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Marlene Dietrich plays the notorious adventuress Shanghai Lily, who has been jilted by Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook). During the Chinese civil war, the couple meet on a train which is attacked by Chinese rebels. Dietrich becomes involved with a rebel leader in order to save the man she still loves.
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Glass key: "Ed Beaumont ... is the loyal right-hand man of Paul Madvig ... , a slightly corrupt politician who is accused of murder"--Container.
Phantom lady: "Carol Richman ... attempts to clear her boss ... of a murder he did not commit"--Container.
Blue dahlia: "A WWII veteran ... is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger"--Container.
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Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...
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Trotter Polling Company employee Pete Marshall is sent down the back roads and into the backwoods in search of a missing fellow employee. The city slicker soon finds himself mixed up with a family of homicidal hillbillies who are looking for stolen loot hidden on their property.
8) Phantom lady
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An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
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In this woman-in-peril suspense film, set in London, the sanity of a newlywed heiress comes into question when, after a number of unwitnessed near-fatal accidents and life-threatening phone calls, she claims to be the target of a stalker. As time passes and her reports of more calls and a visit from a mysterious stranger nobody else sees are met with skepticism by everybody, the woman begins to unravel and becomes increasingly paranoid, suspecting...
10) Shopworn
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Class conflict ensues when a waitress falls in love with a wealthy college student.
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"Set in the 1930s Depression era during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, [the film] covers three days in the lives of a trio of high-flying circus performers, headlined by former WWII fighter-pilot hero Roger Shumann and his beautiful blonde wife, Laverne. Romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin falls in love with Laverne while covering their daredevil aerial show"--Container.
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Andre Morestan is the owner of a bicycle shop in Paris, serving jury duty for the first time. When Natalie Roguin, a homeless girl accused of murder, is found innocent, Andre feels sorry and invites her into his home. Andre's son, Pierre, immediately becomes smitten with Natalie and starts committing small crimes to aid in the couple₂s engagement, causing Andre to wonder if Natalie isn't all that innocent in the first place.
14) Family honeymoon
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A man gets married for the first time to a widowed mother of three. When their babysitter options fall through, they must take the kids on the honeymoon with them. Making matters worse, his former girlfriend is trying to break them up. Filmed on location in Grand Canyon National Park, this production was the seventh and final film pairing for two of Hollywood's most unforgettable movie stars.
15) Souls at sea
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Nuggin Taylor is a first mate on a slave ship in 1842. When a mutiny overthrows the ship's skipper and leaves him in charge, he frees his cargo. Back in England, charges against Nuggin and his fellow shipmate Powdah are dropped. Nuggin is approached by British intelligence agents and asked to embark on a secret information-gathering mission that could end the African slave trade for good. Nuggin agrees and Powdah accompanies him on a ship bound for...
16) Virtue
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"This fast-paced comedy-drama features Pat O'Brien as an honest, enterprising cab driver and Carole Lombard as Mae, a prostitute he mistakes for an unemployed stenographer. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, Mae's past comes back to haunt her when a duplicitous acquaintance implicates her in a sordid affair that she tries to hide from her husband."--Container.
17) Saskatchewan
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While returning from outpost duty, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector O'Rourke happens upon Grace Markey, the sole survivor of a vicious Indian attack. Upon hearing her story, the naive Mounty Commander Benton believes the Cree are on the war path, not realising the Sioux have set up the confrontation in order to gain allies against the U.S. 7th Cavalry. Only O'Rourke knows the truth and must mutiny in order to save his men and the woman he has...
18) The glass key
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During a campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associates with the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial situation of The Observer to force the publisher Clyde Matthews...
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World War II drama set in the Sahara about a British spy who takes refuge in a hotel and assumes the identity of a dead manservant. Soon, General Rommel makes the inn his general staff headquarters. Now, with the threat of discovery hanging over his head, the spy learns that the identity he has claimed owes a debt to the Nazis -- and they expect him to pay up.
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Coroner Creek (1948): In a departure from his usual roles as an upright hero with an inviolate moral code, Scott plays a man hell bent to avenge the murder of his fiancée, no matter the cost. Starring Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman and George Macready. Color film directed by Ray Enright.
The walking hills (1948): A lust for gold drives a ragtag band of travelers into the shifting sands of Death Valley, where their true characters will be revealed....