fighting civic corruption in Chicago.
47) Underworld
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Language
None
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George Bancroft plays heavy Bull Weed, a criminal kingpin whose jealous devotion to his moll, Feathers, gets him into hot water with a rival hood and, ultimately, the authorities.
48) The front page
Series
Language
English
Description
Earl Williams, a convict about to be executed, escapes, throwing the Criminal Court Building into chaos. Newspaper reporters attempt to "scoop" the story by holding Williams in a roll top desk in the press room.
49) The Great Gabbo
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English
Description
"An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist."-- IMDb.
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English
Description
"Just before the opening of his new Broadway show, famed actor Paul Orman is fitted with a new formal tail coat by his tailor. The tailor nervously admits that the coat was cursed by a dismissed cutter, who swore that it would bring misfortune to anyone who wore it, but Orman does not care. After a well-received performance, Orman instructs his valet, Luther, to drive him to the country estate of Ethel Halloway. Ethel was once Orman's paramour, but...
51) Topaze
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Language
English
Description
After years of dedicated service, Professor Topaze is summarily fired for flunking his worst student, who happens to be the son of the powerful Baron, a wealthy businessman who stands to make a fortune by peddling a worthless health tonic. All the Baron needs is one man with lots of academic credentials and few scruples to endorse his sparkling water.
Series
Language
English
Description
Johnny Hawks, a loner and former Indian fighter, helps a tribe of Sioux Indians battle a group of whiskey traders who are after gold on their land. He does this for two reasons: because is enamored of the chief's daughter, and because he is trying to protect the wagon train that he is leading.
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English
Description
Spellbound: Dr. Constance Peterson is a dedicated psychiatrist who puts all her passion into her work--until she falls in love with Dr. Edwardes. Unfortunately, it soon becomes clear that Edwardes is an impostor--an amnesiac--who may or may not be a cold-blooded murderer. Pursued by the police, Constance must decide whether to turn in her mysterious lover ... or risk her life by trying to unlock the dark secrets in his mind.
Notorious: When troubled...
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Language
English
Description
A tough-talking former GI comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; events turn out neither as planned nor at all well.