The Out of Towners (1970)
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Plot
George and Gwen Kellerman live in the small, quiet town of Twin Oaks, Ohio with their two young children and pet dog. George has a strong sense of what is right and wrong, especially as it applies to himself and Gwen, but he still looks to her for validation. Working for a plastics company, George believes he is a shoo-in for the company's Vice-President of Sales, New York Division job, a position located in New York City. George is looking forward to their future life in New York City, with all the amenities and benefits living in the big city has to offer. For George's 9 am interview, George and Gwen plan on taking a flight that lands in New York at 8 pm the evening before, which gives them time for dinner at New York's finest restaurant, The Four Seasons, and a comfortable night's stay at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel before the interview. But nothing on this trip goes according to plan. In fact, what can go wrong, does. Because of circumstances, it even looks as if George may miss his interview. As the fifteen hours preceding the planned interview progress, George and Gwen have to decide if they are going to let New York get the better of them or if they are going to get the better of New York.
Keywords: airplane-trip, airport, big-apple, boston-massachusetts, central-park-manhattan-new-york-city, compulsion, cuban, delayed-flight, demonstration, diplomat
Genres
Taglines:
When they take you for an out-of-towner, they really take you.
Quotes:
Gwen Kellerman: Don't pull! Please don't pull! Oh my God, my straps are broken!
Gwen Kellerman: George, what are we doing wrong? We can't ride, we can't walk, we can't eat, we can't pray.::George Kellerman: Well, we can think. As long as we got our brains, we can think.::Gwen Kellerman: Oh, they'll get that too, George. You'll see.
Officer Meyers: You folks live out of town?::Gwen Kellerman: Oh yes.::Officer Meyers: You're lucky.
George Kellerman: You chased a dog and you beat a horse. You're stronger than you think.
George Kellerman: And you're not getting away with anything! I got all your names and your addresses!
George Kellerman: My wife can verify that. Gwen?::Gwen Kellerman: I can verify that.
Gwen Kellerman: Why... why didn't we just stop and explain?::George Kellerman: Explain? What I'm doing in the bushes with a little boy? With my hands in his pockets? They'd give me 10-20 years.
George Kellerman: 37,000 policemen in the city of New York! Not one'll come out in the rain!
George Kellerman: Here, look, look! Car!::[a car approaches]::George Kellerman: Hey! Help! Help!::[the car drives past them barely hitting George]::George Kellerman: Ow! I hope you get in trouble someday!
George Kellerman: Oh, please, please if there's any justice let Murray get mugged by the man who took my watch.
Affair in Reno (1957)
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Plot
Gloria Hall, an irresponsible heiress, is in Reno for her second divorce, and falls for Tony Lamarr, a fortune-hunting gambler and casino owner. J. B. Del Monte,her father in New York City, sends his public-relations man, Bill Carter, to buy off the gambler if Carter is not successful in convincing Glaoria that Lamarr is interested only in her money. When Bill is attacked at the Reno airport, Del Monte arranges, sight-unseen, for a bodyguard to go to Reno to look after Carter...and his $100,000. The bodyguard turns out to be Nora Ballard, an attractive girl and a Judo expert.
Keywords: 1950s, airplane, airport, b-movie, bartender, bodyguard, breach-of-confidentiality, bribery, casino, cigarette-smoking
Genres
Taglines:
SHE PLAYED FAST...AND LOST! (original poster - all caps)
THE GAME WAS WIDE OPEN, AND THE HOODS MOVED IN ON THE BIG PAYOFF! (original poster - all caps)
THE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR ROLL! (original poster - all caps)
THEIR LIVES WERE THE STAKES IN A GAME OF CHANCE! (original poster - all caps)
THEY PLAYED A DANGEROUD GAME OF CHANCE...with only their lives as the stakes! (original poster)
Peggy (1950)
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Plot
When Professor Brookfield and his pretty daughters Peggy and Susan move into the small town Pasadena in California, their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding immediately takes over control, helps them moving in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Although they're not thrilled, they enter the competition. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy, unknowing that her heart already belongs to a famous football star. So she tries to redirect his interest to her sister Susan.
Keywords: daughter, professor
Genres
Without Reservations (1946)
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Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Keywords: based-on-novel, gas-station, love-at-first-sight, orchid, road, train, writing
Genres
Taglines:
Claudette on a Pullman without a ticket...He-man Wayne aboard without a care!...Laugh-power setting for the screen's most sparkling gem of excitingly amorous adventure!
Uh-oh! Danger Signals ahead!
Transcontinental Romance - Unlimited!!!
Double Indemnity (1944)
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Plot
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train-track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.
Keywords: 1930s, adultery, anger, ankle-bracelet, assumed-identity, based-on-novel, betrayal, blonde, blood, bowling-alley
Genres
Taglines:
It's Love And Murder At First Sight !
From the Moment they met it was Murder!
You Can't Kiss Away A Murder!
Paramount's terrific story of an unholy love, and an almost perfect crime!
Quotes:
Phyllis: I was just fixing some ice tea; would you like a glass?::Walter Neff: Yeah, unless you got a bottle of beer that's not working.
