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Unsavory Characters (2001)

Actors: Richard W. Haines (director), Richard W. Haines (miscellaneous crew), Richard W. Haines (actor), Richard W. Haines (writer), Richard W. Haines (producer), Richard W. Haines (editor), Nick Raio (actor), Angela Moore (actress), Lou Torres (actor), John Knox (actor), Stan Carp (actor), Ron Moreno (actor), Corey Allen Kotler (actor), Michael J. Leslie (composer), Eric Leffler (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Money for Nothing (1993)

Actors: Debi Mazar (actress), Fionnula Flanagan (actress), Alice Drummond (actress), John W. Iwanonkiw (actor), Michael Madsen (actor), Sam Coppola (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), Michael Rapaport (actor), John Cusack (actor), Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor), Benicio Del Toro (actor), Frankie Faison (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), John W. Iwanonkiw (miscellaneous crew), Craig Safan (composer),

Plot: When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

Keywords: airport, archer, armored-truck, bag, bar, baseball-bat, based-on-article, based-on-true-story, best-friend, black-comedy
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: There were a million reasons to give the money back. But Joey Coyle couldn't think of one. What would you do if you found a million bucks?

Quotes:

[about the money]::Joey Coyle: Think about it Kenny. Did we hurt anyone?::Kenny Kozlowski: No.::Joey Coyle: Did we steal it from anyone?::Kenny Kozlowski: No.::Joey Coyle: Are we giving it back. *Hell no!*

Joey Coyle: Come on. My shirt has so many holes in it that when I walk down the street, I hum.

[van making clattering noises as it goes down a bumpy road]::Blond-haired FR driver: It's not my fault that the city doesn't fix the roads.

Monica Russo: If Joey Coyle has a $100 bill. You can assure that it's his last $100 bill.

Billy Coyle: The dumb SOB that took the money, doesn't even know what he's in for?::Katie Coyle: What's SOB?::Eleanor Coyle: Never mind.

Blood Ring (1991)

Actors: Nick Nicholson (actor), Cris Aguilar (actor), Oli Laperal Jr. (miscellaneous crew), Jim Gaines (actor), Jim Moss (actor), Steve Tartalia (actor), William Yusi (composer), Teddy Page (director), Steve Rogers (actor), Ned Hourani (actor), Philip Gordon (actor), William Romero (actor), John Crocker (actor), David Hunt (producer), Andy Andico (producer),

Plot: Max, a prize boxer who has developed a drinking habit after his girlfriend Susan left him, gets involved in dirty business once she asks him to help her find her missing husband.

Keywords: action-hero, alcoholic, b-movie, brawl, chop-socky, dark-hero, ex-boyfriend-ex-girlfriend-relationship, first-part, fist-fighter, fistfight
Genres: Action,
Taglines: Only The Toughest Get Out Alive!

Never Love a Stranger (1958)

Actors: Robert Bray (actor), Milo O'Shea (actor), Vincent Barbi (actor), Sidney Katz (editor), Richard Bright (actor), R.G. Armstrong (actor), Steve McQueen (actor), Ruth Morley (costume designer), John Drew Barrymore (actor), Walter Burke (actor), Salem Ludwig (actor), Dort Clark (actor), Felice Orlandi (actor), Harold Robbins (writer), Harold Robbins (producer),

Plot: Frankie Kane is brought up in a Catholic orphanage and befriends Martin Cabell, a Jewish law student whose sister Julie becomes Frankie's sweetheart. At sixteen, Frankie learns that he is himself Jewish and therefore has to be moved to a Jewish home. That prospect proves so awful that he runs away - and goes bad. Years later, he returns to the district and gets involved with a crime syndicate that his old pal Martin, now assistant district attorney, has pledged to clean up. Frankie however, bumps in to Julie again and, finding he still loves her, decides to help the straight-shooting Martin smash the syndicate.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, attorney, based-on-novel, bum, gangster, hitman, jew, organized-crime, orphan
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: RAW and VIOLENT as the book that sold 3,000,000 SIZZLING copies!

Law of the Badlands (1951)

Actors: Desmond Marquette (editor), John Cliff (actor), Art Felix (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Tim Holt (actor), Ed Earl Repp (writer), Paul Sawtell (composer), Lesley Selander (director), Robert Bray (actor), Robert Livingston (actor), Sam Lufkin (actor), Kenneth MacDonald (actor), Richard Martin (actor), Allen Mathews (actor), Herman Nowlin (actor),

Plot: The Texas Rangers send Dave and Chito into the badlands to see if they can locate a counterfeiting operation. They arrive posing as wanted outlaws and this gets them into the gang. But as soon as they uncover the operation and locate the printing press, one of Chito's girl friends arrives to expose their identity and they find themselves trapped by the entire gang.

