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Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Writers: Roy Chanslor, Abem Finkel, Sidney Sutherland
Paul Muni (I)Brad Bradshaw
Glenda FarrellGerry Krale
Ned Sparks (I)Shammy McClure

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn.

Supreme Sanction

Director: John Terlesky
Writer: John Terlesky
Michael Madsen (I)Dalton
Kristy SwansonJenna
David Dukes (I)Jordan McNamara

A newspaper reporter (David Dukes) is marked for assassination for his investigation into what happened to some army helicopters that were mysteriously shot down. However, the assassin (Kristy Swanson) cannot pull the trigger when she sees him with his daughter. She then teams up with him to fight the mercenaries (led by Michael Madsen) that are after him.

Born to Dance

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Writers: Jack McGowan (VI), Sid Silvers, Buddy G. DeSylva, ...
Eleanor Powell (I)Nora Paige
James Stewart (I)Ted Barker
Virginia BruceLucy James

Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway. Ted rescues the Pekinese of Lucy James, a Broadway star during a public relations campaign on his submarine.

A Deal in Bonds

Director: Robert Ellis (I)
George Larkin (I)
Mary Ross (I)(as Mary Taylor-Ross)
Ollie Kirby(as Ollie Kirkby)

"Lou Grant"

Directors: Alexander Singer, Roger Young (I), Burt Brinckerhoff, ...
Writers: Seth Freeman (I), Michele Gallery, Steve Kline (I), ...
Edward AsnerLou Grant
Robert WaldenJoe Rossi
Mason AdamsCharlie Hume

After everyone on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" got fired, Lou Grant went to Los Angeles and became city editor of the L.A. Tribune, owned by Mrs. Pynchon, with whom Lou often has loud but sympathetic arguments. Lots of social causes and interpersonal relationships.

Hot Summer Night

Director: David Friedkin
Writers: Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Edwin P. Hicks
Leslie NielsenWilliam Joel Partain
Colleen Miller (I)Irene Partain
Edward Andrews (I)Deputy Lou Follett

A big-city reporter between jobs is traveling with his wife through a small Ozarks town and gets a lead on a bank robbery. He tracks down the brutal gang that committed the robbery, only to discover that they are something of a source of pride to the locals.

Stranger on the Third Floor

Director: Boris Ingster
Writers: Frank Partos, Nathanael West
Peter Lorre (I)The Stranger
John McGuire (I)Michael 'Mike' Ward
Margaret TallichetJane

Rising reporter Michael Ward is a key witness in the murder trial of young Joe Briggs, who is convicted on circumstantial evidence while swearing innocence. Mike's girl Jane believes in Joe and blames Mike, who (in a remarkable sequence) dreams he is himself convicted of murdering his nosy neighbor. Will his dream come true before Jane can find the real murderer?

The Doors

Director: Oliver Stone (I)
Writers: Randall Jahnson, Oliver Stone (I)
Kathleen QuinlanPatricia Kennealy
Michael WincottPaul Rothchild
Michael Madsen (I)Tom Baker

Oliver Stone's homage to 60's rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27.

Fifteen Wives

Director: Frank R. Strayer
Writers: Charles Belden, Frederick Stephani
Conway TearleInsp. Decker Dawes
Natalie MoorheadCarol Manning
Raymond HattonDet. Sgt. Meade

Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes (Conway Tearle) investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.

Annie Oakley

Director: George Stevens (I)
Writers: Joseph Fields (I), Ewart Adamson, Joel Sayre, ...
Barbara StanwyckAnnie Oakley
Preston Foster (I)Toby Walker
Melvyn DouglasJeff Hogarth

In a sharpshooting match, the manager of a Cincinnati hotel bets on the fellow who's been supplying the hotel with quail...who turns out to be young Annie Oakley. Result: Annie is hired for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (which is faithfully re-enacted in the film). She's tutored in showmanship by champ Toby Walker.

