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  • January 29, 2021
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A very British comedy about a blackmailer and his victims.

A man’s wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.

Murder on shipboard for the possession of a secret device.

A Korean immigrant in L.A. encounters difficulties when he refuses to join the all-Korean gang in his highschool.

Ex-boxer takes over when the head of the Department of Weights and Measures is almost killed, and is immediately faced with corruption and graft.

Originally three TV episodes linked by narration to form a feature. The boys join the US Embassy in reuniting a ballerina with the missing journalist she’s in love with. Next it’s to Paris where they get mixed up with smugglers, and finally, Lum and Abner break the bank at Monte Carlo.

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.

Bentley and Summerfield team up as reporter and his assistant to investigate a series of murders.

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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