greatest-ever-made's - Rented List
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Drive a Crooked Road (1954)Little Giant
Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) is an undersized, sports-car mechanic who dreams of racing an expensive car in a European meet. He meets and falls in love with Barbara Mathews (Dianne Foster), and thinks she loves him. She introduces him to Steve Norris (Kevin McCarthy) and Harold Baker (Jack Kelly), who ask him to drive the getaway car in a bank robbery they are planning. He refuses, but changes his mind after some gentle persuasion from Barbara. The job is pulled off and, following a wild getaway, Eddie learns that Barbara was just using him and that Steve and Harold have plans to kill him. Gritty retribution is just around the corner. - Director:
- Richard Quine
- Cast:
- Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy
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The Garment Jungle (1957)Garment Center
When Korean War vet Alan Mitchell (Kerwin Mathews) returns home to work for the family clothing manufacturing company, he discovers that his father (Lee J. Cobb) is in cahoots with gangsters to squelch a fledgling union movement within the shop. When the anti-union goons become murderous, Alan turns against his father to help organize the shop's labor force. - Director:
- Vincent Sherman
- Cast:
- Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala
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Dark City (1950)No Escape
Once a decorated war hero, Danny Haley (Charlton Heston) now leads a group of small-time card sharks who know a sucker when they see one. They cheat their latest mark, Arthur (Don DeFore) out of $5000 at the poker table; but when Arthur hangs himself in despair, his unstable, hulking older brother (Mike Mazurki) seeks violent revenge on the grifter's responsible. As the bodies pile up, Danny and his lover, nightclub singer Fran (Lizabeth Scott), flee to Las Vegas...but Danny is about to learn he can't hide from the consequences of his actions. - Director:
- William Dieterle
- Cast:
- Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors
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In this engaging melodrama, Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) is a lowlife working in a carnival. Knowing a good con when he sees one, he learns the tricks of a mind-reading act from Zeena (Joan Blondell), then tosses her aside. In time, he becomes "The Great Stanton", star attraction of swanky nightclubs and the darling of society. But with all his notoriety built on lies, it's only a matter of time before exposure brings Stanton's world crashing down around him. - Director:
- Edmund Goulding
- Cast:
- Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
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In a time when a man's life wasn't worth the price of a bullet, ruthless cattleman Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) begins a feud with local towns folk that can only escalate towards violence. But when renegade army officer Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives) rolls into town with his sadistic gang of cold blooded killers and starts taking hostages, action must be taken and differences put aside in the name of survival. "Day of the Outlaw" is an engrossing, tense and occasionally somber film filled with stark imagery and dark heroes. Men are pitted against each other in the cruel, unforgiving elements of a bleak, isolated far west. - Director:
- André De Toth
- Cast:
- Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise
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House of Wax (1953)The Wax Works
In the gleefully wicked performance which made the gothic master of the macabre. Vincent Price is Professor Harry Jarrod, a renowned wax sculptor plunged into insanity when an arsonist destroys his life's work. Unable to use his flame-scarred hands, he comes up with a new way of restocking his House of Wax. Aided by Igor (Charles Bronson), he dips his hapless victims in wax! Jarrod's new creations are widely praised, but a lone voice cries murder. When the dauntless Sue Allen discovers a wax figure strongly resembling a missing friend (Carolyn Jones), Jarrod decides to line up the very same fate for her! It's anyone's guess who will end up in the bubbling cauldron. But that doesn't lessen the sweat dread and sheer fun of this all-time classic. - Director:
- André De Toth
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
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Nosferatu (1922)Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
Made in 1922, on location in the Carpathians and several Baltic Towns, Nosferatu is in all but name Bram Stokers Dracula with the lead names changed. Starring Max Schrek as Nosferatu the film relies heavily on lighting, shadow and pictorial compensation. Following closely Bram Stokers novel. Stokers wife took offence and won her case against the producers forcing them to destroy all prints. Luckily a couple survived. - Director:
- F.W. Murnau
- Cast:
- Max Schreck, Greta Schröder, Ruth Landshoff
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Trapped (1949)The Film Noir Collection: Trapped
Convicted counterfeiter Tris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges) is offered early release from prison in return for helping the US Treasury Agents track down his former partners-in-crime. Unwilling to cooperate, Stewart manages to escape, unwittingly playing straight into the T-Men's hands. Directed with style and a documentary feel by Richard Fleischer, no-one is quite what they seem! 'Trapped' is superbly lit, with crisp, intelligent dialogue - a top notch Film Noir with an explosive ending. - Director:
- Richard Fleischer
- Cast:
- Lloyd Bridges, William Woodson, Barbara Payton
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Walk East on Beacon (1952)The Crime of the Century / Louis de Rochemont's Walk East on Beacon!
