Whilst traveling across America living off the money from a large inheritance, ex-fireman Nashe has a chance meeting with Pozzi, a professional gambler and card shark. Nashe agrees to fund the penniless Pozzi in a game of poker against two eccentric millionaires, Flower and Stone, in an attempt to regain some of his spent fortune. This film is an almost exact translation of the novel by Paul Auster.
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This third entry in Columbia’s “Inspector Trent” series is cleverly (and economically) set in a movie studio. A malevolent leading lady is murdered while filming a scene, whereupon the nervous studio head calls in Inspector Trent. Since everybody on the lot despised the victim, there’s a surplus of suspects.
Rookie New York cop has to deal with juvenile delinquents, his superiors, and blame for the suicide of a woman who jumped to her death while he was in her apartment.
Based on the story “The Heroes of Yucca,” The Invincible Six features a ragtag group of jewel thieves who become the unofficial guardians of a small Iranian village. When bandits attack the village, looking for the body of their former leader and his treasure map, the Invincible Six are there to save the day, wooing the local females and frustrating the new leader of the bandits.
A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn’t know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.
Melanie Hudson is a police officer involved with a man suspected of several sex-related killings. Her partner, who is also her ex-boyfriend, is convinced the man is guilty; Melanie is certain he’s innocent, until her investigation plants a seed of doubt in her mind.
In a slightly future America, a woman goes to the big city to visit with her sister, who is dead in her apartment. In order to find out what happened to her sister, she gets a job working at a dance club, a lower notch in the strip joint circuit. Some of her colleagues begin showing up dead as she uncovers a sinister hierarchy in the strip club management that is harnessing the sexual activity for their own twisted ends.
Maj. Robert Lawson, a lawyer working in Germany as part of the American Army’s tribunal for prosecuting Nazi war criminals, successfully convicts Gen. Otto Stigman of war crimes. Defense witness Themis DeLisle, whose French Resistance father’s life was saved by Stigman, insists the German officer is innocent. Despite pressure from his superiors, Lawson decides to reopen his investigation, uncovering evidence that may clear Stiegman.