87% (2)  Ride the Pink Horse  101 min,  Not Rated,  [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller]  [Robert Montgomery]  [02 Feb 1948]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 73%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Andrea King, Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix
Writer:  Ben Hecht (screenplay), Charles Lederer (screenplay), Dorothy B. Hughes (novel)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English, Spanish    Country:  USA
Plot:  In the bordertown of San Pablo, preparing for an annual 'Mexican Fiesta,' arrives Gagin: tough, mysterious and laconic. His mission: to find the equally mysterious Frank Hugo, evidently for revenge; or is it blackmail? FBI agent Retz is also after the elusive Hugo. Everyone in town is enigmatic, especially Pila, a mystical teenager who follows Gagin around and has premonitions of his death. Also involved are a classic femme fatale and an antique carousel with a pink horse...
Rotten Tomatoes:   Robert Montgomery directed and starred in this exotic film noir set during a New Mexico fiesta. Montgomery plays a secretive ex-GI who plans to extort money from a prominent gangster (Fred Clark) as retribution for the death of Montgomery's best friend. An FBI man (Art Smith) would like the government to get the incriminating information on the gangster that Montgomery is carrying. Trailed by the FBI agent, Montgomery takes refuge at an old carousel, where he meets a Mexican gamin (Wanda Hendrix) who refuses to leave his side. The girl is on hand when the gangster catches up with Montgomery and has him beaten. She nurses Montgomery back to health, but the would-be blackmailer is determined to confront the gangster again. This time, however, the FBI agent comes to the rescue. Ride the Pink Horse is a properly moody melodrama, containing one of the few truly good performances from eternal ingenue Wanda Hendrix. The film was remade for TV in 1964 as The Hanged Man.
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77% (2)  The Beast with Five Fingers  88 min,  Approved,  [Horror, Mystery]  [Robert Florey]  [08 Feb 1947]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 66%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 89%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Robert Alda, Victor Francen
Writer:  Curt Siodmak (screen play), William Fryer Harvey (from a story by)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
Rotten Tomatoes:   When a concert pianist dies without recognizing his personal secretary in his will, the secretary chops off one of the corpse's hands and begins to plot revenge. Things get more complicated, however, when the disembodied hand takes on a life of its own in this renowned early horror film.
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69% (1)  The Man I Love  96 min,  [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir]  [Raoul Walsh]  [11 Jan 1947]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 69%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Andrea King, Ida Lupino, Martha Vickers, Robert Alda
Writer:  Catherine Turney (screenplay), Jo Pagano (adaptation), Catherine Turney (adaptation), Maritta M. Wolff (novel)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English, French    Country:  USA
Plot:  Visiting her two sisters and brother, singer Petey Brown lands a job at small-time-hood Nicky Toresca's nightclub. While evading the sleazy Toresca's heavy-handed passes at her, she falls in love with down-and-out ex-jazz pianist Sand Thomas, who has never quite recovered from an old divorce. While solving the problems of her sisters, brother and their next-door neighbor, the no-nonsense Petey must wait as Sand decides whether to start a new life with her or sign on with a merchant steamer.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A nightclub singer is wooed by a mobster in this noir-flavored melodrama.
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67% (1)  Dial 1119  75 min,  Passed,  [Film-Noir, Thriller]  [Gerald Mayer]  [03 Nov 1950]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 67%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 nomination.
Actors:  Andrea King, Marshall Thompson, Sam Levene, Virginia Field
Writer:  John Monks Jr. (screen play by), Hugh King (from a story by), Don McGuire (from a story by)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English, Italian    Country:  USA
Plot:  A young mentally-ill killer, Gunther Wyckoff, escapes from a mental institution, murders a bus driver and, then, takes six hostages in a bar. The gun in Wyckoff's hand kills without emotion or pity, wielded by a man bare of emotion. It begins as a moral question whether an insane killer should or should not be sent to the electric chair, but goes elsewhere before it ends.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Louis B. Mayer's nephew Gerald proved himself an able director with the MGM "B" thriller Dial 1119. Marshall Thompson stars as an emotionally disturbed young man who pulls out a gun at a bar and holds the patrons hostage. As the police gather outside, the film concentrates on the various bar customers, each of whom has his or her own deep-rooted problems. Thompson is on the verge of killing everyone around him when a telephoned ruse breaks the crisis. A raw-nerved 75 minutes' worth of entertainment, Dial 1119 was a personal favorite of actress Virginia Field, who played one of the hostages.
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67% (1)  Hotel Berlin  98 min,  [Drama, War]  [Peter Godfrey]  [02 Mar 1945]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 67%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Andrea King, Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey
Writer:  Vicki Baum (novel), Jo Pagano (screenplay), Alvah Bessie (screenplay)
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Plot:  Near the end of WW II, a member of the German underground (Martin Richter) escapes from the Gestapo and takes shelter at Hotel Berlin, where he meets Lisa Dorn, a sleek actress involved with General von Dahnwitz, who is also trying to leave Germany. The hotel is a hotbed of Nazis, refugees, spies and ordinary Germans trying to survive inevitable defeat without getting too involved.
Rotten Tomatoes:   This episodic drama is set in the title city during the days just prior to the collapse of the Nazi regime. In its heyday, the Hotel Berlin was the posh resting place of the rich and famous. Now it is only the hiding place for a group of frightened people.
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65% (1)  I Was a Shoplifter  74 min,  PASSED,  [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller]  [Charles Lamont]  [13 May 1950]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 65%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Andrea King, Mona Freeman, Scott Brady, Tony Curtis
Writer:  Irwin Gielgud (story by), Irwin Gielgud (screenplay by)
External Links:  Wikipedia  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Police detective sergeant Jeff Andrews is working on a case involving a gang of shoplifters, and he allows himself to falsely arrested as a petty thief, in order to make contact with the gang. Meanwhile, Faye Burton, a petty shoplifter and the daughter of a prominent judge, is blackmailed by the gang into joining them on the promise that they will get back a confession signed when she was caught by a department store detective, who had her sign the document rather than calling the police. It takes Jeff and Faye a lot longer to figure out who is the 'brains' behind the shoplifting gang than it does the audience, and the audience has less information than they do.
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65% (1)  My Wild Irish Rose  101 min,  Approved,  [Biography, Musical]  [David Butler]  [27 Dec 1947]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 65%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Alan Hale, Andrea King, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Morgan
Writer:  Peter Milne (screen play), Rita Olcott (based upon a book by)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his...
Rotten Tomatoes:   Irish ballads abound in this tuneful and highly fictionalized biography of prominent singer/songwriter Chauncey Olcott.
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49% (1)  Red Planet Mars  87 min,  APPROVED,  [Drama, Sci-Fi]  [Harry Horner]  [15 May 1952]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 49%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Andrea King, Herbert Berghof, Peter Graves, Walter Sande
Writer:  John L. Balderston (screenplay), Anthony Veiller (screenplay), John L. Balderston (play), John Hoare (play)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English, Russian    Country:  USA
Plot:  An American scientist contacts Mars by radio and receives information that Mars is a utopia and that Earth's people can be saved if they return to the worship of God. Revolution sweeps the Earth, including the Soviet Union. But there remains doubt about the messages being genuine, as an ex-Nazi claims he was duping the Americans.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A scientist invents a device to receive messages from outer space and finds that an unusual series of communications are emanating from Mars. Further investigation leads to the conclusion that these messages are in fact the word of God in this unusual sci-fi drama.
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