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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
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Director Billy Wilder
Writer Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.
Cast William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Plot A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
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The Third Man (1949)
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Director Carol Reed
Writer Graham Greene, Orson Welles, Alexander Korda
Cast Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
Plot Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
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Notorious (1946)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, John Taintor Foote
Cast Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Plot The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
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Laura (1944)
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Director Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Vera Caspary, Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein
Cast Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Plot A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville
Cast Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Plot A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
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Director Billy Wilder
Writer Charles R. Jackson, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Cast Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Plot The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
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Spellbound (1945)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Ben Hecht, John Palmer, Hilary St George Saunders
Cast Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
Plot A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
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Gilda (1946)
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Director Charles Vidor
Writer E.A. Ellington, Jo Eisinger, Marion Parsonnet
Cast Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Plot A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
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Director Alexander Mackendrick
Writer Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, Alexander Mackendrick
Cast Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Plot A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
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Ace in the Hole (1951)
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Director Billy Wilder
Writer Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
Cast Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
Plot Frustrated former journalist Chuck Tatum now working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about trading post owner Leo Minosa trapped in a cave to rekindle Chuck's career, but the story soon escalates into a media circus.
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
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Director Nicholas Ray
Writer Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North, Dorothy B. Hughes
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Plot A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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Suspicion (1941)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville
Cast Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
Plot A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
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Dark Passage (1947)
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Director Delmer Daves
Writer Delmer Daves, David Goodis
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Plot A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.
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The Wrong Man (1956)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Maxwell Anderson, Angus MacPhail, Edmond S. Albout
Cast Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Plot In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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All the King's Men (1949)
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Director Robert Rossen
Writer Robert Penn Warren, Robert Rossen
Cast Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
Plot The rise and fall of a corrupt politician who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
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Director John M. Stahl
Writer Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams
Cast Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain
Plot A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
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Director Robert Aldrich
Writer Mickey Spillane, A.I. Bezzerides
Cast Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Plot A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
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Nightmare Alley (1947)
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Director Edmund Goulding
Writer Jules Furthman, William Lindsay Gresham
Cast Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
Plot The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
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The Fallen Idol (1948)
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Director Carol Reed
Writer Graham Greene, Lesley Storm, William Templeton
Cast Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Plot A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
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Night and the City (1950)
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Director Jules Dassin
Writer Jo Eisinger, Gerald Kersh, Austin Dempster
Cast Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
Plot A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
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The Set-Up (1949)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Art Cohn, Joseph Moncure March
Cast Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Plot Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
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Director Lewis Milestone
Writer Robert Rossen, John Patrick, Robert Riskin
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
Plot A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
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Island of Lost Souls (1932)
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Director Erle C. Kenton
Writer Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, H.G. Wells
Cast Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen
Plot A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
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Director Anatole Litvak
Writer Lucille Fletcher
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
Plot When neurotic bedridden wife Leona Stevenson overhears a murder plot on her telephone, she tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent the murder. Based on Lucille Fletcher's famous radio play.
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Call Northside 777 (1948)
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Director Henry Hathaway
Writer Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman
Cast James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
Plot Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
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The Harder They Fall (1956)
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Director Mark Robson
Writer Philip Yordan, Budd Schulberg
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling
Plot An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.
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Niagara (1953)
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Director Henry Hathaway
Writer Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen
Cast Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
Plot As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
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Stage Fright (1950)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Whitfield Cook, Alma Reville, Selwyn Jepson
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd
Plot A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Sudden Fear (1952)
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Director David Miller
Writer Lenore J. Coffee, Robert Smith, Edna Sherry
Cast Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
Plot After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.
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Body and Soul (1947)
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Director Robert Rossen
Writer Abraham Polonsky
Cast John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks
Plot A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.
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Act of Violence (1948)
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Director Fred Zinnemann
Writer Robert L. Richards, Collier Young
Cast Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
Plot An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.
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Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer John Wexley, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang
Cast Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee
Plot After the German administrator of Czechia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
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Of Human Bondage (1934)
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Director John Cromwell
Writer Lester Cohen, W. Somerset Maugham, Ann Coleman
Cast Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee
Plot A young man finds himself attracted to a cold, unfeeling waitress who might ultimately destroy them both.
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On Dangerous Ground (1951)
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Director Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
Writer A.I. Bezzerides, Nicholas Ray, Gerald Butler
Cast Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
Plot Rough, violent city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain who sends him upstate to a snowy mountain town to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
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The Window (1949)
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Director Ted Tetzlaff
Writer Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich
Cast Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy
Plot To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him.
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Marked Woman (1937)
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Director Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz
Writer Robert Rossen, Abem Finkel, Seton I. Miller
Cast Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
Plot A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.
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Champion (1949)
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Director Mark Robson
Writer Carl Foreman, Ring Lardner
Cast Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell
Plot Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.
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Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
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Director Roy Ward Baker
Writer Daniel Taradash, Charlotte Armstrong
Cast Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft
Plot After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous.
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Fallen Angel (1945)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Harry Kleiner, Marty Holland
Cast Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
Plot A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.
