Cast: Sam Levene

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Albert Dekker

Synopsis Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede", who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede's...

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Burt Lancaster · Tony Curtis · Susan Harrison · Martin Milner

Synopsis A columnist (Burt Lancaster) and a press agent (Tony Curtis) tear into the maelstrom of midtown Manhattan's night creatures in a sinister game that involves money, power and ultimately survival.

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Burt Lancaster · Hume Cronyn · Charles Bickford · Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey,...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gregory Peck · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Gray · Tom Helmore

Synopsis On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and know nothing about each other. Also Mike feels depressed because...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Robert Mitchum · Robert Young · Robert Ryan · Gloria Grahame

Synopsis This unusual and worthwhile black-and-white film noir was one of the first movies to deal with issues of anti-Semitism. A weary Washington detective (Robert Young) must get to the bottom of a seemingly motive-lacking murder, with the prime suspect a...

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Richard Egan · Jan Sterling · Dan Duryea · Julie Adams

Synopsis Three men gun down Solly Pitts, 'rebel' against the racket-ridden Longshoremen's Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife 'Cockeye' Cook was one of the killers...but won't repeat it to the police, nor will anyone else help them. It seems it's...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · William Holden · Adolphe Menjou · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis Joe Bonaparte's father wants him to pursue his musical talent; but Joe wants to be a boxer. Persuading near-bankrupt manager Tom Moody to give him a chance, Joe quickly rises in his new profession. When he has second thoughts Moody's...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Dana Andrews · Jane Wyatt · Lee J. Cobb · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis This dramatization of a factual incident opens in a quiet Connecticut town where a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John...

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Al Pacino · Jack Warden · John Forsythe · Lee Strasberg

Synopsis Arthur Kirkland, an idealistic defense attorney in Baltimore, cares about his clients and visits his aging grandfather, who put him through law school, every week. Things aren't going well for Arthur: two of his clients are increasingly desperate, neither should...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · James Stewart · Elissa Landi

Synopsis Now back in San Francisco after their holiday in New York, Nick and Nora find themselves trying to solve another mystery. It's New Year's Eve and they are summoned to dinner at Nora's elderly, and very aristocratic, family. There they...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Barry Nelson · Donna Reed

Synopsis Nick and Nora's hopes for a pleasant afternoon at the local race track are dashed when a jockey is found shot dead in the locker room. Nick's friend Lt. Abrams wants him to help out but Nick is enjoying the...

Direction Gerald Mayer

Cast Marshall Thompson · Virginia Field · Andrea King · Sam Levene

Synopsis A former mental patient murders a bus driver, then takes refuge in a bar, where he holds the patrons hostage.

Direction Joseph Lerner

Cast Zachary Scott · Faye Emerson · Mary Boland · Sam Levene

Synopsis An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Raymond Massey · Alan Hale · Julie Bishop

Synopsis An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend eleven days at sea on a raft. They're next assigned to the liberty ship "Sea Witch" bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked North Atlantic.

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Margaret Sullavan · James Stewart · Walter Pidgeon · Hattie McDaniel

Synopsis During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over. Daisy agrees to pretend to be Bill's girl to...

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Anthony Quinn · Irene Papas · Inger Stevens · Sam Levene

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Sam Levene · Frances Mercer

Synopsis Madcap debutante Melsa Manton finds a body in a deserted house. Of course, the police don't believe her. Stung by Peter Ames's front page editorial decrying her "prank," Melsa enlists seven fellow debs to help her investigate. The wisecracking young...

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Dana Andrews · Richard Conte · Farley Granger · Kevin O'Shea

Synopsis Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan - and crash-land into history's most astounding prisoner-of-war story!

Direction Larry Cohen

Cast Tony Lo Bianco · Deborah Raffin · Sandy Dennis · Sylvia Sidney

Synopsis The storyline of this movie involves a series of motiveless murders committed by various New York residents: a sniper shoots people from a water tower; a father murders his entire family; and a cop (Andy Kaufman) opens fire during a...

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Roy Scheider · Janet Margolin · Charles Napier · Christopher Walken

Synopsis CIA secret agent Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider) has not been the same since his wife's murder. He suffers a nervous breakdown after the tragedy, which lands him in a sanitarium. Once released, he is pushed in front of a train...