Nicholas Musuraca

Nicholas Musuraca

Рождение : 1892-10-25, Riace, Calabria, Italy

Смерть : 1975-09-03

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nicholas Musuraca, A.S.C. (October 25, 1892 – September 3, 1975) was a motion-picture cinematographer best remembered for his work at RKO Pictures in the 1940s including many of Val Lewton's series of B-picture horror films. Nicola Musuraca left his home in Riace, province of Reggio di Calabria, Italy, and emigrated to the United States in 1907. He and his father, Cosimo Musuraca, boarded the Italian steamer Re d'Italia in July 1907, sailing from Naples on July 18 and arriving at the Port of New York on August 3, 1907. There, they were transferred to Ellis Island with their fellow steerage passenger where they underwent federal immigrant inspection. Upon being admitted the father and son set out for Brooklyn to join Cosimo's brother, Francesco. He began his film career as the chauffeur for silent film producer J. Stuart Blackton. He worked behind the scenes on numerous silent and B-movie action films before becoming one of RKO Radio Pictures prime directors of photography in the 1930s. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) is sometimes considered the first film-noir. While working regularly at RKO, joined Val Lewton's unit making low-budget horror-films being responsible for the cinematography of five of the films produced by Lewton's unit. Musuraca collaborated with director Jacques Tourneur on Cat People (1942) and, after the end of Lewton's time at RKO, Out of the Past (1947). He was nominated for a 1947 Academy Award for his work on I Remember Mama. After working briefly at Warner Bros. in the late 1950s, Musuraca joined Desilu, where he spent his last active years in TV work including the television series F Troop.

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Nicholas Musuraca

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Идеалистический и честный детектив Мэтт Гауэр охотится за бандитами, которым удалось избежать наказания, и борется с коррупцией среди городских чиновников и продажных полицейских.
Too Much, Too Soon
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The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore becomes reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.
Man on the Prowl
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A neglected wife (Mala Powers) unknowingly places her family in danger when she becomes friends with a psychologically disturbed deliveryman (James Best).
The Story of Mankind
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The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Сьюзен спала здесь
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Сценарист Марк Кристофер находится в творческом кризисе. Ему надоело сочинять сценарии для дурацких комедий, а ничего серьезного написать не получается. Однажды в канун Рождества он получает неожиданный и не очень приятный подарок: друзья из полиции нравов приводят к нему в дом семнадцатилетнюю преступницу Сьюзен. Она арестована за бродяжничество и драку с моряком. Марка уговаривают на время праздника приютить девушку, чтобы бедняжка не встречала Рождество в тюрьме, и предлагают написать с ее помощью сценарий о малолетних преступниках. Марк, тронутый судьбой Сьюзен, с неохотой соглашается и попадает в серьезные неприятности. Узнав, что "Сьюзен спала здесь", подруга Марка закатывает сцену ревности, но главная проблема заключается совсем не в этом...
Devil's Canyon
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An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
Split Second
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Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
The Hitch-Hiker
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Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
The Blue Gardenia
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A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess.
Стычка в ночи
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Мэй Дойл, разочаровавшаяся в жизни женщина. После смерти своего гражданского мужа она возвращается, после десятилетнего отсутствия, в родной рыбацкий городок Монтеррей, откуда бежала в поисках свободы и новой жизни. Здесь, поселившись в доме своего младшего брата Джо, Мэй знакомится с Пеги, которая, как и она когда-то, жаждет сбежать из захолустного городка и опостылевшего консервного завода.
Trail Guide
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A cowboy (Tim Holt) and his Mexican-Irish sidekick (Richard Martin) lead a wagon train to an unfriendly place.
A Girl in Every Port
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After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
The Whip Hand
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A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Hot Lead
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Recently released from prison, nice guy Dave Collins finds himself unwillingly mixed up with his old outlaw acquaintances Turk Thorne and his gang as they try to use his telegraphy talents to zero in on the arrival of a gold shipment on the local train. Taking a liking to Collins, cowboys Tim Holt and Chito Rafferty get him to agree to help set a trap for the train robbers
Roadblock
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An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
The Company She Keeps
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A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.
