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Quicksand (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Quicksand
director: Irving Pichel actor: Mickey Rooney / Jeanne Cagney
other title: Kviksand / Sables mouvants
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
The Lonely Man (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Lonely Man
director: Henry Levin actor: Jack Palance / Anthony Perkins
other title: L'uomo solitario / Der Einsame
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...