36 Hours 1965  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: George Seaton
Cast: James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Werner Peters, Alan Napier, Celia Lovsky, John Banner, Ed Gilbert, Sig Ruman, Russell Thorson, Oscar Beregi Jr., Karl Held, Martin Kosleck, Marjorie Bennett, Henry Rowland
During World War II, U.S. Army Intelligence Major Jefferson Pike (James Garner) is captured by the Germans shortly before D-Day. In an effort to get information about an Allied invasion, Pike's captors drug him to convince him that the war is long over and that he has suffered from amnesia for the last six years. Pike is also told that he has a wife, but Anna (Eva Marie Saint) is not really married to him. She took this assignment to get away from abuse in her concentration camp. Pike catches on to the ploy, and the game of cat-and-mouse ensues between Pike and the Nazi doctor, Major Walter Gerber (Rod Taylor), who is pumping him for information.
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Captain Carey, U.S.A. 1950  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer, Joseph Calleia, Frank Puglia, Luis Alberni, Roland Winters, Russ Tamblyn, Celia Lovsky, Angela Clarke
Following World War II a former O.S.S. officer, Captain Webster Carey (Alan Ladd), returns to Italy to track down the traitor who was responsible for the death of villagers. An Academy Award was received for Best Song, "Mona Lisa."
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Death of a Scoundrel 1956 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Martin
Cast: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Victor Jory, Nancy Gates, Coleen Gray, John Hoyt, Tom Conway, Morris Ankrum, Celia Lovsky
Low budget but interesting story of a man who comes to the U.S. and cons women to help him strike it rich.
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Garment Jungle 1957
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia, Joseph Wiseman, Harold J. Stone, Adam Williams, Wesley Addy, Willis Bouchey, Robert Ellenstein, Celia Lovsky, Sid Melton, Jud Taylor
Alan Mitchell (Kerwin Mathews) returns home from the Korean War and joins his father Walter's (Lee J. Cobb) clothing firm only to discover that Walter is involved in a union-busting syndicate. Alan tries unsuccessfully to talk Walter into changing his mind about unions, and then talks to union leader Tulio Renata (Robert Loggia). Alan's visit results in a series of murder victims–including Walter and Renata. Finally, Alan uses his father's accounting books to give the police evidence of the extortion that led to the murders.
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The Gene Krupa Story 1959  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Drum Crazy
Director: Don Weis
Cast: Sal Mineo, Susan Kohner, James Darren, Susan Oliver, Yvonne Craig, Lawrence Dobkin, Celia Lovsky, Red Nichols, Bobby Troup, Anita O'Day, Shelly Manne, Buddy Lester
Although not entirely accurate, this film is entertaining as it covers Gene Krupa's (Sal Mineo) life from his childhood, when he expected to become a priest; to his early days in friend Eddie's (James Darren) band; through his years of drug and alcohol addiction; and then his life as a great jazz drummer and band leader.
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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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I, Mobster 1958 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss, Celia Lovsky, Lili St. Cyr, John Brinkley, Yvette Vickers, Grant Withers, Wally Cassell, Frank Gerstle
A gangster boss, Joe Sante (Steve Cochran), is investigated by the U.S. Senate where he relates the story of his rise from small-time hood to giant of the underworld.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris 1954 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, Roger Moore, George Dolenz, Celia Lovsky, Peter Leeds, Sandy Descher, John Doucette, Odette Myrtil, Ann Codee, Jean Del Val
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, II wrote the title song for this film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited." Successful writer Charles (Van Johnson) returns to Paris and remembers the last time he was there. Through flashbacks, the story takes place in post-World-War-II Paris where struggling writer Charles meets and falls in love with American ex-patriot Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor). They marry, and Charles loves Helen's free-spirited lifestyle. After Charles strikes it rich and lives off the revenue from a Texas oil well, he loses his desire to write, and his drinking leads to devastating results in his personal life.
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Man of a Thousand Faces 1957 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau, Jim Backus, Jeanne Cagney, Robert Evans, Celia Lovsky, Jack Albertson, Philip Van Zandt, Nolan Leary, Roger Smith, Robert Lyden, Troy Donahue, "Snub" Pollard
This film presents the biography of the celebrated silent screen actor Lon Chaney (James Cagney), master of horror and make-up. Although it dwells too much on his troubled private life, and not enough on his successes, it is a well-executed drama with a moving performance by Cagney.
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New York Confidential 1955 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Russell Rouse
Cast: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft, J. Carrol Naish, Onslow Stevens, Barry Kelley, Mike Mazurki, Celia Lovsky, Steven Geray
A hit man for the mob, Nick Magellan (Richard Conte), finds his own life in danger when he becomes a risk to the underworld.
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Night Into Morning 1951 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fletcher Markle
Cast: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis, Lewis Stone, Jean Hagen, Rosemary DeCamp, Dawn Addams, Jonathan Cott, Celia Lovsky, Gordon Gebert
Grieving after his wife Ann (Rosemary De Camp) and their child die in a fire, Phillip Ainley (Ray Milland) copes poorly via alcohol and becomes suicidal.
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Rhapsody 1954 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Barbara Bates, Stuart Whitman, Michael Chekhov, Celia Lovsky, Richard Hageman, Madge Blake
Beautiful Louise Durant (Elizabeth Taylor) leaves her violinist lover for a young pianist but still cannot find happiness.
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Sealed Verdict 1948 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Allen
Cast: Ray Milland, Florence Marly, Broderick Crawford, John Hoyt, John Ridgely, Ludwig Donath, Norbert Schiller, Patricia Miller, Celia Lovsky, Elisabeth Risdon
Captain Kinsella (Broderick Crawford) is suspected of being a Nazi, and Major Robert Lawson (Ray Milland) is determined to find sufficient evidence to put Kinsella away.
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Soylent Green 1973 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Edward G. Robinson, Whit Bissell, Mike Henry, Dick Van Patten, Stephen Young, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Roy Jenson, Leonard Stone, Celia Lovsky
In New York City during 2020, detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) is aided by Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) during his investigation of the assassination of Soylent Green executive William Simonson (Joseph Cotton). They uncover a plot by Soylent Corporation to solve society's hunger problems when they learn what really makes up the ingredients of Soylent Green's "food." The story is based on Harry Harrison's sci-fi book "Make Room! Make Room!"
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Trooper Hook 1957 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Cast: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews, John Dehner, Susan Kohner, Royal Dano, Celia Lovsky, Sheb Wooley, Patrick O'Moore
Trooper Hook (Joel McCrea) captures Apache chief Nanchez and takes his white squaw Cora (Barbara Stanwyck) and their son, Quito (Terry Lawrence), back to Cora's white husband.
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| 1. 36 Hours (1965)
2. Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
3. Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
4. Garment Jungle (1957)
5. The Gene Krupa Story (1959)
aka: Drum Crazy
6. Hitler (1962)
7. I, Mobster (1958)
8. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
9. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
10. New York Confidential (1955)
11. Night Into Morning (1951)
12. Rhapsody (1954)
13. Sealed Verdict (1948)
14. Soylent Green (1973)
15. Trooper Hook (1957)
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