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Jazz Age singing sensation Ruth Etting (Doris Day) had looks, ambition and a haunting, smoketinged voice. It took more than that to make her a star. It took Marty 'The Gimp' Snyder (James Cagney), the limping, evil-tempered Chicago hood who propelled Ruth from dingy dance halls to Broadway fame...but turned her offstage life into a nightmare of violence and fear.
Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blain (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this Frank Loesser (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) masterpiece, unleashing a "spectacular, song-and-dance show that's loaded with entertainment" (New York Journal-American). Featuring hits like "Luck Be a Lady" and "A Woman in Love," this smash film version of one of Broadway's most popular musicals is guaranteed, rip-roaring "four-star entertainment" (New York Daily News). The slickest big-time New York City gamblers, Sky Masterson (Brando) and Nathan Detroit (Sinatra), can't resist making or taking a bet on anything. So when a pretty...
Bathed in lurid Technicolour, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features a all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her performance) as his nymphomaniac sister.
Between Heaven and Hell opens with Sam Gifford (Robert Wagner) in action on an island in the Pacific. This film is not merely a straightforward Pacific war story, and Gifford is not just a simple hero. Flash backs to Gifford's life as a rich plantation owner, reveal him as being contemptuous of his sharecroppers, whether they are white or black, ignoring his wife Jenny's (Terry Moore) pleas to treat them better. In battle, Gifford gets the shakes and is sent, despite his combat nerves, into the interior. His new commander, Waco (Broderick Crawford), is more than a little crazy and almost as dangerous as the enemy. Gifford, along with others under Waco's command, feels much safer deep in...
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Marlon Brando scorches the screen in this powerful '50s cult classic about a biker gang that terrorizes a small California town. What's Johnny rebelling against? "What have you got?" he sneers. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny, his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival, Chino--plus the hostility and prejudice of the townspeople. All their smoldering passions explode in an electrifying climax!
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