89% (2) Nightmare Alley 110 min, Passed, [Drama, Film-Noir] [Edmund Goulding] [28 Oct 1947]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Joan Blondell, Tyrone Power
Writer: Jules Furthman (screenplay), William Lindsay Gresham (novel)
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Plot: The ambitious Stanton "Stan" Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. The couple had developed a secret code to pretend to read minds and was successful in the show business before Pete starts drinking. Stan stays with them expecting to learn their code and leave the carnival to be a successful mentalist. Stan also flirts with the gorgeous Molly that lives in the carnival with the strong Bruno. Zeena and The Savage, an alcoholic man that eats live chickens that the audiences believe that is a savage, are the greatest attractions of the sideshow. When Stan gives booze to Pete and he dies, Stan finds that Pete had drunk methyl alcohol and not his booze, but he feels guilty for the death of him. Zeena teaches the code to him and Molly helps Stan to learn them. After an incident, Stan is forced to marry Molly and he decides to move to Chicago with her to become a sensation in a night club. One day, he meets the psychologist Lilith Ritter and he finds that she tapes the sessions with her clients from the high-society. The trickster Stan envisions a scheme to raise a high amount of money swindling rich people. But his ambition brings him back to the life in the sideshow.
Rotten Tomatoes: Nightmare Alley is the story of a con man who recruits a couple of amatuers as his partners.
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83% (2) Cluny Brown 100 min, Passed, [Comedy, Romance] [Ernst Lubitsch] [29 May 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 91%, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Boyer, Helen Walker, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford
Writer: Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay), Elizabeth Reinhardt (screenplay), Margery Sharp (novel)
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Plot: Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. While there, she becomes friendly with Adam Belinski, a charming Czech refugee. She also becomes interested in a dull shopkeeper named Mr. Wilson. Belinski soon falls in love with Cluny and tries to keep her from marrying Wilson.
Rotten Tomatoes: The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle is indisposed, Cluny rolls up her sleeves and takes a plumbing job at a society home, where she meets a handsome Czech author (Charles Boyer) - a refugee who has fled the Nazis and now resides with a snobbish and stuck-up family. Hoping to advance herself socially, Cluny accepts a position as a maid in a fancy country home, where she once more meets the Czech author, who is a house guest; they promptly fall for each other, and Cluny follows his lead by turning her nose up at stiff-necked English propriety. Cluny Brown is directed by the matchless Ernst Lubitsch.
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73% (2) Call Northside 777 112 min, Approved, [Drama, Film-Noir] [Henry Hathaway] [01 Mar 1948]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 73%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations.
Actors: Helen Walker, James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Conte
Writer: Jerome Cady (screen play), Jay Dratler (screen play), Leonard Hoffman (adaptation), Quentin Reynolds (adaptation), James P. McGuire (based on articles by)
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Plot: In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal to look into the case. For some time, McNeal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Rotten Tomatoes: Discovering that a man convicted of a murder over a decade before may in fact be innocent, a Chicago journalist embarks on an investigation in search of the truth. This drama was based upon the true story of journalist Jim McGuire and wrongly convicted prisoner Joe Majczek.
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70% (1) Impact 111 min, UNRATED, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Arthur Lubin] [01 Apr 1949]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Charles Coburn, Ella Raines, Helen Walker
Writer: Dorothy Davenport (screenplay), Jay Dratler (screenplay), Jay Dratler (original story)
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Plot: In San Francisco, the successful self-made businessman Walter Williams has just bought three factories in Denver with the approval of the board of directors. His beloved wife Irene tells him that she is not feeling well enough to travel with him, and asks Walter to give a lift to her cousin Jim Torrance. On the highway, Jim, who is actually Irene's lover, tries to kill Walter hitting his head and throwing him off a cliff, and has a fatal fiery accident while escaping driving Walter's car. Walter is believed to be the driver and later his wife is sent to jail accused of plotting his murder. Meanwhile, the wounded Walter falls asleep in a moving van and eventually winds up in Larkspur, a small town in Idaho. He is hired as a mechanic in a gas station by the owner, Marsha Peters. For three months, Walter reads the news, expecting revenge with Irene sentenced to death, and he and Marsha fall in love for each other. When Walter discloses the truth to Marsha, she convinces him to return to San Francisco and save his unfaithful wife. The situation changes when Irene accuses him of plotting to kill her lover Jim, and Walter has to prove his innocence.
Rotten Tomatoes: When Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) suspects that his cheating wife and her boy-toy are plotting to kill him, Williams turns the tables, killing the boyfriend instead.
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67% (1) Brewster's Millions 79 min, Approved, [Comedy] [Allan Dwan] [07 Apr 1945]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews
Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Helen Walker, June Havoc
Writer: George Barr McCutcheon (novel), Winchell Smith (stage play), Byron Ongley (stage play), Sig Herzig (screenplay), Charles Rodgers (screenplay), Wilkie C. Mahoney (screenplay)
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Plot: In order to inherit $7,000,000, an ex-soldier must spend $1,000,000 in two months' time.
Rotten Tomatoes: This film stars Dennis O'Keefe as the lucky recipient of an $8,000,000 inheritance. However, O'Keefe will receive his legacy only if he spends $1,000,000 in two months. Prohibited from giving the money away, O'Keefe invests in several losing propositions; alas, every one of his bad investments turns a profit.
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65% (1) The Man in Half Moon Street 92 min, [Drama, Thriller] [Ralph Murphy] [19 Jan 1945]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Helen Walker, Nils Asther, Paul Cavanagh, Reinhold Schünzel
Writer: Barré Lyndon (play), Garrett Fort (adaptation), Charles Kenyon (screenplay)
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Plot: A scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma: he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered that if he doesn't get new glands, he will die.
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57% (1) My Dear Secretary 94 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Romance] [Charles Martin] [05 Nov 1948]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, External Reviews
Actors: Helen Walker, Keenan Wynn, Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day
Writer: Charles Martin
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Plot: Owen Waterbury, bestselling novelist, recruits aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord as his latest of many secretaries. The stars in her eyes fade when she finds she is to work in his apartment, with a constant parade of eccentric visitors and slapstick provided by klutzy roommate Ronnie. Moreover, Waterbury's idea of work looks a lot like play, his interest less in books than in blondes. She leaves; to get her back, he swallows his playboy principles and marries her. Can the leopard change his spots? Can Stephanie turn the tables?
Rotten Tomatoes: Kirk Douglas' first comedic performance casts him as Owen Waterbury, a hard-living, womanizing novelist who marries his secretary Stephanie (Laraine Day). After she achieves greater literary success than he, the couple splits, leaving their friends to try to reunite them.
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