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Guns Girls and Gangsters (1959)
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other title: Gangster, Gin und scharfe Hasen / Armes à feu, les filles et les Gangsters …
Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is a trigger happy and jealous hothead and will not grant her a divorce. Mike escapes from prison right before the armored truck job goes into motion and promises trouble as he tries to locate his associates and his wandering wife.

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
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other title: Dick Tracy contra Siniestro / 迪克·特雷西的恐怖遭遇 …
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

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Juvenile Court (1938)
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Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.

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The Werewolf (1956)
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other title: 狼人 / 变种狼人 …
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.

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Rock Around the Clock (1956)
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弗雷德·F·西尔斯 actor: 比尔·哈雷 / Rudy Pompilli …
other title: 昼夜摇滚 / 阿飞舞
它也许是世界上第一部真正的摇滚电影,也是摇滚这个词第一次被用到电影中,以今天的眼光来看,它其实和一部纪录片差不多,因为片中的情节几乎可以忽略不记,台词也只是对音乐的铺垫,它真正的意义在于汇集了摇滚乐最早一批乐手歌手的现场演出,并用这些疯狂在现实世界里引出更多疯狂,由于比尔·哈利、“彗星”等人的演出实在疯狂,而引起的骚乱又太多,所以在英国众多城市遭到禁映。

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Twice-Told Tales (1988)
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西德尼·萨尔科夫 actor: 文森特·普莱斯 / 塞巴斯蒂安·卡伯特
other title: 重讲一遍的故事 / Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales …
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.