Hunt the Man Down
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A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Where Danger Lives
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A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
Born to Be Bad
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Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
The Woman on Pier 13
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Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Rider from Tucson
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In order to make Tug Cardwell (William Phipps) sign over his rich gold claim to them, John Avery (Robert Shayne), Gypsy Avery (Veda Ann Borg) and Jackson (Marshall Reed) hire Bob Rankin (Douglas Fowley') to kidnap Tug's sweetheart Jane Whipple (Elaine Riley). Rankin hides Jane and then demands half the mine from the other crooks. Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), friends of Tug's, find Jane and taker her to safety. The conspirators then shoot Rankin, capture Tug and force him to take them to his claim. Dave and Chito are close behind.
Dynamite Pass
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A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.
The Mysterious Desperado
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A cowboy is accused of his father's murder.
Stagecoach Kid
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Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss, wealthy Peter Arnold who has just arrived to retire on his ranch, bringing in tow his daughter, tomboy Jessie, who despises western life and can't wait to run off back to San Francisco. Stagecoach line owner Dave Collins and his sidekick Chito show up just in time to deter the attackers. Collins isn't done yet, though, as a gold shipment sent on one of his stages is stolen by Parnell and Clint, one of whom is recognized by Jessie, attempting to escape back to the west coast. Collins has his hands full trying to retrieve the stolen gold, and dealing with Jessie, who's fallen head-over-heels in love with him.
Кровь на Луне
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Ковбой из Техаса приезжает в район, где ранчеры и сеттлеры ведут войну за землю. Будучи на мели, он нанимается стрелком к своему старому другу, который «химичит» с агентом-индейцем приобрести стадо скота, чтобы подхлестнуть вражду…
Я помню, мама
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Невероятно добрая и проникновенная история о жизни, о любви, об испытаниях, о том, что вокруг нас существует прекрасный мир Добра, первый круг которого – это семья.
Из прошлого
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Гангстер по имени Вит Стерлинг нанимает бывшего частного детектива Джефа для розыска некой Кэтти Моффат. Она убила человека из банды Вита и, прикарманив 40,000 долларов, ударилась в бега. Джеф берётся за дело, но, отыскав девушку, влюбляется в неё…
Холостяк и девчонка
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Подросток Сьюзан Тернер влюбляется в художника-плейбоя Ричарда Ньюджента. Как-то она пробирается в его квартиру, чтобы позировать для него. Там она сталкивается со своей сестрой — судьей Маргарет Тернер. Находясь под угрозой тюремного заключения, Ньюджент соглашается встречаться со Сьюзан до тех пор, пока чувства девушки не утихнут.
The Locket
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A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Бедлам
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1761 год. Лондон. Город содрогается только от одной мысли о Бедламе, так называют горожане — Лечебницу для душевнобольных святой Марии Вифлеемской, которой управляет главный врач и директор больницы Мастер Симс. При виде этого человека любой горожанин впадает в оцепенение, будь он даже сам Лорд Мортимер. Этот страшный врач устроил из лечебницы настоящий театр абсурда, в котором поставленные им спектакли играют душевнобольные люди, истязаемые голодом и пытками. Вельможи и знать, когда приходят в больницу платят директору плату как за посещение настоящего театра, ведь психи-актеры, так забавляют здоровых людей. Но есть и сострадающие больным люди, эти порядочные граждане, которые посмели вступить с жутким директором в схватку, но бой был неравный. Ведь Мастер Симс легко может одолеть любого правдоискателя, объявив его душевнобольным и помочь ему, затем уйти из жизни, инсценировав самоубийство, недаром Симс обладает изрядным театральным талантом...
Крайний срок – на рассвете
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Моряк Алекс просыпается после бурной пьянки с большой суммой денег, принадлежащих Эдне Бартелли, которая пригласила его домой, чтобы «исправить её радио». Он пытается вернуть деньги с неохотной помощью танцовщицы Джун Гос. Они обнаруживают, что Эдна убита. Алекс не вполне уверен, что он сам не убивал девушку. У него и Джун есть четыре часа глубокой ночи для того, чтобы найти настоящего убийцу. Поиски заставляют их встретиться со множеством разных людей, в то время как история становится все более и более запутанной.