Walter Neff: You'll be here too?::Phyllis: I guess so, I usually am.::Walter Neff: Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?::Phyllis: I wonder if I know what you mean.::Walter Neff: I wonder if you wonder.
[last lines]::Walter Neff: Know why you couldn't figure this one, Keyes? I'll tell ya. 'Cause the guy you were looking for was too close. Right across the desk from ya.::Barton Keyes: Closer than that, Walter.::Walter Neff: I love you, too.
Walter Neff: It's just like the first time I came here, isn't it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet.
Barton Keyes: Have you made up your mind?::Jackson: Mr. Keyes, I'm a Medford man - Medford, Oregon. Up in Medford, we take our time making up our minds.::Barton Keyes: Well, we're not in Medford now, we're in a hurry.
Walter Neff: Do I laugh now, or wait 'til it gets funny?
Walter Neff: How could I have known that murder could sometimes smell like honeysuckle?
Walter Neff: Suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy, Keyes, but it's true, so help me. I couldn't hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.
Walter Neff: Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money - and a woman - and I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?
Barton Keyes: I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter... you're just a little taller.
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
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Plot
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat. John admits that he is not a millionaire but only a $65-a-week clerk. He asks her to marry him and, over the protests of May, she accepts. Tod, who has been away, wires Linda a marriage proposal which is intercepted by Warren, who accepts on her behalf via a return wire. He intends to blackmail her into marrying Tod and then blackmail the Fenwicks into dissolving the marriage. To get John's money back to him, which she has but can't tell him, Linda enlists the aid of Colonel Prentiss who runs a gambling house, and the machines are fixed so that John wins his money back. Linda and John go to the terminal to leave, but Tod shows up and she tries to keep him away from John, who knows her as Sue.
Keywords: con-artist, department-store
Genres
Taglines:
she kissed him out of his life's savings... but the poor guy loved it...
It's Larceny ... But She's Lovely ... And He Loves It!
My Sister Eileen (1942)
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Plot
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, greenwich-village-manhattan-new-york-city, manhattan-new-york-city, new-york-city, ohio, sister-sister-relationship
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Quotes:
Ruth Sherwood: i hope some fresh air gropes its way in here - it's stifling!
'The Wreck' Loomis: [holding an iron] Which way do you want the pleats turned?::Ruth Sherwood: Toward Mecca.
Ruth Sherwood: [reading cereal box] Nature's Broom. Gonna have breakfast all day long...::Eileen Sherwood: Oh, but it's good for you. It's roughage.::Ruth Sherwood: I like to vary it with a little smoothage, like a steak!
All-American Co-Ed (1941)
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Plot
All-girl school Mar Brynn tries to get more pupils and publicity by making fun of the Quincton college. For revenge, the boys there sent Bob Sheppard to Mar Brynn, dressed as a girl, to give them a slight scandal. But he falls in love with Virginia, the girl who is putting on a show there. Now Bob has the problem of getting revenge for Quinceton and not loosing his girl, especially when Quinceton hears about his relationship and decides to sent him support...
Keywords: boy-in-all-girls-college, college, contest, cross-dressing, fraternity, girls'-school, impersonation, measles, physical-comedy, transvestite
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Taglines:
IT'S ALL AMERICA'S CHOICE FOR ALL-OUT FUN!
HEY!...IT'S HERE...THE SEASON'S GAYEST MUSICAL!
Zeta boys don't succeed, they inherit!
At the Circus (1939)
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Plot
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter lets his accomplices steal the money, so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
Keywords: acrobat, african-american, andrew-jackson, audience, aunt, butler, carny, changing-clothes-behind-screen, checkers, circus
Genres
Taglines:
NOT SUITABLE FOR GENERAL EXHIBITION (Australian one-sheet poster)
Keep the world laughing!
Quotes:
Antonio Pirelli: You know what I say. Whenever you got business trouble the best thing to do is to get a lawyer. Then you got more trouble, but at least you got a lawyer.
Peerless Pauline: I've waited so long to find someone like you.::J. Cheever Loophole: Oh, someone *like* me, I'm not good enough for you, eh?
Peerless Pauline: But it's so easy. The bottom of your shoe creates a suction that holds you up in the ceiling.::J. Cheever Loophole: No, no, I'd rather not. I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.
J. Cheever Loophole: I bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.
J. Cheever Loophole: I don't know what I'm doing here, when I could be at home in bed with a hot toddy. That's a drink!
Antonio Pirelli: If you please, Mistah Carter?::John Carter: What do you want?::Antonio Pirelli: Can I have a month off next August?::John Carter: What for?::Antonio Pirelli: Well, you see, my lawyer, he got-a me a divorce, and one month every year I win the custody of my wife's parents.
J. Cheever Loophole: Ah ah! Bad luck, three on a midget!
J. Cheever Loophole: You're like a beautiful chandelier. I'd like to be around when you get lit up.
Antonio Pirelli: You know what I think? The guy who hit Jeff on the head and knocked him out didn't like him.::J. Cheever Loophole: Now let's not jump to concussions.
J. Cheever Loophole: O, Susanna, o, Susanna [Starts singing] Oh, won't you fly with me/for I need $10,000 'cause the Sheriff's after me.