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Cast (Feature Film)

Son of Ingagi (1940)

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Movie Clip

Nightfall (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Runway Marie (Anne Bancroft) is modeling at a department store (the old J.W. Robinson, Beverly Hills, torn down in 2014) when she spots her stalkers (including Brian Keith) then friend Jim (Aldo Ray) with whom she makes a hasty getaway, Jacques Tourneur directing from Stirling Silliphant's script and the David Goodis novel, in Nightfall, 1957.
Last Days Of Pompeii, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Just About What The Job Is Worth We’ve established the city of Pompeii, in what must be the early years Anno Domini, when gladiator wrangler Cleon (William V. Mong) needs an assist from top-billed Preston Foster (introduced here as blacksmith Marcus), Gloria Shea his wife, and Frank Conroy as interested nobleman Gaius, early in RKO’s The Last Days Of Pompeii, 1935.
Marked Woman (1937) -- (Movie Clip) From Tiddlywinks To Roulette Gangster Johnny Vanning (Eduardo Cianelli), his character inspired by Charles "Lucky" Luciano, surveys the goods (including staff hostesses, Bette Davis as Mary, Lola Lane as Gabby, Isabel Jewell as Emmy Lou and Mayo Methot as Estelle) in the night club he's taken over, early in Marked Woman, 1937.
Gold Diggers Of 1937 (1936) -- (Movie Clip) All's Fair In Love And War Busby Berkeley’s dance direction at last with some scale in the finalè number, Dick Powell and Lee Dixon, with Joan Blondell and Rosalind Marquis, in a Harry Warren/Al Dubin original composition for Warner Bros., in what was technically the 5th film in the series (counting the lost silents), in Gold Diggers Of 1937, 1936.
Living On Love (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Another Applicant Struggling to pay her rent, Mary (Whitney Bourne) arrives for a job interview, impressing the boss (Franklin Pangborn), then arrives home where her landlord (Solly Ward) has given away her apartment, but has a plan, in RKO’s Living On Love, 1937, restored by TCM.
Living On Love (1937) -- (Movie Clip) A Sausage Heiress Snoopy landlord Eli (Solly Ward) has taken a new tenant but doesn’t have a room, so he visits basement dweller Gary (James Dunn, his first scene), a commercial artist, who’s tangling with girlfriend Edith Crumwell (Joan Woodbury), of the Crumwell Sausage family, in RKO’s Living On Love, 1937.
Living On Love (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Murder In Your Heart? Mary Wilson (Whitney Bourne), in a cafe practicing her pitch for her new razor-sales job, wins the attention of dazzled Gary Martin (James Dunn), neither of them knowing they’re the feuding tenants sharing an apartment in opposite hours, in RKO’s Living On Love, 1937.
Harder They Fall, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I Think He's Ready Opening from The Harder They Fall, 1956, features Toro (Mike Lane) arriving in Manhattan, Rod Steiger and goons in transit and Humphrey Bogart, in his last film, popping out of an apartment in Peter Cooper Village, written and produced by Philip Yordan, from the Budd Schulberg novel.
Horror Of Dracula (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Two simple shots, the opening from Hammer Films’ Horror Of Dracula, 1958, only the studio’s second color horror film and the international hit that led to the studio’s commitment to the genre, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
Horror Of Dracula (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Get Some Color Back Into Those Cheeks Without revealing that he’s a vampire hunter, Van Helsing (Peter Cushing, not seen here) has just told Arthur and Mina (Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling) of the death of Harker, fiancè to his sister Lucy (Carol Marsh), who has strangely taken ill, in Hammer Films’ Horror Of Dracula, 1958.
Horror Of Dracula (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Those Marks On Her Neck Mina (Melissa Stribling) has asked Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) for a second opinion on the condition of her sister-in-law Lucy (Carol Marsh), who is suddenly anemic, after her fiancè Jonathan, his colleague, disappeared hunting vampires, in Hammer Films’ Horror Of Dracula, 1958.
Marooned (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Given Up Hope? Having confirmed that the astronauts are stuck in orbit, NASA chief Keith (Gregory Peck) instructs mission control officer Dougherty (David Jansen) to manage the wives (Lee Grant, Nancy Kovack, Mariette Hartley) before he takes on the press, John Sturges directing, in Marooned, 1969.

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