Machine-Gun Kelly, the famous bank robber, seldom without his Thompson machine gun. The story opens with great jazzy music and a murder shown in shadows. His moll is the driving force behind his exploits. He has an exaggerated fear of death and death symbols. The sight of a coffin makes him freeze during a bank …
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Finger Man is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Harold D. Schuster starring Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker and Peggie Castle . Director: Harold D. Schuster Producers: Lindsley Parsons, John H. Burrows Written by Warren Douglas Story: Norris Lipsius, John Lardner Starring: Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle Music: Paul Dunlap Cinematography: William A. …
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Directed by Robert Florey Starring Faye Emerson and Julie Bishop source
Four episodes of Dusty’s Trail edited together into a movie. The episodes, in the order shown, are: “Tomahawk Territory”, “Horse of Another Color”, “There is Nothing Like a Dame”, and “The Not So Magnificent Seven”. source
The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery. source
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop. source
A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy. source
Frank Johnson flees police after becoming an eyewitness to murder. He is pursued around scenic San Francisco by his wife, a reporter, the police, and… the real murderer. source