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The ten commandments
by Cecil B DeMille
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45 editions published between 1956 and 2011 in English and French and held by 3,779 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai with one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture, this version tells the story of the life of Moses. Once favored in the Pharaoh's bousehold, Moses turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom. Now celebrating its 55th anniversary, this film has been fully restored
Double indemnity
by Billy Wilder
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55 editions published between 1944 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 3,014 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "A calculating wife encourages her wealthy husband to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by smitten insurance agent Walter Neff. As the would-be lovers plot the unsuspecting husband's murder, they are pursued by a suspicious claims manager. It's a race against time to get away with the perfect crime in this heart-pounding Academy Award-nominated masterpiece"--Container
Key Largo
by John Huston
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57 editions published between 1948 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 2,190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint
Soylent green
by Richard Fleischer
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20 editions published between 1973 and 2011 in English and Multiple languages and held by 1,620 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous truth about the secret ingredient of "Soylent Green."
Little Caesar
by Mervyn LeRoy
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27 editions published between 1930 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,335 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A small-time hoodlum rises to criminal fame and power. Adapted from W.R. Burnett's novel
Scarlet Street
by Fritz Lang
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68 editions published between 1945 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,054 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results
The stranger
by Edward G Robinson
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82 editions published between 1946 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 925 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An ex-Nazi is allowed to escape from a German war crimes prison after World War II to lead the Allies to a notorious spy. The trail leads to a small Connecticut town where intrigue and murder create a tense situatin
The Cincinnati Kid
by Norman Jewison
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14 editions published between 1965 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 679 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world
The woman in the window
by Fritz Lang
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20 editions published between 1944 and 2012 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 550 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A professor of criminology is the pawn in a shocking crime thriller with a surprising twist
Cheyenne autumn
by John Ford
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2 editions published in 2006 in French and English and held by 473 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Three-hundred starving Cheyenne men, women and children, forcibly resettled in the barren wastelands of Oklahoma, set out on a desperate 1500-mile trek back to their Yellowstone homeland. A true-life story
Illegal
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4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Illegal: Ambitious D.A. Victor Scott zealously prosecutes Ed Clary for a woman's murder. But as Clary walks to the electric chair, Scott receives evidence that exonerates the condemned man. Realizing that he's made a terrible mistake he tries to stop the execution, but is too late. Scott resigns as a prosecutor and enters private practice. He draws the attention of mob kingpin Frank Garland. Scott represents one of Garland's stooges on a murder rap and Scott, in a grand display of courtroom theatrics, wins the case. Embroiled in dirty mob politics, the situation becomes intolerable when his former protege is charged with a murder that seems to implicate her as an informant to the Garland mob
Bullets or ballots
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5 editions published between 1936 and 2006 in English and held by 245 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When Warner Bros.' depression era gangster movies beganto draw a protest, the studio reinvigorated the genre with stories emphasing law enforcers instead of lawbreakers. Can prison be a place of redemption? Pat O'Brien finds that inmate Bogie is a hard man to reform
A slight case of murder
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2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Robinson spoofs his little person in a gleeful role of bootlegger coping with prohibition's end. And also a comedy spree based on Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay's broadway play
Brother Orchid
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5 editions published between 1940 and 2008 in English and held by 224 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Racketeer Little John Sarto poses as Brother Orchid and lays low at a monastery when a turf war gets hot
House of strangers
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4 editions published between 1949 and 2006 in English and held by 218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "When Max Monetti first gets out of prison, life seems good. The bank founded by his father and now run by his brothers is thriving. The society woman he loves has waited seven long years for him. But for Max, every day of those seven years was filled with hatred. And when he learns that his father died because he was squeezed out of the bank by the brothers after Max took a rap for him, that hatred bubbles to the surface, obliterating everything, even the love of his woman."--Booklet
Barbary Coast
by Howard Hawks
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4 editions published between 1935 and 2005 in English and held by 174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A ruthless gambling boss cannot win the love of the girl he made into a star attraction in his California saloon during the Gold Rush
Frank Capra's a hole in the head
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 172 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Comedy about Tony Manetta, a small-time Miami Beach hotel operator barely able to make the payments on his own modest inn, who dreams of one day opening a million dollar resort. In addition to bill collectors, Tony must contend with his beatnik girlfriend and his well-meaning but conservative brother and sister-in-law. Through thick and thin, however, one thing remains constant: the love between Tony and his young son who admires him even if he isn't a big shot
The amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
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3 editions published between 2000 and 2012 in English and held by 161 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Dr. Clitterhouse wants to find out what makes a criminal tick. Eager to study the physical and mental states of lawbreakers, he joins a gang of jewel thieves. Rocks Valentine is an ice-blooded tough guy the doc calls "a magnificient speciment of pure viciousness," is part of the gang. Jo Keller is a savvy crime queen the doc hooks up with
The violent men
by Rudolph Maté
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A large sprawling western drama about a ruthless land baron who loses his grip on things due to violent forces opposing him
5 film noir killer classics
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2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why more
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Alternative Names
Edward G. Robinson
Goldberg, Emanuel, 1893-1973
Goldenberg, Emanuel
Goldenberg, Emanuel, 1893-1973
Goldenberg, Emmanuel 1893-1973 Wirklicher Name
Goldenberg, Manny, 1893-1973
Robinson, E.G., 1893-1973
Robinson, E. G. (Edward G.), 1893-1973
Robinson, Eddie, 1893-1973
Robinson, Edward 1893-1973
Robinson, Edward Goldenberg
Robinson, Manny, 1893-1973
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French (10) Multiple languages (3) German (2) Japanese (2) Spanish (1) Russian (1) Catalan (1) Miscellaneous languages (1) Italian (1) Covers
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