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The Undercover Man (1949) [Movie] TMDB
The Undercover Man
director: Joseph H. Lewis actor: Glenn Ford / Nina Foch
other title: Mani lorde / Alarm in der Unterwelt
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
Shock Treatment (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Shock Treatment
director: Denis Sanders actor: Stuart Whitman / Carol Lynley
other title: Elettroshock / Der Mörder mit der Gartenschere
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
When Worlds Collide (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
When Worlds Collide
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Richard Derr / Barbara Rush
other title: Quando i mondi si scontrano / Verdens undergang
When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
Union Station (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Union Station
director: Rudolph Maté actor: William Holden / Nancy Olson
other title: L'ultima preda / Menschen ohne Seele
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Mystery Street (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mystery Street
director: John Sturges actor: Ricardo Montalban / Sally Forrest
other title: La strada del mistero / Die Tote in den Dünen
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Secret of the Incas (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Secret of the Incas
director: Jerry Hopper actor: Charlton Heston / Robert Young
other title: Il segreto degli Incas / Den skjulte by
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
Sylvia (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sylvia
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Carroll Baker / George Maharis
other title: L'Enquête / Das Vorleben der Sylvia West
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
Rough Night in Jericho (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Rough Night in Jericho
director: Arnold Laven actor: Dean Martin / George Peppard
other title: Due stelle nella polvere / A noite dos pistoleiros
The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-willed widow Molly Lang and her right-hand man, Hickman. Former marshal Dolan, recently hired by Lang and Hickman as a driver, wants to stay out of the mess, but when he sees Flood's henchman Yarbrough assault Lang, he steps up to fight the corruption.