House of Strangers 1949  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Debra Paget, Hope Emerson, Esther Minciotti, Diana Douglas, Paul Valentine
A banker, Gino Monette (Edward G. Robinson), is the patriarch of his family, and his manipulation of his four sons causes conflicts between them all.
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 Out of the Past 1947  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
aka: Build My Gallows High
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Brodie, Richard Webb, Virginia Huston, Dickie Moore, Frank Wilcox, Mary Field, Paul Valentine, Ken Niles, Oliver Blake, James Bush, John Kellogg
Californian Jeff Markham (Robert Mitchum) is a man with a dubious past who becomes involved with a hood, Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). While helping find Sterling's girlfriend Kathie (Jane Greer) in Acapulco, Markham finds himself accused of a murder that Kathie committed. A good film that was remade in 1984 as "Against All Odds."
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Something to Live For 1952  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Richard Derr, Douglas Dick, Rudy Lee, Herbert Heyes, Harry Bellaver, Frank Orth, Paul Valentine
Alan Miller (Ray Milland) is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous who falls in love with an alcoholic actress, Jenny Carey (Joan Fontaine). He helps her to successfully gain sobriety while remaining faithful to his wife.
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Special Agent 1949  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William C. Thomas
Cast: William Eythe, George Reeves, Kasey Rogers, Paul Valentine, Tom Powers, Carole Mathews, Frank Puglia, Jeff York, Virginia Christine, Walter Baldwin, Robert Williams, Raymond Bond
With help from the daughter (Kasey Rogers) of the engineer killed during a train robbery, special agent Johnny Douglas (William Eythe) investigates the murder and theft of $100,000 in railroad receipts.
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| 1. House of Strangers (1949)
2. Out of the Past (1947)
aka: Build My Gallows High
3. Something to Live For (1952)
4. Special Agent (1949)
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