Anna Lucasta 1958  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr., Frederick O'Neal, Henry Scott, Rex Ingram, Georgia Burke, James Edwards, Rosetta LeNoire, Isabel Cooley, Alvin Childress
Eartha Kitt takes on the role of prostitute Anna Lucasta who is kicked out of her home and then exploited by her family. This remake of the 1949 film features an all-Black cast, which is consistent with how playwright Philip Yordan wrote his controversial 1944 Broadway production.
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The Monster That Challenged the World 1957  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Harlan Warde, Jody McCrea, Max Showalter, Mimi Gibson, Gordon Jones, Marjorie Stapp, Charles Tannen
Monsters appear out of a salt lake in the California desert, and U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander John Twillinger (Tim Holt) is assigned the mission of saving the world from their destructive forces.
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The Rack 1956  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond O'Brien, Lee Marvin, Anne Francis, Cloris Leachman, Robert Burton, Robert F. Simon, Trevor Bardette
Adapted from Rod Serling's teleplay, this compelling drama is about an Army court-martial of an officer (Paul Newman) who was brainwashed into collaborating with the enemy in a North Korea prison camp.
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Rough Night in Jericho 1967 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Dean Martin, Jean Simmons, George Peppard, John McIntire, Slim Pickens, Don Galloway, Brad Weston, Richard O'Brien, Carol Anderson, Steve Sandor
The dastardly Alex (Dean Martin) runs the town with an iron fist, but widow Molly (Jean Simmons), who runs the stagecoach line, isn't afraid to stand up to him. Then a former Marshal, Dolan (George Peppard), gallops into town and is ready to take on Alex. Lots of action, but generally just a cliched western–with a miscast Dean Martin as the bad guy.
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Sam Whiskey 1969 PG, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis, Angie Dickinson, Rick Davis, William Schallert, Woodrow Parfrey, Del Reeves, Anthony James, Robert Adler, Chubby Johnson, Sidney Clute
Lovely widow Laura (Angie Dickinson) offers Sam Whiskey (Burt Reynolds) a job to retrieve gold bars (that her late husband stole) and return them to the Denver mint before they are missed. But, the gold is on a sunken ship in the Platte River. No way, you say. The team he puts together to carry out his plan could be thwarted by the bad guys who would love to get rich.
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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue 1957 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Julie Adams, Walter Matthau, Charles McGraw, Sam Levene, Mickey Shaughnessy, Harry Bellaver, Nick Dennis
District attorney William Keating (Richard Egan) looks into the murder of longshoreman Solly Pitts (Mickey Shaughnessy) and finds Mob leader Al Dahlke (Walter Matthau) is behind most of the crime on the N.Y.C. docks.
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Vice Squad 1953  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens, Porter Hall, Ed Binns, Lee Van Cleef, Adam Williams, Joan Vohs, Dan Riss, Barry Kelley
Captain Barnaby (Edward G. Robinson) tracks down the killer of a fellow police officer as a day in the detective department is followed.
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Without Warning 1952 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: The Story Without a Name
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Adam Williams, Meg Randall, Ed Binns, Harlan Warde, John Maxwell, Angela Stevens, Byron Kane, Charles Tannen, Marilee Phelps, Robert Foulk, Robert Shayne, Connie Vera
After his wife leaves him, Carl Martin (Adam Williams) turns into a raging maniac as he picks up look-alikes for his wife and kills them with a pair of garden shears.
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| 1. Anna Lucasta (1958)
2. The Glory Guys (1965)
3. The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
4. The Rack (1956)
5. Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
6. Sam Whiskey (1969)
7. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)
8. Vice Squad (1953)
9. Without Warning (1952)
aka: The Story Without a Name
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