Cross My Heart 1946  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: John Berry
Cast: Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Rhys Williams, Ruth Donnelly, Iris Adrian, Al Bridge, Howard Freeman, Michael Chekhov, Milton Kibbee, Lewis L. Russell
Confessing to a murder she did not commit, a woman (Betty Hutton) depends on her lawyer husband (Sonny Tufts) to defend her and, in turn, give her the attention she craves. This is a remake of "True Confession."
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 1948  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Blood on My Hands
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell, Jay Novello, Aminta Dyne, Reginald Sheffield, Leyland Hodgson, Grizelda Harvey, Colin Keith-Johnston
Escaping from the law after killing a man in a London pub, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) seeks refuge with a very understanding Jane Warton (Joan Fontaine). Jane's hopes for their future together are dashed when Bill is blackmailed by Harry Carter (Robert Newton) into performing a criminal act.
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The Lost Weekend 1945  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Frank Orth, Byron Foulger, Lillian Fontaine, Lewis L. Russell, James Millican, Emmett Vogan, David Clyde
Ray Milland won the Oscar for his portrayal of Don Birnam, writer and alcoholic. Birnam's problem reaches a crisis during one long weekend of drinking, after which he suffers the D.T.s as his girlfriend Helen St. James (Jane Wyman) begs him to stop drinking. Ray Milland: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation." This film also won the Best Picture Academy Award, as did Billy Wilder for his directing and writing.
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The Trouble with Women 1947 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Rose Hobart, Rhys Williams, Lloyd Bridges, Iris Adrian, Charles Smith, Lewis L. Russell
Professor Gilbert Sedley (Ray Milland) runs into problems while publicizing his new book and sues the newspaper responsible. Kate Farrell (Teresa Wright) is sent to investigate, and the good professor is soon smitten.
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| 1. Cross My Heart (1946)
2. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
aka: Blood on My Hands
3. Ladies' Man (1947)
4. The Lost Weekend (1945)
5. The Trouble with Women (1947)
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