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Ride, Cowboy, Ride (1939)
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George Amy actor: Dennis Morgan / Maris Wrixon …
Dinny and his cowhand friends rescue Laura from a runaway stagecoach after it is robbed by outlaw Pancho Dominguez and his gang. Dinny is attracted to Laura, who isn't interested in him at all. The climax arises when Pancho's gang raids the town and robs the bank.
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Adventures of Casanova (1948)
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Roberto Gavaldón actor: Arturo de Córdova / Lucille Bremer …
other title: Abenteuer auf Sizilien / El burlador de Sicilia
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one of the patriots, Lorenzo, and desires to escape from the palace. Her lady-in-waiting, Zanetta, enlists the aid of Casanova and he rescues them and takes them to the partisan's camp. The rebels are victorious. Lady Bianca makes plans to marry Lorenzo, and Casanova and Zanetta have similar plans.
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Hell's Kitchen (1939)
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Lewis Seiler / E.A. Dupont actor: Margaret Lindsay / Ronald Reagan …
other title: 地獄廚房 / El refugio infernal
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Crime School (1938)
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Lewis Seiler / William Clemens actor: 亨弗莱·鲍嘉 / Gale Page …
other title: Schule des Verbrechens / L'Ecole du crime …
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
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Outside the Wall (1950)
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Crane Wilbur actor: 理查德·巴塞哈特 / 玛丽莲·麦斯威尔 …
other title: 高墙之外 / 高牆之外 …
Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger. There is a $1,000,000 robbery of an armored car, and one of the robbery gang turns up at the sanitarium. So Nelson works a money-making, shady deal with an inmate, but soon finds himself a clay pigeon for other members of the gang. Meanwhile,sweet-and-wholesome nurse, Ann Taylor, is doing her best to make Larry see he needs to take another direction.
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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)
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戈登·道格拉斯 actor: 弗兰克·洛夫乔伊 / 菲利浦·凯瑞 …
other title: 联邦调查局的大红人 / 为局入党 …
A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.
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The Bat (1959)
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克兰·威尔伯 actor: 文森特·普莱斯 / 阿格妮丝·摩尔海德 …
other title: 蝙蝠 / ヴィンセント・プライスのザ・バット …
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.