Harry Kurnitz — Playwright (15)
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The Web (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Web
director: Michael Gordon actor: Ella Raines / Edmond O'Brien …
other title: Passione che uccide / Das Netz …
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
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The Inspector General (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Inspector General
director: Henry Koster actor: Danny Kaye / Walter Slezak …
other title: L'ispettore generale / Generalinspektøren …
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
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One Touch of Venus (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
One Touch of Venus
director: William A. Seiter / Gregory La Cava actor: Robert Walker / Ava Gardner …
other title: Il bacio di Venere / Venus macht Seitensprünge …
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
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Fast and Furious (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fast and Furious
director: Busby Berkeley actor: Franchot Tone / Ann Sothern …
other title: El desfile peligroso / Mon mari court encore …
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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I Love You Again (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I Love You Again
director: W.S. Van Dyke actor: William Powell / Myrna Loy …
other title: Ti amo ancora / Liebling, du hast dich verändert …
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Land of the Pharaohs (1955) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Land of the Pharaohs
director: 霍华德·霍克斯 actor: 杰克·霍金斯 / 琼·柯琳斯 …
other title: 金字塔 / 金字塔血泪史 …
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
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How to Steal a Million (1966) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB
How to Steal a Million
director: William Wyler actor: Audrey Hepburn / Peter O'Toole …
other title: Come rubare un milione di dollari e vivere felici / Sådan stjæler man en million …
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
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玻璃丝袜 (1957) [Movie] Douban
Silk Stockings
director: 鲁本·马莫利安 actor: 弗雷德·阿斯泰尔 / 赛德·查里斯 …
other title: 纸醉金迷 / Silk Stockings
翻拍自《妮诺契卡》
A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell, with the help of Steve Canfield, an American movie producer.