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So Your Wife Wants to Work (1956)
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Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. How will this work out?

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This Rebel Breed (1960)
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other title: Lola's Mistake / Sie kannten keine Gnade
To combat the problem of drug-dealing juvenile delinquents operating in racial gangs, two recent police academy graduates are sent to a local high school, posing as students. [Initially released in theaters in 1960 as "This Rebel Breed", it was re-released as "The Black Rebels" five years later, re-edited with the addition of a handful of dialogue-free scenes of youths making out in a bedroom, with partial female nudity.]

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Flaxy Martin (1949)
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other title: Blondes Gift / Almas desviadas …
Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.

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So You Want a Television Set (1953)
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Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbours begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refrigerator. To escape the turmoil, Joe leaves, and goes to the movies, where he finds himself sitting between Doris Day and Gordon McRae.

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Wicked, Wicked (1973)
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理查德·L·贝尔 actor: 大卫·贝利 / Tiffany Bolling …
other title: 摧花怪客 / Bis die Gänsehaut erstarrt
Simmons, the manager of a seaside hotel in California, has a problem: Guests are turning up dead, and Sgt. Ramsey, the hotel's detective, has no information as to the identity of the murderer. The only thing anybody knows is that the killer wears a strange mask and has a fondness for blonde women. As Ramsey tracks down a list of suspects that includes the hotel handyman, Lisa, the hotel's lounge singer, finds herself in danger.

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So You Want to Be a Detective (1948)
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理查德·L·贝尔 actor: 乔治·奥汉隆 / 阿特·吉尔摩
other title: 如果你想做个侦探
Joe McDoakes (George O'Hanlon) daydreams that he's private eye "Phil Snarlow" in this general parody of 40s hard-boiled detective films and specific spoof of the subjective camera technique used in Robert Montgomery's "Lady in the Lake" (1946).

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This Side of the Law (1950)
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理查德·L·贝尔 actor: 韦薇卡·琳德佛斯 / 肯特·史密斯 …
other title: 法律背面 / Gangster ohne Gnade …
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with a nefarious lawyer who persuades him to impersonate a wealthy man who went missing 7 years ago.

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So You Think You're Not Guilty (1950)
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other title: 所以你认为你无罪
Joe McDoakes (George O'Hanlon) pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence...