Paid to Kill 1954 Painted Dessert William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees

Paid to Kill
1954
Painted Dessert
William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees, William
Farnum, J. Farrell MacDonald and Clark Gable star
- Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy
in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and
clash over which is to be "father." They are still
bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent
ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised
to young manhood, wants to end the feud and
extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a
lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the
bitterness escalates.
Panic in the Streets
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Panther's Claw, The
What was the meaning of the fateful claw-prints
that meant death to the receiver? IT'S SPINECHILLING!
Paradise In Harlem
Frank Wilson, Mamie Smith, Juanita (Bloody Mary)
Hall and Edna Mae Harris star in this all black
musical
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Paradise Isle
Love is different on Paradise Isle...where a woman
pledges her life for the man she loves! Come to the
South Seas for a thrilling lesson in love!
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Paris Underground
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Park Row
1952
Parlor Bedroom and Bath
Buster Keaton, and his house, star - Jeff wants to
get married to Virginia, but Virginia won't marry
until her older, hard-to-please sister Angelica gets
married off first.
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Parole Inc
A classic B cast including Michael O'Shea, Turhan
Bey, Lyle Talbot and Evelyn Ankers. When several
notorious criminals are unjustifiably released on
parole, the Federal Government smells a rat and
sends ace agent Richard Hendricks to investigate.
Hendricks infiltrates the gang, responsible for the
parole racket by posing as a much-wanted convict
Rick Carson. However, the wily Barney Rodescu,
who is the brain behind the racket, soon finds out
Carson's true identity. Carson's life is now in grave
danger.
Party Girl
Jay Rountree, son of a wealthy manufacturer and
young, rising businessman, gets caught up in a web
involving an escort service or 'party girls.' While
eluding the wily Diana Holster, the self-proclaimed
Queen of the Party Girls, he manages to get
trapped in a web spun by Leeda Cather and her
supposed mother and, much to his consternation
and to the surprise of his fiancée, Jay soon finds
himself an unhappily married man. And, as events
would show, Diana isn't all that happy, herself.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanette Loff and Judith
Barrie star.
Party Wire
When the daughter of the town's leading citizen
and a local dairyman have a romance,and the man
makes a sudden-and-unexplained trip out of town,
the local gossips, employing the small-town's
shared telephone lines, start a malicious gossip
campaign discussing the assumed-but-incorrect
reason.
Passing of the third floor back
In a London boarding house, a number of lives
exist precariously on the edge of disaster or
despair. Stasia, the housemaid, hungers for
happiness but is treated like a drudge and
constantly threatened with a return to the
punishments of her youth. Vivian, a beautiful
young girl, loves the architect Chris, but must
marry the repugnant Mr. Wright in order to erase
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her parents' debts. Miss Kite derides all around her
out of fear of aging and loss of beauty, while her
friend Mr. Larkcom sells mediocre phonograph
records though he'd secretly love to be a concert
pianist. Into the lives of these and other unhappy
residents comes a mysterious stranger, under
whose influence they each begin to see the
possibility of happiness. But the cynical Mr. Wright
prefers to see them in misery and plots to thwart
the angelic stranger who lives in the back room of
the third floor.
Passion Flower
A rich girl who gives up everything to marry for
love - marriage to a poor but independent, honest
and reliable man who has nothing but disdain for
his wife's glamorous cousin, one of the idle rich
who wed a much older man for his money. Unable
to escape her wiles, unable to get ahead in the
world despite his strong character and earnest
efforts, he leaves wife and children to join the
sorceress in an aimless pursuit of pleasure here and
abroad - until he comes to his senses, returns home
and asks his wife's forgiveness. Kay Francis,
Charles Bickford and lewis stone star, and in one of
8 pictures he made that year - there's little Dickie
Moore!
Passport To Pimlico
It seems the residents of Pimlico, England have
declared their community a separate country.
Great fun in the post war effort that shows the
adjustments that were being made to peace.
Paul Robeson - borderline
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Paul Robeson - emporer Jones
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Paul Robeson - Sanders of the River
1935
Paul Robeson - Jericho
1937
Pay Off
Lowell Sherman directed and stars in this crime
drama about a master thief who will only steal
from other crooks.
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Paul Robeson – King Solomon’s Mines
1937
Payroll
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Paul Robeson - Proud Valley
1940
Peck's Bad Boy
Released by Fox, this was the first talking version
of the old theatrical war horse. 12 year old Jackie
Cooper discovers that he's adopted when Dorothy
Peterson and Jackie Searl (who play's the original
obnoxious son) move in with Cooper and his dad.
