Mister 880
Based on a Secret Service file, Mister 880 tells the tale of a sweet old counterfeiter who stymies the U.S. Secret Service for over a decade by passing counterfeit single dollar bills with “Washington” misspelled.
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Don’t Bother to Knock
Don’t Bother to Knock – an excellent drama, where babysitter Marilyn Monroe seduces Richard Widmark … before exposing her psychotic side.
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Keeper of the Flame
In Keeper of the Flame, a war correspondent stumbles on a little known fact: An honored American war patriot had in fact worked for the Fascists. His wife urges the writer to expose the facts for history. But others are willing to kill to prevent that.
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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
Synopsis of All This and Heaven Too
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
Synopsis of Dangerous When Wet
In Dangerous When Wet, Esther Williams stars as a spirited member of a fitness-obsessed family who sets out to swim the English Channel and finds romance along the way.
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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
Academy Award winners William Holden and Billy Wilder reunited for this gripping World War II comedy/drama set in a notorious German prison camp, Stalag 17. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J. J. Sefton—a prisoner at the who spends his days dreaming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special privileges. When two captives are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there may be a spy amongst the soldiers.
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