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That ruckus in Europe? Churchill and Roosevelt can have it. Gloves Donahue is too busy laying his peepers on the Saratoga morning line or noodling out another way to rub up against considerable dough. But when someone bumps off the little old man who bakes Gloves' favorite cheesecake, well, this means war! Humphrey Bogart had fun in the change-of-pace role of Gloves, and the fun is winningly contagious in a spoof that pits him against Nazi spies.
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Society grande dame Alice Grenville is appalled when her son marries Ann, an El Morocco showgirl. She snubs her unsuitable daughter-in-law until the young woman unloads a shotgun at what she claims is a prowler, but turns out to be her husband. Then Alice and her elite friends come to the rescue, protecting Ann from a murder charge rather than subject their moneyed circle to the unpleasantness of police and publicity.
4) The window
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Tommy habitually tells tall tales and nobody believes him when he witnesses a murder through a tenement window.
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Working-class dreamers Jonah and Olaf fish the Brooklyn waters and ponder their glorious plan: buy a big boat and head for sunny Cuba. Then an amoral gangster puts the squeeze on the few bucks they've saved and puts the moves on Jonah's daughter, a restless good girl who'd just as soon be bad. And the two friends, the two gentle souls, begin a new plan: murder.
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A fast-food tycoon, his ex-wife and a gourmet magazine publisher are involved in a fast and funny murder mystery. The publisher is ordered by his doctor to give up his favorite dishes to lose weight, and one by one the creators of those dishes are murdered--in the manner of their specialties!
9) Stage fright
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When her friend is accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer, an aspiring actress disguises herself as a maid to help him prove his innocence.
10) The unfaithful
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"The wages of sin are deceit, heartbreak and possibly murder in a thriller about a wife who has an affair while her GI husband is off fighting in the Pacific. Then, after the war and happily reunited with her husband, she stabs the castoff lover in what may or may not be a case of self-defense"--Container.
11) Out of the past
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A one-time private investigator walks the straight and narrow of small-town life until an acquaintance from his past pulls him back into the troubles he'd left behind.
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Guilty - beyond a reasonable doubt - such is the incontrovertible law which pardons the innocent and condemns the guilty. But just how fallible is the process of law? To what extent can deceit, prejudice and the cruel powers of fate intervene to set a murderer free, or send an innocent man to the electric chair ...
Crusading publisher Austin Spenser wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective...
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Ten people--eight strangers and two married domestics--attend a posh weekend at a remote castle. Each has unwittingly been invited to his or her own murder. A familiar nursery rhyme of ten Indian figurines is affixed to a serving plate at the castle. After the fatal poisoning of a guest, one figurine goes missing. One down, nine to go.
15) The money trap
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An underpaid police detective lives high on the hog on his wife's inheritance until her stocks stop paying dividends. Then he and his partner turn their backs on impeccable service records to become involved in robbery, murder and drug trafficking.
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"The Sarah Rose American Teen Princess Pageant is a beauty contest to die for. And that's exactly what the contestants in Mount Rose, Minnesota are doing. Ever since the vivacious-but-vicious former beauty queen Gladys Leeman started pushing her charm-challenged daughter, Rebecca, to win at all costs, the competition has been dropping like flies"--Container.
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Soon after L.A. police detective Mike Carter is bounced from the force, the officer who fired him is found dead. Suspect #1: Mike Carter. While the police dragnet draws tighter, Carter scrambles to clear his name, connecting the dots involving Pasadena bluebloods, the meat-packing industry and cop corruption.
18) The hunted
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Laura insists she didn't do the crime. But she did the time, swearing she would murder the incompetent attorney who represented her at her jewel-theft trial. Not long after her release from prison, the attorney's gunned down body is found. Laura flees. Tracking her is a detective Laura had also threatened with death: Johnny Saxon, who years back had arrested her for the jewel theft and who once loved, perhaps even still loves her.
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"Based on Parks's own semi-autobiographical novel, [the film] follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic splendor of its heartland setting, this landmark...
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The story of Sergeant Rutledge, a 9th Cavalry officer on trial for rape and murder. Lt. Cantrell defends Rutledge as witnesses give testimony (relived in flashbacks) revealing the sergeant's gallantry, and the shocking truth behind the alleged crimes. Ford, who attacked racism in The Searchers, explores similar territory in this landmark Western, the power of which still rings out with uncommon force decades later.
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