D.O.A. 1950  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Garland, Lynn Baggett, William Ching, Henry Hart, Neville Brand, Jess Kirkpatrick, Laurette Luez, Frank Gerstle, Lawrence Dobkin, Cay Forrester, Frank Jaquet, Carol Hughes
This good, tense mystery starts with Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) walking into the police station to report his own murder. He had gone to San Francisco for a week on the town before his marriage. But, he gets poisoned, and the doctor says he has but a week to live and no known antidote exists. He sets out to discover who did it and why. Remade in 1969 as "Color Me Dead" and again in 1988.
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Kim 1950  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway, Reginald Owen, Arnold Moss, Richard Hale, Hayden Rorke, Laurette Luez, Roman Toporow, Ivan Triesault, Olaf Hytten, Hamilton Camp
Based on the Rudyard Kipling story, this plot revolves around an orphaned boy, Kim (Dean Stockwell), who is recruited by the Secret Service in India and trained by Mahbub Ali (Errol Flynn) to become an espionage agent for the British. Kim's mission: work with Mahbub Ali and help rid India of the Czarist Russians who are causing trouble in India.
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Paris Model 1953  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Eva Gabor, Tom Conway, Paulette Goddard, Leif Erickson, Marilyn Maxwell, Cecil Kellaway, Florence Bates, Barbara Lawrence, Laurette Luez, Aram Katcher
Four stories, all involving a Paris "original" gown provide good casts to show how four women use the gown for their own unique purposes.
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Prehistoric Women 1950  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Gregg C. Tallas
Cast: Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Judy Landon, Mara Lynn, Janet Scott, Jo-Carroll Dennison, Kerry Vaughn, Tony Devlin, Johann Petursson
Tigri (Laurette Luez) leads a tribe of savage women. Although they hate men, they recognize the need for them in order to keep their race going. One captive, Engor (Allan Nixon), has both Tigri and another woman after him. After discovering fire, encounters with a giant, and other such adventures, Engor and Tigri become a "real" couple. Bombs away!
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Siren of Bagdad 1953  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina, Hans Conried, Charlie Lung, George Keymas, Michael Fox, Carl Milletaire, Laurette Luez, Vivian Mason, Anne Dore
A magician and deposed sultan join forces to rid the kingdom of an evil sultan in this adventure/comedy.
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| 1. D.O.A. (1950)
2. Kim (1950)
3. Paris Model (1953)
4. Prehistoric Women (1950)
5. Siren of Bagdad (1953)
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