Jewel Robbery (1932) is a pre-code comedy heist reefer-mad lad and lady gentleman thief and sexy Vienses bonbon romp and romance amoral fun and games feature directed by William Dieterle and starring William Powell and Kay Francis, based on the 1931 Hungarian play Ékszerrablás a Váci-utcában by Ladislas Fodor and its subsequent English adaptation, Jewel Robbery by Bertram Bloch.
Classic Film Noir exposes the myths by which we fulfil our desires and lays flat the means by which we created the audiovisual dispositif — sex — murder — and the suburban dream — 1940 to 1960 — FEATURING: amnesia, paranoid women, lousy husbands, red scare and HUAC, boxing, drifter narratives, crooked cops, home invasion noir, docu-style noir, returning veterans, #KEFAUVER! cowboy noir, vacuum cleaners in film noir, outré noir, espionage noir — and more.
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I Want To Live! (1958)
I Want To Live! (1958) is a defiant female lead victimisation of women habitual female criminal courtroom and prison death row journalism and media crime and exploitation based on a true story biographical Robert Wise Oscar winning anti-capital punishment tragedy masterpiece considered by many to be a classic film noir starring Susan Hayward in a once in a lifetime Oscar winning showdown with your senses, with Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, and Theodore Bikel.
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