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Mexican Manhunt (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mexican Manhunt
director: Rex Bailey actor: George Brent / Hillary Brooke …
Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that occurred fifteen years ago. It's an obsession for Dave to solve that murder.
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The Tougher They Come (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Tougher They Come
director: Ray Nazarro actor: Wayne Morris / Preston Foster …
Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long time, he has been courting a pretty young thing, and now that she believes him wealthy, she decides to finally accept his proposal. When she finds out that the company has many financial woes and that living in the woods takes guts and courage, she turns into a nagging shrew, constantly urging him to sell-out to a major corporation. Meanwhile his treacherous foreman, an agent of the bigger company, uses sabotage to change the stubborn camp owner's mind.
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If I'm Lucky (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
If I'm Lucky
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Vivian Blaine / Perry Como …
other title: 鸿运歌王
Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singer would make a better stooge. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between the band's singers. When election day approaches, the band's singer wants out of the campaign, but the machine threatens to smear him and his pals in the band if he quits.
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Lure of the Islands (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lure of the Islands
director: Jean Yarbrough actor: Margie Hart / Robert Lowery …
other title: 裸女迷春
Tana, a voluptuous half-caste girl of the South Seas, falls in love with FBI agent Wally and wishes to marry him and leave the island. Wally, with his pal Jinx, is there to investigate rumored Japanese spy activity. He agrees to marry her if she will help him in his investigations. Through the discovery of a contraband radio set tuned to Japanese reception, Wally learns that the local Commandant is in league with the enemy and is planning an invasion of the island.
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Arctic Flight (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Arctic Flight
director: Lew Landers actor: Wayne Morris / Lola Albright …
Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy United States businessman. But, in reality, he is a Russian spy on his way to Siberia carrying microfilms of the United States' defense installations.
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Buried Alive (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Buried Alive
director: Victor Halperin actor: Beverly Roberts / Robert Wilcox …
other title: Enterrado vivo
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
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Law of the Jungle (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Law of the Jungle
director: Jean Yarbrough actor: Arline Judge / John 'Dusty' King …
Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry Mason leaves for the jungle with his servant, Jeff and a safari. Nona escapes the café into the jungle but is followed by the agents as, unknowing to her, she is carrying a report of the agent's activities. She joins the safari just as all hands are captured by a tribe of natives
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Murder by Invitation (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Murder by Invitation
director: Phil Rosen actor: Wallace Ford / Marian Marsh …
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
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Cry Vengeance (1954) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cry Vengeance
director: Mark Stevens actor: Mark Stevens / Martha Hyer …
other title: Narbengesicht / La vengeance de Scarface …
Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he was scarred, framed, and imprisoned. On release, Vic has but one desire, revenge on still-hiding Tino Morelli.
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The Mark of the Whistler (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Mark of the Whistler
director: William Castle actor: Richard Dix / Janis Carter …
other title: Das Zeichen des Whistlers / 吹哨人的印記 …
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
director: Herbert I. Leeds actor: 彼得·洛尔 / Warren Hymer …
other title: Mr. Moto und die geheimnisvolle Insel / M. Moto en péril …
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.