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A young couple turn themselves in after hiding money from a bank robbery, and refuse to say where they hid the cash, which leads to one problem after another. Dir. James Cruz.
- January 29, 2021
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Bentley and Summerfield team up as reporter and his assistant to investigate a series of murders.
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Vigilante hero Judex (Channing Pollack) goes after Favraux (Michel Vitold), a crooked banker who defrauded scores of unwitting lenders. To make him pay for his crime, Judex slips the swindler a potion at the engagement party of his daughter Jacqueline (Édith Scob). Favraux appears to drop dead; one grave-digging expedition later, Judex has revived the big shot to administer justice! But the avenger will still have to keep one eye on Favraux’s scheming governess, Diana Monti (Francine Bergé).
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Embezzler’s young daughter survives a plane crash in Africa, befriending a gorilla who protects her. Years later, however, treasure hunters appear searching for the embezzler’s loot. Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Dir. Sam Newfield
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Prank playing college student gets mixed up with an heiress who is being guarded from a group of kidnappers.
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Navajo was one of a group of intelligent “chamber” westerns turned out by Lippert productions in the 1950s. Technically, it’s not a western at all, but what would later be termed a “docudrama.” Shot on location at a Navajo Indian Reservation, the film features nonprofessional Native Americans in the major roles. Francis Kee Teller plays Son of the Hunter, a young Navajo boy who is separated from his family so that he may be given his government-dictated mandatory education. Disdaining the “white” world, Teller runs from his instructors. The two tenderfeet find themselves in a perilous situation, from which the savvy Teller must rescue them. One of the teachers is played by Hall Bartlett, the producer of Navajo (and, parenthetically, the then-husband of actress Rhonda Fleming).
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Stoker in a Welsh coal town risks his life to save the mine after a gas leak.
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Newspaper attempts to boost ad sales by offering a reward to anyone who can locate aging safecracker Jimmy Valentine. Unfortunately two old men come forward claiming to be the robber. Dir. Lewis D. Collins