The Bribe (1949)
5 Great Stars in a Daring Drama of Love and Adventure!
장르 : 범죄, 드라마, 스릴러
상영시간 : 1시간 38분
연출 : Robert Z. Leonard
각본 : Marguerite Roberts
시놉시스
United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives and destroying most of the shipment before it can be confiscated. In the process, Ming Xuan's partner is killed, and the young agent is brought to the unwelcome attention of the leader of the smuggling operation.
For many, the happy twenties were not very happy, with high unemployment, poverty and a bitter disillusioned youth. But at the same time there was prohibition in Norway, with large-scale smuggling and easy-earned money. Ernst, an unemployed architect, stumbles onto the smuggler path, and replaces a gray, boring life with a lush, rowdy and colorful world. Klara, the girl he loves, walks away from him, and Jenny becomes his new girlfriend. Together with Hugo and Elsa, these four make a number of smuggling trips by car - with big profits - but it's not enough. So Ernst invests in boats, and that's when the really messy smuggling starts. He operates in the entire Oslo Fjord, all the way down to Rotterdam, pursued by police and customs, with his infamous torpedo boats. We follow Ernst all the way to the so-called Bygdøyslaget, where smugglers and police brutaly clash together.
A Counterspy in the US military is killed under suspicious circumstances. His friend, Jerry Baldwin, a Navy Commander, is assigned to replace him and stop a saboteur in a torpedo factory.
A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
헐리우드 스타가 된 빈센트 체이스(에드리언 그레니어)는 스타로 잘 나가고 있다. 기획사 에이전트에서 스튜디오의 대표가 된 아리 골드(제레미 피븐)는 영화 제작에 나서며 빈센트에게 출연을 요청하고, 빈센트는 자신이 연출까지 하게 되는 경우에만 출연을 승낙하겠다고 하며 연출자로 데뷔하게 된다. 영화는 제작에 들어가지만 시간이 흘러도 빈센트는 영화에 대해 확신이 없고, 점점 많은 예산을 아리에게 요구하게면서 스튜디오 관계자들의 걱정을 사게 된다. 친구들의 든든하지만 때로는 골때리는 지원 속에 커리어의 새로운 갈림길이 될 프로젝트를 무사히 마무리 지을 수 있을까?
13살이 된 멜라니는 어머니가 케냐로 여행을 간 사이 엄격하기로 소문이 난 다이어트 캠프로 보내진다. 캠프에서 지루한 생활을 하던 중 양호실에서 근무하는 40대 의사에게 묘한 매력을 느끼기 시작한다.
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to marry but Cliff's brother is convinced Rita is no good and forces Cliff to fulfill his agreement to do research in Africa in exchange for paying gambling debt. Rita, Cliff and brother are furious with each other, but Rita and Cliff are still in love.
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas.
Two men gain entry into a restricted forest, only to be kidnapped by a tribal group. When they learn that they will soon be executed, they convince the tribal folks that one of them is the son of God!
Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz invents a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons, and a mad herd of rival spies desperately try to get their hands on it.
Leon Gast's musical documentary reveals New York City's Latin culture and features live performances of salsa greats The Fania All Stars and The Spanish Speaking People of New York. A document of urban American Hispanic culture, Gast's film captures the rhythms of New York's Spanish Harlem, from illegal cockfights and Santeria rituals to the rooftops and backstreets of El Barrio and the legendary musicians performing at the Cheetah club.
In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a herd of sheep across the border.
The owner of a failing Munich strip club sends his manager to an area of the country considered backwards to recruit new talent for his club.
A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.
Dan (Don Ross) returns to L.A. having fought in the Korean War. He meets with Frank (Chuck Connors) the brother of Tommy who was one of the men killed under Dan’s command. Tommy wasn't happy at being passed over for promotion and wrote to his brother to say that if he died Dan would be to blame. Frank explains to Dan that his heart condition means he can no longer go big game hunting and makes him a lucrative offer to have a ‘hunt’ in L.A. with both men armed only with camera guns. Unbeknown to Dan, Frank replaces his camera round with a live bullet and plans to kill him in revenge for his brother’s death. The two men engage in a two day game of cat and mouse which is complicated by the involvement of Tommy’s wife and a mix up at a sports shop. As the men finally get each other in their sights who will win and who will die?