City Across the River 1949   N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Maxwell Shane
Cast: Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter, Luis Van Rooten, Jeff Corey, Tony Curtis, Richard Jaeckel, Richard Benedict, Mickey Knox, Anabel Shaw, Sharon McManus
Young gang members in Brooklyn get over their heads in trouble when a teacher is murdered during a gang war.
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Fear in the Night 1947  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Maxwell Shane
Cast: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Ann Doran, Kay Scott, Charles Victor, Robert Emmett Keane, Jeff York, Janet Warren, John Harmon, Gladys Blake
Vince (DeForest Kelley) awakes from a nightmare in which he killed a burglar in a mirrored room–or was it real? He has bruises, a button from the man's coat, and a key he had taken from the house. His police detective friend, Cliff (Paul Kelly), doesn't believe it to be real until they take shelter in a deserted mansion with a mirrored room. It's time to find out what happened. Remade by Director Maxwill Shane in 1956 as "Nightmare."
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The Naked Street 1955  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Maxwell Shane
Cast: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves, Jerry Paris, Frank Sully, Whit Bissell, Jeanne Cooper
Gangster Phil Regal (Anthony Quinn) gets low-life Nicky Bradna (Farley Granger) off death row so he can marry Regal's pregnant sister, Rosalie (Anne Bancroft), and make an honest woman of her.
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Nightmare 1956  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Maxwell Shane
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Virginia Christine, Rhys Williams, Gage Clarke, Barry Atwater, Marian Carr, Billy May
A fine cast, good (jazz) musical score, and creative directing make this re-do of "Fear In The Night" enjoyable. A jazz musician (Kevin McCarthy) dreams he has stabbed a man in a mansion; his cuts and bruises indicate it may be real. His brother-in-law (Robinson), a police detective, tells him to forget it. But, he is determined to find the mansion, and he does. Now Robinson, after hearing that a murder has been committed there, finds out what really happened.
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| 1. City Across the River (1949)
2. Fear in the Night (1947)
3. The Naked Street (1955)
4. Nightmare (1956)
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