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- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Sabotage 1939
Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka’s wife Sylvia Sidney doesn’t suspect Homolka of any wrongdoing, but she’s picked up enough secondhand information about her husband’s activities to arouse the interest of government agent John Loder.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Hollow Triumph aka The Scar 1948
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller takes a new identity, with ironic results.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Bullet Train 1975
Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on First of a Few AKA Spitfire 1942
Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, The 1946
A ruthless, domineering woman is married to an alcoholic D.A., her childhood companion and the only living witness to her murder of her rich aunt seventeen years earlier.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Trapped! 1949
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Topper Takes a Trip 1938
To gain entry to Heaven, a ghost attempts to reunite a divorcing couple as a good deed.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Pitfall 1948
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- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA 1946
An all-black Caribbean island resort welcomes flashy dancer Gertie La Rue, forced to perform in this remote spot because she two-timed Al, her Harlem lover and backer, once too often. As Gertie amuses herself by dazzling the local men with her sex appeal, sanctimonious Mr. Christian (shades of ‘Rain’) schemes to either reform her or have her thrown off the island. On opening night, her sensuous performance exceeds Christian’s worst fears…but more serious trouble awaits.