The Phenix City Story
Jul 19, 1955 | IMDB 6.6
100 min Watch NowCrime
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
Crime
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Lord of War
Murder, My Sweet
The Brasher Doubloon
Vertigo For A Killer
Guys and Dolls
Cry Terror!
The Borgia Stick
Chandni Bar
Yield to the Night
Detective Story
The Seventh Juror
Dead Reckoning
Molotov Samba
The Naked City
Black Angel
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Cry of the City
Over-Exposed
Out of the Fog
Walk a Crooked Mile
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Lord of War
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2005
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.Murder, My Sweet
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1944
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.The Brasher Doubloon
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 1947
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.Vertigo For A Killer
IMDB 4 | Aug , 1970
Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc as a hood hunted down by his boss when he fails to execute a man who happens to be his friend. He is hidden by a woman whose husband has murdered his business associate and wants Marc to take the rap for the crime.Guys and Dolls
IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 1955
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.Cry Terror!
IMDB 6.3 | May , 1958
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.The Borgia Stick
IMDB 7.8 | Feb , 1967
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.Chandni Bar
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2001
The gritty life of the Mumbai underworld, including prostitution, dance bars and gun crime.Yield to the Night
IMDB 6.9 | Jun , 1956
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.Detective Story
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1951
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.The Seventh Juror
IMDB 6.8 | Apr , 1962
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.Dead Reckoning
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 1946
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.Molotov Samba
IMDB 1 | May , 2005
A Brazilian pimp falls in love with a Russian prostitute, with disastrous consequences.The Naked City
IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 1948
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.Black Angel
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1946
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1956
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.Cry of the City
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 1948
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?Over-Exposed
IMDB 5.1 | Apr , 1956
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.Out of the Fog
IMDB 6.3 | Jun , 1941
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.Walk a Crooked Mile
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1948
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?