Act of Violence 1949  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter, Berry Kroeger, Taylor Holmes, Will Wright, Connie Gilchrist
After returning home at war's end, an ex-soldier, Ace Parkson (Robert Ryan), tracks down prison-camp informer Frank R. Enley (Van Heflin) to avenge the death of his buddies.
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Atlantis, The Lost Continent 1961  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: George Pal
Cast: Sal Ponti, Joyce Taylor, Frank DeKova, John Dall, Jay Novello, Edward Platt, Berry Kroeger, Keith Andes, Paul Frees, William Smith, Edgar Stehli, Wolfe Barzell
A Greek fisherman faces danger as he leads a revolt in the doomed city. Don't expect the usual great special effects from George Pal in this–one of his weakest films.
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Black Magic 1949   N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore, Valentina Cortese, Margot Grahame, Berry Kroeger, Gregory Gaye, Raymond Burr, Stephen Bekassy
Cagliostro (Orson Welles) uses his hypnotic powers in the 18th century for his own gains within the royal court. 1 User Review
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Blood Alley 1955  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Joy Kim, Berry Kroeger, Mike Mazurki, Anita Ekberg, Henry Nakamura, W.T. Chang, George Chan
Chinese refugees escaping the Communist regime are led to Hong Kong by Merchant Marine Captain Tom Wilder (John Wayne).
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Chicago Deadline 1949 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Allen
Cast: Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Irene Hervey, Arthur Kennedy, Berry Kroeger, Shepperd Strudwick, Tom Powers, Harold Vermilyea, Gavin Muir
After a body is discovered in a rooming house, crusading journalist Ed Adams (Alan Ladd) launches an investigation into racketeering in the city. This story was later remade as "Fame is the Name of the Game."
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Cry of the City 1948  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Betty Garde, Berry Kroeger, Roland Winters, Debra Paget, Hope Emerson, Tommy Cook
Homicide police Lieutenant Candella (Victor Mature) sets out to capture cop-killer Martin Rome (Richard Conte) in this slick police story.
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The Dark Past 1948 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb, Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne, Lois Maxwell, Berry Kroeger, Steven Geray, Ellen Corby, Wilton Graff
This remake of "Blind Alley" is a psychological drama about a professor, Doctor Andrew Collins (Lee J. Cobb), outwitting his captor, escaped convict Al Walker (William Holden).
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Deadly Is the Female 1950 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Gun Crazy
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw, Harry Lewis, Nedrick Young, Trevor Bardette, Russ Tamblyn, Don Beddoe, Joseph Crehan, Eddie Dunn, Virginia Farmer, Ray Teal, Mickey Little
World War II veteran Bart Tare (John Dall) has a gun fixation and meets the perfect woman for him. Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) is a carnival sharpshooter who is also obsessed with guns. Bart and Annie marry but need money, so they set off together on a cross-country trek committing a series of daring robberies. When Annie commits murder during one of the robberies, the law, including Bart's friend Sheriff Clyde Boston (Harry Lewis), begins to close in on them.
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Demon Seed 1977  R, 94 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Donald Cammell
Cast: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, Larry J. Blake, Robert Vaughn, Felix Silla, John O'Leary
Alex Harris (Fritz Weaver) works on a computer, Proteus IV, that becomes ultra-sophisticated. Proteus IV picks Alex's wife Susan (Julie Christie) as its rape victim in an effort to perpetuate itself into human form. Clever.
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Guilty of Treason 1950 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Treason
Director: Felix E. Feist
Cast: Charles Bickford, Paul Kelly, Bonita Granville, Richard Derr, Berry Kroeger, Roland Winters, Elisabeth Risdon, John Banner, Morgan Farley, Thomas Browne Henry, Nestor Paiva, Lisa Howard
Hungarian Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty (Charles Bickford) was tried, convicted, and imprisoned for speaking out against Communism after World War II. This anti-Communist film tells his story, including the trial at which it became known that his confession was a result of the use of torture and drugs.
