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The Clay Pigeon (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Clay Pigeon
other title: Bersaglio umano / Le Pigeon d'argile
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California.
The Key (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Key
director: Carol Reed actor: William Holden / Sophia Loren
other title: La chiave / A Chave
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
Mackenna's Gold (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Mackenna's Gold
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Gregory Peck / Omar Sharif
other title: L'oro di Mackenna / Mackenna's Guld
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Skybridge Douban WikiData
The Bridge on the River Kwai
director: David Lean actor: William Holden / Alec Guinness
other title: Il ponte sul fiume Kwai / Broen over floden Kwai
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.