Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years. When a disagreement breaks up the game, they decide to continue meeting and doing different things together, instead of staying home with their wives. When the wives find out that the games stopped some time ago, they are a quite upset. Just what have they been doing on Thursday nights.
Also known as "Dragnet 1966," this TV movie was originally the pilot for the 1967 relaunch of the original 1950s "Dragnet" radio show and TV show (which also had it's own movie in 1954, from the same creative team). However, the pilot wasn't actually aired until 1969. In this feature-length entry, Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears.
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with his attractive new assistant, Claire. Mike also has been spending a considerable amount of time with his British bachelor buddies. Vexed and lonely, Claire hires charming antiques expert Paul to decorate the Harper home and maybe make Mike jealous in the process.
한 때 매춘부였던 켈리는 시골의 작은 마을 그랜빌로 이사와 판매원으로 살면서 새로운 삶을 시작한다. 어느 날 마을의 경찰서장 ‘그리프’를 만나고 그와 함께 행복한 시간을 보낸다. 그러나 이 행복을 산산조각 낼 엄청난 사건이 터지고 마는데... 켈리는 인간과 세상의 본질을 목격하고 한없는 절망과 폭력의 회오리에 빠져든다. 이 영화의 오프닝 시퀀스는 인간의 폭력성을 묘사하는데 탁월했던 사무엘 풀러의 진가를 확인할 수 있는 절대 놓치지 말아야 할 명장면이다.
