Lewis L. Russell

Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.

An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.

A French spy (Mary Castle) flirts with an Indian chief's son (Jon Hall) amid war in 1753 Williamsburg, Va.

Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he in kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.

Faithful dog Rusty helps his master's father win a mayoral race.

A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.

A former secret agent is sent to retrieve a priceless collection of stolen jewels from a Lisbon nightclub owner who worked both sides during World War II.

A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.

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.

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?

"Лучший кинофильм" 1945 года не утратил ни своей остроты, ни силы воздействия на зрителя, безжалостно анализируя влияние алкоголизма. По иронии судьбы этот блестящий фильм Билли Уайлдера был допущен лишь к ограниченному показу, потому что не вызвал заинтересованности во время предварительных просмотров. Всё дело в том, что публика просто не ожидала такого жёсткого реализма от Голливуда. Со временем картина была признана одним из самых великих драматических произведений в истории кинематографа. Писатель, которого играет Рэй Милланд, одержим жаждой успеха и недоволен своей жизнью. Недовольство загоняет его в трёхдневный саморазрушительный запой. Фильм, награждённый несколькими премиями Academy Award, полон захватывающих образов из жизни человека, находящегося на грани нервного срыва.

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.

Мистеру Эйкину накануне свадьбы открываются интересные подробности прошлого его невесты, мисс Сьюзан Даррел. Ее бывшие поклонники рассказывают мистеру Эйкину непохожие друг на друга истории о совершенно разной Сьюзан. Какая же из этих Сьюзан настоящая?

A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.