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Pillow to Post 1945 With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co , but Earl wants dinner with her With the shortage of housing due to

Jennifer 1953 Agnes Langsley gets a job, through Jim Hollis, as caretaker of an old and vacated estate The owners cousin, Jennifer, was the last occupant and mysteriously disappeared Agnes soon begins to believe that Jennifer was murdered and that Jilm, whom she has fallen in love with, is responsib

Ladies in Retirement 1941 In the late nineteenth century, Ellen Creed works as the live in companion to Miss Leonora Fiske, a retired actress who lives in the English countryside and who still retains her theatrical mannerisms Ellen receives notice that the landlady of her two sisters, Emily Creed a

Women in Chains 1972 Lady parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality, but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why shes there is killed

Outrage 1950 A young girl is raped while coming home from work The trauma of the attack turns her away from her parents and her fiance Unable to face society, she runs away and, using an assumed name, takes a job on an orange ranch A young clergyman takes an interest in her although she wont confide

Lust for Gold 1949 The tale of how immigrant Jacob Walz, the Dutchman German of Arizonas notorious Lost Dutchman gold mine, found treasure and love and lost them again

The Strangers in 7A (1972) A building superintendent and his wife are held hostage in their apartment by a sadistic would-be bank robber and his spaced-out accomplices.

The Hard Way (1943) Ambitious Helen Chernin (Ida Lupino) pushes her talented younger sister Katherine (Joan Leslie) into marriage with broken down song-and-dance man Albert Runkel (Jack Carson) so that the two women can leave the dirty steel town where they live. Runkel's partner Paul Collins (Denni

The Devils Rain (1975) A satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.

Life Begins at EightThirty (1942) Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the

The Bigamist (1953) Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in LA where

Not Wanted (1949) Twentyish Sally Kelton is unhappy at home and in the drab town in which she lives, until she meets roving musician Steve Ryan. Sally falls for Steve, but to Steve, she's just another fling before he heads to another town. Sally decides to "pull up stakes" and heads on a bus to Stev

Never Fear (1950) A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.

Woman in Hiding (1950) Deborah Chandler's rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? But charming Clark manages to win her over and marry her. On the honeymoon, Clark's former girl Patricia intervenes and opens Deborah's eyes, alas too l

Road House (1948) Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Jefty is smitten with Lily, who in turn exerts her charms on the more resistant Pete. When Pete finally falls for her and she turns

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) Professor Moriarity has a scheme for stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London. To get Holmes involved, he persuades a gaucho flute player to murder a girl.

The HitchHiker (1953) Two friends on a fishing trip pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be a psychotic escaped convict. This sociopath has already murdered other good Samaritans in his efforts to evade authorities. He sadistically taunts and threatens the two men and perversely delights in

The Trouble with Angels (1966) Coming of age story for two girls, Mary Clancy and Rachel Devery, who find themselves as students at the St. Francis Academy, a Catholic boarding school for girls. The story spans three years and follows the girls and their many pranks including setting off fire alarms

The Sea Wolf (1941) Humphrey van Weyden, a writer, and fugitives Ruth Webster and George Leach have been given refuge aboard the sealer "Ghost," captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen. The crew mutinies against Larsen's many crimes, and though van Weyden, Ruth, and George try to escape Larsen'

High Sierra (1941) Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with the police and an angry press hot on his tail he eventually takes ref

Junior Bonner (1972) A week with Junior Bonner, a rodeo pro on the wrong side of 40, broke, bruised, and headed into Prescott, his home town, for the annual 4th of July Frontier Days. His dad, Ace, is a dissolute dreamer fixed on finding gold in Australia; his mom is resigned to Ace's roving; his br

Private Hell 36 (1954) Two detectives are investigating a robbery in which $300,000 was taken. Their investigation leads them to the main player and they find the cash, but one of them has meanwhile fallen hard for a woman with expensive tastes, and though he desperately wants to keep her, he knows

The Big Knife (1955) Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career, his marriage, his art & morality. In this screen adaptation of a Clifford Odets play, Castle is pressured by his studio boss and manipu

A psychopath takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.

Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden,...