Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Elevator to the Gallows movie storyline. A businessman (Julien Tavernier, played by Maurice Ronet), in love with his boss’s wife (Florence Carala, played by Jeanne Moreau), plans a murder to look like suicide. This involves using a grappling hook and rope to enable him to climb up a floor without using the elevator. So far, so good.
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Desire movie storyline. This is a poetic film about life, told with four vignettes, each one set during a different season and featuring a character at a different stage in life. The first a young boy anticipating the arrival of a new baby sister in the spring, the second a post adolescent girl who falls in love in the summer, the third an adult woman who toils away at the fields in the fall, and the last an old widowed teacher who falls ill in the winter.
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Cry Terror movie storyline. Paul Hoplin (Rod Steiger) is the mastermind of a crime to collect a $500,000 ransom, threatening to use an explosive device that Jim Molner (James Mason) designed. He and his gang are holding Molner, wife Joan (Inger Stevens) and young daughter Patty (Terry Ann Ross) hostage. FBI agents gather in New York with representatives of an airline. Hoplin has been sending anonymous notes, suggesting that a bomb will be planted on an aircraft.
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The Crawling Eye movie storyline. On the Swiss mountain Trollenberg, one of three student climbers is suddenly killed, his head ripped from his body. Two sisters, Anne (Munro) and Sarah Pilgrim (Jayne), a London mind-reading act, are travelling by train to Geneva when Anne faints as the train passes the mountain. Upon waking, Anne insists that they must get off at the next stop.
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The Cry Baby Killer movie storyline. 17-year-old Jimmy Wallace (Jack Nicholson) is brutally beaten by Manny Cole and two of his teen-age punk friends, Joey and Al, because Manny wants to move in on Jimmy’s girl, Carole Fields (Carolyn Mitchell). Later, Jimmy shows up at the hangout of the teenage crowd to take Carole away, and challenges Manny to a fight.
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The Reluctant Debutante movie storyline. Jimmy (Rex Harrison) and Sheila Broadbent (Kay Kendall), welcome to London Jimmy’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee). Jane is from Jimmy’s first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the stepmother she has never met. While visiting, Sheila has the idea of making Jane a debutante, an idea Jane resists.
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Big Deal on Madonna Street movie storyline. Caught red-handed for a crime he swears he didn’t commit, the hopeful criminal mastermind and–for now–small-time thief, Cosimo, entrusts the square-jawed boxer, Peppe, with the plan for a seemingly fail-proof pawnshop heist on the quiet Madonna Street.
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Enchanted Island movie storyline. Two 19th-century sailors, Abner (Dana Andrews) and Tom (Don Dubbins), jump ship after their captain, Vangs (Ted de Corsia), refuses them shore leave and warns them what a dangerous place this particular island is. They disobey him and soon discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
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The Fly movie storyline. After her husband Andre Delambre (David Hedison) is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife Helene (Patricia Owens) recounts to his brother Francois Delambre (Vincent Price) and police Inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall) the events of the previous few months. They were very much in love and with their little boy, a very happy family.
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The Bravados movie storyline. Jim Douglass (Gregory Peck) has been tracking four men who he believes killed his wife six months ago. He arrives in a small town where he learns the men he’s been tracking are set to be hanged. They escape and Douglas leads a posse after the men. They commit further crimes, murdering and raping.
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