In Breathless, a French criminal named Michel steals a car and goes on the run with a beautiful American woman named Patricia. As they try to evade the police, they engage in a passionate and destructive relationship. The film is a hallmark of the French New Wave movement.
In 1950s Paris, a newspaper delivery boy named Fred is wrongly accused of murder and must clear his name. As he investigates the crime and tries to find the real killer, Fred encounters a circus, a clown act, and a police interrogation. With the help of some unlikely allies, Fred uncovers the truth and exposes the identity of the true murderer.
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
After the death of her husband, a widowed mother in 1950s Chicago fights to make a living and raise her son in a tough neighborhood filled with crime, drugs, and poverty. She navigates relationships with various characters, including a former judge, a newspaper vendor, a lounge singer, and a taxi driver. As her son grows up, she must protect him from the dangers of the streets and confront her own personal demons.
Jake Speed is a self-referential humor-filled movie set in the 1980s. When an American girl is kidnapped by white slavers, a novelist becomes her unlikely hero. With the help of his best friend and a gun-toting female protagonist, they embark on an adventure in a chaotic world filled with car crashes, gunfights, and hidden dangers. Together, they must outsmart the crime lord and his evil henchmen to save the girl and bring justice to the fictional African country they find themselves in.
A Broadway star is accused of killing a man who tried to assault her, and must clear her name before the opening night of her new play.
In 'The Window Gossip', an antique shop owner and a newspaper vendor find themselves entangled in a series of hilarious situations, including spying on their neighbors, falling out of bed, and a case of mistaken identity. As their escapades continue, they uncover a plot involving a serial killer, debt, and a robbery. With a touch of romance and plenty of laughs, this film explores the complexities of relationships and the power of gossip in a small community.
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
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