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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Sorry, Wrong Number
director: Anatole Litvak actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Burt Lancaster
other title: Il terrore corre sul filo / Galt nummer
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
The Best Years of Our Lives
director: William Wyler actor: Dana Andrews / Fredric March
other title: I migliori anni della nostra vita / De Bedste År
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Ziegfeld Girl (1941) [Movie] TMDB
Ziegfeld Girl
director: Busby Berkeley / Robert Z. Leonard actor: James Stewart / Judy Garland
other title: Le fanciulle delle follie / Mädchen im Rampenlicht
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Mighty Joe Young (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mighty Joe Young
director: Ernest B. Schoedsack actor: Terry Moore / Ben Johnson
other title: Il re dell'Africa / Panik um King Kong
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
The Spider (1931) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Spider
director: Kenneth MacKenna / William Cameron Menzies actor: Edmund Lowe / Lois Moran
other title: La araña
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Villain Still Pursued Her
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Hugh Herbert / Anita Louise
other title: Boire et Déboires / Die Unschuld und der Bösewicht
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
Blues in the Night (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Blues in the Night
director: Anatole Litvak actor: Priscilla Lane / Betty Field
other title: El canto a la vida
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
Trapped by Television (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Trapped by Television
director: Del Lord actor: Mary Astor / Lyle Talbot
other title: Hvad Fjernsynet afslørede
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
The Wild Party (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Wild Party
director: Dorothy Arzner actor: Clara Bow / Fredric March
other title: L'allegra brigata / La loca orgía
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
They Drive by Night (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
They Drive by Night
director: Raoul Walsh actor: George Raft / Ann Sheridan
other title: Strada maestra / Nachts unterwegs
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Imitation of Life (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Imitation of Life
director: John M. Stahl actor: Claudette Colbert / Louise Beavers
other title: Lo specchio della vita / Espelho da Vida
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Turnabout (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Turnabout
director: Hal Roach actor: Adolphe Menjou / Carole Landis
other title: L'errore del dio Chang / volte-face
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.