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Starring Franchot Tone, Alan Curtis and Ella Rains, Phantom Lady is a film noir thriller drenched in moodiness, rain-slicked streets and shadowy atmosphere. Carol Richman (Ella Raines) attempts to clear her boss (Alan Curtis) of a murder he did not commit. His alibi, a woman who was with him at the time of the murder and has since disappeared, falls apart when no one who saw them together will admit it. As she stalks suspects to save the man she loves, Carol faces anger at every turn. Based on...

Newlywed Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino) discovers on her honeymoon that her husband (Stephen McNally) may have murdered her father for business reasons and now wants to kill her. Photographed by Academy Award-winning cameraman William H. Daniels (The Naked City, 1948) for veteran director Michael Gordon (Portrait in Black, 1960), Woman in Hiding marks the first pairing of Lupino and co-star Howard Duff, who would marry in 1951 and appear in four more features together including While the...

Thunder Bay stars James Stewart in a dynamic tale of adventurous wildcatters searching for black gold in the Gulf of Mexico. Steve Martin (Stewart) and his partner (Dan Dureya) are a pair of oil trouble-shooters who attempt to strike it rich despite devastating hurricanes, dangerous love affairs and a hostile town of Cajun fishermen. Along the way, Martin encounters the alluring Stella (Joanne Dru) who fears his explorations will destroy her way of life, but cannot help the attraction she...

Featuring three dozen stars, Variety Girl is a mammoth musical romance on how a movie star is born set amid the "reality" of a Hollywood studio! Playing himself, the incomparable Bob Hope reigns as top comic over one of the most star-studded casts ever assembled including Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and many, many more. Starlet wannabe Amber LaVonne (Olga San Juan) is mistaken for her friend, the beautiful and talented...

The raunchy, hilarious exploits of ten metropolitan policemen explode on the screen in the fast-moving black comedy The Choirboys. James Woods, Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Randy Quaid and Burt Young lead a group of rank-and-file policemen from the Los Angeles Police Department, who look for ways to cope with the pressures of the job. Dubbed "choirboys" for their after hours shenanigans, they meet for "choir practice", periodic relaxation sessions at which the group gets...

Margaret Sullavan sparkles in The Good Fairy, a charming romantic comedy directed by William Wyler and written by Preston Sturges. Leaving the orphanage for a job in the city, Luisa (Sullavan) is a naive young woman who attracts the attention of Konrad (Frank Morgan), a wealthy-but-lecherous meatpacker. Duly warned about the "evils of men," Luisa claims that she is married, a ploy that backfires when Konrad insists upon meeting her husband. Picking a random name from the telephone book, Luisa...

Madame Sousatzka stars Shirley MacLaine as the eccentric, endearing and flamboyant piano instructor who teaches gifted students how to play and how to live. In her dark London flat that serves as a shrine to her troubled musical past, Madame Sousatzka begins teaching a charismatic young prodigy named Manek (Navin Chowdhry). Pulling Manek away from Madame's disciplined teachings are his ambitious mother, a relentless talent agent, and his own desire to follow the reckless whims of a teenage...

Real-life father and daughter John and Hayley Mills star in the swashbuckling romp The Truth About Spring. Tommy Tyler (John Mills), an easy-going Caribbean sailor, is searching for sunken treasure with his tomboy daughter, Spring (Hayley Mills). Things get complicated in their houseboat when a young, wealthy lawyer (James MacArthur) sets sail with them in search of adventure, riches and maybe even love.

Jeff Chandler stars as a Navy Commander on a secret mission in the thrilling pirate adventure Yankee Buccaneer. Rather than going to shore for a year as expected, David Porter (Chandler) finds himself charged with a dangerous, covert operation: disguise his vessel and her crew as a pirate outfit to help capture the criminal masterminds who have been attacking America's merchant fleet. Faced with punishing weather, shark-infested waters, ruthless natives and his irresponsible second-in command...

Showcasing some of the biggest stars in movie history, Star Spangled Rhythm is a hilarious story of a young sailor trying to impress his pals with the glitz and glamour of Hollywood! Whenever Jimmy Webster (Eddie Bracken) calls his father at Paramount Studios, the telephone operator - who thinks Jimmy is a swell catch -- embellishes his father's position from gatekeeper to studio boss. Thinking his father is one of Hollywood's head honchos, Jimmy decides to take his Navy pals on a tour of...

Hollywood legends Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland light up the screen in the charming screwball comedy Skylark. Lydia Kenyon (Colbert) is frustrated by the behavior of her insensitive, workaholic husband, Tony (Milland). When she finally loses her temper and leaves, Lydia soon finds herself in the arms of her handsome divorce lawyer (Brian Aherne). Just when it seems that she will live happily ever after with her new suitor, her husband asks her to say "I do" to his proposition that they...

Two-time Academy Award winner Peter Ustinov wrote, directed and stars in Romanoff and Juliet with the unforgettable Sandra Dee. Set during the Cold War, this charming comedy based on Shakespeare's classic love story follows a tiny European country's President (Ustinov) who holds the deciding vote in a United Nations' debate. Determined to remain neutral, he orchestrates a romance between the American ambassador's daughter (Dee) and the Russian ambassador's son (John Gavin). If the two opposing...