The Las Vegas Story (1952)
Las Vegas... where everybody plays a game! And these two play the oldest game on earth... with a new twist!
Жанр : драма
Время выполнения : 1Ч 28М
Директор : Robert Stevenson
Писатель : Paul Jarrico, Earl Felton, Harry Essex
Краткое содержание
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.
Обнаружив измену жены, Жак Декре разрабатывает хитроумный план мести и посылает ей анонимное письмо шантажирующего содержания. Глория игнорирует угрозу, после чего Декре усиливает давление и отправляет ей компрометирующие фото. Глория в панике пытается откупиться от шантажиста, но её любовник Ив, осознавая бессмысленность подобного поведения, пытается найти иной способ дать отпор. Жака интересуют не деньги, он хочет разрушить связь между Глорией и любовником, настроив их друг против друга. Но чересчур хитроумный план даёт сбой и события выходят из-под контроля...
An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him.
В фильме рассказывается об отважном курьере, пытающемся доставить чемоданчик некоему криминальному авторитету, местонахождение которого никому не известно. Выполнить эту миссию курьеру всячески мешают коррумпированные полицейские и представители преступного мира, преследующие его по всей стране.
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
A rich man (Glenn Ford) stuns his wife (Donna Reed) and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
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'.
В своей квартире найдена убитой Каролин Эллинсон Грант. В ход расследования преступления выясняется, что ее смерти хотели очень многие — и богатый муж, которому она не давала развода, и любовник, потерявший из-зе нее работу, и ее помощница, жениха которой она пыталась соблазнить…
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.