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The Pretender (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Pretender
director: W. Lee Wilder actor: Albert Dekker / Catherine Craig …
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
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The Hat Box Mystery (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Hat Box Mystery
director: Lambert Hillyer actor: Tom Neal / Pamela Blake …
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case.
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Violent Road (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Violent Road
director: Howard W. Koch actor: Brian Keith / Efrem Zimbalist Jr. …
other title: Il grande rischio / Carretera infernal
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.
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The Man Is Armed (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Man Is Armed
director: Franklin Adreon actor: Dane Clark / May Wynn …
Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.
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Double Jeopardy (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Double Jeopardy
director: R.G. Springsteen actor: Rod Cameron / Gale Robbins …
other title: Doble chantaje
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
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No Man's Woman (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
No Man's Woman
director: Franklin Adreon actor: Marie Windsor / John Archer …
other title: Treachery
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among them a rich husband she wouldn't divorce unless he paid her a huge settlement, a lover she caused to be fired from his job and an assistant whose fiancé she tried to seduce.
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Shakedown (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Shakedown
director: Joseph Pevney actor: Howard Duff / Brian Donlevy …
other title: Jack il ricattatore / Ohne Skrupel
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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Destination Murder (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Destination Murder
director: Edward L. Cahn actor: Joyce Mackenzie / Stanley Clements …
Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman in charge of the case, Lt. Brewster, lets him go, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. Outraged, Laura worms her way into the unsuspecting Jackie's heart, trying to snare him and mob-connected club owner Armitage in her trap.