greatest-ever-made's - Rented List
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)Casados y descasados
David (Robert Montgomery) and Ann (Carole Lombard) manage to keep happily married by following one rule: should they quarrel, neither one was to leave the bedroom until they had finally made-up. Sometimes this rule kept David away from his law office for a week, but his partner, Gene Raymond (Jeff Custer), did not complain. After one such session lasting three days, David and Ann finally make up and he goes to his office. His first visitor is the man who first married them, who informs David that, owing to a technicality, he and his wife are not legally married. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond
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When a supposedly tame black leopard escapes from a New Mexico nightclub, young girls start to die - horribly. While the police desperately search for the beast, nightclub singer Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) and her manager Jerry Manning (Dennis O'Keefe) start to suspect that someone - or something - far worse is responsible for the killings. Something is stalking the small town, something with an overwhelming compulsion to kill and kill again... - Director:
- Jacques Tourneur
- Cast:
- Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
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Germany, a group of international passengers become entwined with a Nazi plot to assassinate the German peace campaigner Dr Bernhardt (Paul Lukas). As the express train leaves from Paris to occupied Berlin the German, French, American, British and Russian passengers, are not all what they seem. A political assassination n route threatens the planned peace conference, and when Dr Bernhardt is kidnapped, the beautiful Frenchwoman Lucienne (Merle Oberon) recruits the American Robert Lindley (Robert Ryan) and three other passengers to help find the missing doctor. As time runs out, the five must comb the shadowy ruins of bombed-out Frankfurt, with only a few clues to uncover the loyalist Nazi spy ring. - Director:
- Jacques Tourneur
- Cast:
- Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
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Cry of the City (1948)The Law and Martin Rome / The Chair for Martin Rome
Martin Rome drives the law crazy - he is a beautiful loser, defying death, the great charismatic anti-hero of Siodmak's masterpiece of law and disorder. Adapted from a novel by Henry Edward Helseth, 'Cry of the City' tells the tale of a charismatic New York criminal and his nemesis, the dogged cop and one-time friend who chases him down with a neurotic possessiveness as though in pursuit of his own evil twin. Richard Conte's dazzling performance as Rome conveys a seductive ruthlessness opposite the brawny Victor Mature - a Fox favourite following his powerful performance in Kiss of Death - as Lieutenant Candella, the 'good guy' in the film's running battle between good and evil. They are supported by a brilliant cast including Debra Paget, Shelley Winters, and the mesmerising, scene-stealing Hope Emerson in her most original and remarkable role as a thieving murderess. 'Cry of the City' is a dark crime melodrama, filmed on location in New York in Voluptuous black and white by a director whose name is synonymous with the era of classic film noir. - Director:
- Robert Siodmak
- Cast:
- Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark
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The Crimson Pirate (1952)Crveni gusar
In the late 189th century, Captain Vallo, his trusty mute partner Ojo and his crew of nefarious pirates scour the Caribbean searching for ships to plunder. This light heartedx action romp has everything you would expect from a pirate film; scurvy men, a big pirate vessel, swordfights and a damsel in distress! - Director:
- Robert Siodmak
- Cast:
- Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
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Charles Castle (Jack Palance) has it all. With fame, talent and devastating looks, he is the studios biggest star. But when disillusionment sets in and the actor wants to quit Tinseltown, he finds himself in battle with inexorable studio boss Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger). Reluctant to lose his hottest property, he is about to show Charles Castle just how ruthless Hollywood can be, as in a series of explosive showdowns, a murderous cover-up is revealed and Charles finds himself trapped by the dark secrets of his own past. - Director:
- Robert Aldrich
- Cast:
- Jack Palance, Richard Boone, Ida Lupino
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Anthony Mann's taut "Railroaded" (1947) tells the story of a sinister cover-up in which an innocent young man is framed not only for a robbery, but also for the accidental murder of a cop. Hugh Beaumont (later on "Leave It to Beaver") plays the detective in charge, and the great, creepy John Ireland plays the lead criminal mastermind. Sheila Ryan plays the sweet girl, and Jane Randolph plays the tough-talking dame. - Director:
- Anthony Mann
- Cast:
- John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont
