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Casanova's Big Night (1954)
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Norman Z. McLeod actor: Bob Hope / Joan Fontaine …
other title: La grande notte di Casanova / Der Schürzenjäger von Venedig …
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the desperation of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo must journey to Venice on a delicate mission far beyond his capabilities.
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Captive Women (1952)
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Stuart Gilmore actor: Robert Clarke / Robert Bice …
In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.
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Port Sinister (1953)
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Harold Daniels actor: James Warren / Lynne Roberts …
A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.
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The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
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Raoul Walsh actor: Jack Benny / Alexis Smith …
other title: La tromba squilla a mezzanotte / Der Engel mit der Trompete …
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
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Just Before Dawn (1946)
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William Castle actor: Warner Baxter / Adele Roberts …
other title: Il caso Foster
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
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Murder Is My Beat (1955)
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Edgar G. Ulmer actor: Paul Langton / Barbara Payton …
other title: Danger is My Beat / Mord ist mein Geschäft
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
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So Dark the Night (1946)
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Joseph H. Lewis actor: Steven Geray / Micheline Cheirel …
other title: Così scura la notte / Noche trágica
Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper’s daughter, Nanette, who is already betrothed to a local farmer. On the evening of their engagement party, Nanette and the farmer both disappear. Cassin takes up the case immediately to discover what happened to them and who is responsible.
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Escape in the Fog (1945)
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Budd Boetticher actor: Otto Kruger / Nina Foch …
other title: Fuga en la niebla / Fuite dans la brume
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.