Watch Classic Movie Detour an 1945 noir thriller film that stars Tom Neal and Ann Savage.
Chance events trap hitch-hiker Al Roberts in a tightening net of film noir trouble.
Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Producer: Leon Fromkess
Screenplay: Martin Goldsmith
Based on the 1939 novel Detour: An Extraordinary Tale by Martin Goldsmith
Narrator: Tom Neal
Music: Leo Erdody
Cinematography: Benjamin H. Kline
Editor: George McGuire
Distributor: Producers Releasing Corporation, Peter Rodgers Organization
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Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.
The film is about a “grassroots” political campaign created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist with the involvement of a hired homeless man and pursued by the paper’s wealthy owner.
It became a box office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story. It was ranked #49 in AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Cheers. It was the first of two features Capra made for Warner Brothers, after he left Columbia Pictures.
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
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Summary: A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said he’d be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
Director: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Screenplay: Robert Riskin
Story: Richard Connell, Robert Presnell, Sr.
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematography: George Barnes
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Distributor: Warner Bros.
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Nothing Sacred is an American Technicolor screwball comedy film directed in 1937 by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March. with a supporting cast featuring Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. Ben Hecht was credited with the screenplay based on a story by James H. Street, and an array of additional writers, including Ring Lardner, Jr., Budd Schulberg, Dorothy Parker, Sidney Howard, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman and Robert Carson made uncredited contributions.
The lush, Gershwinesque music score was by Oscar Levant, with additional music by Alfred Newman and Max Steiner and a swing number by Raymond Scott’s Quintette. The film was shot in Technicolor by W. Howard Greene and edited by James E. Newcom, and was a Selznick International Pictures production distributed by United Artists.
IMDb Rating:7.4/10
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Summary: Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont receives the news that her terminal case of radium poisoning from a workplace incident was a complete misdiagnosis with mixed emotions. She is happy not to be dying, but she, who has never traveled the world, was going to use the money paid to her by her factory to go to New York in style. She believes her dreams can still be realized when Wally Cook arrives in town. He is a New York reporter with the Morning Star newspaper. He believes that Hazel’s valiant struggle concerning her impending death is just the type of story he needs to resurrect his name within reporting circles after a recent story he wrote led to scandal and a major demotion at the newspaper. He proposes to take Hazel to New York both to report on her story but also to provide her with a grand farewell to life. She accepts. Wally’s story results in Hazel becoming the toast of New York. In spending time together, Wally and Hazel fall in love. Hazel not only has to figure out what to do about her relationship with Wally, but also how to conclude her now very public story, which all of New York expects will be a public and imminent death. Others, however, may conclude the story for her.
Starring: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly
Director: William A. Wellman
Producer: David O. Selznick
Writer: Ben Hecht (screenplay)
Based on Letter to the Editor 1937 short story Cosmopolitan by James H. Street
Music: Oscar Levant
Cinematography: W. Howard Greene
Editor: James E. Newcom
Production Company: Selznick International
Distributor: United Artists
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Stars: Don Castle, Peggy Knudsen, Patricia Knight
Director: James Tinling
A newly-elected district attorney is kidnapped just before he takes office by the town’s crooked political boss with the intention of replacing him with an ex-convict who is his exact double! Outstanding supporting cast with Charles McGraw, Jeff Chandler, and James Arness !
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Killer Dill (1947)
Killer Dill is a 1947 American film directed by Lewis D. Collins set in 1931 during the Prohibition Era.
Low key lingerie salesman Johnny Dill loses his girlfriend Judy Parker to his longtime friend, the charming lawyer William T. Allen. And when he takes his assistant Millie Gardner to a movie, all she talks about is the manly gangster hero Big Nick Moronie. Discouraged by the fact that every woman seems to want something completely different from what he has to offer, Johnny decides to change his ways and become more of a tough gangster himself to improve his chances. He drops into a bar and plays out his new act in full, succeeding in upsetting the real Big Nick Moronie, who is considered to be “public enemy number 21” on the ranking.
Big Nick has a beef with “public enemy number 24”, Maboose, but when he sends his goon Little Joe, who should be called Big Joe, to mess with the lower ranked gangster, he is paid to kill Big Nick instead. A while later Little Joe kills Big Nick in the gangsters own apartment, which is just across the hall from Johnny’s. Little Joe doesn’t know how to dispose of the body, so he puts it in one of Johnny’s lingerie trunks, without Johnny’s knowledge.
When Johnny later finds the body in his trunk he puts it into the back of a car and drives off. The body falls of the car when Johnny is chased by a police car. Everyone thinks Johnny is the one who did off with Big Nick, and all over the news he is called “Killer Dill”. Eventually he comes out of his hiding and a trial ensues. He is defended by his old friend William, and is found not guilty.
Everyone still believes he is the killer, and in the gangster world he is now known as “public enemy number 21” after the person he supposedly killed. Johnny is out of the ashes and into the fire, since Big Nick’s brother Louie is eager to get revenge. After advice from the slightly incompetent William, Johnny tries to team up with Maboose for protection. But Little Joe is also making a deal with Maboose, to get rid of Louie. Before Louie is killed, Johnny bumps into Little Joe, and threatens him with a toy gun. Afraid of being shot, Little Joe confesses to killing Big Nick, and Johnny makes him write down a statement where he takes responsibility for the murder. Louie overhears their conversation, and when Little Joe eventually discovers that the gun is a toy and starts strangling Johnny, Louie comes to the rescue. Little Joe is thrown out the window. William, who has worked for Maboose all along, makes Johnny destroy the statement to not incriminate his boss. Judy finally sees what a stand-up guy Johnny really is. She breaks off her engagement to William, and proposes to Johnny instead.
Directed by Lewis D. Collins
Produced by Max M. King
Written by Alan Friedman (story)
John O’Dea (writer)
Music by John Thompson
Cinematography William A. Sickner
Edited by Martin G. Cohn
Distributed by Screen Guild
Release dates
2 August 1947
Running time
75 minutes
Country United States
Language English
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Seven Sinners (1936)
Seven Sinners is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings and Felix Aylmer.[1] An American detective and his sidekick are called to Britain to take on a gang of international criminals.
Edmund Lowe … Edward “Ed” Harwood
Constance Cummings … Caryl Fenton
Thomy Bourdelle … Monsieur Paul Turbé
Henry Oscar … Axel Hoyt
Felix Aylmer … Sir Charles Webber
Joyce Kennedy … Elizabeth Wentworth
O. B. Clarence … Registrar
Mark Lester … Chief Constable (Captain Fitzgerald)
Allan Jeayes … Heinrich Wagner
Anthony Holles … Reception Clerk
David Horne … Hotel Manager
Edwin Laurence … Guildhall Guide
James Harcourt … Vicar
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Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
Nancy Drew… Reporter is a 1939 American film directed by William Clemens and starring Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew.
The film was produced by Warner Bros, but has since slipped into the public domain and is available on home video in a number of issues in addition to Warner’s official DVD set containing the other three films as well (which are still copyrighted).
With the death of Dickie Jones on July 7, 2014, there are no surviving cast members of the movie.
Nancy Drew, competing in the local newspaper’s amateur reporter contest, clears a girl named Eula Denning of murder charges.
Directed by William Clemens
Produced by Bryan Foy
Hal B. Wallis
Jack L. Warner
Written by Kenneth Gamet
Based on Nancy Drew stories by Mildred Wirt Benson
Starring Bonita Granville
Music by Heinz Roemheld
Cinematography Arthur Edeson
Edited by Frank DeWar
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release dates
February 18, 1939
Running time
68 minutes
Country United States
Language English