711 Ocean Drive (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger, Barry Kelley, Dorothy Patrick, Don Porter
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Cover Girl (1944)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Eve Arden, Otto Kruger, Phil Silvers
Director: Charles Vidor
Murder, My Sweet / Farewell, My Lovely (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one's motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe's.
Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Saboteur (1942)
Action | Thriller
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Starring: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Alma Kruger, Dorothy Peterson
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
The Colossus of New York (1958)
Sci-Fi
Jeremy Spensser, genius humanitarian, is killed in an accident just after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. His father William, a brilliant brain surgeon, works on the body in secret before burial; later revealing to his other son Henry that he has the brain on life support and hopes to encase it in a robot body! The resulting being is large, strong, and develops many strange powers. Initially it has Jeremy's gentle personality but this, too, begins to change, and a year later it decides to end its long seclusion… Unusual piano music score.
Starring: John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger
Director: Eugène Lourié
