Bill Bailey is a Los Angeles bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. Read More »
Film-Noir
Boomerang! (1947) Elia Kazan, Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
Connecticut prosecutor Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews), faced with a political maelstrom in the wake of the shooting death of a Catholic priest on a city street corner Read More »
The Strange Woman (1946) Edgar G. Ulmer, Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward
Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820’s port of Bangor, Maine. Read More »
Cause for Alarm! (1951) Tay Garnett, Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
Invalid George Jones is both physically and mentally ill. He mistakenly believes his wife Ellen and his doctor are having an affair and also planning to kill him. Read More »
Scandal Sheet (1952) Phil Karlson, John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford
The editor of a New York exploitation newspaper meets the wife he had abandoned years ago, while using another name, at a Lonely Hearts ball sponsored by his newspaper. Read More »
Alias Nick Beal (1949) John Farrow, Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell
Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster’s main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. Read More »
Road House (1948) Jean Negulesco, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm
Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Read More »
Hells Half Acre (1954) John H. Auer, Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester
A woman who believes her missing husband is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually is him. Read More »
F.B.I. Girl (1951) William Berke, Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter
A governor planning to run for U.S. Senate has a secret past that could prove damaging to his political aspirations: he’s a convicted murderer Read More »
Live Fast, Die Young (1958) Paul Henreid, Mary Murphy, Norma Eberhardt, Mike Connors
Two sisters live in a dysfunctional family in a California town. The elder, “nice” Kim, was sexually abused and hates men. Read More »
The Crooked Web (1955) Nathan Juran, Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning
Cafe owner Stan Fabian joins Joanie Daniel and her “brother” Frank in a scheme to unearth a “fortune in stolen gold buried by Frank” in Germany during World War II Read More »
The Thirteenth Hour (1947) William Clemens, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg
In the 7th of Columbia’s “Whistler” series, truck-firm owner Steve Reynolds gets involved in a feud with a rival firm Read More »
Panic in the Streets (1950) Elia Kazan, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it’s pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. Read More »
One Way Street (1950) Hugo Fregonese, James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea
Shortly after a bank robbery, gangster John Wheeler and his henchmen hide in a small apartment, awaiting for the rest of the gang to arrive. Read More »
Bengazi (1955) John Brahm, Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson
An American with a shady past, John Gilmore and an Irishman without a conscience, Robert Emmett Donovan Read More »