Винтовая лестница
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1916 год. Маленький городок в Новой Англии. Садист-душитель сеет страх среди местных жителей. Его жертвами становятся молодые девушки, имеющие физические недостатки или хронические заболевания. Ставшая немой из-за перенесенной в детстве травмы Хелен работает служанкой у прикованной к инвалидному креслу вдовы, миссис Уоррен. У женщины есть два сына, Стив и Альберт. Когда в городке погибают три молодые девушки, домочадцы опасаются, что следующей жертвой может стать немая Хелен. Она хочет уехать из города вместе со своим возлюбленным, но в это время начинается страшная гроза и ливень. Хелен приходится задержаться на ночь в старом мрачном особняке миссис Уоррен, где на спиральной лестнице ей и предстоит столкнуться с убийцей…
It's Your Move
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Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under him.
Возвращение на Батаан
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Январь 1945 года, Филиппины. Это был один из самых трудных периодов в истории Второй Мировой Войны, когда американцы на острове Корегидор плечом к плечу с бойцами филиппинского сопротивления отражали атаки двухсот тысяч японских солдат генерала Хоммы. Сюжет охватывает время от падения Батаана и Корегидора до высадки американцев в Лейти и рассказывает о приключениях полковника Джозефа Мэддена, возглавившего филиппинских патриотов в борьбе против японских захватчиков острова. Любовная линия отдана Андреасу Бонифацио, потомку героя филиппинского народа, и его возлюбленной Доличии Далгадо, связной в Маниле ставшей по зову сердца разведчицей в тылу врага. Кровь, пот и слезы были пролиты не зря, свобода пришла на землю Филиппин, население Батаана благодарно солдатам и командирам США за их неоценимую поддержку в борьбе с японскими интервентами.
China Sky
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During World War II, an American mission hospital is headed up by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand. Sara is secretly in love with Gray but hides her feelings as his new wife, Louise, arrives at the hospital. Sparks fly, however, when Louise becomes jealous of Sara, and then tries to convince her husband to leave war-torn China behind for a calmer life in the United States. But Thompson is attached to both Sara and the people who need his help.
The Falcon in Hollywood
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Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.
Girl Rush
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During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
Bride by Mistake
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The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Marine Raiders
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A Marine major (Pat O'Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
Проклятие людей-кошек
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Эми, молодая, не имеющая друзей дочь Оливера и Элис Рид, заводит знакомство с призраком первой жены своего отца и нелюдимой стареющей актрисой.
Корабль-призрак
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Молодой морской офицер Том Мерриам прибывает в порт Сан-Педро, чтобы занять должность третьего помощника капитана торгового судна «Альтаир». Перед посадкой на судно Мерриам встречает слепого нищего, который предупреждает его о том, что это плохой корабль. Это сообщение не вызывает у молодого человека ничего, кроме усмешки. Но не успел корабль отчалить, как один из членов экипажа был найден мёртвым. И вскоре трупов становится всё больше. Том Мерриам начинает подозревать, что во всём виноват капитан корабля Уилл Стоун, одержимый идеей власти и авторитета.
Gangway for Tomorrow
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Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
The Seventh Victim
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A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
Падший воробей
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В 1940 году ветеран гражданской войны в Испании, Джон МакКиттрик, возвращается в Нью-Йорк, чтобы найти убийцу своего друга, лейтенанта полиции, который когда-то освободил его из фашистского плена в испанском концлагере. Когда другой из его друзей был убит, МакКиттрик понимает, что он не может доверять никому...
Бомбардир
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Майор Чик Дэвис демонстрирует армии США достоинства высотного прицельного бомбометания, с помощью нового высокотехнологичного прицела, а так же организовывает школу бомбардиров. Тренировки показаны в полудокументальном стиле, скрашенном драматическими моментами из личной жизни и учебных будней курсантов.
Люди-кошки
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Сербский модельер Ирена Дубровна и американский морской инженер Оливер Рид знакомятся в Центральном парке, влюбляются и женятся после непродолжительного романа. Но есть одна странность у Ирен, она боится идти на близость со своим мужем, считая, что она превратится в пантеру, и убьёт своего возлюбленного, в соответствии со сказаниями, ходившими в её родной деревне.
