简介: 路易斯(丹尼斯·普莱斯 Dennis Price 饰)的母亲出身高贵的阿斯特内家族,但因和一个意大利歌唱家私奔,至死都受到家族排斥。已经长大成人的路易斯深深牢记贵族亲戚们拒绝母亲葬在家庭墓地的嘴脸,又经历心爱的少女茜贝拉(简·格林伍德 Joan Greenwood 饰)因他贫穷拒绝他的求婚,于是着手展开他的复仇计划。他把有爵位继承权的男性亲属一个个用计谋杀掉,旨在自己可以得到公爵爵位,在杀人变得越来越得心应手后,连老弱妇孺都不肯放过,反正他总能制造各种巧合,从来没有人怀疑到他身上。但在复仇计划执行的同时,他也陷入感情困扰——嫁人后的茜贝拉和他藕断丝连,又有个家族内美丽的遗孀艾迪丝(Valerie Hobson 饰)爱上了他,愿意和他订婚,在路易斯得意洋洋继承爵位和举办婚礼之际,他的罪行似乎也要败露……
主演:约瑟夫·科顿 阿莉达·瓦利 奥逊·威尔斯 特瑞沃·霍华德 伯纳德·李 保罗·赫尔比格尔 厄恩斯特·多伊奇 Siegfried Breuer Erich Ponto 维尔弗雷德·海德-怀特 Hedwig Bleibtreu Harold Ayer 保罗·伯奇 Martin Boddey 罗伯特·布朗 保罗·卡彭特 Reed De Rouen 西奥多·戈特利布 Paul Hardtmuth Charles Irwin 莉莉·卡恩 格佛雷·肯 马丁·米勒 埃里克·普罗曼 卡罗尔·里德 Annie Rosar K
主演:约瑟夫·科顿 阿莉达·瓦利 奥逊·威尔斯 特瑞沃·霍华德 伯纳德·李 保罗·赫尔比格尔 厄恩斯特·多伊奇 Siegfried Breuer Erich Ponto 维尔弗雷德·海德-怀特 Hedwig Bleibtreu Harold Ayer 保罗·伯奇 Martin Boddey 罗伯特·布朗 保罗·卡彭特 Reed De Rouen 西奥多·戈特利布 Paul Hardtmuth Charles Irwin 莉莉·卡恩 格佛雷·肯 马丁·米勒 埃里克·普罗曼 卡罗尔·里德 Annie Rosar K
简介: Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Helen Walker) very much and they have planned a vacation drive together. Irene cancels at the last minute claiming a toothache, but asks that Walter drive her cousin Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) as far as Illinois. Walter agrees and he and Jim take off together but later Jim knocks Walter unconscious and takes the car only to be hit himself by a truck and killed, his body burned beyond recognition. Walter comes to and suffering a concussion and deep confusion from feeling betrayed by Irene hides out in a small Midwest town until guilt and peer pressure force him to go back to San Francisco and tell his story to the Police. But by the time Walter returns to San Francisco a clever detective Lieutenant Quincy (Charles Coburn) has uncovered some facts about Irene and her cousin' Jim. The police have been holding Irene for the murder of her husband Walter but release her considering that Walter was hiding out because he had killed Jim. Along the way to uncovering the truth in Court Walter realizes some hard fact about what he holds valuable and the trust he has put in those around him.
简介:Police baffled by the FACELESS KILLER! A faceless dummy of a serial killer haunts a police department in this atmospheric noir thriller from Fleischer. The dummy is created to represent an elusive strangler who calls himself 'The Judge' and whom the frustrated detective Harry Grant attempts to reconstruct from a handful of clues, such as body size and suit fabric. Sure enough, as the dummy becomes more real, reason and sound judgement encounter the uncanny.
简介:Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him to achieve his end. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of easy money, easy sex with an alluring young woman and the promise of easy success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician but a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to show him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who might be Old Nick , that is to say Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man again.
简介:Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on
简介: Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a convicted murderess paroled in the care of probation officer Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde). What begins as an aloof professional relationship eventually blossoms into romance. The fly in the ointment is shady Harry Wesson (John Baragrey), the gambler who inveigled Jenny into committing murder. The girl is torn between creature comforts offered her by Wesson and the promise of a clean life offered by Griff. This early Douglas Sirk effort contains a smattering of the stylistic touches which distinguished his later work.The screenplay was written by famed director Samuel Fuller, known for his gritty realism and hard-boiled style. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide