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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 Key Largo 1948  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Jay Silverheels, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, William Haade, John Litel, Pat Flaherty
Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) and his gang have taken over a run-down hotel on Key Largo, Florida. At the same time, Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) has come to visit the hotel owners Jay (Lionel Barrymore) and Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), who are the father and widow of his war buddy. Frank becomes their reluctant savior. Claire Trevor won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rocco's alcoholic girlfriend Gaye Dawn. A great John Huston film of Post-World War II American attitudes.
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The Unsuspected 1947  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Claude Rains, Ted North, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield, Fred Clark, Harry Lewis, Jack Lambert, Ray Walker
A writer (Claude Rains) of mysteries for a radio show uses his knowledge of crime to commit murder and gain the edge in getting his hands on his niece Matilda's (Joan Caulfield) inheritance.
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Winter Meeting 1948  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bretaigne Windust
Cast: Bette Davis, Janis Paige, Jim Davis, John Hoyt, Florence Bates, Walter Baldwin, Lois Austin, Harry Lewis
A writer, Susan Grieve (Bette Davis), falls in love with a war hero, but they both come to their new relationship with unresolved problems.
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| 1. Deadly Is the Female (1950)
aka: Gun Crazy
2. Key Largo (1948)
3. The Unsuspected (1947)
4. Winter Meeting (1948)
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