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The House of Fear (1945)
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Director Roy William Neill
Writer Roy Chanslor, Arthur Conan Doyle
Cast Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather
Plot Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.
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He Walked by Night (1948)
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Director Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann
Writer John C. Higgins, Crane Wilbur, Harry Essex
Cast Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts
Plot This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
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A Woman's Face (1941)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Francis de Croisset, Donald Ogden Stewart, Elliot Paul
Cast Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
Plot A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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The Enforcer (1951)
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Director Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
Writer Martin Rackin
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia
Plot A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.
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The Seventh Cross (1944)
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Director Fred Zinnemann
Writer Helen Deutsch, Anna Seghers
Cast Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn
Plot In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh...
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Conflict (1945)
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Director Curtis Bernhardt
Writer Arthur T. Horman, Dwight Taylor, Robert Siodmak
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
Plot An engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister.
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Pitfall (1948)
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Director Andre De Toth
Writer Jay Dratler, Karl Kamb, William Bowers
Cast Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
Plot Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.
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Human Desire (1954)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Alfred Hayes, Emile Zola
Cast Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
Plot A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.
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Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
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Director Robert Montgomery
Writer Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, Dorothy B. Hughes
Cast Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix
Plot WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.
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The Leopard Man (1943)
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Director Jacques Tourneur
Writer Ardel Wray, Edward Dein, Cornell Woolrich
Cast Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
Plot A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.
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Clash by Night (1952)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Alfred Hayes, Clifford Odets
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas
Plot Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.
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Deception (1946)
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Director Irving Rapper
Writer John Collier, Joseph Than, Louis Verneuil
Cast Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Plot After marrying her long-lost love, a musician finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
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The Suspect (1944)
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Director Robert Siodmak
Writer Bertram Millhauser, Arthur T. Horman, James Ronald
Cast Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens
Plot An unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action.
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The Prowler (1951)
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Director Joseph Losey
Writer Robert Thoeren, Hans Wilhelm, Hugo Butler
Cast Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
Plot After Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way.
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The Big Steal (1949)
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Director Don Siegel
Writer Daniel Mainwaring, Gerald Drayson Adams, Richard Wormser
Cast Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
Plot An army lieutenant accused of robbery pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's fiancee.
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T-Men (1947)
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Director Anthony Mann
Writer John C. Higgins, Virginia Kellogg
Cast Dennis O'Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder
Plot Two U.S. Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
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The Unsuspected (1947)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Ranald MacDougall, Bess Meredyth, Charlotte Armstrong
Cast Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter
Plot The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
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Lady in the Lake (1946)
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Director Robert Montgomery
Writer Steve Fisher, Raymond Chandler
Cast Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
Plot The female editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.
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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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Flamingo Road (1949)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Robert Wilder, Edmund H. North, Sally Wilder
Cast Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
Plot A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.
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Secret Beyond the Door... (1947)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Silvia Richards, Rufus King
Cast Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere
Plot After a lovely woman and her new husband settle in an ancient mansion on the East coast, she discovers that he may want to kill her.
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Obsession aka The Hidden Room (1949)
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Director Edward Dmytryk
Writer Alec Coppel
Cast Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne
Plot Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
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A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
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Director Gerd Oswald
Writer Lawrence Roman, Ira Levin
Cast Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith
Plot A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.
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They Won't Believe Me (1947)
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Director Irving Pichel
Writer Jonathan Latimer, Gordon McDonell
Cast Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer
Plot On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable-sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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No Man of Her Own (1950)
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Director Mitchell Leisen
Writer Sally Benson, Catherine Turney, Cornell Woolrich
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl
Plot A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.
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The Bigamist (1953)
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Director Ida Lupino
Writer Collier Young, Lawrence B. Marcus, Lou Schor
Cast Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn
Plot A man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.
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Johnny Eager (1941)
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer John Lee Mahin, James Edward Grant
Cast Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
Plot The step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.
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Journey Into Fear (1943)
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Director Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Writer Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Eric Ambler
Cast Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rao
Plot An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
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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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Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
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Director Lewis Gilbert
Writer Janet Green, John Cresswell
Cast Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Plot Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes el...
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Fourteen Hours (1951)
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Director Henry Hathaway
Writer John Paxton, Joel Sayre
Cast Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes
Plot A New York policeman tries to talk a man off a ledge as a crowd gathers below.
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Cloak and Dagger (1946)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr., Boris Ingster
Cast Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer
Plot In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
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Desperate (1947)
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Director Anthony Mann
Writer Harry Essex, Martin Rackin, Dorothy Atlas
Cast Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr
Plot A young married couple flee both the police and a gangster out for revenge.
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Undercurrent (1946)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer Edward Chodorov, Thelma Strabel, George Oppenheimer
Cast Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
Plot Middle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.
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They Won't Forget (1937)
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer Ward Greene, Robert Rossen, Aben Kandel
Cast Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris
Plot A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
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Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
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Director Jean Negulesco
Writer Nunnally Johnson, I.A.R. Wylie
Cast Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill
Plot While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead frie...
