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The Desperate Hours (1955) starring Humphrey Bogart, Frederic March, Arthur Kennedy

The Desperate Hours

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The Desperate Hours (1955) starring Humphrey Bogart, Frederic March, Arthur Kennedy

Director William Wyler’s suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. And the result is everything you’d expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has everything to lose, as his family is held hostage by Bogart. As the desperate hours tick by, the two men square off in a battle of wills and cunning that tightens into an unforgettable, fear-drenched finale.

The Desperate Hours

Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)

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Song lyrics to Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me), music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for the 1941 film Blues in the Night

My momma done tol’ me
When I was in knee-pants
My momma done tol’ me, “Son,
A woman gon sweet-talk!
And give you the glad-eyes,
But when that sweet-talk is done:
A woman’s a two-faced
A worrisome thing
That’ll leave you to sing the blues…
In the night.”

Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)
Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn

Desk Set

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Desk Set (1957), starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn

In Desk Set, a TV-network researcher with an amazing memory humors an efficiency expert. He’s been sent to improve her department – and lay off her staff? This is progress?

Desk Set
Walt Disney's Cinderella

Walt Disney’s Cinderella

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Walt Disney’s Cinderella (1950)

Description of Cinderella

This version of CINDERELLA is the original Walt Disney animated classic based on Charles Perrault’s 17th-century fable about a poor stepdaughter transformed into a vision of beauty and sent to the royal ball by her Fairy Godmother to meet her Prince Charming and live happily ever after. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound Recording, Best Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Song (“Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo”).

Walt Disney’s Cinderella

Bluebeard 1944

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John Carradine delivers the strongest performance of his career in this taut, suspenseful version of the Bluebeard legend. Carradine is the nefarious Gaston, an artist and puppeteer in 19th century Paris who strangles lovely young models when they fail to meet his exacting standards of perfection. Gaston’s new model, Lucille, learns of his shocking secret and bravely vows to bring him to justice.

Bluebeard 1944
Quicksand (1950) starring Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates

Quicksand

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Each bad decision gets Danny Brady deeper in quicksand. In only one week, he’s gone from being an honest auto mechanic to a criminal on the run for the Mexican border. His charges: grand theft, kidnapping, battery and murder.

Quicksand
Quatermass 2 (1957) starring Brian Donlevy

Quatermass 2

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In Quatermass 2, Professor Quatermass, still shook up from London’s refusal to proceed with his project to colonize the Moon, is intrigued by the mysterious traces that have been showing up on his radar – meteorites crashing to the Earth! Following them where they should be landing, he finds a destroyed village, a mysterious factory too close to his designs for the Moon colony for comfort, and some strange, aerodynamic objects containing a mysterious, ammonia-based gas that infects one of his assistants. Officially, the factory is producing synthetic food; but despite the veil of secrecy surrounding it Quatermass succeeds in finding out it harbours aliens with deadly designs on the Earth…

Quatermass 2
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