Federal agent Belden (George Murphy) is assigned to locate the communist mastermind behind the leak, and to trace all avenues of informational access utilized by the Communists. Professor Albert Kafer (Finlay Currie) is the space-weapons scientist who is being blackmailed by the Reds into cooperating with them, while Alexi Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek) is the top Eastern-Bloc spy. Using state of the art technology, such as an early miniature video camera, and ingenious methods like a roomful of foreign language lip readers, the G-men crack the case and with the help of the US Coast Guard rescue the professor before he can be spirited away by submarine. - Director:
- Alfred L. Werker
- Cast:
- George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore
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Connie Dickson (Veronica Lake) plans to marry a sheep rancher, but her father teams up with land baron Frank Ivey (Preston Foster) to drive the man out of town. Fiery Connie, determined to fight Ivey to the bitter end, takes over her ex-fiance's land and hires Dave Nash (Joel McCrea) to run the ranch as her ramrod. Dave, a reformed drunk, insists on doing everything by the book. Little does he know that Connie has taken matters into her own hands, and gone behind his back. Armed with his cowboy code of honour, Dave manoeuvres a dangerous world of greed, lies, and murder in this old fashioned tale featuring two of Hollywood biggest stars of the 1940's. - Director:
- André De Toth
- Cast:
- Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don Defore
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Early Universal: Vol.2 (1926)20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / The Calgary Stampede / What Happened to Jones?
The 'Masters of Cinema' Series is proud to present three early silent features from Universal Pictures, all fully restored as part of the studio's ongoing restoration program.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)Allen Holubar stars as the domineering Captain Nemo, who rescues the passengers of an American naval vessel after ramming them with his iron-clad, steampunk submarine, 'The Nautilus'. Incorporating material from Verne's 'Mysterious Island', the film also follows the adventures of a group of Civil War soldiers whose hot-air balloon crash lands on an exotic island, where they encounter the untamed "Child of Nature" (Jane Gail).
The Calgary Stampede (1925)
Real life rodeo champion Hoot Gibson plays Dan Malloy, an expert rider who wins the big one, 'The Calgary Stampede'. When the father of his new French-Canadian girlfriend (Virginia Browne Faire) turns up dead, Malloy is the only suspect!
What Happened to Jones? (1926)
Reginald Denny plays a wealthy young bachelor on the night before his wedding. He is convinced to attend a poker party which is promptly raided, sending him on the run in a series of increasingly hilarious disguises.- Director:
- Stuart Paton
- Cast:
- Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton
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Charles Boyer (Gaslight) gives an enthralling performance as Georges Iscovescu, a Romanian-born gigolo who arrives at a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US. Faced with a waiting period of eight years, George is encouraged by his former dancing partner Anita (Pauline Goddard) to marry an American girl and desert her once safely across the border. He successfully targets visiting school teacher Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland), but his plan is compromised by a pursuing immigration officer, and blossoming feelings of genuine love for Emmy. - Director:
- Mitchell Leisen
- Cast:
- Charles Boyer, Olivia De Havilland, Paulette Goddard
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The Heat's On (1943)Tropicana
Screen siren Mae West sparkles in this famous musical comedy featuring a heat wave of beautiful girls, gags, rhythm and romance. Mae West is cast as famous Broadway actress Fay Lawrence, who is starring in a dud play produced by chiseler Tony Ferris (William Gaxton). Swept up in the hype and fame of it all, West betrays her producer who truly loves her for more glitzy opportunities, but will this turn out to be a hoax and will she ever find her feet again in the world of stardom? - Director:
- Gregory Ratoff
- Cast:
- Mae West, Victor Moore, William Gaxton
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Early Murnau: Five Films (1925)Schloß Vogelöd / Phantom / Der Letzte Mann / Die Finanzen des Großherzogs / Herr Tartüff
In the sinister mystery 'Schloß Vogelöd', terrible secrets from the past threaten a group of aristocrats' gathering at a country manor. In the delirious 'Phantom', an aspiring poet's chance encounter with a beautiful woman leads into obsession and deception. The delightful 'Die Finanzen des Großherzogs' sees a rakish-but-impoverished duke setting out to rebuild his fortune via blissfully comic high adventure on the Mediterranean coast. In 'Der Letzte Mann', one of the undisputed masterpieces of the silent era, Emil Jannings gives an overwhelming performance as a hotel porter with dreams of a higher station in life, and was a stylistic breakthrough for both Murnau and cinema in general. Finally, the slyly satiric 'Tartuffe' features Jannings as Molière's iconic creation in a morality tale film-within-a-film as only Murnau could conceive. - Director:
- F.W. Murnau
- Cast:
- Arnold Korff, Lulu Kyser-Korff, Lothar Mehnert
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Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)FBI Meets Scotland Yard
Soon after solid leads come to light about a communist spy ring infiltrating the Lakeview Laboratory of Nuclear Physics, a Southern California atomic research center, FBI Agent Dan O'Hara (Dennis O'Keefe) teams up with Scotland Yard Detective Philip Grayson (Louis Hayward) to hunt down the perpetrators responsible for the leak, and at least one of the scientists at the nuclear lab is suspected to be involved in the clandestine, espionage operation. - Director:
- Gordon Douglas
- Cast:
- Louis Hayward, Reed Hadley, Dennis O'Keefe
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