 Double Indemnity 1973   TV, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb, Samantha Eggar, Kathleen Cody, Arch Johnson, John Fiedler, Robert Webber, John Elerick, Gene Dynarski, Joan Pringle, Ken Renard, Arnold F. Turner, Rand Brooks, Tom Curtis, Joyce Cunning
Scheming housewife Phyllis Dietrickson (Samantha Eggar) seduces insurance salesman Walter Neff (Richard Crenna) into helping her in a scheme to murder her husband (Arch Johnson). Neff's job will be to falsify the accident insurance that carries a double indemnity clause, which will pay twice as much if he is killed in a train accident. The scheme works–until Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Lee J. Cobb) suspects foul play and investigates.
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Papa's Delicate Condition 1963  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Charles Ruggles, Laurel Goodwin, Linda Bruhl, Ned Glass, Murray Hamilton, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles(2) Lane, Don Beddoe, Claude Johnson, Juanita Moore, Trevor Bardette, Ken Renard, Benny Baker
Jack Griffith (Jackie Gleason) is a wealthy, lovable alcoholic whose wife Amberlyn (Glynis Johns) can't handle any more of his pranks. When their daughter Augusta (Laurel Goodwin) wanted the pony she saw in the circus parade, Jack bought her the entire circus. That was the final straw for Amberlyn who flees to her father's (Charles Ruggles) home in Texarkana. Jack, of course, follows in hot pursuit. This film won the Academy Award for Best Song: "Call Me Irresponsible."
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Something of Value 1957  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Sidney Poitier, Walter Fitzgerald, Frederick O'Neal, Juano Hernandez, William Marshall, Robert Beatty, Michael Pate, Ivan Dixon, Ken Renard, Samadu Jackson, Wilton Graff, Angela Cartwright
Based on Robert Ruark's novel, this is the story of childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier) and Peter McKenzie (Rock Hudson) who, despite one being Black and the other White, had grown up like brothers in British East Africa. Now, as adults, their relationship is shattered when Peter sides with British colonialism, and Kimani joins the brutal Mau-Maus in their uprising in Kenya.
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| 1. Double Indemnity (1973)
2. Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
3. Something of Value (1957)
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