The Woman in Question is a crime drama mystery film released in 1950. The plot revolves around a police investigation into the murder of a woman. The story is filled with contradictory accounts, unreliable flashbacks, and multiple perspectives, keeping the viewers engaged until the end. The main characters include a police detective, a neighbor, and a fortune-teller. The investigation leads them to a fairground, where a canary becomes a crucial piece of evidence. This B-movie falls into the film-noir genre and also explores the complex relationship between sisters.
Too Late Blues follows a jazz musician in Los Angeles as he navigates the challenges of the music industry and grapples with issues of artistic integrity. The film explores themes of friendship, love, and the sacrifices one must make to pursue their passion.
In Shield for Murder (1954), a corrupt police detective named Barney Nolan kills a bookie and steals his money. As he tries to cover up his crime, Nolan must outsmart his fellow officers and a deaf witness.
Non-Stop Trouble with my Double is a slapstick comedy about a mix-up that occurs when a bar owner's doppelganger takes over his life. Chaos ensues as the bar owner tries to unravel the situation and regain control of his life. With collapsing buildings, role reversals, and a criminal gang thrown into the mix, this film is a rollercoaster of laughs.
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.
Lord Love a Duck is a satirical comedy set in Los Angeles, following the story of a high school student named Alan Musgrave who is determined to make his dreams of success and popularity come true. With the help of a beautiful and manipulative woman named Barbara Ann Greene, Alan goes to great lengths to achieve his goals, leading to a series of outrageous and comedic events.
When Pete gets amnesia after a car wreck, he assumes the life of an evangelist with the help of of a preacher. After his newfound success, however, his old girlfriend, and her new boyfriend, decide to blackmail Kidd for a search of the money. Kidd's problems intensify as memories start returning--and he thinks he killed the other driver.
Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line.
A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old's loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.
Dawn is ready to finish her senior year of high school when her neglectful, party-loving mother is tragically killed, forcing Dawn to go to live with her aunt Jamie who co-pastors a church with her husband, Willem. Unfortunately, not long into her stay things go terribly wrong, and Dawn runs away. When Dawn's Aunt Jamie realizes her home was not the safe-haven she thought it was, she embarks on a courageous search for Dawn. Dawn, having no foreknowledge of the streets, is easy prey for a two-bit street hustler, falling for his well-rehearsed flattery. She is lured into a life she could never have imagined for herself. Jamie learns of her predicament and becomes more determined than ever to rescue her, despite Dawn's desire to distance herself. Anxiously Jamie befriends a street minister, and the two of them set out together to find Dawn. However, in her search for Dawn, Jamie realizes it is not only Dawn who needs rescuing.
A young priest questions his faith after he falls in love with a social worker.
After graduating from a convent school, Betty travels to New York to visit her relatives, the Hastings. She quickly catches the eye of Jim Denning, a wealthy neighbor who proposes to her, but Betty decides to experience city life before settling down and finds work as a salesclerk. When the floorwalker becomes too familiar, Betty quits and her showgirl friend Maizie Follette helps her get a job as a cabaret dancer, but Betty finds that’s a tough racket too and decides city life on the loose isn’t for her.
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.