Five Fingers 1952  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden, Oscar Karlweis, Herbert Berghof, John Wengraf, Nestor Paiva, Michael Pate, Richard Loo
Based on a true story of World War II German spy Ulysses Diello (whose code name was Cicero (James Mason)), this is a great thriller. Stationed in Turkey, Cicero's mission was to gain information from documents in the British Embassy.
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The Juggler 1953  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Paul Stewart, Joey Walsh, Alf Kjellin, Charles(2) Lane, John Banner, Richard Benedict, Beverly Washburn, Oscar Karlweis
One Auschwitz survivor, Hans Muller (Kirk Douglas) has problems adapting in Israel after World War II. Working as a juggler, he makes it across Israel and into a kibbutz where he meets an understanding society.
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 Meet Me in Las Vegas 1956  N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead, Lili Darvas, Jim Backus, Oscar Karlweis, Paul Henreid, Lena Horne, Frankie Laine, Jerry Colonna
A gambling rancher (Dan Dailey) finds his luck soars and his bets are all winners when he holds the hand of a ballerina (Cyd Charisse).
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St. Benny the Dip 1951  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Escape If You Can
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Dick Haymes, Nina Foch, Roland Young, Lionel Stander, Freddie Bartholomew, Oscar Karlweis, William A. Lee, Dick Gordon, Jean Casto, Eddie Wells, Dort Clark, James Bender
Three con artists (Dick Haymes, Roland Young, and Lionel Stander) disguise themselves as clergymen, and the ploy works. In fact, it works so well that they are accepted as real clergymen at a skid row mission and end up going straight.
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Tonight We Sing 1953 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: David Wayne, Ezio Pinza, Roberta Peters, Tamara Toumanova, Anne Bancroft, Isaac Stern, Mikhail Rasumny, Steven Geray, Walter Woolf King, Oscar Karlweis
Arias from "La Traviata" and "Madam Butterfly" are featured in this biography of Russian-born impresario Sol Hurok (David Wayne).
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| 1. Five Fingers (1952)
2. The Juggler (1953)
3. Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
4. St. Benny the Dip (1951)
aka: Escape If You Can
5. Tonight We Sing (1953)
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