A Caminho do Pecado (1952)
Las Vegas... where everybody plays a game! And these two play the oldest game on earth... with a new twist!
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 28M
Director : Robert Stevenson
Escritor : Paul Jarrico, Earl Felton, Harry Essex
Sinopse
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
A nightclub operator (Mara Corday), her sister (Barbara Bostock), a beautician (Lita Milan) and two other women rob a payroll.
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.
An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For revenge, he bombards her with anonymous letters, convincing her that her lover is the culprit while Gloria desperately seeks a way out.
An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him.
Um mensageiro audacioso que está perseguido por todo o país por policiais corruptos e chefões do crime rivais quando ele tem que entregar uma pasta para uma figura do submundo notório que não pode ser encontrado.
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
Quando seu filho Andy é sequestrado e mantido para o resgate, David Stannard liquida seus bens para atender a demanda de meio milhão de dólares. Uma observação casual por repórter de jornal Charlie Telfer faz com que ele mudasse de idéia. Apesar dos apelos de sua esposa Edith e irmão e a condenação resultante da imprensa e do público, Stannard vai em um programa de televisão em todo o país, mostra o dinheiro e avisa o seqüestrador que não um centavo será pago para o resgate; em vez disso, o dinheiro será usado para rastrear o sequestrador se Andy não é devolvido ileso. A polícia então encontrar camisa manchada de sangue do rapaz.
O primeiro segredo é o que não dizemos às pessoas, o segundo segredo é o que não nos dizemos, e o terceiro segredo é a verdade.
Um proeminente psicólogo londrino parece ter tirado a própria vida, causando uma grande descrença entre seus colegas e pacientes. Sua filha adolescente se recusa a acreditar que foi suicídio, pois isso iria contra todos os princípios que seu pai defendia, portanto ela está convencida de que foi assassinato. Ela pede a ajuda de um ex-paciente para tentar chegar à verdade. A verdade, no entanto, revela-se surpreendente e perturbadora. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
A woman is found strangled in her shop. Shortly after, another murder is committed. Perhaps the most terrifying is that the both girls' name is Sonja. The police is convinced it's the same killer and at each scene is heard a woman singing the same song. A song which is soon dubbed the 'murder melody'.
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among them a rich husband she wouldn't divorce unless he paid her a huge settlement, a lover she caused to be fired from his job and an assistant whose fiancé she tried to seduce.
A young lawyer's primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love, blind to the fact that her boyfriend is a four-flushing, small-time con man.
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Homicide cop Rita Cates takes a murder case where the victim is a Las Vegas stripper. The investigation immediately takes a perverse turn when she discovers the prime suspect: a psychotic ex-cop with whom she once had a torrid affair. That initial affair drove Cates' husband to suicide, but it doesn't stop her from picking up where she left off. In the heat of passion, she jeopardizes the case, her career and her life.
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follows Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan), wanted for murder and on the run. Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring wife Cherie (Catherine Shepherd), Tony vows to clear his name no matter what the consequences.
A country bumpkin goes to Seoul in order to bring his older brother back to the country. Little does he know Young-shik is a petty crook involved with a prostitute called Sonia who is servicing American GIs, they boost goods from the U.S. Army base and sell them on the black market. Both brothers become romantically involved with the same prostitute.