Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money.
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What a Way to Go! (1964) J. Lee Thompson, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Comedy, Romance
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she’s crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist.
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Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930) Spencer Gordon Bennet, José Bohr, Myrna Loy, Walter Miller, Comedy, Musical, Western
El Malo, notorious Mexican bandit, forces the Mayor of Sierra Blanca, Seth Landport, to open the safe and turn over to him 2,000 pesos, which the bandit gives a promissory note for to the Mayor.
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Julia Misbehaves (1948) Jack Conway, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Comedy, Romance
1936. Julia Packett, a London chorus girl, is always in trouble financially, but she always seems to manage to land on her feet by using her feminine wiles to manipulate the men in her life with a smile on her and usually their faces.
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Gang Tapes (2001) Adam Ripp, Darris Love, Darontay McClendon, Don Cambell, Crime, Drama
When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
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Something Wild (1961) Jack Garfein, Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Drama
Mary Ann Robinson, a young woman living in The Bronx, New York, with her neurotic, overbearing mother and kindly but ineffectual stepfather, is raped while walking home one night.
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Prizzi’s Honor (1985) John Huston
Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Read More »
The Unholy Night (1929) Lionel Barrymore, Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Dorothy Sebastian, Mystery, Thriller
On a dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) Charles Lamont, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team’s vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou hire themselves out as travelling companions to archeologist Kurt Katch. Before long, Katch is murdered by a group of cultists, and a medallion, embossed with a map which leads to a sacred burial site, is accidentally swallowed by Costello. The boys become the unwilling pawns of the cultists, led by Richard Deacon, and a greedy adventuress, played by Marie Windsor. The last scene finds Costello being menaced by three mummies, two of them bogus.
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Out of the Past (1947) Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he’s ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. Read More »