Jay Adler
Nascimento : 1896-09-26, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 1978-09-23
História
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Jay Adler (September 26, 1896 – September 23, 1978) was an American actor in theater, television, and film.
Born in New York City, he was the eldest son of actors Jacob and Sara Adler, and the brother of five actor siblings, including stage actor Luther and drama coach Stella. The Adlers were a Jewish-American acting dynasty in New York City's Yiddish Theater District and they played a significant role in theater from the late 19th century to the 1950s. Stella Adler became the most influential member of their family. During a long acting career of minor character roles, Jay Adler appeared in more than 40 films and 37 television series between 1938 and 1976. He appeared in The Big Combo (1955), Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) and Jerry Lewis' The Family Jewels (1965). In 1961, Adler appeared both in the episode "The Lady and the Lawyer" of the television series The Asphalt Jungle and in The Lawbreakers, a theatrical film version of the episode. Jay Adler died at age 81 in Woodland Hills, California and was buried in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, New York.
Impound Yard Man
A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at the time of release, purported to be based on a true story.
Sid Rosen
The manager of a rock band fires the drunken, psycho bass player, who goes on a rape and murder spree.
Zach
Num cemitério, casal de namorados é atacado por vampiro que mata o rapaz e estupra a garota. Meses mais tarde, ela dá à luz um filho que, uma vez crescido, sairá em busca de seu pai.
Dr. Yul
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.
Attorney
Donna Peyton (Donna Butterworth), uma órfã de nove anos, herda uma fortuna de 30 milhões de dólares, mas precisa escolher um "pai" entre seus seis tios para poder tomar posse da herança.
Motorist
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
Sammy Trist (uncredited)
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
Lauber (uncredited)
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Bartender
A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preacher Dan Young have their hands full caring for the infirm. When one of the patients dies unexpectedly, Dan notices two puncture wounds on her neck. His investigation leads him to the strange gunslinger Drake Robey, who always seems to be slower on the draw than his opponents, but who—despite being outdrawn, and even shot—always manages to survive these deadly encounters. Dan soon discovers that Drake also has an aversion to crucifixes, sleeps in coffins, and cannot tolerate sunlight...
Hank (uncredited)
Concedido por um pequeno pedaço de terra em um vale exuberante e uma criação de gado pelo generoso proprietário de terras e barão do gado, Dennis Deneen, o antes temido pistoleiro, Steve Sinclair, renunciou à violência, com a intenção de manter a paz na comunidade.
Ben Avery
A band of outlaws, led by "Papa" Clellan, hold up in a ghost town as they plan an attack on a wagon train loaded with gold. The unexpected arrival of a stagecoach forces the gang to hold the passengers and driver as hostages. The later arrival of a wanderer, John Trey, sets in motion events not in "Papa" Clellan's original plan.
Pawnbroker
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
Toto
An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.
Manny Davis (uncredited)
Um poderoso filme sobre um impiedoso jornalista e um assessor de imprensa inescrupuloso que vão fazer de tudo para alcançar o sucesso, esta "fascinante e irresistível história" de uma "rigorosa direção e diálogos afiados".Abrilhantada pelas vívidas performances de Curtis e Lancaster essa exposição dos podres da corrupção das metrópoles é um eterno clássico que machuca fundo e envia uma mensagem quase arrepiante.É tarde da noite nas neblinosas ruas de Nova York, repleta de neons acesos na Times Square e com o nervosismo fervoroso característico da ciade. Mas o assessor de imprensa Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) está desatento para o alvoroço dos vendedores de rua, garotas de programa e golpistas ao seu redor enquanto ele impacientemente espera pela edição matinal do jornal The Globe. A carreira de quem o fofoqueiro colunista J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) terá levado hoje...e qual ele terá destruído?
Mr. Nalence
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
Sam Leiter
At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Jane's parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph's parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.