Keywords: counterfeiting, criminal
Genres: Western,
Taglines: TEXAS RANGERS vs. BANDIT TRIGGERS! Tim masquerades as a "wanted" killer, to crush a counterfeit-money gang! The bills they print are counterfeit---the bullets they shoot are real! DANGEROUS DISGUISE! Tim tempts bullets from both outlaws and The Law, as a masqueradin' Texas Ranger trailing a fast-shooting. counterfeit-money gang. PHONY BANDITS TRICK COUNTERFEIT-MONEY GANG! It's a murderous masquerade, with Tim and Chito as Texas Rangers disguised as killers! DOUBE DOUBLE-CROSS! Phony-money gang stumbles into trouble. Tim masquerades as a bandit in his most thrilling life-and-death game! RANGER BULLETS BL;AST BANDITS!

Saints and Sinners (1949)

Actors: Noel Purcell (actor), Tony Quinn (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Leslie Arliss (producer), Leslie Arliss (writer), Leslie Arliss (director), Philip Green (composer), Liam Redmond (actor), Tom Dillon (actor), Eddie Byrne (actor), Maire O'Neill (actress), Kieron Moore (actor), Godfrey Quigley (actor), Maureen Delaney (actress), Betty Forster (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Comedy,

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)

Actors: Carole Landis (actress), Whit Bissell (actor), Charles Cane (actor), Clancy Cooper (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), James Flavin (actor), Lee Tung Foo (actor), Reed Hadley (actor), John Ireland (actor), Charles Tannen (actor), David Buttolph (composer), Harry Morgan (actor), Emory Parnell (actor),

Plot: Reporter Henry Barton, just out of the Army, is chagrined to be made Science Editor while his old crime reporter job goes to Bess. Against orders, Henry probes a racketeering case, and is in a Brooklyn tavern when beautiful Julia comes in with a well-trained Doberman Pinscher and with the dog's aid proceeds to rob the place... or does she? More complications ensue, with a "battle of the sexes" undertone.

Keywords: accomplice, apartment, archive-footage, b-movie, bartender, chase, cigarette-smoking, detective, dog, east-river
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime,
Taglines: WWOOOOOOOOOOO - DOUBLE TROUBLE IN BLONDES! (original ad - all caps)

Quotes:

Joe Parelli: What's the matter, mister? Married?::Henry Barton: No... too much plutonium.::Joe Pirelli: Plu...ton...? Myself, I never use it.

Parole Racket (1937)

Actors: William Arnold (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Ray Bennett (actor), Raymond Brown (actor), Harry A. Bailey (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Budd Fine (actor), Joseph W. Girard (actor), Roger Gray (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor),

Plot: Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman, and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole is arranged leads him, dangerously, to the secret-head of the gang.

Keywords: 1930s, b-movie, big-city, bribe, convict, criminal, crook, demotion, detective, dump-truck
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance,

Excuse My Glove (1936)

Actors: Wally Patch (actor), Val Valentine (writer), Joe Rock (producer), Arthur Finn (actor), Olive Blakeney (actress), Ronald Shiner (actor), Betty Ann Davies (actress), Vera Bogetti (actress), Redd Davis (director), Billy Wells (actor), Katherine Strueby (writer), Bobbie Comber (actor), Gunner Moir (actor), Archie Pitt (actor), Walter Roy (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Sport,

Undercover Men (1934)

Actors: Burt Kelly (producer), Sam Newfield (director), Kenne Duncan (writer), Wheeler Oakman (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Eric Clavering (actor), Adrienne Dore (actress), Philip Brandon (actor), Farnham Baxter (actor), J.R. Booth (miscellaneous crew), J.R. Booth (producer), Elliott Lorraine (actor), Alex Meyers (editor), Arthur Gottlieb (producer),

Plot: For showing cowardice during a holdup, bank teller Bob Hunter is fired. He joins the Mounties and is assigned to look for those robbers. To have him work undercover, the Inspector's scheme is to have Bob supposedly kicked out of the Mounties.

Keywords: 1930s, assignment, b-movie, b-western, bank, bank-robbery, big-city, canada, canadian, car-chase
Genres: Action, Crime, Western,
Taglines: The dramatic story of peace-time heroes - that fearless band who fight humanity's battle against crime! (original poster) The inside story of Society's death-dealing challenge to Crime! (original poster)