George Bricker — Playwright (20)
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Cry Vengeance (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Cry Vengeance
director: Mark Stevens actor: Mark Stevens / Martha Hyer …
other title: Il terrore dei gangster / Narbengesicht …
Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he was scarred, framed, and imprisoned. On release, Vic has but one desire, revenge on still-hiding Tino Morelli.
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If I'm Lucky (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
If I'm Lucky
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Vivian Blaine / Perry Como …
Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singer would make a better stooge. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between the band's singers. When election day approaches, the band's singer wants out of the campaign, but the machine threatens to smear him and his pals in the band if he quits.
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King of the Underworld (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
King of the Underworld
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Kay Francis …
other title: El rey del hampa / Hommes sans loi
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Inside Job (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Inside Job
director: Jean Yarbrough actor: Preston Foster / Ann Rutherford …
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
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The Big Noise (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Big Noise
director: Frank McDonald actor: Guy Kibbee / Warren Hull …
other title: Mr. Trent schlägt dem Alter ein Schnippchen
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
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The Mark of the Whistler (1944) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Mark of the Whistler
director: William Castle actor: Richard Dix / Janis Carter …
other title: Das Zeichen des Whistlers / Falsa Identidad …
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
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Heartaches (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Heartaches
director: Basil Wrangell actor: Sheila Ryan / Edward Norris …
Up-and-coming Hollywood actor/crooner, Vic Morton, has a secret. He starts receiving death threats in the mail and an attempt on his life is made. Soon after, two of his associates are murdered. Who is behind it all?
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Man in the Dark (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Man in the Dark
director: Lew Landers actor: Edmond O'Brien / Audrey Totter …
other title: L'uomo nell'ombra
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.
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Murder by Invitation (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Murder by Invitation
director: Phil Rosen actor: Wallace Ford / Marian Marsh …
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
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Pillow of Death (1945) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Pillow of Death
director: Wallace Fox actor: Lon Chaney Jr. / Brenda Joyce …
other title: La almohada de la muerte / Pillow of death
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
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The Dancing Masters (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Dancing Masters
director: Malcolm St. Clair actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Maestri di ballo / Gøg og Gokke som danselærere …
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.
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Macao (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Macao
director: Josef von Sternberg actor: Robert Mitchum / Jane Russell …
other title: L'avventuriero di Macao / Le Paradis des mauvais garçons …
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?