13 Rue Madeleine 1946  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel, Melville Cooper, Sam Jaffe, E.G. Marshall, Blanche Yurka, Karl Malden
This espionage thriller is a semi-documentary on the intelligence scene during World War II. Bob Sharkey (James Cagney), a spy chief, goes to France after one of his men is killed.
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City for Conquest 1940   N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quinn, Frank McHugh, Bob Steele, Jerome Cowan, Lee Patrick, Blanche Yurka, Joyce Compton, Thurston Hall
Gotham truck driver Danny (James Cagney) goes back into the boxing ring to help his kid brother Eddie (Arthur Kennedy) with tuition for music school where he is studying to become a composer. Meanwhile, Danny's girlfriend Peggy (Ann Sheridan), hoping to make a career as a nightclub dancer, breaks off their engagement and goes into partnership with sleazy, professional dancer Murray Burns (Anthony Quinn). Now, Danny accepts a championship bout but ends up blind after resin dust is put on his gloves by his opponent's handlers. Danny and Peggy appear irreconcilable–until Eddie composes a symphony that tells how Peggy and Danny really feel and conducts his first major work at Carnegie Hall. 1 User Review
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| | Mr. Music 11/28/2007 | | Music Score Excellent with strong melodies that were parallel to the drama in good contrapuntal style. |
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Escape 1940 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova, Felix Bressart, Albert Bassermann, Philip Dorn, Bonita Granville, Edgar Barrier, Blanche Yurka
This is Ethel Vance's bestseller brought to the screen. It is the story about a young man who uses the mistress of a Nazi general to sneak his mother out of a concentration camp.
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The Furies 1950 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Romance
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Albert Dekker, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka, John Bromfield, Louis Jean Heydt, Frank Ferguson, Charles Evans
Cattle baron T.C. Jeffords (Walter Huston) and his daughter, Vance (Barbara Stanwyck), become estranged and fight over his New Mexico Territory ranch, "The Furies." Vance joins forces with her lover Rip Darrow (Wendell Corey) in a powerful psychological struggle between two strong personalities that leads to tragic results.
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A Night to Remember 1943  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, Will Wright, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler, Donald MacBride, Lee Patrick, Don Costello, Blanche Yurka
Mystery writer Jeff Troy (Brian Aherne) and his wife, Nancy (Loretta Young), find a dead body in their apartment. After more than one misstep, the amateur sleuths really do find the killer.
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The Southerner 1945 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi, Bunny Sunshine, Percy Kilbride, Jay Gilpin, Charles Kemper, Blanche Yurka, Paul Harvey, J. Carrol Naish
Cotton farmer Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott), despite natural and manmade disasters, struggles to make a subsistence living for his family.
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A Tale of Two Cities 1935  N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Henry B. Walthall, Donald Woods, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, H.B. Warner, Mitchell Lewis, Claude Gillingwater, Billy Bevan, Lucille La Verne
This is the best film version of Charles Dickens' story of love and death during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. Ronald Colman takes on the role of weary London lawyer Sydney Carton who selflessly saves Charles Darnay (Donald Woods) from the guillotine by taking his place and allowing him to return to Lucie (Elizabeth Allan)–the woman who both men love. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Picture.
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Thunder in the Sun 1959  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Russell Rouse
Cast: Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler, Jacques Bergerac, Blanche Yurka, Carl Esmond, Fortunio Bonanova, Veda Ann Borg, Felix Locher, Bertrand Castelli, June Wilkinson
A group of Basques journey by wagon train to California; along the way three of the men vie for the love of Gabrielle Dauphin (Susan Hayward).
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Tonight We Raid Calais 1943 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Brahm
Cast: Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi, Blanche Yurka, Howard Da Silva, Marcel Dalio, Ann Codee, Nigel De Brulier, Robert Lewis, Richard Derr, Leslie Denison, William Edmunds, Lester Matthews, Reginald Sheffield
British Commando Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton) sneaks behind enemy lines to destroy a German munitions plant in Nazi-occupied France. While on his mission, Carter meets Odette (Annabella) whose father (Lee J. Cobb) is a patriotic farmer and is aiding Carter by allowing him to pose as a family member. But Odette fears reprisals against her relatives and wants her family out of the conflict. As a result, she represents a threat to the success of Carter's mission.
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| 1. 13 Rue Madeleine (1946)
2. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
3. City for Conquest (1940)
4. Escape (1940)
5. The Furies (1950)
6. Lady for a Night (1941)
7. A Night to Remember (1943)
8. One Body Too Many (1944)
9. The Southerner (1945)
10. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
11. Thunder in the Sun (1959)
12. Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
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