Stanley Ridges
1) The suspect
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Philip Marshall is a kind, henpecked accountant who strikes up a friendship with Mary Gray, a young unemployed stenographer who had approached him for work. He gradually finds himself falling in love with her, but keeps the relationship platonic. With his wife suspecting him of having an affair, Philip asks her for a divorce, but she refuses and threatens him with exposure and scandal. When his wife is found dead of an apparent accident, Inspector...
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Criterion collection volume 670
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"As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick,...
7) Let us live
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A compelling drama about two men who are accused of a crime they didn't commit, and the woman who is determined to see them cleared.
8) Possessed
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She loves him when he goes away for months. She loves him when he refuses to marry her. But when callow David Sutton chooses to marry someone else, Louise Howell's love for him takes a darker turn. Give her a gun and she'll love him to death.--Container
10) This is the Army
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Screen adaptation of the stage play that raised nearly $2 million for Army Emergency Relief. Features real-life GIs in a tale of a father and son who put on a show before the son marches off to war.
11) Canyon passage
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Among the pioneers of the untamed Oregon Territory of the 1850s is pack-mule express owner Logan Stuart, light-fingered banker/gambler George Camrose, Camrose's fiancée Lucy Overmire, a villainous outlaw named Honey Bragg and gunfighter Johnny Steele, the friend of a man Camrose has killed.
Dana Andrews plays Logan Stuart a scout turned general store and freight company owner, based in the mining settlement of Jacksonville, Oregon. Logan's best...
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The Black cat (1 hr. 6 mins.): Two honeymooners find themselves stranded at the house of a Satanist.
The Raven (1 Hr., 2 mins.): A retired surgeon conspires with an escaped murderer to wreck vengeance on a prominent family.
The Invisible ray (1 Hr. 20 mins.): A group of scientists discover the remains of a meteorite that exhibits extremely strange properties.
Black Friday (1 Hr. 11 mins.): A doctor gives an injured friend a partial brain transplant,...