Dreifuss, Arthur 1908-1993Overview
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Arthur Dreifuss
The quare fellow
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8 editions published between 1962 and 2009 in English and held by 154 libraries worldwide A rookie prison guard, and advocate of capital punishment, has a change of heart after he begins an affair with a condemned man's wife and discovers that key evidence was withheld from his trial.
Double deal
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7 editions published between 1939 and 2007 in English and held by 40 libraries worldwide Rivals for a pretty singer get mixed up in gangster trouble. One of the beaus is a crook who robs a jewelry store and frames the other boyfriend. The girl sorts the truth out for herself.
Sunday sinners
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7 editions published between 1940 and 1996 in English and held by 35 libraries worldwide Gangsters frame a minister's son for robbery and murder, but the congregation of his father's church help prove his innocence.
Murder on Lenox Avenue
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5 editions published between 1941 and 2005 in English and held by 24 libraries worldwide The disgraced rounder of the Harlem Better Business League attempts to murder his respectable replacement.
Go down, death! Sunday sinners
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 23 libraries worldwide Go down, death!: A bar owner attempts to discredit a popular local preacher by obtaining some very compromising pictures of the young minister. Sunday sinners: Gangsters frame a minister's son for robbery and murder but the congregation of his father's church help prove his innocence.
Baby face Morgan
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2 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in English and held by 13 libraries worldwide A young man's father, who lives in the big city, dies and his business associates bring his son to the city to take over his father's business. What the young man doesn't know is that his father was one of the city's biggest racket bosses and that he's being placed in charge of the gang's profitable shakedown operations, disguised as an insurance agency.
Murder on Lenox Ave
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5 editions published between 1996 and 2006 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide The crooked founder of the Harlem Better Business League is replaced by a well respected member so he seeks revenge. In the midst of gangster actions this melodrama is also intertwined with romantic mismatches.
Mystery in swing
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3 editions published between 1940 and 1998 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 9 libraries worldwide Who fiendishly murdered the womanizing trumpet player by putting snake venom on his mouthpiece? An all-Black mystery musical.
Souls of sin
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1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide Souls of sin: A musician from Alabama moves into a small Harlem flat with a gambler and an unemployed writer. The musician works his way into a successful job, but the gambler gets killed. The writer is then hired to write about the gambler's life and life in Harlem. A film produced by blacks for a black audience.
Sunday sinners girl in room 20
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in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide Sunday sinners: Gangsters frame a ministers son for robbery. The congregation of the father's church help to prove his innocence. Then the gangsters threaten the lives of the congregation.; Girl in room 20: A young girl comes to New York to make her dreams come true. She gets a job as a singer in a nightclub but the boss has dishonerable reasons for hiring her.
The love-ins
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2 editions published between 2004 and 2010 in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide It's the 1960s and every "love child" is in search of a guru to follow and lead them to enlightenment. Set in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District, tells the story of a group of hippies who follow a much older man, who turns himself into their "guru," leading them astray and having his way with the young women in his "flock."
Riot on Sunset Strip
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2 editions published between 1967 and 2004 in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide LA's civic leaders band together to do something about the invasion of longhairs on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Includes fantastic scenes of 60s Hollywood clubs and teen scenes, with hippies, pot smoking, sugar cube LSD and terrific garage punk by the Standells, the Chocolate Watch Band, the Mugwumps and others.
10.32
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1 edition published in 2007 in Dutch and held by 3 libraries worldwide Een jonge schilder wordt betrapt en gearresteerd naast de door hem leeggeroofde brandkast en het lijk van een advocaat.
Mobster movies
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Sixteen classic gangster feature films.
Children's classics. Volume 1
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Four movies about children and teenagers finding their way in an adult world.
Mystery in swing (1940)
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1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Who fiendishly murdered the womanizing trumpet player by putting snake venom on his mouthpiece? An all-Black mystery musical.
The Boss of Big Town
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1 edition published in 1943 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Ruthless gangsters fight for control of Big City's food supply.
Infierno en Sunset Strip = Riot on Sunset Strip
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2 editions published in 1985 in Spanish and held by 1 library worldwide El joven Andy es arrestado durante una pelea en un local de diversión en Sunset Strip (Hollywood), donde la tensión va subiendo y los enfrentamientos con la policía son constantes.
Freddie steps out
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2 editions published in 1946 in English and held by 1 library worldwide more
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African American clergy African American criminals African American musicians African Americans African American singers African American women singers Burnett, Frances Hodgson,--1849-1924 California--Los Angeles California--San Francisco Capital punishment Children's films Children and adults Comedy films Death Detective and mystery films Detective and mystery films Drama Drama Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Film and video adaptations Film noir Foreign films Gangster films Gangster films Gangsters Goodin, Peggy Great Britain Hippies Judicial error Man-woman relationships Motion pictures Murder Music Musical films Musical films New York (State)--New York--Harlem Nightclubs Nineteen sixties Organized crime Parent and child Popular music Race films Subculture Teenagers Teen films United States Video recordings
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Dreifus, Arthur, 1908-1993
Dreyfuss, Arthur, 1908-1993
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