Robert E. Kent — Playwright (23)
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The Miami Story (1954) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Miami Story
director: Fred F. Sears actor: Barry Sullivan / Luther Adler …
other title: Asfalto rosso / Ausgeräuchert …
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
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Guns Girls and Gangsters (1959) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Guns Girls and Gangsters
director: Edward L. Cahn actor: Mamie Van Doren / Gerald Mohr …
other title: La banda di Las Vegas / Gangster, Gin und scharfe Hasen …
Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is a trigger happy and jealous hothead and will not grant her a divorce. Mike escapes from prison right before the armored truck job goes into motion and promises trouble as he tries to locate his associates and his wandering wife.
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Philo Vance Returns (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Philo Vance Returns
director: William Beaudine actor: William Wright / Vivian Austin …
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
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The Werewolf (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Werewolf
director: Fred F. Sears actor: Steven Ritch / Don Megowan …
other title: Il mostro della California / Le Loup-Garou …
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
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Inside Detroit (1955) IMDb TMDB
Inside Detroit
director: Fred F. Sears actor: Dennis O'Keefe / Pat O'Brien …
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
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Don't Knock The Rock (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Don't Knock The Rock
director: Fred F. Sears actor: Bill Haley / Alan Dale …
other title: I frenetici / Außer Rand und Band 2. Teil …
Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor and other concerned adults have banned him from performing in his hometown because they consider him and his music a negative influence on the youth. But with the help of disc jockey/publicist Alan Freed and fellow artists (including Bill Haley and the Comets and Little Richard), they hope to convince everyone that rock and roll is not as dangerous as the adults think.
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Twice-Told Tales (1963) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Twice-Told Tales
director: Sidney Salkow actor: Vincent Price / Sebastian Cabot …
other title: L'esperimento del dottor Zagros / Das Gift des Bösen …
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
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Find the Blackmailer (1943) IMDb TMDB
Find the Blackmailer
director: D. Ross Lederman actor: Jerome Cowan / Faye Emerson …
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
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The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Fastest Guitar Alive
director: Michael D. Moore actor: Roy Orbison / Patricia Donahue …
Confederate super-spy Johnny and his partner in crime Steve travel to San Francisco near the end of the Civil War, masquerading, respectively, as a singer/guitar instructor and a magic-elixir vendor. Once there, Johnny dons a fake wig, beard and mustache, and steals Union gold to bring back to the South, aided by a guitar that doubles as a gun.