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A Letter to Three Wives

Rated: 0 | 120 Views Released Year: 1949

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: In this 1949 black-and-white classic, which won Joseph L. Mankiewicz an Academy Award for Best Director, three married women (Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern) vacationing on the Hudson suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of a disturbing missive: One of their husbands has broken his nuptial vows and cheated. But whose? The answer is revealed as each woman excavates the ruins of her marriage. Kirk Douglas costars.
URL: A Letter to Three Wives

What Price Crime

Rated: 0 | 98 Views Released Year: 1935

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: In order to gain the trust of the ringleader of an illegal arms racket (Noel Madison), federal agent Allen Grey (Charles Starrett) goes undercover as a boxer. But Grey's brilliant plan to bring down the gangster begins to unravel when he finds himself falling for the criminal's sister. Actor Starrett later went on to win film popularity playing cowboy heroes in Western movies.
URL: What Price Crime

A Man Called Peter

Rated: 0 | 145 Views Released Year: 1955

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Based on a true story (and adapted from the best-selling book by Catherine Wood), this drama centers on young Scotsman Peter Marshall (Richard Todd), who heeds his "calling" from God to be a minister. Marshall leaves Scotland and travels to America, where he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C., on his way to becoming chaplain of the U.S. Senate. Jean Peters co-stars. Henry Koster directs.
URL: A Man Called Peter

Secrets of a Windmill Girl

Rated: 0 | 93 Views Released Year: 1966

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Step back to post-war London and catch a performance of the Windmill Girl (Pauline Collins), star of one of the city's most famous burlesque shows. So named because she's the headliner at the Windmill Theater -- which displayed its patriotism by continuing to entertain Londoners during the World War II blitz -- this Windmill Girl is enigmatic yet approachable, an intoxicating combo that's celebrated when she dies. April Wilding also stars.
URL: Secrets of a Windmill Girl

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance

Rated: 0 | 143 Views Released Year: 1938

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: The fourth installment of the Mr. Moto series finds the well-mannered Japanese sleuth (Peter Lorre) in a remote area of Indochina, where he's able to rescue a pretty young pilot (Rochelle Hudson) from the clutches of a ruthless despot (J. Edward Bromberg). As luck would have it, a pair of American newsreel cameramen (Robert Kent and Chick Chandler) captures the whole thing on film -- but they unwittingly get pulled into the story.
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One Is a Lonely Number

Rated: 0 | 95 Views Released Year: 1972

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Aimee Brower (Trish Van Devere) has the perfect life, including a fulfilling marriage to college professor James (Paul Jenkins). But when James files for divorce so he can romance one of his students, Amy must strike out on her own for the first time in her life. She soon finds hope in a women's support group and an elderly widower (Melvyn Douglas). Van Devere's performance garnered director Mel Stuart's film a Golden Globe nomination.
URL: One Is a Lonely Number

Nothing But a Man

Rated: 0 | 98 Views Released Year: 1964

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Inspired by the turbulence of the growing civil rights movement, this independent film digs into one man's personal struggle against racism in the 1960s. Set in Alabama, the story centers on Duff (Ivan Dixon), a railroad worker from the wrong side of the tracks who falls in love with an educated preacher's daughter (Abbey Lincoln). Proud Duff commands respect -- a stance that angers his white employers and terrifies his father-in-law.
URL: Nothing But a Man

A Fool There Was

Rated: 0 | 100 Views Released Year: 1915

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Theda Bara, one of only a few sex symbols in the early 1900s, stars in this 1915 silent film classic featuring the original organ score. Bara plays a vamp who uses her charms to seduce and corrupt a moral Wall Street lawyer, John Schuyler (Edward Jose). A Fool There Was was long considered controversial for such risque title cards as "Kiss me, my fool!"
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The Divorcee / A Free Soul

Rated: 0 | 112 Views Released Year: 1930

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Norma Shearer is at the top of her game in this double-dip of pre-code Hollywood hits. The Divorcee earned Shearer the 1930 Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a New York City party girl who gets caught up in a painful circle of adultery. In A Free Soul, she stars as a socialite whose affair with mobster Clark Gable raises the ire of his lawyer… and her father, played by Lionel Barrymore (who won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance).
URL: The Divorcee / A Free Soul

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Rated: 0 | 127 Views Released Year: 1967

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Carson McCullers's Southern drama comes to the big screen with Marlon Brando as Maj. Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual married to the carping Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor), who's having an affair with one of her husband's colleagues (Brian Keith). This emotionally charged tragicomedy from director John Huston explores the landscape of grief, denial and the power of our closest relationships to damage what we care about the most.
URL: Reflections in a Golden Eye

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