Ross Dowd
Nascimento : 1907-04-17, Sweden, New York, USA
Morte : 1965-08-25
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Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.
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Ao capitão de um submarino afundado pelos japoneses durante a WW2 finalmente é dada a chance de ser capitão de outro submarino após um ano de trabalho burocrático. Sua determinação, obcecado por vingança contra o destruidor que afundou seu navio anterior, coloca sua nova tripulação em um perigo desnecessário. E causa atrito com seu primeiro oficial e equipe.
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In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
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Detective Mike Hammer's investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.
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A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accidentally kill the wrong person.
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A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
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Em 1872, o nobre inglês Phileas Fogg (David Niven) aposta vinte mil libras com seus colegas do Clube Reformatório de Londres de que ele consegue dar a volta no planeta em exatamente oitenta dias. Ao lado do engenhoso Valet Passepartout (Mario Moreno), ele busca cumprir o seu objetivo com aventuras em todos os continentes, acaba conhecendo e se encantando pela bela viúva Aouda (Shirley MacLaine), ao mesmo tempo que, em uma conspiração, é acusado de ter roubado o dinheiro que investiu na aposta.
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A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.
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A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
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A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a struggle, only to be taken in hand by the female manager of a remote sheep ranch.
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Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the desperation of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo must journey to Venice on a delicate mission far beyond his capabilities.
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Herman (Dean Martin) é viciado em jogos de corridas de cavalo. Cheio de dívidas, se arrisca mais uma vez em uma corrida, pois, se ganhar, poderá pagá-las. Ele vai a uma corrida ao lado de seu primo Virgil (Jerry Lewis) e lá se apaixonam por duas garotas. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
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An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
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A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.
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Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
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O cantor Larry Todd (Dean Martin) termina um romance com uma bela corista após descobrir que ela é namorada de um gangster. Ao fugir, ele acredita ter matado um dos mafiosos e é ajudado pela herdeira Mary Carol (Lizabeth Scott) e o parceiro Myron (Jerry Lewis). Eles fogem para uma ilha assombrada que Mary herdou e tentam encontrar um tesouro perdido, mas acabam encontrando várias assombrações.
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Tendo que sair de Melbourne com pressa para evitar várias propostas de casamento, dois homens cantam e dançam para trabalhar como mergulhadores. Isso os leva a uma ilha idílica a caminho de Bali, onde competem uns com os outros pelos favores da princesa Lala. O mergulho perigoso produz um baú de joias de valor inestimável, que desperta o interesse menos romântico de alguns locais obscuros.
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Based on the story of Australia's colonization, this atmospheric drama stars Alan Ladd as Hugh Tallant, an American medical student falsely convicted of robbery and sent on a torturous voyage with other prisoners to the penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.
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A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.
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Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.
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Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
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Cole Henderson (Larry Keating) é um cientista que alerta que um planeta está em um rota de colisão com a Terra. Ninguém crê na história de Henderson, com exceção de Sydney Stanton (John Hoyt), um milionário que financia a construção de uma astronave gigantesca, construída para transportar sobreviventes selecionados da Terra para outro planeta. Logo fica claro que as predições de Cole se tornarão realidade, assim uma loteria mundial é feita para selecionar as pessoas que serão salvas do catástrofe pela astronave de Stanton.
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In a desperate attempt to get out of debt, career gambler Dan Milner agrees to rendezvous with a mysterious contact at a distant Mexican resort in exchange for $50,000. Upon arriving, Milner meets his fellow guests, including a plastic surgeon, a philandering movie star and his beautiful girlfriend. Soon Milner discovers that the man who hired him may be the ruthless gangster Nick Ferraro -- a deported crime boss looking to re-enter the USA.
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When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
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Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
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A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.
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The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a crooked gambling racket, and who sets sail on an ocean liner that also carries inept scoutmaster Freddie Hunter and his troop of boys. Freddie, who's been a "boy scout" too long, has designs on gorgeous Duchess Alexandria. The boys, far better organized than Freddie, are determined to save him from himself. But who will save Freddie from being the killer's next victim?
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On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
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A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.
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After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.
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Uma congressista (Jean Arthur) vai à Berlim destruída pela Segunda Guerra Mundial, para verificar o moral das tropas norte-americanas. Durante a inspeção, um capitão (John Lund) tenta seduzi-la para que ela não descubra seu envolvimento com uma cantora alemã (Marlene Dietrich), suspeita de ser simpatizante nazista.
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Stroud, o editor de uma revista policial, tem que adiar as férias com sua esposa, novamente, quando uma loira glamorosa é assassinada e ele é designado por seu chefe, Janoth, para encontrar o assassino. À medida que a investigação avança à sua conclusão, Stroud deve tentar impedir sua equipe investigativa, normalmente brilhante, à medida que acumulam evidências (embora equivocadas) de que ele é o assassino.
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Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
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A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
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O capitão da aviação naval Johnny retorna da guerra juntamente com seus dois camaradas, Buzz e George. Separando-se deles para voltar para a sua esposa Helen, Johnny a encontra alcoólica e com um caso extraconjugal. Mesmo assim tenta continuar com ela, mas resolve abandoná-la quando a ouve dizer que mentiu sobre a morte do filho pequeno de ambos. Tentando sair da cidade sob uma forte chuva, ele encontra Joyce, que não sabe quem ele é. Johnny também não sabe que ela é a ex-esposa de Eddie, um dos donos da boate "Dália Azul" e o homem que tem um caso com Helen.
Johnny e Joyce começam um romance, que é interrompido quando Johnny ouve no rádio sobre a morte de Helen. Imediatamente ele vai atrás do ex-marido de Joyce a quem julga ser o assassino, mas sua busca é dificultada por ter os gângsters cúmplices de Eddie e toda a polícia de Los Angeles atrás dele.
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Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.
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The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
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After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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Howard Graham e sua esposa Stephanie acabam de chegar em um hotel em Istambul. Howard é engenheiro de uma empresa americana que fornece armas para a marinha turca. É levado a uma casa de shows por Kopeikin, representante local da empresa, quando durante a apresentação de um número de mágica, o próprio mágico é morto. O coronel Haki, da polícia secreta turca, o informa que o atirador é um agente nazista que pretende eliminá-lo. Haki crê ser mais seguro embarcá-lo em um navio com destino a Batumi, mas os agentes o perseguem.