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Hitler 1962 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Richard Basehart, Cordula Trantow, Maria Emo, Martin Kosleck, John Banner, Berry Kroeger, John Mitchum, John Wengraf, Gregory Gaye, Celia Lovsky
This not-so-very insightful biography of the rise and fall of Hitler features Richard Basehart as a not-so-very convincing Adolf Hitler.
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The Iron Curtain 1948 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Behind the Iron Curtain
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger, Edna Best, Stefan Schnabel, Nicholas Joy, Eduard Franz, John Ridgely, Noel Cravat
Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews) is a clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Canada who defects to the West and reveals horrors of living under Communism during the reign of Stalin.
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The Man in the Glass Booth 1975 PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown, Richard Rasof, David Nash, Martin Berman, Sy Kramer, Lloyd Bochner, Robert H. Harris, Norbert Schiller, Berry Kroeger, Leonardo Cimino, Connie Sawyer
In 1965, Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) is a wealthy Jewish industrialist enjoying life in a luxury apartment in Manhattan when Israeli agents break into his home and arrest him for being the Nazi war criminal "Dorff" who ran a Nazi death camp. Goldman is drugged and sent to Israel where he is tried while in a protective glass booth. Now the question is, "Is he, or is he not, really Dorff?" This screen adaptation of Robert Shaw's play is so far removed from Shaw's interpretation that Shaw removed his name from the credits.
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Man in the Vault 1956 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: William Campbell, Karen Sharpe, Anita Ekberg, Berry Kroeger, Paul Fix, Mike Mazurki, Robert Keys, James Seay, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Nancy Duke, Vivianne Lloyd
Mobster Willis Trent (Berry Kroeger) threatens to hurt locksmith Tommy's (William Campbell) girlfriend Betty (Karen Sharpe) if Tommy will not make the key to a safety deposit box that contains $200,000. Under the influence of double-dealing gang moll Flo Randall (Anita Ekberg), Tony makes the key and then pockets the $200,000 for himself. Wise in the ways of the mobster world, Trent then kidnaps Betty and sets up a ransom for her return. The amount of the ransom: $200,000.
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The Mephisto Waltz 1971  R, 115 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Curt Jurgens, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom, Kathleen Widdoes, Pamelyn Ferdin, Curt Lowens, Gregory Morton, Janee Michelle, Lilyan Chauvin, Alberto Morin, Berry Kroeger
Terminally ill pianist Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens), who is also a Satanist, grants an interview with up-and-coming pianist Myles Clarkson (Alan Alda). Duncan is impressed with Clarkson, and at the moment of his death, he transfers his soul to Clarkson. It isn't long before Clarkson's wife Paula (Jacqueline Bisset) notes the change in her husband. But that's not all. Paula eventually takes over the soul of Ely's daughter Roxanne (Barbara Parkins). The musical score provides an eerie background.
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Nightmare in Wax 1969  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Crimes in the Wax Museum
Director: Bud Townsend
Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Anne Helm, Scott Brady, Berry Kroeger, Victoria Carroll, Phillip Baird, John "Bud" Cardos, Hollis Morrison, James Forrest, Virgil Frye
Deranged and horribly scarred Vincent (Cameron Mitchell) is curator of a wax museum. To avenge his disfigurement, he kidnaps movie stars, drugs them with a paralyzing elixir, and makes them part of his displays. A really bad rip-off of "House of Wax."
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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
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. Act of Violence (1949)
2. Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961)
3. Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)
4. Black Magic (1949)
5. Blood Alley (1955)
6. Chicago Deadline (1949)
7. Cry of the City (1948)
8. The Dark Past (1948)
9. Deadly Is the Female (1950)
aka: Gun Crazy
10. Demon Seed (1977)
11. Guilty of Treason (1950)
aka: Treason
12. Hitler (1962)
13. The Iron Curtain (1948)
aka: Behind the Iron Curtain
14. The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
15. Man in the Vault (1956)
16. The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
17. Nightmare in Wax (1969)
aka: Crimes in the Wax Museum
18. Seven Thieves (1960)
19. Yellowneck (1955)
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