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Hollywood Story
California The 1920sWe can't tell you what this picture is about ... without giving away the secret that rocked the lives of five fabulous people! — A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film star shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
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The Fat Man
CaliforniaDANGER UNDER THE BIG TOP! — A innocent dentist is murdered and the only apparent motive seems to be to steal a set of dental x-rays. To the police it looks like an accident, but private eye Brad Runyan thinks there's more to it.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Washington The 1950sBack where the FUN began! — The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."
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Chicago Calling
California$53 means life or death to him! — Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been injured in a car accident outside Chicago. His wife will call later with news, but Bill’s short the $53 he needs to keep his phone from being disconnected. Filled with anguish, he heads out onto the Los Angeles streets to find some way to come up with the cash. As his character encounters expected cruelty and unexpected kindness, Duryea takes what might have been mere melodrama and turns it into a perceptive examination of one shattered soul. The other fine star of this race-against-the-clock programmer is an unglamorous, lunch-bucket L.A. rarely captured on film.
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The Painted Hills
California The 18th CenturyAfter years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan's new partner, Lin, isn't interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what's happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin's gun jams.
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Payment on Demand
CaliforniaHe Strayed... and He Paid. She saw to that! — Screen legend and Academy Award-winner Bette Davis ("All About Eve," "Dark Victory") stars with Emmy-nominee Barry Sullivan ("Rich Man, Poor Man") in this compelling look at why people drift apart in marriage and seek divorce, with all its consequences.
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Hard, Fast and Beautiful
CaliforniaThe Price Of Fame In The Big-Time Sports Racket! — When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis prodigy who could be Milly’s ticket to money and fame.
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Double Dynamite
CaliforniaDouble Fun! Double Joy! Double Everything! — An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
California The 1920s1000 convicts as dangerous as dynamite ... with a killer-warden who lit the fuse ! — A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
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The Strip
CaliforniaM-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer! — Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.
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Westward the Women
California The 1850sThe BIG MGM Spectacle ! HE LED 200 WOMEN ON AN ADVENTURE THAT MOST MEN FEARED TO FACE! — In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there's a severe lack of women among the workers on Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley. So he goes back east to Chicago to recruit 150 women willing to become wives for his employees. From the candidates he selects 138 who seem able to survive a months long journey across "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Written by Tom Zoerner
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Santa Fe
CaliforniaBEYOND FORBIDDEN FRONTIERS...Iron men forge a path of steel for "The Iron Horse!" — After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.
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Starlift
California The 1950s18 Stars are in it... and more wonders than you can count! — To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
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A Millionaire for Christy
CaliforniaChristy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's in financial straits, decides to try to snag Peter. Zany hijinks ensue and romantic sparks fly.
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The Mark of the Renegade
California The 1820sAdventure... rules the outlaw coast of old California! — An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
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The Longhorn
OregonFilmed in Glorious SEPIA TONE — A double-crossing cowboy and his gang of henchmen steal cattle, even from friends, in this classic Western.
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Valentino
California The 1920sThe legitimate behind the scenes story of the man so many women loved — Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
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Journey Into Light
CaliforniaThe story of a man who turned his back on God! — John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
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The Lady Pays Off
CaliforniaThe Most Beautiful I.O.U. a Gambler Ever Collected... — The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
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Roaring City
CaliforniaPISTOL POINT SUSPENSE...ON THE STREET OF THE ROARING CITY — A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
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Cuban Fireball
CaliforniaCuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek little old lady.
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Sunset Boulevard
California The 1950sA Hollywood Story — A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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In a Lonely Place
CaliforniaThe Bogart suspense picture with the surprise finish! — An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
CaliforniaUnarmed… He’s dangerous. Armed… He’s lethal. — Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
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D.O.A.
CaliforniaA Picture As Excitingly Different As Its Title! — Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
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Where Danger Lives
CaliforniaMitchum! Action! — A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
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Armored Car Robbery
CaliforniaThe stick-up that stunned the nation! — The film tells the story of a well-planned robbery of an armored car when it stops at a sports stadium. Yet, the heist goes awry, and a tough Los Angeles cop is in hot pursuit.
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Quicksand
CaliforniaA guy who yields to temptation just once...... ....and finds it's once too often! — Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
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The Sound of Fury
CaliforniaA family man -desperate for a job- latches onto a friend that encourages him into being a criminal.
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The Woman on Pier 13
CaliforniaHer beauty served a mob of terror whose one mission is to destroy! — Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
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Woman on the Run
CaliforniaAs Startling as Your OWN Scream in the Night! — Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
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Whirlpool
CaliforniaTomorrow she will know what she did tonight!! — The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
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Dark City
CaliforniaA tense, tough drama of underworld violence and revenge ! — Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
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711 Ocean Drive
California The 1950sExpose of the $8,000,000,000 gambling syndicate and its hoodlum empire! — The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
California...the unpredictable way of a man's love for an evil woman! — A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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The Underworld Story
CaliforniaFighting Reporter Exposes Corruption — A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
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Champagne for Caesar
California...the bubbliest, frothiest, tickliest comedy! — When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
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Born to Be Bad
CaliforniaWomen hated her...but men DESIRED her! — Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
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Three Secrets
CaliforniaDon't judge these girls until you know their Three Secrets. — A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
WashingtonThe NEWEST and hilarious adventure! — When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
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Between Midnight and Dawn
CaliforniaTHE STORY OF PROWL CAR 13...BASED ON THE POLICE FILES OF A GREAT CITY! — Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.
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The Next Voice You Hear...
CaliforniaThe story of what happened at 8:30 p.m. to the Joe Smiths and families like them all over the world! — The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
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Shakedown
CaliforniaHis camera Was More Deadly Than A Gangster's Gun! — In "Shakedown," Howard Duff plays a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss (Brian Donlevy) into allowing himself to be photographed. Donlevy takes him under his wing, but Duff decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Donlevy and another crime boss, Lawrence Tierney, against one another. He uses photos to blackmail Tierney into providing him with a steady income while he sidles up to Donlevy's wife on the sly, all the while romancing the photo editor of the paper at which he works.
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Outrage
CaliforniaIs any girl safe? — A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
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Perfect Strangers
CaliforniaThe met by chance -and once they kissed, they knew they never should have...! — Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love. Romance at a murder trial with a pair of jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent.
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The Hollywood Bowl
CaliforniaTom is conducting a symphony at the Hollywood Bowl when Jerry comes out to co-conduct.
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My Friend Irma Goes West
CaliforniaYou'll Say: "FUNNIEST" picture of my Life! — Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
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Our Very Own
CaliforniaSAMUEL GOLDWYN'S unforgettable, compelling entertainment triumph! — Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
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The Great Jewel Robber
CaliforniaHis Evening Dress Was Always 'White Tie'... and a black automatic! — Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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The Second Face
CaliforniaNo woman can forgive another woman's beauty! — A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty. When she finds out that a mysterious "benefactor" has paid for her surgery, she sets out to find out who he is and why he did it.
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