A Lady Takes a Chance 1943  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western / Romance
aka: The Cowboy and the Girl
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers, Hans Conried, Mary Field, Don Costello, Grady Sutton, Grant Withers, Eddy Waller, John Philliber, Jean Stevens, Ariel Heath, Tom Fadden, Joan Blair
Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur) takes a break from her job in New York and goes on vacation in the West. She takes in a rodeo, and handsome cowboy Duke Hudkins (John Wayne) gets hurled into her lap by a bucking bronco. After the rodeo, Mollie misses her bus and is stranded. She shares a hotel room with Duke and his sidekick Waco (Charles Winninger) and falls in love with Duke. When Duke teaches Mollie frontier activities and tries to get her drunk, Mollie becomes upset and leaves. She heads back to New York, but Duke now realizes that he has fallen for Mollie and follows her to tell her that he loves her.
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The Leopard Man 1943  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman, Ben Bard, Richard Martin, Ariel Heath, Fely Franquelli, Jacqueline deWit
In an effort to upstage the other acts, nightclub performer Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) uses a leashed leopard in her own act. But when the leopard escapes, people are found dead, and the leopard is blamed. Kiki and her manager, Jerry Manning (Dennis O'Keefe), begin to question that the leopard is doing the killing and investigate other possibilities.
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| 1. A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
aka: The Cowboy and the Girl
2. The Leopard Man (1943)
3. Machine Gun Mama (1944)
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