Leo the Loanshark
Quando o ex-presidiário Johnny Clay diz que tem um grande plano, todos querem participar. Especialmente quando o plano é roubar 2 milhões de dólares em um esquema "ninguém vai se machucar". Mas, apesar do planejamento cuidadoso, Clay e seus homens se esqueceram de uma coisa: Sherry Peatty, uma garota ambiciosa e traiçoeira que está planejando um grande golpe só seu... mesmo que para isso ela precise acabar com toda a gangue de Clay!
Mr. Rubeck
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
Joseph Carter
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Orry
Um relato romanceado da carreira da cantora de jazz Ruth Etting (Doris Day). Era a cantora sensação da Era do Jazz, tinha boa aparência, ambição e uma assombrosa voz de veludo. Mas foi preciso mais do que isso para fazer dela uma estrela. Precisou que Marty "The Gimp" Snyder (James Cagney), o manco, o mal-humorado capo de Chicago, desse um impulso para Ruth conseguir sair dos sujos salões de dança para a fama na Broadway. Mas também transformou sua vida fora dos palcos em um pesadelo de violência e medo. - traduzido de Alex Lapp
Bartender Louie
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
Detective Sam Hill
O Tenente de polícia Diamond recebe a ordem de parar de investigar o chefe da máfia, Sr. Brown, porque está custando muito dinheiro ao departamento, e sem obter resultados. Diamond faz uma última tentativa de descobrir evidências contra Brown indo até a namorada de Brown, Susan Lowell.
Uncle Max - aka Charles Martell
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
Joe the Bellhop
An amnesiac finally learns his true identity...as a murder suspect. A mystery thriller based on the novel by Mickey Spillane.
Christopher
Um ex-boxeador que virou motorista de táxi tem que esconder da polícia quando sua irritante esposa é assassinada pelo ladrão de joias com quem ela estava tendo um caso. Depois de perder o campeonato dos pesos pesados, o boxeador Ernie Driscoll agora dirige um táxi para ganhar a vida e ganha o desprezo de sua irritante esposa, Pauline, que o culpa pela sua falta de status social. Envolvida com o ladrão de joias Victor Rawlins, Pauline é assassinada por ele quando ela atrapalha a sua atividade de passar as joias para frente. Responsabilizado pelo assassinato de sua esposa, Ernie deve rastrear Rawlins antes que ele deixe o país. e16.
Frankie Pierce
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
Papa Sander - Susy's Father (uncredited)
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
Mr. Z (Party Guest) (uncredited)
Narrado em flashback, o filme traça a ascensão e a queda de um produtor de Hollywood duro e ambicioso, Jonathan Shields, visto pelos olhos de vários conhecidos, incluindo o escritor James Lee Bartlow, a estrela Georgia Lorrison e o diretor Fred Amiel. Ele é um homem difícil e ambicioso que impiedosamente usa todos - incluindo o escritor, estrela e diretor - na escalada para se tornar um dos maiores de Hollywood. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Henry (uncredited)
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
Desk Clerk
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
Steve Kopac
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
Bailey (uncredited)
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
Williams
O ex-presidiário Rocky Mulloy procura o verdadeiro culpado pelo crime pelo qual foi enquadrado em um mundo noturno cheio de falsas damas e traições. Rocky Mulloy, de volta à cidade depois de cumprir 5 anos de prisão perpétua por assalto à mão armada, espera libertar seu amigo Danny Morgan, que ainda está preso pelo mesmo crime. Não será fácil. Até a testemunha que liberou Rocky pensa que ele é culpado. A glamourosa esposa de Danny, Nancy, morando em uma decadente área de trailers, parece reticente sobre libertar Danny. O cínico policial Gus Cobb só quer agitar as coisas na esperança de que os US $ 100.000 'quentes' que faltam venham à tona. Muitas conversas difíceis, cenas noturnas, falsas damas e traições neste típico filme noir.
Editor (uncredited)
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
Munsey's Assistant (uncredited)
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
Drunk with two girls
A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
Eddie (Uncredited)
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
Johnson
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
Hess
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