Peterson trys to cause a split between the two, so
that her own son can take Cooper's place. A great
family film.
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
A variation/adaptation of the George W. Peck
stories originally published in the 1880s, was
brought up to date with few alterations. While
"Peck's Bad Boy" might have been simply a little
boy never allowed to grow up as with the long
running comic strip character of "Dennis the
Menace, this latest edition matures its title
character to adolescent age as he continues getting
himself into various situations as well as trying the
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Paul Robeson - native Land
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patience of his parents.
Set in the town of Bloomfield, the story starts off
with Billy Peck (Tommy Kelly) seated outside his
home looking over the trophies he's won during his
two years in summer camp, now having his heart
set on winning a third for 1938. At the dinner table,
Bill gets himself in trouble with his parents, Henry
(Grant Mitchell) and Martha (Nana Bryant) for
placing a frog in the soup, causing him to be
punished by not attending summer camp and
remaining home with Cassie, the maid (Louise
Beavers). Before the parents get to have their
fishing trip in the country, each has a change of
heart about their son's punishment by secretly
giving Bill bus fare to go to camp. With the Gordon
Brothers Circus coming to town, Bill and his pals
decide to earn some money in exchange for free
tickets, but are refused admittance by the ticket
agent for presenting a false pass. Thanks to one of
the circus employees, the boys are snuck in and
given places to seat. Unfortunately, they are
spotted by one of Bill's friends, having Bill forced
to pay for the seats with his bus fare. Along the
way, Bill encounters Bailey (Edgar Kennedy), a lion
tamer who's out to get that certain someone who
gave one of his lions sleeping pills (guess who?) as
well as befriending Fleurette Decana (Ann Gillis), a
child bareback rider, who, along with her mother
(Fay Helm), must cope with Myrna Darrow (Benita
Hume), a temperamental sideshow performer
married to the show's manager (William
Demarest). Highlight includes Bill filling in for
Fleurette, following her slight leg injury, dressed
up in girls clothes and doing her act himself.
Penal Code
1932
Pennies From Heaven
Larry Poole (Bing Crosby), in prison on a false
charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he
will look up and help out a family. The family
turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith (Edith
Fellows), and her elderly grandfather (Donald
Meek) who need lots of help. This delays Larry
from following his dream and going to Venice and
becoming a gondolier. Instead he becomes a street
singer and, while singing in the street, meets a
pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague (Madge
Evans). She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare
under the guardianship of Larry and her
grandfather, and starts proceedings to have Patsy
placed in an orphanage.
Penrod and Sam
screen version of Booth Tarkington's novel in his
Penrod series about ordinary kids living ordinary
lives. The humor is nicely done and low-key, in the
style of Roach's OUR GANG series and features
some excellent comedy performances by such adult
actors as Johnny Arthur and the great Zasu Pitts
and, interestingly, the director's daughter as
Penrod's older sister, Marjorie
Peter Maxwell's Impact
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Peter Maxwell's Serena (Honor Blackman)
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Phantom
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Phantom Killer
1942
Phantom Creeps
Feature version edidited from the Universal serial.
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Phantom Express
An engineer at the throttle of a locomotive
speeding through a tunnel sees the lights of a train
approaching from the other end. Although the
signals say the track is clear, he still sees the train's
lights. He grinds the train to a halt, derailing it. He
survives, but many passengers are killed. He is
fired in disgrace, but sets out to prove his
innocence by finding the "phantom express."
Phantom Fiend (Elizabet Allen AKA The
Lodger).
This was the first sound remake of the Hitchcock
silent classic inspired by the Jack the Ripper
legend. Ivor Novello, who played the title role and
headed the team writing the script, was in the
original as well. Look for Jack Hawkins in his
second feature.
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Phantom of 42nd st
An actor is killed during the performance of a play
and critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien)
undertakes to solve the crime. Claudia Moore (Kay
Aldridge, in her last movie role), the girl he loves,
is suspected, but when two more deaths occur, she
is also threatened by the Phantom Killer. During a
production of "Julius Caesar" the killer makes a
final attempt.
Phantom of Chinatown
Detective James Lee Wong is on the scene as
archeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned
from an expedition in China where a valuable
ancient scroll was recovered, is murdered while
giving a lecture on the expedition.
Phantom In The House
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Phantom of the Red House
AKA El fantasma de la casa roja - A millionaire's
ghost watches while his heirs murder each other
over his fortune. Writers: Miguel M. Delgado
(screenplay), María Cristina Lesser (story) Stars:Alma Rosa Aguirre, Raúl Martínez and
Antonio Espino
1956
Phantom President
Too bad for the presidential hopes of banker T.K.
Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir
faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find
Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course,
they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public
spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend
Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As
election eve approaches, the conspirators face the
problem of what to do with Varney...who has
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difficult decisions of his own to make. George M.
Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Sidney Toler and Jimmy
Durante star. Cohan only made 2 sound films - and
this is the only one that still exists.
Phantom Ship
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes
that there is a murderer among them who is killing
them off one by one.
Phantom Speaks
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body
of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding-namely, murder. Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges,
Jonathan Hale and Lynne Roberts star.
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Phantom Submarine U-67
AKA Sea Ghost - A rare starring role for the
skipper’s dad (Alan Hale). A crooked lawyer trying
to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to
convince a sea captain to help him. Laura LaPlante
also stars
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Phantom Light.
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Pharoah's Curse
Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has
been turned into a blood sucking mummy after
they have unleashed a three thousand year curse
by entering a Pharaoh's tomb.
1957
Phenix City Story
John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Edward Andrews
and Kathryn Grant star in this semidocumentary.
An Alabama town is run by a crime syndicate
that's grown fat on prostitution and crooked
gambling, directed at soldiers from Fort Benning
across the river. Lawyer John Patterson, back from
the army, is triggered by what he sees to join the
reformers with a plan: to run his father Albert for
state attorney general. The syndicate responds with
escalating violence.
Philip Leacock’s 13 West Street
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Piccadilly Third Stop
1960
Pickup
Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp
value of older man falling for much younger
beauty who's busy figuring out how she can kill
him now that they're married. Nasty verbal
encounters and above all, Beverly Michaels, spike
up this flick.
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Pick-up
1933
Pilot x (aka Death in the Air)
1936
Plan 9 (from outer space)
Planet of the Vampires
Please Murder Me
Pleasure Cruise
Roland Young and Genevieve Tobin have been
married for one year, and they feel as if they are
drifting apart in their marriage. They decide that
they will take separate vacations away from each
other to sort the marriage out. Tobin decides to go
on a pleasure cruise, and while aboard many
available men begin to hit on her, and she begins to
contemplate having a quick shipboard fling with
one of the men. Unknown to her, her husband had
gotten a job as a barber aboard the ship in order to
keep a close tab on her and who she speaks to.
Poison Pen
1933
Police Court
1932
Police Dog
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Police Patrol (aka Riot Squad)
Starring the sexy silent film sensation Madge
Bellamy, Police Patrol is a sleek and sophisticated
drama with love, crime, and fatally beautiful
women. Bellamy plays a bad girl, a gangster's
girlfriend. Used as a tool in his evil plots, Bellamy
is put up to seduce a good looking young detective,
played perfectly by Pat O'Malley, and get him back
to an apartment where the fiend lays in wait.
O'Malley thwarts the plot, but ends up developing
feelings for Bellamy. The immoral coquette is also
being pursued by another detective, and as the two
fight for her they both risk their careers and
eventually their lives striving for her affection. Rife
with unrequited and impure love, Police Patrol is a
gripping struggle through depravity and perilous
beauty.
Pool of London
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Port of Forty Thieves
A cunning femme fatale with a penchant for
murder has devised a foolproof scheme that could
net her a fabulous fortune! Or has she? A sublimely
perverse and very rarely seen poverty row noir
with a mind-boggling myriad of twists and turns!
Starring Stephanie Bachelor, Tom Keene, Lynne
Roberts. Directed by John English.
1946
Port of New York
Agents Mickey Waters and John Flannery re-team
to investigate the theft of medicinal narcotics from
the S.S. Florentine. The vicious gang responsible is
headed by the ruthless, but debonair Paul Vicola,
who doesn't hesitate to murder anyone who stands
in his way. Vicola's girlfriend is garroted when she
becomes unreliable, and when go-between
nightclub comic Dolly Carney poses a risk, he is
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thrown from his apartment window. After Waters
is shot and killed trying to break into the gang's
Brooklyn-based yacht club front, Flannery decides
to go undercover and pose as a San Francicco drug
dealer. The gang is smoked out and after a furious
gun battle, Vicola is apprehended and his gang
broken. Scott Brady and Yul Brynner star.
Port of Seven Seas
American remake of Fanny - Directed by Jame
Whale, written by Preston Sturges - Uncle Carl
bought the rights to make this from Pagnol while
still at Universal - but things didn't work out. Frank
Morgan and Maureen O'Sullivan star.
