Anne of the Indies 1951  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall, Thomas Gomez, James Robertson Justice, Sean McClory, Holmes Herbert, Francis Pierlot, Carleton Young
A legendary pirate, Anne (Jean Peters), evades capture by French Captain Pierre La Rochelle (Louis Jourdan) only to fall into the clutches of Blackbeard (James Robertson Justice).
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Canyon Passage 1946  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Patricia Roc, Ward Bond, Andy Devine, Lloyd Bridges, Stanley Ridges, Hoagy Carmichael, Rose Hobart
Hoagy Carmichael sings "Buttermilk Sky" in this Western set in 1850s' Oregon. The owner of a thriving general store, Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews), vies with corrupt banker George Camrose (Brian Donlevy) for the attentions of the beautiful Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward).
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Cat People 1942  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Horror / Thriller
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt, Alan Napier, Elizabeth Russell, Alec Craig, Bud Geary, Eddie Dew, Murdock MacQuarrie, Donald Kerr, Theresa Harris
Following their wedding, Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) learns that his wife Irena (Simone Simon) believes that she is a Cat Woman as a member of an ancient Serbian tribe and has a genetic tendency to turn into a panther when emotionally aroused. Oliver tries to help Irena by getting her psychiatric help from Dr. Louis Judd (Tom Conway), but Oliver runs into major problems. The marriage is failing, and Oliver becomes romantically interested in coworker Alice Moore (Jane Randolph). Now, a jealous Irena's stalking of Alice turns into a night of terror in a swimming pool.
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Circle of Danger 1951 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Hugh Sinclair, Naunton Wayne, Marjorie Fielding, Edward Rigby, Colin Gordon, Dora Bryan, David Hutcheson
Clay Douglas (Ray Milland) investigates his brother's untimely death in World War II and becomes involved in international intrigue.
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The Comedy of Terrors 1964 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown, Beverly Powers, Basil Rathbone, Alan DeWitt, Douglas Williams, Buddy Mason, Linda Rogers, Luree Holmes, Orangey, Paul Barselou
Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) runs the funeral parlor that his senile father-in-law Amos Hinchley (Boris Karloff) owns. The funeral parlor needs more customers if it is going to stay in business. Waldo's solution is to kill a few people whose services will then help pay the rent. Now, Waldo and his inept assistant Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre) start sneaking into homes at night and killing people. The plan works–but when they try, again and again, to poison Waldo's father-in-law, he just will not stay dead.
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Days of Glory 1944 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Gregory Peck, Tamara Toumanova, Alan Reed, Maria Palmer, Lowell Gilmore, Hugo Haas, William Challee, Joseph Vitale, Glen Vernon, Ivan Triesault
Gregory Peck made his film debut in this World War II drama bout Russian peasants fighting against Hitler's goal of Leibensraum, the domination of Eastern Europe. As German troops invade Russia, peasants turn into guerillas to protect their homeland.
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Easy Living 1949 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball, Sonny Tufts, Lloyd Nolan, Paul Stewart, Jeff Donnell, Jim Backus, Don Beddoe, Art Baker
A football player (Victor Mature) risks a heart attack and continues to play his sport for fear that his wife (Lizabeth Scott) will not stay in their marriage if he quits the game.
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The Flame and the Arrow 1950 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon, Frank Allenby, Nick Cravat, Gordon Gebert, Norman Lloyd, Victor Kilian, Lynn Baggett
Dardo the Arrow (Burt Lancaster) leads a revolution against the warlord, Ulrich (Frank Allenby). In the process, he frees Lombardy from Ulrich's rule and falls in love with Ulrich's niece, Anne (Virginia Mayo).
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The Giant of Marathon 1959  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Steve Reeves, Mylene Demongeot, Daniela Rocca, Philippe Hersent, Sergio Fantoni, Ivo Garrani, Alberto Lupo, Miranda Campa, Daniele Vargas, Gianni Loti, Anita Todesco
Based on the 490 B.C. Greek marathon runner who ran from Marathon to Athens to warn of Persian attacks and to Sparta to get assistance in the defense of Greece, there are many liberties taken as our hero (Steve Reeves) takes charge of the fighting and saves the Athenians, Greece, and even the rest of Europe from the dastardly Persians.
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I Walked with a Zombie 1943 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Romance
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Theresa Harris, Christine Gordon, Jeni Le Gon, Sir Lancelot, Darby Jones
When a Canadian nurse Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) arrives on a Caribbean island to care for Jessica (Christine Gordon), the zombie-like wife of planter Paul Holland (Tom Conway), she discovers voodoo and black magic in this near-classic horror story.
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The Leopard Man 1943 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman, Ben Bard, Richard Martin, Ariel Heath, Fely Franquelli, Jacqueline deWit
In an effort to upstage the other acts, nightclub performer Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) uses a leashed leopard in her own act. But when the leopard escapes, people are found dead, and the leopard is blamed. Kiki and her manager, Jerry Manning (Dennis O'Keefe), begin to question that the leopard is doing the killing and investigate other possibilities.
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Night of the Demon 1957 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Curse of the Demon
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Liam Redmond, Reginald Beckwith, Ewan Roberts, Peter Elliott, Rosamund Greenwood
American psychologist Dr. John Holden (Dana Andrews) heads to London to attend a symposium aimed at exposing a witchcraft/devil-worshipping cult as a fraud. Upon arrival, he is advised that the symposium leader has died unexpectedly. The cult leader (Niall MacGinnis) is now out to get the good doctor who has his hands full since, indeed, a demon can be summoned.
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 Out of the Past 1947 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
aka: Build My Gallows High
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Brodie, Richard Webb, Virginia Huston, Dickie Moore, Frank Wilcox, Mary Field, Paul Valentine, Ken Niles, Oliver Blake, James Bush, John Kellogg
Californian Jeff Markham (Robert Mitchum) is a man with a dubious past who becomes involved with a hood, Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). While helping find Sterling's girlfriend Kathie (Jane Greer) in Acapulco, Markham finds himself accused of a murder that Kathie committed. A good film that was remade in 1984 as "Against All Odds."
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Way of a Gaucho 1952  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe, Everett Sloane, Enrique Chaico, Lidia Campos, Nestor Yoan, Raoul Astor, John Paris
Outlaw Martin (Rory Calhoun) deserts the army he was serving rather than going to jail. Ending up in Argentina, he and his gang get into railroad robberies, until his former boss (Richard Boone)–now a railroad policeman–takes chase. Eventually, he promises to go straight and settles down with his wife (Gene Tierney). Great scenery (including Tierney) makes this watchable.
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Wichita 1955 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Peter Graves, Keith Larsen, Carl Benton Reid, Jack Elam, Robert J. Wilke
Wyatt Earp (Joel McCrea) is hired by citizens of Wichita to clean up the violence. When Wyatt bans all guns inside the city limits, citizens revolt.
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| 1. Anne of the Indies (1951)
2. Appointment in Honduras (1953)
3. Canyon Passage (1946)
4. Cat People (1942)
5. Circle of Danger (1951)
6. City Under the Sea (1965)
aka: War-Gods of the Deep
7. The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
8. Days of Glory (1944)
9. Easy Living (1949)
10. The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
11. The Giant of Marathon (1959)
12. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
13. The Leopard Man (1943)
14. Night of the Demon (1957)
aka: Curse of the Demon
15. Nightfall (1956)
16. Out of the Past (1947)
aka: Build My Gallows High
17. Way of a Gaucho (1952)
18. Wichita (1955)
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