Stagecoach (1939)
Stagecoach (1939) A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others.
The Mountain (1956)
Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944) This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison af
Texas (1941)
Texas 1941 Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot To escape a posse, they split up and dont see each other again for a long time When they do meet up again, they find themselves on diff
The High and the Mighty (1954)
The High and the Mighty (1954) One disaster after another happens on this trans-Pacific flight. You have the pilot who loses his nerve! The washed-up co-pilot. The milquetoast flight engineer. The young hot shot second officer. And a cabin full of passengers with every range of problems and personal
Man Without a Star (1955)
Man Without a Star (1955) Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. She needs a tough new top hand and uses all her means of persuasion to get Rae to take the job. But he doesn't like the way the other settlers ar
The Desperadoes (1943)
The Desperadoes (1943) Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to sti
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. His interest is so deep that he finds the best way to observe criminals in action is to become one himself! Whilst robbing a safe at an exclusive party he stumbles across an organized gang tryin
Born to Kill (1947)
Born to Kill (1947) In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but decides not to become involved. The two meet next day on the train to San Francisco unaware of this link between t
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
Marjorie Morningstar (1958) While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew (born 'Ehrman'), but has fallen away fro
Johnny Angel (1945)
Johnny Angel (1945) 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.
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Allegheny Uprising 1939 In British colonial America, Captain Swansons adherence to the rules results in Trader Callendars selling to the Indians under cover of a government permit Jim Smith wont sit still for that He organizes troopers to dress up as Indians and intercept the shipments which, of cou
Safe Conduct (1956)
Safe Conduct (1956) An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.
CrackUp (1946)
CrackUp (1946) George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. In flashback, shortly after proposing to x-ray some old master paintings the museum has on loan, Steele is called on an unplanned nocturn
Dantes Inferno (1935)
Dantes Inferno 1935 Jim Carter moves in on the McWades carnival concession which shows scenes from Dantes Inferno He makes it a going concern, marrying Betty along the way An inspector calls the amusement pier unsafe but Carter bribes him The pier collapses, leading to the inspectors suicide, injury
Street of Chance (1942)
Street of Chance 1942 A nerd discovers hes wanted for murder, after escaping death from wreckage plummeting from a skyscraper Passerby Frank Thompson wakes up in the street, believing its his lucky day, then rushes home to be told that he left his wife a year ago, with no explanation Raven haired Vi
Raw Deal (1948)
Raw Deal 1948 Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison Hes taken the rap for Rick, who owes him 50,000 Rick sets up an escape for Joe, knowing that Joe will be caught escaping and be shot or locked away forever But with the help of his love struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker An
Dark Command (1940)
Dark Command 1940 When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker Politics is in the air however Its just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whe