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The Invisible Menace (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Invisible Menace
director: John Farrow actor: Boris Karloff / Marie Wilson …
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
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The Story of Molly X (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Story of Molly X
director: Crane Wilbur actor: June Havoc / John Russell …
Molly's husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he's shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Disguised as a noble woman, she and her gang rob security transports. But when one day Rob confesses to her that he killed Rick out of jealousy, she shoots him down immediately. In lack of proof she can't be convicted for the murder, but she goes to jail for the robberies. It's a new and very open female prison, where she learns a profession for the first time in her life.
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Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Roger Touhy, Gangster
director: Robert Florey actor: Preston Foster / Victor McLaglen …
other title: El último gangster
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
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Hell's Kitchen (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hell's Kitchen
director: E.A. Dupont / Lewis Seiler actor: Margaret Lindsay / Ronald Reagan …
other title: Acciaio umano
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Crime School (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Crime School
director: Lewis Seiler / William Clemens actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gale Page …
other title: Schule des Verbrechens / L'Ecole du crime
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
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Outside the Wall (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Outside the Wall
director: Crane Wilbur actor: Richard Basehart / Marilyn Maxwell …
other title: Yo fui presidiario / Ins Leben entlassen …
Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.
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The Bat (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Bat
director: Crane Wilbur actor: Vincent Price / Agnes Moorehead …
other title: Il mostro che uccide / Flagermusen …
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.