The unsuccessful writer Stephen Byrne tries to force his servant Emily Gaunt sexually while his wife Marjorie Byrne is visiting a friend and accidentally strangles her. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jane Wyatt
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 »
Task Force (1949) Delmer Daves, Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris
On the day of his retirement, Rear Admiral Jonathan L. Scott reflects on his role in introducing aircraft carriers to the U.S. Navy. Read More »
Great Expectations (1934) Stuart Walker, Henry Hull, Phillips Holmes, Jane Wyatt, Drama, Romance
Nine year-old orphan ‘Pip’ Pirrip lives with his harridan older sister and her hen-pecked but good-natured blacksmith husband Joe Gargery in rural, Regency-Period Britain. Read More »
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) Felix E. Feist, Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Rich Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband, finds he’s bought a gun. Read More »
Criminal Lawyer (1951) Seymour Friedman, Pat O’Brien, Jane Wyatt, Carl Benton Reid, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
James Ragan, a brilliant criminal lawyer is fed up with his lucrative practice and longs to retire to a quiet judgeship Read More »
Pitfall (1948) André De Toth, Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
John Forbes is a family man who’s tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has embezzled from a store insured by Forbes’ company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair. The only problem is that MacDonald, a private dick who freelances for the insurance company, has had his eyes on Mona first. The obsessed MacDonald turns the soon-to-be-released boyfriend against Forbes.
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