The King and Four Queens (1956)
The King plays the hottest game in the West . . . with four Queens!
ジャンル : アドベンチャー, 西洋, 謎, コメディ
上映時間 : 1時間 26分
演出 : Raoul Walsh
脚本 : Richard Alan Simmons, Margaret Fitts
シノプシス
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. "Honey" Roy Palmer is that man - although at 48, many say he is too old.
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
世界各国で絶賛された舞台劇を『愛しのロクサーヌ』のF・スケピシが映画化した、サスペンスタッチのコメディ。1人の黒人青年が、上流社会に波紋を巻き起こす。
画家であり、小説家でもあるP・リドリーの初監督作品。1950年代、アイダホ。小麦畑の広がる田舎に育った8歳のセスは、ある日友達のイーブンとキムと共に一人暮らしの謎めいたイギリス人女性ドルフィンにいたずらをし、母に叱られて謝りに行かされた。鯨の骨や古いモリが飾られた異様な雰囲気の家の中で、自殺した夫の髪の毛や歯をドルフィンに見せられたセスは、たまたま父が読んでいた本からの連想で彼女を吸血鬼と思い込む。その翌日、イーブンの死体がセスの家の井戸の中から発見された……。
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.
未亡人として静かに暮らしているマリーは、眠りにつくと都会のキャリア・ウーマンになっている。いったいどちらが本当の自分なのか、不思議な二重生活を送るヒロインをデミ・ムーアが好演。
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
母はベテラン詐欺師、息子はおとなしそうだが実はケチ臭い詐欺師、そしてその息子の恋人はといえば、色仕掛けが得意なこれまた詐欺師。そんな3人の愛憎と運命とを描いたラヴ・サスペンス。
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
The owner of a factory that produces flavor extracts, Joel Reynold seems to have it all, but really doesn't. What's missing is sexual attention from his wife, Suzie. Joel hatches a convoluted plan to get Suzie to cheat on him, thereby clearing the way for Joel to have an affair with Cindy, an employee. But what Joel doesn't know is that Cindy is a sociopathic con artist, and a freak workplace accident clears the way for her to ruin Joel forever.
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Brooks' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
1977年、はるかな宇宙との交信を願い「遊びに来てください」のメッセージをのせたボイジャー2号が打ち上げられた。それを解読した異星人”スターマン”は、異星人として初めて地球を訪れる。アメリカ、ウィスコンシン州。夫のスコットを交通事故で亡くしたジェニーは、毎晩亡き夫を思い悲しみに暮れていた。ある夜、物音で目覚めると外は山火事で赤く染まり、なんと目の前には死んだはずのスコットそっくりの男が立っていた。その男は、地球に不時着した宇宙船から逃れ、スコットの姿を借りたスターマンだった。ジェニーはスターマンと共に彼の母艦との合流地点アリゾナを目指して旅をする。
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William Hannigan. Rodrigo distrusts his new associate, but needs money to help out his ill father. The situation becomes more complicated when Rodrigo falls for Gaddis' sister, Valerie, drawing another player into the game.
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.