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Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
5) Al Capone
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An account of the life of Al Capone, tracing his rise to the top of Chicago's underworld.
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Stuart Palmer's immortal crime-solving school teacher Hildegarde Withers came to the screen courtesy of a series of mysteries from RKO Pictures. Memorably played by character great Edna May Oliver in three features, Hildegarde was ably paired with her flirty foil of Inspector Piper in the person of James Gleason. Gleason would go on to anchor the series, appearing in all six, alongside Helen Broderick for one and Zasu Pitts for the final two. --Amazon.com....
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A woman is in prison for her role in a bank heist, where a reformer falls in love with her. When her "partners" are killed in a jailbreak attempt that she's involved in, she thinks that he is the one who tipped off the authorities. But she learns to trust his love for her, and eventually returns his love and leaves her past behind. Pre-Hollywood Production Code women's prison picture
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Harry Morgan is an honest charter-boat captain who is facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer, as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde, making a series of compromises that stretch his morality, and his marriage, farther than he₂ll admit.
9) Red light
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Johnny Torno thinks everything's "jake" thanks to the safe return of his brother Jess from a POW camp. But trouble is brewing in the form of his ex-employee, embezzling book keeper Nick Cherney, who's currently serving time for dipping his hand into Johnny's trucking company till. Cherney tasks fellow con Rocky with revenge delivery, and the deed sends Johnny out into the streets, desperately searching for a missing Bible and the meaning behind a...
10) The split
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The L.A. Coliseum is the target of a crew of thieves that stage a daring daylight robbery only to fall out when over a half million dollars goes missing and each one is accusing the other of having the money.
11) The money trap
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An underpaid police detective lives high on the hog on his wife's inheritance until her stocks stop paying dividends. Then he and his partner turn their backs on impeccable service records to become involved in robbery, murder and drug trafficking.
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After the dawn of sound and before the Production Code, Hollywood ran wild and free. Fearlessly and frankly tackling subjects and scenes that would quickly become forbidden to a generation of filmmakers, these seldom-seen pre-Code wonders are both revelatory and sin-sational. This fifth volume takes a walk on the wild side.
Hard to handle: Con leads to con when the prize money for a rigged dance marathon is stolen.
Ladies they talk about: "Nan Taylor,...
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Freebie and Bean are two outrageous plainclothes policemen searching for evidence they need to convict a gangster. Fearing their suspect may get caught by the "Mob", the bungling duo set out to protect their investment by hitting the hit men sent to dispose of him.
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Susan Starrling sees something no child should ever see: her stepmother's murder. Traumatized and withdrawn, she cannot help her imprisoned father, who's been wrongly convicted of the crime and faces execution, and she retains only the troubling image of the killer's shadow. Susan becomes the charge of two people: a dedicated psychiatrist, who resolves to heal Susan and unlock the child's dark secret, and Susan's worried Aunt Dell, who would rather...
15) Hard to handle
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After the dawn of sound and before the Production Code, Hollywood ran wild and free. Fearlessly and frankly tackling subjects and scenes that would quickly become forbidden to a generation of filmmakers, these seldom-seen pre-Code wonders are both revelatory and sin-sational. This fifth volume takes a walk on the wild side. This collection includes: Hard to Handle (1933), Ladies They Talk About (1933), The Mind Reader (1933), Miss Pinkerton (1932)....
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A melodrama where Crawford plays a hardened mobster who's about to go blind. On top of this she is being watched by the police and is burdened by an overly jealous boyfriend. She goes to Indianapolis to consult an expert eye surgeon to repair her eyes and ends up falling hopelessly in love with him. Will she be able to forget her seedy past and make a fresh start?
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The hatchet man: A Tong executioner allows his wife to run off with a gangster only to learn she's been sold into prostitution.
Skyscraper souls: A financier stops at nothing to gain control of a 100-story office building and a naive young woman.
Employees' entrance: A tyrannical department store manager chases after profits and a young woman.
Ex-lady: An artist who doesn't believe in marriage reluctantly weds her lover only to discover he's seeing...
18) The Yakuza
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Retired detective Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) is called upon by an old friend, George Tanner (Brian Keith). Tanner has been doing business with a yakuza gangster, Tono (Eiji Okada), who has taken Tanner's daughter and her boyfriend hostage to apply pressure in a business deal involving the sale of guns. Tanner hopes that Kilmer can locate and rescue the girl using his Japanese connections.
19) Winter kill
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The ski resort Police Chief Sam McNeill is the target of a serial killer who leaves no clues, except taunting messages spray-painted next to the bodies of his, or her, victims.
20) Guilty hands
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When a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.