Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951)
Gênero : Comédia
Runtime : 1H 20M
Director : Edward Bernds
Escritor : Edward Bernds
Sinopse
A small town family discovers an unwanted houseguest is harder to eject than they expected. Comedy.
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance. He meets his match and downfall when his path crosses with a reporter, Phil Stuart; a girl, Marcia Harper, and a man-with-a-gun from a family he ruined.
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Maria Montez plays a Spanish dancer named Rita, who is determined to bring Nazi collaborator Colonel Jose Artiego (Preston Foster) to justice. Artiego is at presently working incognito, as military governor of the North African city of Tangier. Maria finds an unexpected ally in the form of Artiego's discarded mistress Dolores (Louise Allbritton).
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she entangles herself with the mobsters who own the joint and learns too much about their operation. Her boss decides to kill her and make it look like suicide. An intrepid reporter disbelieves the report and exposes the truth to the public.
Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
A riveting comedy about a desperate conman's quest to raise cash to satisfy the demands of his overbearing girlfriend and to feed his own insatiable appetite for money. The irony of this set-up is that while Trevor is trying to raise this cash from another of his girlfriends, he is using his father as part of the scheme.
Sundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been left in every robbery by Walter Durant, fugitive leader of the President Lincoln murder ring. Rocky is sent to Santa Fe to find Durant and arrest him and the gang of outlaws he controls. Rocky soon finds that the information for every robbery comes from Tom, who is the son of the sheriff. But Rocky has to arrest the whole gang, and he does not know who is part of the gang and where Durant may be hiding.
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
O detetive privado Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum), foge do seu passado indo dirigir um posto de gasolina em uma pequena cidade do interior. Mas é obrigado a reviver sua turbulenta vida quando é localizado pelo gângster Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). Jeff, outrora um experiente detetive, foi contratado por Whit e acabou pecando ao misturar negócios e romance, envolvendo-se com Kathie (Jane Greer).
Ahmed, um embaixador exilado que vive distante de sua terra, encontra um bando de guerreiros que vem sendo atacado por ferozes criaturas, que devoram todas as coisas vivas que cruzam seu caminho. Quando um velho vidente alerta aos combatentes que estão fadados a perder a luta se não conseguirem um 13º guerreiro, Ahmed acaba juntando-se ao grupo na batalha para vencer o misterioso inimigo.
Michael J. Fox interpreta o cortês gerente de um hotel de luxo, Doug Ireland, que faz de tudo para agradar os hóspedes, sonhando em um dia encontrar um que financie o seu grande sonho: montar o próprio hotel. Quando finalmente encontra alguém (Anthony Higgins) disposto a transformar o seu desejo em realidade, Doug se apaixona por Andy Hart (Gabrielle Anwar), a amante do rico empresário com quem ele conta para investir no negócio. Agora Doug terá de enfrentar um clássico dilema - ele irá escolher o amor ou o dinheiro? Esta sofisticada e espirituosa comédia, apresenta uma deliciosa história de amor com muitos risos e romance. Estrelando o astro do filme De Volta Para o Futuro, Michael J. Fox, Anthony Higgins (Os Caçadores da Arca Perdida) e Gabrielle Anwar (Perfume de Mulher).
Especialista em efeitos especiais simula, a pedido da polícia, o assassinato de um mafioso, testemunha-chave da promotoria num caso contra a Máfia, mantido sob proteção da polícia. Mas ele descobre que foi enganado e começa a ser perseguido por assassinos reais, e agora ele dever usar todas as suas habilidades de simulações para sair dessa enrascada.
Um homem procura por sua esposa desaparecida depois que seu carro quebra no meio do deserto.
Having faced the reality of his failed career as a punk rock musician, 36-year-old Stefano Nardini returns home to his family in the small-town North.
Noite de Ano Novo. Em um distrito policial que está prestes a ser desativado, Jake Roenick precisa organizar os policiais em plantão, que vigiam os presos do local. Até que surge a ameaça de uma gangue, que pretende invadir o distrito policial para resgatar Marion Bishop, seu líder. A possível invasão faz com que policiais e bandidos tenham que se unir para enfrentá-los.
Charles Schine (Clive Owen) e Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston) são dois executivos casados, que mantém um caso secretamente. Após serem chantageados por um violento criminoso, eles precisam encontrar um meio de salvar seus casamentos e também suas próprias vidas.
The Big Bad Wolf stalks Little Bo Peep and steals one of her sheep. She enlists Little Boy Blue and a dancing scarecrow to assist her and her mischievous black sheep in rescuing it. Singing, dancing, hilarity and impalement ensue.