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Stars: Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell
Director: Roger Corman
Writers: Robert Hill (screenplay), Victor Stoloff (screenplay)
Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls.
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Scarlet Street is an American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on the French novel La Chienne (The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir. The principal actors Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea, had earlier appeared together in The Woman in the Window (1944) also directed by Fritz Lang. The three were re-teamed for Scarlet Street.
Christopher “Chris” Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a meek, amateur painter and cashier for clothing retailer, J.J. Hogarth & Company, is fêted by his employer, honoring him for twenty-five years of dull, repetitive service. Hogarth presents him with a watch and kind words, then leaves getting into a car with a beautiful young blonde. Walking home in Greenwich Village, Chris muses to an associate, “I wonder what it’s like to be loved by a young girl.” He helps prostitute Kitty (Joan Bennett), an amoral fast-talking femme fatale, he sees apparently being attacked by a man, stunning the assailant with his umbrella. Chris is unaware that the attacker was Johnny (Dan Duryea), Kitty’s brutish boyfriend, and sees her safely to her apartment building. Out of gratitude and bemusement, she accepts his offer for a cup of coffee at a nearby bar. From Chris’s comments about art, Kitty believes him to be a wealthy painter, adding, “To think I took you for a cashier.”
Soon, Chris becomes enamored of her because his loveless marriage is tormented by his shrewish wife Adele (Rosalind Ivan), who idolizes her former husband, a policeman drowned while trying to save a woman. After Chris confesses that he is married, Johnny convinces Kitty to pursue a relationship in order to extort money from Chris. Kitty inveigles him to rent an apartment for her, one that can also be his art studio. To finance an apartment, Chris steals $500 in insurance bonds from his wife and later $1000 from his employer. Meanwhile, Johnny unsuccessfully tries selling some of Chris’s paintings, attracting the interest of art critic David Janeway.
Kitty is maneuvered by Johnny into pretending that she painted them, charming the critic with Chris’s own descriptions of his art, and Janeway promises to represent her. Adele sees her husband’s paintings in the window of a commercial art gallery as the work of “Katherine March” and accuses him of copying her work. Chris confronts Kitty, who claims she sold them because she needed the money. He is so delighted that his paintings are appreciated, albeit only under Kitty’s signature, that he happily lets her become the public face of his art. She becomes a huge commercial success, although Chris never receives any of the money.
Adele’s supposedly dead first husband, Higgins, suddenly appears at Chris’s office to extort money from him. He explains he had not drowned, but had stolen money from the purse of the suicide he tried to save. Already suspected as corrupt for taking bribes from speakeasies, he had taken the opportunity to escape his crimes and his wife. Chris embezzles again to pay off Higgins, but reasons that his marriage will be invalidated if he confronts his wife with her still-living first husband. He contrives a meeting and believes he can then marry Kitty. However he finds her in Johnny’s arms. He later confronts Kitty, but still asks her to marry him; she taunts him in reply. Enraged with humiliation, he murders Kitty with an ice-pick. Higgins, under arrest, reveals the embezzlement to police and Chris is fired from his job. Johnny is accused, convicted, and put to death for Kitty’s murder, despite his attempts to implicate Chris.
At the trial, all of their deceptions work against Johnny and Chris denies painting any of the pictures. Chris goes unpunished but Kitty is posthumously recognized as a great artist. Haunted by the murder, Chris attempts to hang himself. Although rescued, he is impoverished with no way of claiming credit for his own paintings and tormented by thoughts of Kitty and Johnny being together for eternity loving each other.
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Directed by John Parker, produced by John Parker, Ben Roseman and Bruno VeSota (as Bruno Ve Sota), written by John Parker, starring Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota (as Bruno Ve Sota), Ben Roseman and Angelo Rossitto.
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Source: “Scarlet Street” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 24 April 2013. Web. 12 June 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Street.
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In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton (Charles Miller) the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words “Eternal Fire” are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong (Keye Luke) and Captain Street (Grant Withers) of the police department have to work on. Win Len (Lotus Long), Benton’s secretary, reveals the doctor’s dying words refer to a scroll which tells the location of rich oil deposits. Wong and Street then begin the search for the killer among Benton’s associates.
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Directed by Phil Rosen, produced by Paul Malvern, written by Hugh Wiley and Gilbert Bettison, starring Keye Luke as James Lee Wong, Grant Withers as Police Captain Street, Lotus Long as Win Lee, Charles F. Miller as Dr. Benton, Huntley Gordon as Dr. Norman Wilkes, Virginia Carpenter as Louise Benton, John Dilson as Charles Fraser and Paul McVey as Detective Grady.
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Source: “Phantom of Chinatown” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 30 May 2013. Web. 12 June 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Chinatown
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AGNES LANGSLEY GETS A JOB THROUGH JIM HOLLIS AS A CARETAKER OF A OLD AND VACATED ESTATE. THE OWNERS COUSIN JENNIFER WAS THE LAST OCCUPANT AND MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED. AGNES SOON BEGINS TO BELIEVE THAT JENNIFER WAS MURDERED. AND THAT JIM WHOM SHE HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH IS RESPONSIBLE. STARRING IDA LUPINO AND HOWARD DUFF.
