The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Based on a story by Oscar Wilde. A corrupt young man somehow retains his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to everyone.
Directed by Albert Lewin
Starring George Sanders
Hurd Hatfield
Donna Reed
Angela Lansbury
Peter Lawford
Lowell Gilmore
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The 39 Steps, 1935
A man(Robert Donat) comes to the aid of a young woman(Madeleine Carroll) only to get involved in a cloak and dagger chase through London and Scotland. The mysterious spy activities culminates in a novel climax. Donat and Carroll are flawless. Their banter will influence movie dialog for decades to come. This mystery is not that easily unwound.
A perfect example of the genius of Hitchcock's pre-war British period.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring
Robert Donat
Madeleine Carroll
Lucie Mannheim
Godfrey Tearle
10
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Directed by John Huston
Starring
Humphrey Bogart
Walter Huston
Tim Holt
Bruce Bennett
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The Spiral Staircase (1946)
In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Starring
Dorothy McGuire
George Brent
Ethel Barrymore
7
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Forbidden 1932
A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.
Directed by Frank Capra
Starring
Barbara Stanwyck
Adolphe Menjou
Ralph Bellamy
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The Third Man 1949
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
Cast
Orson Welles as Harry Lime
Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins
Alida Valli (credited as Valli) as Anna Schmidt
Trevor Howard as Major Calloway
Paul Hörbiger as Karl, Lime's porter (credited as Paul Hoerbiger)
Ernst Deutsch as "Baron" Kurtz
Erich Ponto as Dr. Winkel
Siegfried Breuer as Popescu
Hedwig Bleibtreu as Anna's old landlady
Bernard Lee as Sergeant Paine
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Crabbin
33
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HIGH SIERRA 1941 Crime/Drama 1h 40m
Aging mobster Big Mac (Donald MacBride) is looking to pull off one more heist before he retires. With his sights set on robbing a California casino, Big Mac breaks one of his former associates, Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), out of prison to mastermind the job. When the robbery goes awry, Earle is forced to go on the lam and settles for the night in the hills of the nearby Sierra Nevadas. But, with the cops on his tail, Earle is soon forced to fend off the law from the mountains.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Director: Raoul Walsh
Writer: W. R. Burnett, John Huston
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 24, 1941 Wide
Cast
Ida Lupino as Marie Garson
Humphrey Bogart as Roy Earle/Roy Collins
Alan Curtis as Babe Kozak
Arthur Kennedy as Red Hattery
Joan Leslie as Velma
Henry Hull as "Doc" Banton
Henry Travers as Pa Goodhue
Jerome Cowan as Healy
Minna Gombell as Mrs. Baughman
Barton MacLane as Jake Kranmer
Elizabeth Risdon as Ma Goodhue
Cornel Wilde as Louis Mendoza
Donald MacBride as Big Mac
Paul Harvey as Mr. Baughman
Isabel Jewell as Blonde
Willie Best as Algernon
Spencer Charters as Ed
George Meeker as Pfiffer
Robert Strange as Art
John Eldredge as Lon Preiser
Sam Hayes as Announcer
Zero as Pard
Eddie Acuff as Bus Driver (uncredited)
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