The Barefoot Contessa 1954  N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Elizabeth Sellars, Warren Stevens, Franco Interlenghi, Bessie Love, Mari Aldon, Diana Decker, Bill Fraser
Through flashbacks from her graveside, friends (Humphrey Bogart and Edmond O'Brien) tell the story of film star Maria Vargus (Ava Gardner) and her rise and fall. Edmond O'Brien won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor.
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Desiree 1954   N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars, Charlotte Austin, Cathleen Nesbitt, Alan Napier, Carolyn Jones
True students of history will cringe at the haphazard treatment of facts in this story about Desiree (Jean Simmons) who is cast off by Napoleon (Marlon Brando) when he chooses Josephine (Merle Oberon) to be his wife and empress.
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The Last Man to Hang 1956 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Tom Conway, Elizabeth Sellars, Eunice Gayson, Freda Jackson, Anthony Newley, Raymond Huntley, Thomas Heathcote, Ronald Simpson, Victor Maddern, Margaretta Scott
Following a fatal overdose by his "wife," Roderick (Tom Conway) is tried for her murder and acquitted, but then his wife, Daphne (Elizabeth Sellars), turns up alive in the hospital registered under an alias.
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Madeleine 1950  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Strange Case of Madeleine
Director: David Lean
Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Sellars, Edward Chapman, Barbara Everest, Andre Morell, Barry Jones, Anthony Newley, Patricia Raine, Eugene Deckers, Susan Stranks, Ivor Barnard, John Laurie
Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) was a 19th-century Scottish woman who was accused and put on trial for poisoning her French lover Emile L'Anglier (Ivan Desny) in 1857. The trial is reenacted in this interesting film that leaves the audience guessing. Based on a true story.
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The Mummy's Shroud 1967 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: John Gilling
Cast: Andre Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Elizabeth Sellars, Maggie Kimberly, Michael Ripper, Andreas Malandrinos, Tim Barrett, Richard Warner, Roger Delgado, Catherine Lacey, Dickie Owen, Bruno Barnabe, Toni Gilpin, Eddie Powell
British archaeologists Sir Basil Walden (Andre Morrell), Paul Preston (David Buck), a photographer (Tim Barrett), and psychic linguist Claire (Maggie Kimberley) make the mistake of digging up the mummified remains of an Egyptian Pharaoh and now must pay the consequences of being killed off–one by one.
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Never Let Go 1960 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars, Carol White, Mervyn Johns, John Le Mesurier, Adam Faith, Noel Willman, David Lodge, Peter Jones, John Bailey, Nigel Stock, John Dunbar, Charles Houston, Cyril Shaps
Cosmetic salesman John Cummings' (Richard Todd) car is stolen by a gang of car thieves, headed by Lionel Meadows (Peter Sellers). Cummings tracks down the thieves and locates Tommy Towers (Adam Faith) who stole the car. Towers is beaten after Meadows discovers that he met with Cummings. Towers then gives inside information to the police, and, eventually, Meadows is arrested, and Cummings does recover his car.
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Three Cases of Murder 1954 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Wendy Toye
Cast: Alan Badel, Hugh Pryse, Eddie Byrne, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Orson Welles, Leueen MacGrath, Jack Lambert, Helen Cherry, Andre Morell
This film is made up of a trio of murder stories and provides good fare for mystery fans.
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| 1. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
2. Desiree (1954)
3. The Last Man to Hang (1956)
4. Madeleine (1950)
aka: The Strange Case of Madeleine
5. The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
6. Never Let Go (1960)
7. Three Cases of Murder (1954)
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