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"They rule by the fear of their guns. They must be stopped by the power of your ballots". They refers to Bugs Fenner and other mobsters whose illicit rackets will be smashed to smithereens by undercover cop Johnny Blake. When Warner Bros. ' Depression-era gangster movies began to draw protests, the studio reinvigorated the genre with stories emphasizing law enforcers instead of lawbreakers. The swift, sturdy 'Bullets or Ballots' reflects that, with Edward G. Robinson (as Blake) siding with the good guys for the first time in a gangland saga. Humphrey Bogart plays the short-fused Fenner. And Joan Blondell and Louise Beavers, in an unusual story element for the times, are thriving numbers operators whose grift is usurped by the mob. - Director:
- William Keighley
- Cast:
- Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane
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A traumatized war veteran, Lt Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), meets a strange and tormented couple living in an isolated beach house. Tod Butler (Charles Bickford) is a once-famous artist who is now blind, bitter and intensely jealous after an assault by his wife. Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett) is a passionate and wayward woman who stays with her husband out of guilt - but soon falls for the charms of the handsome Burnett. Burnett spurns his fiancee (Nan Leslie) to start an affair with Peggy - while her blind husband remains oblivious. Or does he? Burnett starts to suspect that the artist is faking his blindness and, as passions rise, one of the tortured characters begins to have thoughts of murder... - Director:
- Jean Renoir
- Cast:
- Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
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Anthony Perkins plays Ben Owens, a greenhorn sheriff who hasn't worn his badge long... and won't live to wear it much longer unless he gets some savvy help. Fonda, bringing to his role the presence and plain speaking that made him an icon of the cinematic West, plays wily bounty hunter Morg Hickman. "A decent man doesn't want to kill," Morg counsels Ben. "But if you're going to shoot, shoot to kill." Morg backs up his words with action. And when the time comes, so will Ben. - Director:
- Anthony Mann
- Cast:
- Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer
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Imitation of Life (1959)Imitación de la vida
Lana Turner is Lora, whose search for success as an actress causes her to neglect her daughter, Susie (Sandra Dee). Juanita Moore stars as Lora's black housekeeper whose daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realises that she has been living out an emotionally fruitless existence. - Director:
- Douglas Sirk
- Cast:
- Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee
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Man-with-a-past James Stewart guides a band of pioneers from Missouri over the Oregon Trail to a new life in the Columbia River Basin in the western adventure directed by Anthony Mann. When the settlers are cheated out of their supplies and cattle, Stewart crosses rivers, climbs mountains and out-guns greedy hijackers to ensure their survival through the first winter. Along the way, his is double-crossed by ally Arthur Kennedy and assisted by handsome San Francisco gambler Rock Hudson and beautiful farmer's daughter Julia Adams. Veteran entertainer Stepin' Fetchit is featured as the riverboat cabin boy. - Director:
- Anthony Mann
- Cast:
- James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy
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Alphaville (1965)Alphaville, una extraña aventura de Lemmy Caution
Written and directed by Godard, 'Alphaville' is the strangely beautiful futuristic tale of Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), an American private eye sent to a planet ruled by Von Braun (Anna Karina), a malevolent scientist who has outlawed human emotions in favour of logic. The film deals with the fight between individualism in the face of inhumanity and blind conformity... - Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast:
- Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
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Spoiled millionaire playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson) almost dies when he wrecks his speedboat; he is saved when police use a resuscitator belonging to someone else. As a result local hero Dr. Phillips dies. Bob attempts to help Dr. Phillips widow Helen (Jane Wyman) who he falls in love with. When terrible tragedy strikes can Bob save Helen and redeem himself from the past? - Director:
- Douglas Sirk
- Cast:
- Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
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The Bride Wore Black (1968)La Mariee etait en noir
Julie (Jeanne Moreau), a beautiful young bride, has just married her childhood sweetheart and love of her life. But just moments after the ceremony, her beloved is murdered on the steps of the church. Emotionally distraught, Julie becomes obsessed with her bridegroom's death and begins a descent into madness as she relentlessly pursues the men responsible. One by one, Julie sees to their demises, and, with each murder more bone-chilling and diabolically clever than the last, the question is now who will be next - but rather how they will meet their ghastly end. - Director:
- François Truffaut
- Cast:
- Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet
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