The Hoodlum 1951  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Max Nosseck
Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan, Lisa Golm, Edward Tierney, Stuart Randall, Angela Stevens, John De Simone, Tom Hubbard, O.Z. Whitehead, Eddie Foster, Richard Barron, Rudy Rama, William H. O'Brien, Gene Roth
After his release from prison due to his mother's (Lisa Golm) pleading, vicious Vincent Lubeck (Lawrence Tierney) continues his abuse of his family and friends as he returns to a life of crime. First, he seduces his brother Johnny's (Edward Tierney) fiancee Rosa (Allene Roberts) who later commits suicide after learning that she is pregnant. Then Vincent forms a relationship with bank employee Eileen (Marjorie Riordan) and uses her for information in order to perform a robbery. Finally, Johnny has had enough and takes action against his brother.
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Mr. Skeffington 1944 N/R, 145 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Richard Waring, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Marjorie Riordan, Robert Shayne, John Alexander, Jerome Cowan, Charles Drake, Johnny Mitchell, Dorothy Peterson, Halliwell Hobbes, Peter Whitney, Bill Kennedy
Fanny Tullis (Bette Davis) marries banker Job Skeffington (Claude Rains) to save her brother Trippy (Richard Waring). Many trials and tribulations await as Fanny survives divorce, deceit, and a disaster. Davis received an Oscar Nomination for Best Actress and Claude Rains was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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Pursuit to Algiers 1945  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Mystery
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan, Rosalind Ivan, Martin Kosleck, John Abbott, Morton Lowry, Frederick Worlock, Gerald Hamer, Rex Evans, Leslie Vincent, William "Wee Willie" Davis, Wilson Benge, Tom Dillon, Sven Hugo Borg
While sailing from London to Algiers, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) protect a prince, Far Eastern regent Nikolas (Leslie Vincent), on his trip home following his father's assassination. Nikolas is disguised as Watson's son in an effort to confuse possible assassins who are on Nikolas' trail. As luck would have it, the assassins are among the passengers, and Holmes must weed out the good passengers from the bad.
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Stage Door Canteen 1943 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Cheryl Walker, Marjorie Riordan, William Terry, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early, Patrick O'Moore, Ruth Roman, Paul Muni, Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn
This is another W.W.II-era musical in which the studio loaded their stars into a film to help the war effort.
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Three Strangers 1946  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring, Robert Shayne, Marjorie Riordan, Arthur Shields, Rosalind Ivan, John Alvin, Alan Napier
Three strangers (Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Geraldine Fitzgerald) meet by accident and then form an alliance as owners of a sweepstakes ticket in this John Huston/Howard Koch script.
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| 1. The Hoodlum (1951)
2. Mr. Skeffington (1944)
3. Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
4. Stage Door Canteen (1943)
5. Three Strangers (1946)
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