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The Lady Gambles
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a once respectable and vibrant wife who has become a desperately out-of-control high roller in The Lady Gambles . A chance visit into a Las Vegas casino introduces Joan Booth (Stanwyck) to the seductive allure of poker and the craps table. All too soon, she ignores her devoted husband (Robert Preston) and older sister (Edith Barrett) as she compulsively chases after hard-hearted Lady Luck.
Portrait in Black
Acclaimed producer Ross Hunter teams with Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee and John Saxon in Portrait in Black , a glamorous and provocative murder mystery set in San Francisco's affluent Nob Hill. An adulterous couple (Turner and Quinn) conspire to kill her tyrannical husband. Soon after the murder, the lovers in crime receive an anonymous letter that says only: "Dear Mrs. Cabot: Congratulations on the success of your murder." With this alarming complication, their new life together...
Woman in Hiding
Newlywed Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino) discovers on her honeymoon that her husband (Stephen McNally) may have murdered her father for business reasons and now wants to kill her. Photographed by Academy Award®-winning cameraman William H. Daniels ( The Naked City , 1948) for veteran director Michael Gordon ( Portrait in Black , 1960), Woman in Hiding marks the first pairing of Lupino and co-star Howard Duff, who would marry in 1951 and appear in four more features together including While...
An Act of Murder
An Act of Murder stars Fredric March as a husband faced with an impossible predicament in this controversial drama that was well ahead of its time. Calvin Cooke (March), a no-nonsense judge in a small Pennsylvania town, finds his thoughts turning to end the life of his beloved wife Cathy (Florence Eldridge) when he learns that she has an incurable disease and is suffering from unbearable pain. He decides to move forward with his plan and then surrenders himself to the police. Defended by a...
A Very Special Favor
In A Very Special Favor , the illustrious Rock Hudson and chic Leslie Caron shine together onscreen in the City of Lights! Charismatic attorney Paul Chadwick (Hudson) will stop at nothing to win a case, including wooing the female judge. When the opposing counsel, Parisian Michel Boullard (Charles Boyer), realizes the reason for his loss in court, he makes an offer that can't be refused: Chadwick must entice Boullard's psychiatrist-daughter away from her feeble fiancé (Dick Shawn). What follows...
Texas Across the River
The hilariously funny Western spoof Texas Across the River stars Dean Martin at his hip-shooting, hip-chasing best. Phoebe (Rosemary Forsyth) is a beautiful Southern belle engaged to handsome Spanish nobleman Don Andrea (Alain Delon). When a former beau interrupts their wedding ceremony, he is accidentally killed by the groom-to-be, sending Andrea to Texas to avoid the authorities and to wait for his beloved. At the border, Andrea teams with wise-cracking Sam Hollis (Martin), who is recruiting...
Another Part of the Forest
Another Part of the Forest is a shocking drama starring Fredic March as the patriarch of a highly troubled family. In the small town of Bowden, Alabama, no household is as vicious as the Hubbards, led by patriarch Marcus (March), a tyrannical Civil War profiteer. Appalled by her children's ruthlessness and greed, their mother Lavinia (Florence Eldridge), watches helplessly as Ben (Edmund O'Brien), Oscar (Dan Duryea) and Regina (Ann Blyth) scheme to get hold of their father's fortune, each by...
Pillow Talk
Rock Hudson and Doris Day, two of the screen's most popular and enduring stars, light up the screen in Pillow Talk. When Jan Morrow (Day), uptight interior decorator, is forced to share a party line with carefree playboy Brad Allen (Hudson), there's no connection between them. But when the two accidentally meet, the smitten Brad pretends to be a wealthy Texan, wooing Jan with seductive late-night calls. Their phone line is sizzling until Jan discovers her caller's true identity and calls his...
For Love or Money (1963)
Kirk Douglas plays matchmaker to three luscious sisters in the zany romantic comedy For Love or Money co-starring Mitzi Gaynor and Gig Young.Despairing at her three daughters’ choices in men, an eccentric widow (Thelma Ritter) pays attorney Deke Gentry (Douglas) $100,000 to pair them up with pre-chosen mates. Although he easily fixes up Bonnie (Julie Newmar) and Jan (Leslie Parrish), sister Kate (Gaynor) proves to be a more troublesome match. Set up with a boozy baby food magnate (Young) who...
Portrait in Black / Madame X Double Feature
PORTRAIT IN BLACKThey say money can’t buy happiness, but can murder?Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn star as an adulterous couple who conspire to kill her tyrannical husband. Soon after the murder, the lovers in crime receive an anonymous letter that says only: “Dear Mrs. Cabot: Congratulations on the success of your murder.” With this alarming complication, their new life together begins unraveling as they become trapped in the realization that someone somewhere knows their dark secret. Co-...