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Sextette (1978)
Summary: Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number 6. As luck would have it, an international conference is taking place in the same hotel and the Russian delegate (one of Marlo's former husbands) is threatening to derail the negotiations unless he can have one more fling with his ex. Adding to the complications is a tape Marlo has made detailing all of her affairs and scandals, which her manager is desperately trying (and failing) to destroy. (imdb)
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Five Golden Dragons (1967)
Summary: A con artist who fleeces wealthy widows falls for his latest mark. (TCM.com)
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Ladies Man, The (1961)
Summary: After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females? (imdb)
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
Summary: When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in (imdb)
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Bullet for Joey, A (1955)
Summary: Montreal: the former well-known gangster Joey Victor is fetched from Europe, where he was deported to from USA. His shall kidnap the nuclear physicist Dr. Macklin and bring him behind the Iron Curtain. Joey reactivates his old gang, including the formerly attractive Joyce. She shall seduce the erotically inexperienced Macklin and lure him out of his closely protected quarters. But the FBI becomes suspicious. (imdb)
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Black Widow (1954)
Summary: A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. (imdb)
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Rogue Cop (1954)
Summary: Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Chris has contacts with the gangster Beaumonte, who is willing to pay $15,000 if Eddie withdraws his testimony. But Eddie is an honorable cop and refuses. Beaumonte makes sure that Eddie is killed. After his death, Kelvaney starts to track down his brother's killer. (imdb)
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Loan Shark (1952)
Summary: A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. (imdb)
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Red Light (1949)
Summary: Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. (imdb)
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Race Street (1948)
Summary: Nice-guy bookie Dan Gannin plans to quit the racket; he's opening a new night club with his torch-singing sister as main attraction. But Dan's best friend Hal runs afoul of "protection" crooks, and Dan goes after them like a one-man police force despite the admonishments of Lt. Barney Runson. But there's one thing Dan didn't bargain on. (imdb)
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Christmas Eve (1947)
Summary: To save her fortune from a designing nephew, Matilda Reid must locate her three long-lost adopted sons in time for a Christmas Eve reunion. (imdb)
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Whistle Stop (1946)
Summary: Beautiful Mary returns to her small hometown after many years from Chicago wearing a mink coat and carrying an expensive cigarette case. Her arrival causes long standing enmities to surface between two of her old boyfriends, Kenny Veech, a loafing gambler, and debonair Lew Lentz, owner of a local nightclub... (imdb)
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Nocturne (1946)
Summary: Police detective Joe Warner investigates the shooting of womanizing composer Keith Vincent. Evidence points to suicide and that is the official verdict, but Joe doesn't buy it and obsessively keeps looking, tracking down one discarded love after another, despite being ordered off the case. (imdb)
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Johnny Angel (1945)
Summary: Johnny Angel sets out to learn who hijacked a gold shipment from his father's ship and killed his father, the captain. He is joined in the search by Paulette, whose own father has been killed by the hijackers. (imdb)
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Follow the Boys (1944)
Summary: During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players. (imdb)
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Background to Danger (1943)
Summary: Foreign agents struggle to retrieve some mysterious documents in World War II Turkey.
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Manpower (1941)
Summary: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One night Hank and Johnny meet Fay Duval in a clip joint, but tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases. (imdb)
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House Across the Bay, The (1940)
Summary: An aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of prison. (imdb)
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They Drive by Night (1940)
Summary: Two brothers struggle as wildcat truck drivers; one comes to harm, the other is accused of his friend's murder. (imdb)
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Summary: Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. While his friends at the newspaper try to find out who framed him, Frank gets hardened by prison life and his optimism turns into bitterness. He meets fellow-inmate Stacey and they decide to help each other. (imdb)
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Invisible Stripes (1939)
Summary: Cliff and Chuck leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes enough to enable his brother Tim to buy a garage and marry his sweetheart, Cliff quits crime again. But when he tries to help Chuck later on, he's implicated again. (imdb)
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Spawn of the North (1938)
Summary: Friends since childhood, two men are on opposite sides in a salmon fishing conflict. (imdb)
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You and Me (1938)
Summary: An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store. (imdb)
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Souls at Sea (1937)
Summary: Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842. (imdb)
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She Couldn't Take It (1935)
Summary: The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of patriarch Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered, bubble-headed wife (Billie Burke) has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such. His spoiled children Tony and Carol (Joan Bennett) have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. (imdb)
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Bolero (1934)
Summary: This is the story of an egotistical nightclub dance performer named Raoul, his determination to succeed at all costs, and the only woman in his life that truly matters to him, a dancing partner named Helen. (The highlight of the film is a dance performed atop a circular stage to a truncated version of Ravel's "Bolero.") (imdb)
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Bowery, The (1933)
Summary: "In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous." The scene opens in a saloon named "Nigger Joe's" (imdb)
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Night After Night (1932)
Summary: A successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girl, who doesn't know about his past. Complications ensue when some ex-girlfriends from his boxing days show up. (imdb)
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If I Had a Million (1932)
Summary: Wealthy John Glidden wants to give his money away to strangers rather than have his relatives fight over it. We see the effect the gifts have on many different sorts of individuals. (imdb)
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Taxi! (1932)
Summary: Independent cab drivers struggling against a taxi company consortium find a leader in Matt Nolan. (imdb)
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Scarface (1932)
Summary: An ambitious and near insanely violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. (imdb)
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