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Stalag 17 (1953) Billy Wilder, William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Drama, War

One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead. Read More »
Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937) George Marshall, Otto Preminger, Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre, Drama

After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he’s her father. Read More »
Angel Face (1953) Otto Preminger, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman

When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Read More »
Saint Joan (1957) Otto Preminger, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, Biography, Drama, History

Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. Read More »
Bonjour tristesse (1958) Otto Preminger, Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Drama, Romance

Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond’s old love interest, comes to Raymond’s villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life. Read More »
Such Good Friends (1971) Otto Preminger, Dyan Cannon, James Coco, Jennifer O’Neill

Julie Messinger has it made. She is a New York housewife whose husband, Richard, is an editor for a prominent photography magazine. They have a small circle of friends, including well-meaning, but inept Dr. Timothy Spector, photographer Cal Whiting and Cal’s live-in girlfriend Miranda. Julie’s mother spends her days getting pedicures and manicures, applying make-up and fake eye-lashes and buying expensive clothes, all the while criticizing her daughter for her looks and behavior. When Richard goes into the hospital for a minor mole-removal surgery, Julie gets more than she bargained for. Richard suffers from complications and goes into a coma, supposedly caused by a rare surgical factor, and she gathers friends and family together, culminating in a hilarious “quasi-cocktail-party” scene in the blood donation center of the hospital. While dealing with red tape, hospital bureaucracy and clueless doctors, Julie discovers her husband’s “little black book,” which contains the names of her …
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