Pirates of the Prairie
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In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of vigilantes has been terrorizing the citizenry. Going undercover as a gunsmith, Larry quickly learns that the leader of the vigilantes, John Spencer (John Elliott), is an honest man who only seeks to establish law and order. The real brains behind the crimes, meanwhile, are revealed to be Spencer's brother-in-law, Lou Harmon (Roy Barcroft), and his chief henchman, Leighton (Charles King), who speculate in the coming of the railroad by forcing the townspeople to relinquish their land.
The Navy Comes Through
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A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
Bandit Ranger
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Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling. Businessman Art Kenyon, who has hired gunman Ed Martin to impersonate Mattison to further his rustling schemes, quickly changes Martin's story and has Travers framed for the ranger's murder. Managing to escape, Travers must come up with proof to clear his name and bring the true killers to justice.
Cooks and Crooks
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A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.
The Tuttles of Tahiti
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After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
Obliging Young Lady
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A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Call Out the Marines
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Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
The Gay Falcon
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Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
Lady Scarface
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A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
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In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.
Repent at Leisure
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Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
Play Girl
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When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
Little Men
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Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Незнакомец на третьем этаже
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Репортёр Майк Уорд — главный свидетель по делу об убийстве. Он видел обвиняемого Бриггса стоящим возле тела убитого в кафе, и это ключевое свидетельства для признания вины Бриггса. Джейн, невеста Уорда, сомневается в несомненности его показаний, и эти сомнения начинают преследовать репортёра.
Tom Brown's School Days
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When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
A Bill of Divorcement
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Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
Swiss Family Robinson
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A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.
Восстание в Аллеганах
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История Джеймса Смита и жителей Пенсильвании, после окончания англо-французской войны оказавшихся под угрозой нападений индейцев, официально считавшихся мирными. Для того, чтобы лишить индейцев оружия и припасов, гражданам приходится идти на конфликт с британской короной.
Золотой мальчик
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Джо Бонапарте, одаренный скрипач, из-за крайней бедности вынужден выступать на ринге. Он проявил себя талантливым боксером, хотя видно, что он бережет кулаки, опасаясь повредить руки музыканта и похоронить мечту, ради которой его отец-эмигрант многим пожертвовал. Том Муди, менеджер Джо, подговаривает свою подружку Лорну Мун убедить парня забыть о своих музыкальных стремлениях и возвратить его на ринг. Это приводит к трагедии…
Five Came Back
Director of Photography
Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
Sorority House
Director of Photography
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
They Made Her a Spy
Director of Photography
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Twelve Crowded Hours
Director of Photography
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
Pacific Liner
Director of Photography
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
Tarnished Angel
Director of Photography
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Сумасшедшая мисс Ментон
Director of Photography
Богатая светская львица Мелса Ментон возвращается с костюмированной вечеринки в предутренние часы, когда видит выбегающего из соседнего пустующего особняка богатого банкира знакомого мужчину, который ее даже не замечает. Любопытство пересиливает и Мелса заходит в дом, где натыкается на труп. Девушка в ужасе сбегает, оставив свою накидку. Приехавшая через 10 минут полиция, видя как одета девушка, слушая ее путанную речь, и зная ее сумасбродную репутацию, мало ей верит, но что более важно — в доме не обнаружено трупа. Редактор газеты Питер Эймс считает, что это последний инцидент еще одна шутка из серии шалостей, на которые способна веселая девушка и ее подруги и пишет о них статью, полную сарказма. Взбешенная Мелса врывается в редакцию и объявляет о своем намерении подать в суд за клевету. Питер очарован взрывной энергией девушки и решает, что он на ней женится. А Мелса и ее подруги решают самостоятельно предпринять расследование и найти убийцу, для того чтобы защитить свою репутацию.
Smashing the Rackets
Director of Photography
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Sky Giant
Director of Photography
Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the military to be his aide at the academy. Complications arise when Stockton's son Kenneth arrives for training and Stockton, believing his son to be a slackard, looks for an excuse to drop him from the program. Rivalry develops between Stag and Ken as well, as they fall for the same girl.
