Charles Jordan

악독한 신문 칼럼리스트인 헌세커는 출세를 위해 자신에게 아부만 떠는 홍보담당 직원 시드니 팔코를 시켜 애인사이인 여동생 수잔과 재즈 가수 스티브를 갈라 놓으려 한다. 이 사악한 음모를 알게 된 수잔은 결국 자살을 선택하게 되는데...

The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!

밸보아 마을에서 살고 있다. 어느 이른 아침, 하퍼 부인(Lucia Harper: 조안 베네트 분)은 급히 차를 몰고 LA로 향한다. 하퍼 부인은 LA의 허름한 한 호텔에서 테드 다비(Ted Darby: 셰퍼드 스트루드윅 분)를 만나 더 이상 딸을 만나지 말 것을 경고한다. 다비는 그린 부인에게 돈을 요구한다. 집으로 돌아온 하퍼 부인은 비트리스(Bea Harper: 제랄딘 브룩스 분)에게 다비가 돈을 요구했다는 사실을 말하지만 이미 다비에게서 전화를 받은 비트리스는 엄마의 말을 믿지 않고 오히려 화를 낸다. 그날 밤 다비는 비트리스를 찾아와 돈 얘기를 꺼낸다. 엄마의 말이 사실임을 깨달은 비트리스는 말다툼 끝에 다비를 밀치고 도망쳐 집으로 돌아온다. 비트리스는 엄마에게 사실대로 말하고 다시는 그를 만나지 않겠다고 약속한다. 그 다음날 아침 보트 창고로 확인을 하러 나갔던 하퍼 부인은 닻에 찔려 숨져있는 다비를 발견한다. 딸의 짓이라고 믿는 부인은 시체를 보트에 싣고 늪지대로 가 시체를 유기한다. 그 다음날, 도넬리(Martin Donnelly: 제임스 메이슨 분)라는 사람이 찾아와 비트리스가 다비에게 쓴 편지를 건네며 5,000달러를 주지 않으면 경찰에 편지를 제공하겠다고 협박한다. 그때부터 하퍼 부인은 동분서주 돈을 구하러 뛰어다니지만...

Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.

Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery

제니 마쉬는 살인 혐의로 5년간을 복역한 후에 집행 유예로 풀러난다. 보호감찰관인 그리프 마라트는 그녀에게 자신의 눈먼 어머니를 돌보는 일자리를 준다. 그녀는 법원의 접근 금지명령에도 불구하고 옛 애인 헨리 웨슨과 계속해서 은밀히 만나고 있다. 하지만 그녀는 헌신적인 그리프와 사랑에 빠져 결혼에 이르게 된다. 사뮤엘 풀러의 통속적이지만 힘 있는 각본과 서크의 경제적인 연출이 잘 어우러진 숨겨진 걸작. 영화의 결말은 제작사인 콜럼비아의 강요로 인해 애초의 의도와는 달리 해피엔딩으로 끝낼 수밖에 없었다고 한다.

An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.

Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.

아카데미 감독, 남우주연, 각본, 음악상 노미네이트되어 남우주연(로날드 콜맨), 음악상 수상.

A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.

Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polka dot band on his hat and Eddie has Soapy wear one like it. This gets Soapy arrested as soon as he rides into town but it leads Eddie to Varney and he realizes Varney will lead him to Caxton.

A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.

Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged couple on the verge of breaking up the story of how the Jot 'em Down store first started (through flashbacks). Based on characters from the popular "Lum and Abner" radio program of the time.

어느 날 밤 해변의 방갈로에 갑자기 총성이 울려 퍼진다. 쓰러지던 남자는 “밀드레드…”라는 한 마디와 함께 숨이 끊어진다. 용의자로 연행된 밀드레드 피어스는 형사를 앞에 두고 순순히 범죄를 고백할 뿐 아니라 자신의 지난 인생을 이야기하기 시작한다.

A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.

Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.

A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.

A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.

A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.

In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.

An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.

Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.

A scientist is turned into an ape man.

Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.

A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.

스타일리스트로 일하는 젊은 이레나는 자신이 발칸 반도에 생존하던 캣 피플의 후예임을 알게 된다. 그들은 평상시에는 인간의 모습을 하고 있지만, 야수로 변신하는 불길한 힘을 갖고 있으며 인간과 맺어져서는 안 된다. 어떤 특수 효과나 배경 음악의 힘도 빌지 않고, 어둠의 힘만으로 투르뇌르는 관객들을 최면 상태로 몰고 간다.

A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.

Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.

A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.

The team of Marlow and Jordan are the talents here as they run through three songs as well as the impressions, which I'm sure you gathered from the title. The Stephen Foster tune "Old Folks at Home" is given a new spin here as it's done by an impression of a 3-year-old, which is somewhat strange to say the least.