
A composite of three re-edited episodes from the 1952 TV series, Gangbusters, released to theatres in 1957 as a feature film. Gang Busters (1954) was a similar effort. Read More »
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The Golden Hawk (1952) Sidney Salkow, Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, Action, Adventure, History, Romance, War

Kit Gerardo, also known as The Hawk, is one of Frances’s most daring privateers, rescues Rouge from a Spanish ship. Read More »
The Turning Point (1952) William Dieterle, William Holden, Edmond O’Brien, Alexis Smith, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city, and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. Read More »
Les femmes s’en balancent / Dames Get Along (1954) Bernard Borderie, Eddie Constantine, Nadia Gray, Dominique Wilms, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lemmy Caution is back! He hooks up with a fellow agent at a night club to exchange info about a beautiful babe the FBI has under observation. Read More »
Ça va barder / Give ’em Hell (1955) John Berry, Eddie Constantine, May Britt, Jean Danet, Action, Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

During the 1950s, in Portuguese Mozambique, small-time American hustler, ex-soldier, ex-boxer and adventurer Johnny Jordan is looking for a new gig. Read More »
Song Without End (1960) Charles Vidor, George Cukor, Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Biography, Drama, Music

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) Michael Curtiz, Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy, Richard Cromwell, Crime, Drama, Romance

Abandoned by her mother at a young age, Molly Louvain is seen as no good, but she dreams of living respectably with her sweetheart Jimmy, who has promised to marry her. Read More »
The Sea Wolf (1993) Michael Anderson, Charles Bronson, Catherine Mary Stewart, Marc Singer, Adventure, Drama

Jack London’s brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost. Read More »
Girl in Danger (1934) D. Ross Lederman, Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Arthur Hohl, Mystery

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster. Read More »
The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Drama

Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit, she can’t walk, and she tries to sue Kildare for malpractice Read More »