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Tag Archives: W. Lee Wilder
Three Steps North (1951) W. Lee Wilder, Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi
During WW2, American G.I. Frank Keeler has a job driving a supply truck for the company’s quartermaster. Read More »
The Pretender (1947) W. Lee Wilder, Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig, Charles Drake
Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker), a banker steals funds from an estate Read More »
Bluebeard’s 10 Honeymoons (1960) W. Lee Wilder, George Sanders, Corinne Calvet, Jean Kent
A golddigger inspires her older lover to murder wealthy women for the finances to keep her happy. Read More »
Once a Thief (1950) W. Lee Wilder, Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Read More »
The Big Bluff (1955) W. Lee Wilder, John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Read More »
The Glass Alibi (1946) W. Lee Wilder, Paul Kelly, Douglas Fowley, Anne Gwynne, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Joe Eykner (Douglas Fowley), an opportunistic newspaper reporter, persuades wealthy, Santa Monica widow Linda Vale (Maris Wrixon), to marry him. Read More »
The Snow Creature (1954) W. Lee Wilder, Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Teru Shimada, Horror
Botanist Frank Parrish leads an expedition to the Himalayas to seek out new flora, accompanied by hardboiled news photographer Peter Wells. When their lead guide, Subra, learns his wife has been kidnapped by a Yeti, Parrish disbelieves him, so the sherpas commandeer the expedition at gunpoint and turn it into a search-and-rescue party. To Parrish’s surprise, they discover a whole family of Yetis in a cave, and are able to subdue the male and carry it back to civilization, to ship to the USA for study. Subra is forgiven his acts because he was right after all. Wells, meanwhile, phones in the story and Parrish finds his discovery – shipped upright in a meat cooler to maintain its natural environment – detained in the US because Wells’ story refers to it as a snowMAN, and a decision must be made whether this is a customs or immigration matter. During this bureaucratic snafu, the creature escapes its containers and disappears into Los Angeles, mysteriously appearing in different parts of …
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