Port Sinister
A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have
frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor,
where it came to rest after an earthquake many
years before. A scientist wants to study it, some
thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there,
a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack
them all.
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Postal Inspector
A city is being ravished by a flood when a group of
criminals (including Bela Lugosi) decide to steal
three million from the post office, which gets the
postal inspector (Richard Cortez) involved. This
was Lugosi's final film for Universal under his
Dracula contract.
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Postmarked For Danger
A car plunging over a cliff kills its two occupants
identified as newspaperman Lewis Forrester and
actress Alison Ford (Terry Moore). Surviving Lewis
are his two brothers, Tim (Robert Beatty), a portrait
painter, and Dave (William Sylvester), a pilot.
Scotland Yard discovers that Lewis' death was
engineered by a gang of international diamond
smugglers he was about to expose. Before he died,
he had sent someone in London a post card with a
sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle.
Alison's father, John Smith (Henry Oscar)
commissions Tim to paint her portrait from a
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photograph. While Tim is out, the supposedlydead Alison enters his studio, but flees when she
finds the body of Jill Stewart (Josephine Griffin),
Tim's favorite model. Scotland Yard Inspector
Colby (Geoffrey Kene) suspects Tim because
whatever alibi evidence Tim presents vanishes
before the Inspector can confirm it. Reg Dorking
(William Lucas).
Prehistoric Women
Tigri (Laurette Luez, working her way up to
Bomba and Bowery Boys films) and her stone-age
girl friends hate all men, but realizing they are a
necessary evil, capture some for potential (strictly
business, no recreation allowed) husbands. Engor
(Allan Nixon, working his way down to the Mesa
of Lost Women) escapes and, in his travels,
discovers fire. This comes in handy later, after he
has been recaptured by the women, when he saves
them with his new discovery…. just awful.
President's Mystery
A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes
up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a
new life without anyone knowing who he is and be
able to take all his money with him.
Preview Murder Mystery
an ensemble piece with Reginald Denny and
Frances Drake as the romantic leads, but there isn't
much time for romance in this 60 minute murder
mystery. What stands out most here is the editing.
There are simply a TON of shots in this film. I don't
think there is a single shot that lasts more than 10
seconds. Florey gives us every angle and many
points of view for each scene and there are many
short scenes so that if you get up to go to the
bathroom, you'll miss a good chunk of the details.
It's a pretty simple plot, but with many twists. An
actor is threatened to be murdered before the
preview of the movie he is shooting. After the
screening he is found dead and the actress and
director are next on the murderer's wish list. Robert
Florey directs.
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Pride of the Bowery
The Bowery Boys in action in a CCC (civilian
conservation camp); another Roosevelt II
innovation that did nothing. These were
disbanded shortly after the outbreak of FDR's other
innovation: WWII.
1941
Prison Farm
1938
Prison Mutiny (aka You Can't Beat the Law)
Playboy Johnny Gray is framed and sent to prison
after his stolen car is found at a holdup committed
by Rico, and while the latter is not suspected, his
henchman Harry, Creeper and Red are convicted
with Johnny. Stung by the injustice, when even his
fiancée believes him guilty, Johnny becomes an
unruly prisoner and is put in a cell with Cain, head
of the prison gang planning a break. The new
warden, Frank Sanders, wins Johnny over by
changing his cell mate and giving him a chance to
work in the prison gardens. Here, he meets Amy
Duncan, daughter of prison guard Duncan. In an
failed escaped, engineered from the outside by
Rico, who is killed, one of Rico's men confesses that
Johnny is innocent
Prison Shadows
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Private Life of Henry VIII
Four star film (and performance by Laughton) This
movie tells the story of King Henry VIII and the
last five of his six wives. Set almost entirely within
the royal castle, it begins just before the death of his
second wife (Anne Boleyn) and ends just after his
sixth wedding (to Catherine or Katherine Parr).
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Public Stenographer
1934
Private Secretary
Edward Everett Horton and Alistar Sim in a
delightful little British comedy from Twickenham
studios.
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Purple Gang
1959
Probation
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Professor Beware
Harold Lloyd stars as Egyptologist, Dean Lambert,
accused of car-theft, he skips bail and begins a
cross-country trek to join a group in New York
headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail
he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Pygmalion
The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages,
Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he
can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle,
from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady.
However he discovers that this involves dealing
with a human being with ideas of her own. This
film is as good - as the musical remake is bad - yes I
wrote that - My Fair Lady is just painful to watch.
Rex Harrison is such a bore, and Hepburn is no
Julie Andrews. Howard and Hiller on the other
hand - magic!
Projected Man
1966