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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
During a campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associates with the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial situation of The Observer to force the publisher Clyde Matthews...
4) Phantom lady
Series
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012.
Edition
Full frame.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A young man and woman, trying to make a go of it in New York City, share an apartment on a shift basis. Never seeing each other as they come and go, they communicate solely by increasingly hostile notes... until they finally meet. Remade as Living on love (1937).
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
LOVE AFFAIR (1932) -- Here he is enterprising, modest and occasionally perplexed as a working class aircraft engineer who is pursued and eventually seduced by a wealthy but jaded socialite (Dorothy Mackaill). Typical of the Pre-Code era, the film is notable for scenes of sexual suggestiveness and moments of refreshingly frank dialogue courtesy of Jo Swerling and Ursula Parrott.
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (1949) -- A tense courtroom drama with undercurrents...
11) Stingaree
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Opera singer Hilda Bouveri falls in love with an outlaw disguised as a composer.
12) Double harness
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A scheming female tricks a playboy into marrying her and then realizes she really wants to stay married.
13) A foreign affair
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A foreign affair: Phoebe Frost, an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an Army captain in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
John J. Bramble, the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner and chambermaid who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel and his German staff. Posing as the hotel's waiter, Bramble attempts to infiltrate Rommel's inner circle and report the general's plans to the Allies.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Full screen version].
Language
English
Description
So dark the night: "A complicated story of a Parisian detective ... who falls in love while on vacation, only to see the woman murdered"--Container.
Johnny O'Clock: "Johnny O'Clock ... is a junior partner is a posh casino with Guido Marchettis ... but is senior in the eyes of Nelle, Guido's wife and Johnny's ex. This love triangle leads to a web of complications, leaving Police Inspector Koch ... to unravel the threads of deceit and a murdered casino...
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