Helen Walker

Stanton Carlisle is an ambitious carnie who plays scams alongside phony mentalist Zeena and her alcoholic husband Pete, working the crowd as Zeena pretends to read their minds. But Stan has no intention of staying with the carnival; he has his heart set on an upscale night club act.

Millionaire industrialist Walter Williams is marked for murder by his wife and her lover. When the plot ends in a fiery disaster, Williams is thought dead. In reality, he finds himself without a clue of who he is or what happened. As his memory returns, his life becomes a roller coaster ride of suspense and excitement.

Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch.

Former serviceman Monty Brewster learns that a wealthy unknown uncle has died, leaving him eight million dollars. A stipulation in the will demands that he spend the first million in just two months or forfeit the entire inheritance. Desperate to get rid of the money, he starts businesses and makes deliberately bad investments, but things go awry as the ventures begin earning rather than losing money.

"Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival. Stanton Carlisle [is] a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him down a path of moral degradation and self-destruction. Although its strange, sordid atmosphere shocked contemporary audiences, this long-difficult-to-see reflection of postwar angst has now taken its place as one of the defining noirs...

Lucky Jordan stars Ladd as a racketeer, who gets drafted into the U.S. Army and will do anything to get out of it--even go AWOL. Two Years Before the Mast stars Ladd as Charles Stewart, the spoiled son of a ship magnate who gets shanghaied onto one of his father's ships. O.S.S. stars Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald as members of an American spy ring during World War II. They're sent into France with the objective of destroying the French railway system....