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A man posing as a physician holds up the baggage-car crew and escapes with a $500,000 payroll while the train speeds through the Arizona night. , Paul Bruckner, a fake doctor leaves the train with his “patient” and the “patient’s wife”, who is really Bruckner’s wife Linda. Charlie Norman, an insurance investigator is put on the case to work with the railroad’s investigator Joe. Joe and Charlie are friends. Joe is upset that Charlie and his wife have to postone their vacation to Mexico. Charlie’s concern goes beyond his spoiled vacation as he was behind the holdup. A few month ago Charlie has fallen in love with Linda while he was investigating a claim Bruckner has filed against his insurance company. Joe can find out only waht Charlie wants him to find out about the perferct timetable for the robbery.
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Dr. John Benton the famous explorer, collapses and dies right in the middle of a lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert after he drinks from a water bottle. Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have only one: hs last words “Eternal Fire.” Benton’s secretary Win Lee reveals the doctor’s dying words refer to a scroll which tells the location of oil deposits. Therefore, Wong and Street begin to look for the killer among Benton’s associates.
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Johnny Dill, a door-to-door salesman happens to be the exact double of a notorious gangster. When the gangster murders a rival, Dill is really in trouble. He is then stuck between the forces of good, represented by attorney Allen, and evil.
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Police lieutenant Sam Carson discovers a corpse with gunshots in a car left in front oft he police station. Janet is questions by Carson after her name was found in the dead’s man book. And yes, Bard blackmailed her friend for $20,000. Carson is pressured by Max Calvert, a newspaper owner to arrest Janet in order to hurt her Dad’s election campaign for mayor. Calvert orders to substitute the body for another one to distract from the fact that the man died from poison not the gunshot. Carson also interviews Nora, Bard’s estranged wife and her boyfriend.
Lieutenant Carson questions that the gunshot was fatal as there was not enough blood. Nora’s lying about her part of the story complicates the situation.
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“Killer Dill” is an American film directed by Lewis D. Collins. The movie is about the Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, an exact double of a notorious gangster, who finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
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Directed by Lewis D. Collins, produced by Max M. King, written by Alan Friedman (story) and John O’Dea (writer), starring Stuart Erwin as Johnny ‘Killer’ Dill, Anne Gwynne as Judy Parker, Frank Albertson as William T. Allen, Mike Mazurki as Little Joe, Milburn Stone as Maboose, Dorothy Granger as Millie Gardner, Anthony Warde as Louie Moroni, Dewey Robinson as McGowan (house detective), , Ben Welden as Big Nick Moroni, Julie Gibson as Joan (model), Shirley Hunter as Gloria, Lola Jensen as Other model (with Joan
Margaret Zane as Girl with Gloria) and Stanley Ross as Mushnose.
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Source: “Killer Dill” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 4 April 2013. Web. 29 May 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Dill.
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“Daughter of Horror” (also known in a slightly altered version as “Dementia”) is an American film by John Parker, incorporating elements of the horror film, film noir and expressionist film. It was produced in 1953, but not released until 1955.
A young woman awakens from a nightmare in a run down hotel. She leaves the building and wanders through the night, passing a newspaper man. The news headline “Mysterious stabbing” catches her eye, and she quickly leaves. In a dark alley, a whino approaches and grabs her. A policeman rescues her and beats up the drunken man. Shortly later, another man approaches her and talks her into escorting a rich man in a limousine. While they cruise the night, she remembers her unhappy youth with an abusive father, whom she stabbed to death with a switchblade after he had killed her unfaithful mother. The rich man takes her to various clubs and then to her noble apartment. As he ignores her while having an extensive meal, she tries to tempt him.
When he advances her, she stabs him with her knife and pushes the dying man out of the window. Before his fall, he grabs her pendant. The woman runs down onto the street and, as the dead man’s hand won’t relieve her pendant, cuts off the hand while being watched by faceless passerby’s. Again, the patrol policeman shows up and follows her. She flees and hides the hand in a flower girl’s basket. The pimp shows up again and drags her into a night club, where an excited audience watches a jazz band playing. The policeman enters the club, while the rich man, lying at the window, points out his murderess with his bloody stump. The crowd encircles the woman, laughing frantically. The woman wakes up in her hotel room, her encounters have supposedly been a nightmare. In one of her drawers, she discovers her pendant, clutched by the fingers of a severed hand. The camera leaves the hotel room and moves out into the streets, while a desperate cry can be heard.
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Directed by John Parker, produced by John Parker, Ben Roseman and Bruno VeSota (as Bruno Ve Sota), written by John Parker, starring Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota (as Bruno Ve Sota), Ben Roseman and Angelo Rossitto.
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Source: “Dementia (film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 4 April 2013. Web. 29 May 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_of_Horror.
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