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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) Budd Boetticher, Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. Read More »
The Missing Juror (1944) Budd Boetticher, Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready
A detective tries to stop whomever is murdering the jurors on a notorious murder case. Read More »
Escape in the Fog (1945) Budd Boetticher, Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. Read More »
Submarine Raider (1942) Lew Landers, Budd Boetticher, John Howard, Marguerite Chapman, Bruce Bennett, Drama, War
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier “Hiranamu”, orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. Read More »
Red Ball Express (1952) Budd Boetticher, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Drama, War
August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton’s Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. Read More »
Killer Shark (1950) Budd Boetticher, Roddy McDowall, Laurette Luez, Roland Winters, Adventure
A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. Read More »
East of Sumatra (1953) Budd Boetticher, Jeff Chandler, Marilyn Maxwell, Anthony Quinn, Action, Adventure, Romance
Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Read More »
City Beneath the Sea (1953) Budd Boetticher, Robert Ryan, Mala Powers, Anthony Quinn, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Divers Brad and Tony arrive in Jamaica to attempt salvage of the “Lady Luck,” sunk with all hands and a million in gold. Read More »
The Magnificent Matador (1955) Budd Boetticher, Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn, Manuel Rojas, Drama, Romance
Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador Read More »
Seven Men from Now (1956) Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Action, Western
Ex-sheriff Ben Stride tracks the seven men who held up a Wells Fargo office and killed his wife. Stride is tormented by the fact that his own failure to keep his job was the cause of his wife’s working in the express office and thus he is partly responsible for her death.
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Westbound (1959) Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott, Virginia Mayo, Karen Steele, Action, Drama, Romance
In 1864 Cavalry Captain John Hayes reluctantly follows orders to become the civilian boss of the Overland Stage Line, which keeps the flow of Western gold to the Union and will help it win the Civil War. Headquarters for the stage line is a small Colorado town with Southern sympathizers who will do anything they can to sabotage his mission. Resistance to his efforts is led by former friend ad colleague Clay Putnam, who has taken advantage of Hayes’ absence and married his former sweetheart.
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