Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel – the classic story of a single day in the famous Berlin hotel, where people’s lives interact to tell a great story …
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All This and Heaven Too
All This and Heaven Too (1940) starring Bette Davis, Charles Boyer
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All This and Heaven Too: In 1840’s France, a governess falls in love with a duke. This leads to disaster for her when the wife dies, and she becomes a suspect. In addition, the death turns out to have major political impact for the entire country.
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Fog Island
Fog Island (1945) starring George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan
Fog Island – a man wrongly sent to prison plans a trap the people who framed him, and find out which were guilty. Very dangerous people …
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Dangerous When Wet
Dangerous When Wet (1953), starring Esther Williams, Jack Carson, Fernando Lamas
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The Founder
The Founder (2016) starring Michael Keaton
The Founder is a story about turning McDonald’s into a national, and international, restaurant chain. It’s a story that is very unflattering to Ray Kroc.
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The Strangler
The Strangler (1964) starring David McLean, Victor Buono, Ellen Corby
Victor Buono is “The Strangler” – a meek, quiet hospital technician, under the thumb of his shrewish mother. Who goes on a killing spree, and leaving the police baffled.
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Stalag 17
Stalag 17 (1953) starring William Holden, Otto Preminger
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Cookie: I don’t know about you, but it always makes me sore when I see those war pictures… all about flying leathernecks and submarine patrols and frogmen and guerillas in the Philippines. What gets me is that there never w-was a movie about POWs – about prisoners of war. Now, my name is Clarence Harvey Cook: they call me Cookie. I was shot down over Magdeburg, Germany, back in ’43; that’s why I stammer a little once in a while, ‘specially when I get excited. I spent two and a half years in Stalag 17. “Stalag” is the German word for prison camp, and number 17 was somewhere on the Danube. There were about 40,000 POWs there, if you bothered to count the Russians, and the Poles, and the Czechs. In our compound there were about 630 of us, all American airmen: radio operators, gunners, and engineers. All sergeants. Now you put 630 sergeants together and, oh mother, you’ve got yourself a situation. There was more fireworks shooting off around that joint… take for instance the story about the spy we had in our barracks…
Nightmare
Nightmare (1956) starring Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy
A jazz musician has a recurring Nightmare about killing a stranger in an odd mirrored room. And suspects that it was all too real …
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How to Steal a Million
How to Steal a Million (1966) starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole
In How to Steal a Million, an art forger’s daughter needs to steal one of his paintings, before he’s exposed – so she hires what she thinks is an expert burglar …
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High Sierra
High Sierra (1941) starring Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino High Sierra stars Humphrey Bogart as a self-destructive ex-con. He’s “just rushing toward death” after an attempted… Read More »High Sierra