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Double Indemnity (1944)
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Director Billy Wilder
Writer Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain
Cast Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Plot An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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Key Largo (1948)
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Director John Huston
Writer Richard Brooks, John Huston, Maxwell Anderson
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Plot A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.
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The Stranger (1946)
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Director Orson Welles
Writer Anthony Veiller, Victor Trivas, Decla Dunning
Cast Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
Plot An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
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Scarlet Street (1945)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Georges de La Fouchardiere, Andre Mouezy-Eon, Dudley Nichols
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Plot A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
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The Woman in the Window (1944)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Nunnally Johnson, J.H. Wallis
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey
Plot A reserved professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder.
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Little Caesar (1931)
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer W.R. Burnett, Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Plot A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
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Director Norman Jewison, Sam Peckinpah
Writer Richard Jessup, Ring Lardner Jr., Terry Southern
Cast Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson
Plot An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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Soylent Green (1973)
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Director Richard Fleischer
Writer Stanley R. Greenberg, Harry Harrison
Cast Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young
Plot A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
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The Sea Wolf (1941)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Robert Rossen, Jack London
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield
Plot After being fished out of the sea by a sailing ship, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore, and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
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Kid Galahad (1937)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Seton I. Miller, Francis Wallace
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
Plot Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts after the now-named Kid Galahad falls for his sister.
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House of Strangers (1949)
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Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer Philip Yordan, Jerome Weidman, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte
Plot After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective.
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The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
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Director John Ford
Writer Jo Swerling, Robert Riskin, W.R. Burnett
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl
Plot A meek milquetoast clerk is mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.
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Five Star Final (1931)
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer Louis Weitzenkorn, Byron Morgan, Robert Lord
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner
Plot The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
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The Red House (1947)
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Director Delmer Daves
Writer George Agnew Chamberlain, Delmer Daves, Albert Maltz
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson
Plot An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
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Larceny, Inc (1942)
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Director Lloyd Bacon
Writer Everett Freeman, Edwin Gilbert, Laura Perelman
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
Plot Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
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Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
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Director Roy Rowland
Writer Dalton Trumbo, George Victor Martin
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig
Plot A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
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Director William Keighley
Writer Seton I. Miller, Martin Mooney
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane
Plot When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.
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The Prize (1963)
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Director Mark Robson
Writer Ernest Lehman, Irving Wallace
Cast Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
Plot As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
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Director Anatole Litvak
Writer John Wexley, John Huston, Barre Lyndon
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
Plot A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.
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All My Sons (1948)
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Director Irving Reis
Writer Arthur Miller, Chester Erskine
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians
Plot During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
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Brother Orchid (1940)
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Director Lloyd Bacon
Writer Earl Baldwin, Richard Connell, Richard Macaulay
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern
Plot After retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and his former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
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Director Lloyd Bacon
Writer Earl Baldwin, Joseph Schrank, Damon Runyon
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
Plot Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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The Violent Men (1955)
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Director Rudolph Mate
Writer Harry Kleiner, Donald Hamilton
Cast Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Plot A bitter land dispute causes a Civil War veteran to take extreme action.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
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Director William Dieterle
Writer John Huston, Heinz Herald, Norman Burnstine
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger
Plot True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
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Director Anatole Litvak
Writer Milton Krims, John Wexley, Leon G. Turrou
Cast Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, Francis Lederer
Plot FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
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Director John Farrow
Writer Barre Lyndon, Jonathan Latimer, Cornell Woolrich
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund
Plot After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.
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Illegal (1955)
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Director Lewis Allen
Writer W.R. Burnett, James R. Webb, Frank J. Collins
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
Plot After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.
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Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer Charles Schnee, Irwin Shaw
Cast Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse
Plot After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
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Smart Money (1931)
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Director Alfred E. Green
Writer Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Lucien Hubbard
Cast Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp
Plot A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.
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Barbary Coast (1935)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Edward Chodorov
Cast Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea
Plot Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.
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Tight Spot (1955)
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Director Phil Karlson
Writer William Bowers, Leonard Kantor
Cast Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith
Plot A female inmate is whisked out of prison and into a police-guarded hotel until the district attorney can convince her to testify against the mob.
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A Hole in the Head (1959)
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Arnold Schulman
Cast Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker
Plot Widower Tony is trying to keep a small Miami hotel afloat while raising a 12-year-old son. He's forced to ask his harried brother Mario for help, but he'll only bail Tony out if he quits his bohemian lifestyle and marries a sensib...
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Razgrom nemetskikh voysk pod Moskvoy aka Moscow Strikes Back (1942)
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Director Ilya Kopalin, Leonid Varlamov
Writer Pyotr Pavlenko, Albert Maltz, Elliot Paul
Cast N. Dubravin, Edward G. Robinson, Iosif Stalin
Plot A number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic de...
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The Last Gangster (1937)
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Director Edward Ludwig
Writer John Lee Mahin, William A. Wellman, Robert Carson
Cast Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
Plot A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.
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The Little Giant (1933)
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Director Roy Del Ruth
Writer Robert Lord, Wilson Mizner
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson
Plot When Prohibition ends, a beer baron sees the writing on the wall, quits the rackets, and tries to break into California society.
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Manpower (1941)
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Director Raoul Walsh
Writer Richard Macaulay, Jerry Wald
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft
Plot Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.
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Seven Thieves (1960)
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Director Henry Hathaway
Writer Sydney Boehm, Max Catto
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins
Plot A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.
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Two Seconds (1932)
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer Elliott Lester, Harvey F. Thew
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee
Plot A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
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My Geisha (1962)
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Director Jack Cardiff
Writer Norman Krasna
Cast Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson
Plot An actress disguises herself as a geisha in order to land the lead role in her director husband's film version of 'Madam Butterfly'.
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Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
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Director Julien Duvivier
Writer Ellis St. Joseph, Oscar Wilde, La¡szla Vadnay
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck
Plot An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.
