Appointment in Honduras (1953)
Emotions stripped bare! Adventure beyond compare!
Жанр : приключения, криминал, триллер
Время выполнения : 1Ч 19М
Директор : Jacques Tourneur
Краткое содержание
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
Two boys are kidnapped by three escaping convicts and the relationship which develops between captor and captured brings out the good side of the most dangerous criminal's character.
Белмонт отбывает пожизненное заключение за убийство любовника своей жены. Все еще общаясь с женой и глубоко раскаявшись в своем преступлении, Белмонт планирует сбежать, чтобы снова быть с ней и начать все сначала. Объединив усилия с непредсказуемым Рамси, эти двое разбегаются по пересеченной местности Новой Зеландии к месту назначения - заброшенной психиатрической больнице. Именно здесь мужчины должны ждать Сьюзи и вместе с ней отправиться на свободу. Но пятидневное ожидание приносит непредсказуемые последствия…
Десять лет назад полицейский Шон Уокер потерял своего напарника. Во время ареста опасного рецидивиста — полного отморозка Билли, он замешкался, и это стоило другу жизни. Его смерть потрясла Уокера. Он едва не прикончил убийцу, и только подоспевшие коллеги сумели остановить его. Преступника осудили на пожизненное заключение, а Шон ушел из полиции и поселился на ранчо. Вдали от городской суеты бывший полицейский надеялся забыть тяготившее его прошлое…
Но в планы Билли вовсе не входило сгнить за решеткой. Отсидев 10 лет, он совершает дерзкий побег. Теперь его путь будет отмечен многочисленными трупами. Но главный, кто ему нужен — это Уокер…
A psychotic convict escapes from jail, kidnaps his sister, and takes an American couple hostage in their seaside vacation home while planning his escape from the police.
Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedding March), a dangerous killer. Disguised as the town's lawman, Tim sets off for Silver City to take back money that's rightfully his and hopefully clear his name. But Red has plans of his own and wants the money for himself. Newly remastered.
A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.
Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into an argument with the robot and loses the match of wits. Blackie Burke, an escaped convict, is using the house as a hideout, and this adds to the problems the girls already have.
A story of 7 prisoners who sentenced to death for kidnapping a rich businessman's daughter.
Rudolf is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. He attempted to escape many times but was unsuccessfull, he realizes that he is in for the long haul and decides that his wife Sandra should remarry for the sake of their children Melody and Mark who have been made to believe anyway that he is already dead. Many years has been passed he was informed that the real culprit has been caught and he is being released. However, instead of being happy, he is saddened by the fact that he cannot go back to his family anymore. Nevertheless he pretends to be a piano tuner so that he can visit his children.
Правдивая история французского преступника XIX века Эжена Франсуа Видока, который переходил из тюрьмы в тюрьму и менял профессию за профессией, пока не нашёл себя на полицейской службе. Он основал и возглавил первый в мире отдел национальной безопасности, где проработал двадцать лет. Выйдя в отставку, Видок стал частным детективом.
Vimal Kumar, a murder convict and Mustafa, a petty thief escape the clutches of police when the vehicle transporting them to jail meets with an accident. The duo, who get trapped in a forest, gradually get talking and discover more about each other and the way forward. What's awaiting them… handcuffs or a good future?
The film starts at the countryside, where station master Viirimäki is spending his summer holiday. He has gotten into the holiday mood to the extent that he wakes up from his stupor at the very moment he should already be getting back to work. Unfortunately the last ship from the island where he has been vacationing has already sailed, but as luck would have it, local residents Himanen and Kehkonen promise to help him out. Things turn out differently, however, and the attempt to help starts out an adventure filled with misunderstandings and plot twists.
An ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a murdered couple. He runs to a nearby town for help while she keeps the boy company. Meanwhile, escaped convicts are heading to their location.
Honduran immigrants living in Mexico, teenage siblings Rocío and Ale must take over care of their two younger siblings after their mother is sentenced to prison on dubious grounds. Tensions grow between the pair as the decision must be made on whether to stay together in Mexico or split the family up to cross into the US to work.
A group of escaped convicts unwittingly home invade a haunted house, and must partner with the family to survive the night.
When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and boat and now have begun to turn on each other.
A death sentence inmate escapes prison and seeks asylum in a rich widow's house where she is living with her only daughter. Whether the marriage of her daughter will happen as planned forms the crux of the story.
An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a day-in-the-life-of the eponymous Ángel, a kid who's a shoe-shiner.