Daisy Kenyon 1947  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart, Peggy Ann Garner, Connie Marshall, Nicholas Joy, Roy Roberts, George E. Stone, Art Baker, Mae Marsh, Damon Runyon, Ann Staunton
Daisy Kenyon (Joan Crawford) works in the New York City fashion world and lives in Greenwich Village. Her dilemma is choosing between a rich lawyer (Dana Andrews) and a poor, former soldier (Henry Fonda) who are both in love with her.
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Hollow Triumph 1948 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Scar
Director: Steve Sekely
Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen, Mabel Paige, Herbert Rudley, Charles Arnt, George Chandler, Paul E. Burns, Charles Trowbridge, Ann Staunton
Ex-medical student and now living a life of crime, John Muller (Paul Heinreid) is lucky to get away from a bungled robbery during which his henchmen were caught. Now the victim's gang is after John, so when he finds out that a psychiatrist is an exact lookalike–except for a scar on the doctor's cheek–John cuts his cheek to match, kills the psychiatrist, and takes his identity. But that is just the beginning of his problems, not counting the problem of having cut the wrong cheek. Good film noir.
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Philo Vance Returns 1947  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Infamous Crimes
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: William Wright, Vivian Austin, Leon Belasco, Clara Blandick, Ramsay Ames, Damian O'Flynn, Frank Wilcox, Iris Adrian, Ann Staunton, Tim Murdock
After a seven year absence Philo Vance returns for a short series of three low-budget entries with William Wright in the role of the sophisticated master detective in this one–but not the final two. When popular playboy Larry Blendon (Damian O'Flynn) is murdered, his many ex-wives and girlfriends come under suspicion as well as becoming potential victims due to inheriting their share of his estate. Perhaps Philo Vance can come to the rescue.
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The Vampire 1957 PG, 74 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi
aka: Mark of the Vampire
Director: Paul Landres
Cast: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey, Lydia Reed, Dabbs Greer, Herb Vigran, Ann Staunton, James Griffith, Paul Brinegar, Budd Buster, Anne O'Neal, Brad Morrow, Mauritz Hugo, Raymond Greenleaf
Scientist/Doctor Paul Beecher (John Beal) received pills from his dying associate who had been conducting experiments on animals to support his work on improving the human brain. Suffering from migraine headaches, he takes his pill to relieve the headache but inadvertently takes the wrong pill. He turns into a killer vampire, and, even worse, the pill is addictive, and he must take it daily–and the killing continues.
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| 1. Daisy Kenyon (1947)
2. Hollow Triumph (1948)
aka: The Scar
3. Philo Vance Returns (1947)
aka: Infamous Crimes
4. The Vampire (1957)
aka: Mark of the Vampire
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