Blind Alibi
Director of Photography
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
Law of the Underworld
Director of Photography
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
Condemned Women
Director of Photography
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
Night Spot
Director of Photography
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
Hatred
Assistant Camera
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
Everybody's Doing It
Director of Photography
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
Crashing Hollywood
Director of Photography
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
Quick Money
Director of Photography
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest and relaxation, the leading citizens of the town welcome him back with some official gatherings. Mayor Jonas Tompkins, who never liked Bluford, holds no grudges against him and too welcomes him with open arms. Although Bluford had no intention of making the news public, the townsfolk learn that he has indeed come back to do business, specifically develop a summer resort in Glenwood to rival that of the best summer resorts worldwide.
Danger Patrol
Director of Photography
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
Living on Love
Director of Photography
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Saturday's Heroes
Director of Photography
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.
Flight from Glory
Director of Photography
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
The Big Shot
Director of Photography
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.
Border Cafe
Director of Photography
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
Too Many Wives
Director of Photography
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
China Passage
Director of Photography
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on success or killed on failure. The diamond is stolen as they take possession of it.
We're on the Jury
Director of Photography
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
The Plot Thickens
Director of Photography
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Murder on a Bridle Path
Director of Photography
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
The Farmer in the Dell
Director of Photography
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
Silly Billies
Director of Photography
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
Two in the Dark
Director of Photography
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
To Beat the Band
Director of Photography
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Old Man Rhythm
Director of Photography
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Village Tale
Director of Photography
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
Murder on a Honeymoon
Director of Photography
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
Romance in Manhattan
Director of Photography
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
By Your Leave
Director of Photography
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
The Richest Girl in the World
Director of Photography
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
We're Rich Again
Director of Photography
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
Murder on the Blackboard
Director of Photography
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
Where Sinners Meet
Director of Photography
A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to get to know each other better and reconsider their plans. They learn a lot about each other, and themselves.
Sing and Like it
Director of Photography
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
Bedlam of Beards
Director of Photography
A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.
Autobuyography
Cinematography
Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart.
Long Lost Father
Director of Photography
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Chance at Heaven
Director of Photography
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
Midshipman Jack
Director of Photography
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Headline Shooter
Director of Photography
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Flying Devils
Director of Photography
A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.
The Gay Nighties
Cinematography
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
Cross Fire
Director of Photography
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
Son of the Border
Director of Photography
An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.
Scarlet River
Director of Photography
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
The Cheyenne Kid
Director of Photography
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.
Заколдованное золото
Director of Photography
Джон и Джанет получают по таинственному письму, призывающему их отправиться в город-призрак, в котором находится заброшенная шахта. В свое время их отцы были совладельцами этой шахты. Там они сталкиваются с плохими парнями, ищущими спрятанное золото. Героям помогает мистический странник, именующий себя Фантомом.
Men of Chance
Director of Photography
A gambler falls for a fake countess.
Smart Woman
Director of Photography
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.
Too Many Cooks
Director of Photography
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
Three Who Loved
Director of Photography
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
Everything’s Rosie
Director of Photography
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
The Sin Ship
Director of Photography
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
Cracked Nuts
Director of Photography
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
Hook, Line and Sinker
Director of Photography
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
Half Shot at Sunrise
Director of Photography
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.
Conspiracy
Director of Photography
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
Inside the Lines
Director of Photography
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
The Cuckoos
Director of Photography
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
Side Street
Director of Photography
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Tropic Madness
Director of Photography
Herbert Pomeroy's wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankruptcy. Desperate, he sends his son Frankie to live with his friend Henderson, a South Seas trader, then commits suicide. Although Juanita spends years searching for her son, she finally gives up and takes a world cruise on the yacht of wealthy Jules Lennox. One day the yacht docks on Henderson's island and Juanita, meeting Henderson, persuades him to let her be Frankie's governess. Complications ensue, involving a poor physician, a jealous island woman and a witch doctor.
Tom's Gang
Director of Photography
Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner's granddaughter Lucille. But when he arrives at the ranch with young sidekick Spuds in tow, Dave finds that a distant relative of Lucille's, Ray Foster, has taken his place. Foster hires tough Bart Haywood to kill his rival, and soon our hero is hogtied to a handcar in the path of an approaching train.
The Gilded Highway
Director of Photography
After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marriage engagements.