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In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No 1

Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co exist with the Sodomites, a disastrous decision

High among idiosyncratic auteur Robert Aldrichs most powerful and intense dramas, Twilights Last Gleaming is a thunderous political thriller and race against time doomsday classic Burt Lancaster stars as the Air Force general Lawrence Dell who seizes control of a stockpile of nuclear missiles to force the US President Charles Durning to tell the truth about the Vietnam war As negotiations get ever

A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious great whatsit

In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive OMalley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest OMalley, but Breckenridges wife complicates things

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down

A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is seconded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island

The struggle of a ladys garment workers organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost

In 1941, Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a Greek double agent secret list that must reach London and must not fall into Nazi hands

Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover up to protect his valuable career

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says hes an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage

Refusing to let himself be re settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer

Harry Sears manages The California Dolls, a female wrestling tag team who tour America, hoping for a chance at winning big time Harrys also romantically involved with one of them Their fortunes seem osecondary to him particularly

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion

In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after hours debauchery

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on and get pummeled by the guards

The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series

Set in the Depression, a gang of half witted small time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her Remake of the British film No Orchids for Miss Blandish 1948

Millicent Wetherby is a middle aged woman whose life is devoid of love and affection Millicents solitary existence changes when she encounters Burt Hansen a charismatic younger man As Burt successfully woos her and wins her hand i

A dictatorial film director Peter Finch hires an unknown actress Kim Novak to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star

During World War II, a rebellious U S Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative

During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz

After 1945, six German ex soldiers are hired to defuse unexploded Allied bombs in the ruins of Berlin

A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco On the way, he is nearly burned at the stake by Native Americans and almost killed by outlaws

Zack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino

At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girls apparent suicide

John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants Every year, he evaluates the hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract They all have dreams and talent, but the elimination whittles them down to a