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Gordon Miller (George Murphy) has a hit in the works, especially since he latched onto a playwright whose real talent is his singing voice. Now Miller must do a lot of flimflamming to get his musical revue onstage before the rubber check underwriting it bounces his troupe from Broadway to the Bowery. As the typewriter-toting crooner, Frank Sinatra steps into his first top billing in this antic backstage musical based on the Broadway/Marx Brothers-movie hit Room Service. With a nimble cast...

He may be an underpaid bank clerk but his voice is worth a million bucks. Frank Sinatra is $42.50-a-week teller Johnny Dalton, who comes across big money -- and big trouble -- in this frothy comedy. It's Only Money, Sinatra sings with his quipster pal Emil (Groucho Marx). Yet lack of it keeps him from marrying fellow bank employee Mibs (Jane Russell). Before you can say "romantic comedy," Johnny rescues a bookie from a beating and receives a betting tip in appreciation. The appreciation...

Hail the conquering hippos! Burl Ives, Robert Morley and Paul Lynde lend their voices to this phantasmagoric animated movie blending dazzling colors, eye-popping visuals and catchy tunes. Summoned to rid the harbor of sharks, the hippos of Zanzibar rise to the challenge. But once their mission's completed, the Sultan's hippocritical minister hunts them all down until only little Hugo remains. Escaping to nearby Dar es Salaam, he's hidden by the local children. But when the adults turn him in...

In this earlier screen version of The Maltese Falcon, Bette Davis starts as a young woman embroiled in the mystery surrounding an ancient, gem-filled horn. Upon her arrival in town, Valerie (Davis) enlists a private investigator and his associate Ted Shayne (Warren William) to help her locate the missing boyfriend she was supposed to meet. Unbeknownst to them, the man they are looking for is also being sought by an assortment of crooks and goons in search of the ram's horn he possesses. When...

Heave-to for homicide. While in port, the USS Carolina is chosen for an urgent test of a new electronic firing system due to its shipshape efficiency record. That reputation will be stained -- in blood -- by a saboteur out to scuttle the trial, no matter how many swabbies and civilians must die. Reuniting Death on the Diamond's producer, director and comedy-relief pair of Nat Pendleton and Ted Healy, Murder in the Fleet is a lively and colorfully cast murder mystery cowritten by naval aviator...

Good news: Switchboard operator Ruth Raymond (Mary Carlisle) is the long-lost daughter of a railroad tycoon. Bad news: The cross-country train trip she takes to claim her birthright is going to be a veritable slay ride. A crazy-quilt concoction stitched together with laughs and chills in equal measure, Murder in the Private Car is a roaring-fast caper wherein a delightfully dithering Charlie Ruggles dubiously comes to the rescue as a "crime deflector." It's a haunted house on wheels, complete...

When Mike Sarno (Kane Richmond) out-cheats Fay Benton (Bernadene Hayes) in a crooked poker game, the two gamblers bury the hatchet and agree to become partners in crime. Posing as brother and sister, the pair finally hits the big time when Mike runs into a gambler (Phil Van Zandt) who owes him a debt and takes over his casino to square it. So as the high-rollers' dough starts pouring in and Mike eventually tires of Fay, he dumps her to get his hands on a gorgeous heiress (Gloria Warren) and...

With her husband ordered to the Russian front, Margot Bracken (Gail Patrick) returns to Hitler's Germany for the first time in 10 years. Appointed section leader of the local youth movement, she finds herself responsible for the Nazification of a group of teenaged girls. Bearing witness to mercy killings, suicides, torture and pagan baptisms, Margot seeks to stop the atrocities before the SS puts an end to both her and her plans. A lurid expose of the Reich's subjugation of women, Women in...

The music and mirth of Eddie Cantor are on ample display in his multitalented madcap masquerades as a matador down Mexico way. Thanks to some boyish mischief cooked up by college pal Ricardo (Robert Young), young Eddie Williams (Cantor) gets expelled from college. Convinced by Mexican native son Ricardo to salve his sorrows south of the border, the hapless Eddie soon gets mixed up with bank robbers. Now on the lam, Eddie reconnects with Ricardo, who convinces him to go undercover as the...

From upper crust to bread crusts! When wealthy Mr. Drake goes broke, the servants hatch a plan to restore his fortune and save their jobs: have a lovely maid pose as Drake's debutante daughter, hoping she'll land a rich beau. Soon, a suitor arrives. "Good morning," he says, "My name is Frank Sinatra." Making his acting debut (he was a vocalist in earlier films) in this merry musical comedy, Sinatra plays the boy next door and (naturally) knows his way around a song, taking on five here,...

Jobs are scarce. Rooms to rent are scarcer. Times aren't easy for returning GIs in the years after World War II. But falling in love, that's easy. It Happened in Brooklyn. And it happens with Frank Sinatra (in a performance critically hailed as the best of his then-young screen career) starring as an ex-soldier and with a lot of humor and Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn songs. The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart, one tune says and, with Sinatra mimicking Jimmy Durante as he socks it over with the...

What do you do when you have a beautiful house, two great children and a Marriage on the Rocks? If you're bored Val Edwards (Deborah Kerr), you swap your fuddy-duddy hubby Dan (Frank Sinatra) for his swinging-bachelor best friend Ernie (Dean Martin) -- and watch the sparks fly. Joining Ol' Blue Eyes in this romantic romp are frequent costars Martin, Cesar Romero and Tony Bill, plus daughter Nancy Sinatra and From Here to Eternity castmate Kerr. The fun starts when the Edwardses take a second...