Dick Tracy 1945  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Action / Mystery / Drama / Thriller
aka: Dick Tracy, Detective
Director: William Berke
Cast: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki, Jane Greer, Lyle Latell, Joseph Crehan, Mickey Kuhn, Tommy Noonan, Jason Robards Sr., Trevor Bardette, Morgan Wallace, Milton Parsons, William Halligan, Mike Lally, Alphonse Martell
Chester Gould's comic-strip characters come to the screen as Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway) and his partner Pat Patton (Lyle Latell) hunt for serial killer Splitface (Mike Mazurki). Tracy and Patton look for a common thread connecting the victims in order to track down Splitface, and the trail leads to a riverboat where Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and her son Junior (Mickey Kuhn) are held captive.
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Let's Do It Again 1953  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, Aldo Ray, Leon Ames, Valerie Bettis, Tom Helmore, Karin Booth, Mary Treen, Kathryn Givney, Herbert Heyes, Dick Wessel, Franklyn Farnum, Howard Negley, David McMahon, Alphonse Martell
As the means of getting her womanizing composer husband Gary (Ray Milland) to rekindle his love for her, Connie (Jane Wyman) pretends to have an affair with Alaskan millionaire Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). Now, Gary uses Deborah (Karin Booth) to make Connie jealous. It doesn't take long before Cary and Connie realize the error of their ways and reunite. A good musical remake of "The Awful Truth" (1937).
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Seven Thieves 1960 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach, Alexander Scourby, Michael Dante, Berry Kroeger, Sebastian Cabot, Marcel Hillaire, John Beradino, Jean Del Val, Bess Flowers, Jonathan Kidd, Alphonse Martell, Luis Mata Jr.
A discredited professor (Edward G. Robinson) organizes a gang of thieves, plans a robbery, and then attempts it. The target is the bank vault inside a Monte Carlo casino. There is one problem: the criminals realize that there is no way to fence the loot and return it to the casino. Their take after all the work is the $3,000 they win at the gambling tables. Very good performances.
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| 1. Dick Tracy (1945)
aka: Dick Tracy, Detective
2. Let's Do It Again (1953)
3. Seven Thieves (1960)
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