Abner Biberman
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Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy to an insurance salesman, but not without a fight. The crafty editor uses every trick in his fedora to get Hildy to write one last big story about murderer Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The plot snowballs as Williams' friend Molly Malloy, the crooked mayor, and his mother get tied up in Walter's web.
2) Captain Kidd
Author
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
1945
Language
English
Description
British pirate William Kidd and his bounty of ruthless pirates capture Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hide the bounty in a cave, hoping to come back for it eventually. Three years later, Captain Kidd, posing as a sea captain, offers his services to the king as an escort ship. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and property, if he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. On his mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's...
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Roy Turner is a man with a violent past who is prematurely released from an overcrowded institution. Realizing that he cannot handle the pressures of big-city life, he moved into a small-town beachside motel and falls in love with Susan Mayes, the daughter of the motel's owner. When her father finds out about Roy, he threatens to have hime recommitted unless he leaves his daughter alone. Roy snaps, and commits a crime from which there is no turning...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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A group of convicts escape friom the big house, killing a guard, kidnapping the warden, and forcing a reluctant inmate to accompany them. However, when a car crash kills everyone except for Tully and Gavin, the wicked warden steals $100,000 of the escapees' loat, then accuses the innocent inmate of the guard's murder in order to cover up his own crime.
8) The looters
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a plane crashes in the snow-capped Rocky Mountains of Colorado, two mountain-climbing mercenaries, Pete and Jesse, set out on their trail to rescue the survivors. But Pete is lured by the $250,000 in cash they find among the plane's debris and plans a real robbery against the survivors - with the final elimination of all witnesses.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Spy Hunt: During the Cold War, several spies hunt for an escaped panther with a microfilm concealed in its collar following a train derailment in Switzerland.
The Night Runner: After he is prematurely released from an overcrowded institution, a mental patient with a violent past moves to a small seaside town and falls in love.
Step Down to Terror: A killer takes refuge in his childhood home where his mother and his dead brother's widow are unaware...
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The early 1960s were a time with a TV landscape thought of as more innocent than today, but behind the scenes, changes were roiling the nation. Into this fray stepped a groundbreaking series based on true stories from the nation's high school students and the teachers charged with tending them. James Franciscus stars as John Novak, an idealistic, novice teacher, while storied stage and screen veteran Dean Jagger costars as his mentor, Principal Albert...
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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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A woman's vengeance: When his invalid wife Emily dies of a heart attack, it frees Henry to marry his young mistress. Confiding her suspicions that Henry murdered her patient, Emily's nurse is encouraged by a neighbor to tell the police.
I was a shoplifter: Cop Jeff Andrews agrees to go undercover to shadow the sticky-fingered Faye Burton, a judge's daughter who has been coerced into working for a professional shoplifting ring run by ruthless pawnbroker....