This Marriage Business

Director: Christy Cabanne
Writers: Mel Riddle, Alex Ruben, Gladys Atwater, ...
Victor Moore (I)Jud Parker
Allan Lane (I)Bill Bennett
Vickie LesterNancy Parker (as Vicki Lester)

New York city reporter Bill Terry (Allan Lane) and his photographer-assistant Candid Perry (Jack Carson) follow an eloping heiress to a small New York town where he hears the marriage license clerk, Jud Holcomb (Victor Moore), give advice to the eloping couple, and he learns that no couple who has received a license from Jud has ever been divorced. Bill writes a story and Jud becomes a celebrity.

In Old Cheyenne

Director: Joseph Kane
Writers: John W. Krafft, Olive Cooper (I)
Roy Rogers (I)Steve Blane
George 'Gabby' HayesArapaho Brown
Joan WoodburyDella Casey aka Dolores Casino

Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Director: Charles Lamont (I)
Writers: Howard Dimsdale, Sid Fields, Grant Garett, ...
Bud AbbottSlim
Lou Costello (I)Tubby
Boris KarloffDr. Henry Jekyll

Slim and Tubby are American cops in London to study police tactics. They wind up in jail and are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors who laugh at his experiments. He has more murders in mind. At one point the serum that turns Jekyll into the murderous Hyde gets injected into Tubby.

Eyewitness

Director: Peter Yates (I)
Writer: Steve Tesich
William Hurt (I)Daryll Deever
Sigourney WeaverTony Sokolow
Christopher Plummer (I)Joseph

Manhattan janitor Daryll Deever is fixated on hard-charging TV commentator, Tony Sokolow; he tapes her commentary daily to watch after work. When a wealthy Vietnamese man, with many shady connections, is murdered in the office building where Daryll works, Tony shows up to cover the story and Daryll introduce himself.

Mr. Hex

Director: William Beaudine
Writers: Jan Grippo, Cy Endfield
Leo GorceySlip Mahoney
Huntz HallSach Sullivan
Bobby Jordan (I)Bobby

Consolation Marriage

Director: Paul Sloane (II)
Writers: Bill Cunningham (I), Humphrey Pearson
Irene DunneMary Brown Porter
Pat O'Brien (I)Steve 'Rollo' Porter
John Halliday (I)Jeff Hunter

In prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Reporter Steve "Rollo" Porter has lost -his- childhood sweetheart, Elaine, who has also married another. Mary and Steve become friends, and make a marriage of convenience, based on a shared sense of whimsical humor as well as their mutual losses.

The Falcon's Brother

Director: Stanley Logan
Writers: Michael Arlen, Stuart Palmer (I), Craig Rice (I)
George Sanders (I)Gay Lawrence
Tom Conway (I)Tom Lawrence
Jane RandolphMarcia Brooks

Gay Lawrence, amateur detective known as The Falcon, learns that his brother Tom has been reported murdered on a ship arriving from South America. Gay pursues the murderers, despite the fact that he knows his brother is still alive. When he is disabled, his brother Tom takes over the case, investigating a fashion magazine involved in secret activities with German infiltrators.

Twenty Million Sweethearts

Director: Ray Enright
Writers: Paul Finder Moss, Jerry Wald (I), Warren Duff, ...
Pat O'Brien (I)Russell Edward 'Rush' Blake
Dick Powell (I)Buddy Clayton
Ginger RogersPeggy Cornell

Unscrupulous agent Pat O'Brien makes singing waiter Dick Powell a big radio star while Ginger Rogers, who has lost her own radio show, helps Powell.

Penny Serenade

Director: George Stevens (I)
Writers: Martha Cheavens, Morrie Ryskind
Irene DunneJulie Gardiner Adams
Cary GrantRoger Adams
Beulah BondiMiss Oliver

As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows that they have shared.

The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler

Director: Bob Wynn
Writers: Jay Simms, Tom Rolf
Leslie NielsenHarry Walsh
Bradford DillmanSen. Clayton Zachary Wheeler
James Daly (I)Dr. Redding

A U.S. Senator is spirited away to a secret New Mexico medical lab after a serious car crash. His injuries are completely healed by a secret organization that has developed advanced medical technology. What does the organization want in exchange for saving his life? Meanwhile, a reporter who witnessed the accident decides to investigate the senator's disappearance.



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