Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Big Sleep movie storyline. Detective Philip Marie’s hired by an old general to stop a blackmail plot concerning his daughter, Carmen. A series of clues puts Marlowe in touch with several seed people. Soon, Marlowe is involved with another of the general’s daughters; Vivian.
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The Gift of Love movie storyline. Suffering from lack of sleep, Bill Beck, a brilliant physicist working on a government guided missile program, visits the San Francisco office of Dr. Jim Miller for help with his condition. When the physician’s pretty receptionist Julie is unable to reach the doctor, she prescribes a back rub and a dry martini.
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Sex and the Single Girl movie storyline. Bob Weston is the top reporter for a sleazy, but highly profitable, tabloid magazine that owes its success to stories highlighting sex. Helen Gurley Brown is a bright and beautiful 23 year old psychologist who has authored the best-selling book “Sex and the Single Girl.”
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Harper movie synopsis. Lew Harper (Paul Newman) is a Los Angeles based private investigator whose marriage to Susan Harper, who he still loves, is ending in imminent divorce since she can’t stand being second fiddle to his work, which is always taking him away at the most inopportune of times.
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Murder on the Orient Express storyline. Hoping for a well-deserved rest, the renowned Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, returns to England aboard the luxurious Orient Express.
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Key Largo is about a fugitive gangster Johnny Rocco, who is on-the-run with fellow mobsters and his alcoholic lush moll and ex-nightclub singer, Gaye Dawn.
Key Largo (1948) Read More
To Have and Have Not movie storyline. Adapted from the 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway, with a script by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman – often considered a sequel to Casablanca.
To Have and Have Not (1944) Read More