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Beyond the Forest (1949)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Lenore J. Coffee, Stuart Engstrand
Cast Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian
Plot Resentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
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Director Gordon Douglas
Writer Harry Brown, Horace McCoy
Cast James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter
Plot Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him.
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Where Danger Lives (1950)
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Director John Farrow
Writer Charles Bennett, Leo Rosten
Cast Robert Mitchum, Claude Rains, Faith Domergue
Plot A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman, becomes involved in her husband's death, and must flee with her to the Mexican border.
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Black Widow (1954)
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Director Nunnally Johnson
Writer Nunnally Johnson, Hugh Wheeler, Richard W. Webb
Cast Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney
Plot An aspiring young writer insinuates herself into the life of a Broadway producer only to meet an unexpected fate.
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Nora Prentiss (1947)
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Director Vincent Sherman
Writer N. Richard Nash, Paul Webster, Jack Sobell
Cast Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Plot A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.
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Dangerous Crossing (1953)
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Director Joseph M. Newman
Writer Leo Townsend, John Dickson Carr
Cast Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Max Showalter
Plot After a beautiful bride boards an ocean liner with her new husband, he goes into hiding, and she becomes the target of a murder conspiracy.
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Shock (1946)
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Director Alfred L. Werker
Writer Eugene Ling, Albert DeMond, Martin Berkeley
Cast Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore
Plot A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.
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Deadline at Dawn (1946)
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Director Harold Clurman, William Cameron Menzies
Writer Clifford Odets, Cornell Woolrich
Cast Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
Plot After a woman he meets is murdered, a soon-to-ship-out sailor has until dawn to find the killer, aided by a weary dance hall girl.
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Sleep, My Love (1948)
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Director Douglas Sirk
Writer St. Clair McKelway, Leo Rosten, Decla Dunning
Cast Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche
Plot Chronic sleepwalker Alison Courtland thinks that a mysterious man wearing horned-rimmed eye glasses is out to kill her but her husband blames her tired imagination.
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Dementia (1955)
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Director John Parker, Bruno VeSota
Writer John Parker, Bruno VeSota
Cast Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman
Plot This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
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Cornered (1945)
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Director Edward Dmytryk
Writer John Paxton, John Wexley, Ben Hecht
Cast Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
Plot Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
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Not as a Stranger (1955)
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Director Stanley Kramer
Writer Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt, Morton Thompson
Cast Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum
Plot An ego-driven, aspiring physician, intolerant of the weaknesses of others, especially those closest to him, comes to grips with his own imperfections.
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You and Me (1938)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Virginia Van Upp, Norman Krasna, Jack Moffitt
Cast Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane
Plot An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
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Director Robert Siodmak
Writer Stephen Longstreet, Keith Winter, Thomas Job
Cast George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Plot Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises ...
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Experiment Perilous (1944)
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Director Jacques Tourneur
Writer Warren Duff, Margaret Carpenter
Cast Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas
Plot In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family.
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The Burglar (1957)
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Director Paul Wendkos
Writer David Goodis
Cast Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers
Plot Dan Duryea and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City.
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The Amazing Mr. X (1948)
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Director Bernard Vorhaus
Writer Crane Wilbur, Muriel Roy Bolton, Ian McLellan Hunter
Cast Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell
Plot On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf; then meets a tall dark man Alexis, who seems to know all about such things.
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The Long Night (1947)
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Director Anatole Litvak
Writer John Wexley, Jacques Viot
Cast Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
Plot Police surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation.
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The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
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Director Richard Wallace
Writer Warren Duff, Dorothy B. Hughes
Cast John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak
Plot In 1940, an American former Republican prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick, is determined to find the killer of NYPD Lieutenant Louie Lepetino, who had helped him escape.
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Ruthless (1948)
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Director Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer Dayton Stoddart, S.K. Lauren, Gordon Kahn
Cast Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn
Plot A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family, but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.
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The Dark Past (1948)
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Director Rudolph Mate
Writer Malvin Wald, Oscar Saul, Philip MacDonald
Cast William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb
Plot An escaped psychopathic killer who takes the family and neighbors of police psychologist hostage reveals a recurring nightmare to the doctor.
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The Man I Love (1946)
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Director Raoul Walsh
Writer Catherine Turney, Jo Pagano, Maritta M. Wolff
Cast Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King
Plot A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.
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Cry Terror! (1958)
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Director Andrew L. Stone
Writer Andrew L. Stone
Cast James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens
Plot Duped by former Army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb threats to extort money from airlines.
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The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
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Director Earl McEvoy
Writer Harry Essex, Milton Lehman
Cast Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop
Plot Police seek a smuggler while doctors desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier--unaware that they're actually looking for the same person.
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Der Mann, der seinen Morder sucht aka The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
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Director Robert Siodmak
Writer Ludwig Hirschfeld, Ernst Neubach, Curt Siodmak
Cast Heinz Rahmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek
Plot A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
