Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Jailhouse Rock movie storyline. A great black and white B-film, and considered the best, most popular, and most famous of Elvis Presley’s musicals.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
One of the seminal science fiction films of motion picture history, The Day the Earth Stood Still is based on Edmund H. North’s adaptation of the short story by Harry Bates.
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12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Angry Men movie storyline. In a hot summer courtroom in NYC, a teenaged Latino is on trial for murdering his father with a switchblade knife, and faces the electric chair if convicted.
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Strangers on a Train storyline. During a ‘chance’ meeting on a train enroute from Washington DC, rich psychopathic playboy Bruno Anthony explains his macabre, morbid theory of the perfect murder.
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success movie storyline. A caustic, dark film noir based on the short story by Ernest Lehman and filmed on location in NYC. MacKendrick’s debut American film.
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
A Place in the Sun storyline. The young and poor George Eastman leaves his religious mother and arrives in California expecting to find a better job in business of his wealthy uncle Charles Eastman.
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In A Lonely Place (1950)
Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect; his record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor tell against him. Fortunately, lovely neighbor Laurel Gray gives him an alibi. Laurel proves to be just what Steele needed, and their friendship ripens into love. Will suspicion, doubt, and Steele’s inner demons come between them?
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The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Heat storyline. Following the suicide of a guilt-stricken, supposedly-honest fellow cop, homicide Sgt. Dave Bannion is determined to discover the truth.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1953)
The Bad and the Beautiful storyline. Film director Fred Amiel, movie star Georgia Lorrison, and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow, at the top of professions, each receives a telephone call from Paris.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle movie storyline. Mastermind ex-convict criminal Doc, who comes out of retirement (prison) for one last jewel robbery with an assemblage of underworld characters.
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