Jack LaRue
Author
Language
English
Description
Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a baby photographer who fantasizes being a private eye. A baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks for help locating her missing husband. This is followed by sinister doings in a gloomy mansion & sanatorium, with Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney Jr. Hope's character ends up framed for murder with every plot twist & parody of thriller cliches imaginable.
Publisher
Treasure Box Collection
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Gangs, Inc. (1959): After seeking revenge for the death of her boyfriend, a woman finds herself in jail on a hit and run charge. In one of his earliest roles, Alan Ladd plays an undercover reporter doubling for a notorious gangster in this gripping tale of tragedy and political corruption. Gangster story: When an escaped jewel thief pulls off an unbelievable bank robbery, he catches the attention of the local crime boss, who wants a piece of the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bing and Bob get caught up in a race to stake their claim to the veins of a Klondike gold mine after nabbing the deed from a couple of vicious killers. Since the boys themselves are skipping town after a shady deal, they decide to adopt the murderers' identities and take the opportunity to get to know the beautiful and ambitious Dorothy Lamour.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Loosely adapted from William Faulkner's controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers' hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Loosely adapted from William Faulkner's controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
8) Virtue
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"This fast-paced comedy-drama features Pat O'Brien as an honest, enterprising cab driver and Carole Lombard as Mae, a prostitute he mistakes for an unemployed stenographer. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, Mae's past comes back to haunt her when a duplicitous acquaintance implicates her in a sordid affair that she tries to hide from her husband."--Container.
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
American gangster Steve Marco runs a nightclub in London with rackets on the side which the police suspect, but can't prove. Inspector Hammond starts to close in when Marco unwisely kills Joe Lane, who has threatened to go to the police about Marco's past.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An heiress is kidnapped by small time hoods, only to find herself seized from them by a gangster who isn't just interested in her for the ransom money. Despite her terrifying ordeal, Miss Blandish finds herself perversely attracted to the gang leader. They plan to run off together, but a double cross could be just around the corner.
12) Special agent
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In order to indict racketeer Alexander Carston for tax evasion, undercover treasury agent Bill Bradford woos gangland bookkeeper Julie Gardner and gets her to hand over the ledgers. Informed by a snitch that Julie is getting ready to testify, Alexander takes steps to silence her.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were...