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The Bad And The Beautiful (Country: US; Year: 1952; Director: Vincente Minnelli; Writer: Charles Schnee, George Bradshaw; Stars: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame)
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
The Big Heat (Country: US; Year: 1959; Director: Fritz Lang; Writer: Sydney Boehm, William P McGivern; Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby)
A tough cop takes on a powerful crime syndicate.
Human Desire (Country: US; Year: 1954; Director: Fritz Lang; Writer: Alfred Hayes; Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Kathleen Case)
Blackmailed by her violent husband, a woman tries to persuade her lover to murder him.
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In A Lonely Place (Country: US; Year: 1950; Director: Nicholas Ray; Writer: Andrew Solt, Edmund H North, Dorothy B Hughes; Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith)
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbour clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
Odds Against Tomorrow (Country: US; Year: 1959; Director: Robert Wise; Writer: William P McGivern, Abraham Polonsky, Nelson Gidding; Stars: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley)
In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.
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