femme-fatale
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    The Temptress (1926)

    Film noir about a physician who sets aside his altruistic quest for a cure for polio when a femme...

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    Untamable

    The now-forgotten Gladys Walton played ingenues for a while in the early '20s for Universal. She was...

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    Vanity Fair (1932)

    First filmed in 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair has undergone...

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    Quartet

    Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales: ``The Facts of Life,'' ``The Alien Corn,'' ``The...

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    An Alien Enemy

    Louise Glaum, one of the more successful "vamp" rivals of Theda Bara, stars in An Alien Enemy. Set...

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    The Better Man Wins

    French-born director Marcel Perez directed this obscure, but surviving, silent western in which a...

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    Bordertown (1935)

    A disbarred Mexican lawyer (Paul Muni) turns nightclub bouncer and is framed for murder by his...

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    The Broken Horse-Shoe

    Robert Beatty stars in this rapid-fire British programmer as an innocent bystander mixed up with...

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    A Close Call for Boston Blackie

    Sleuth Blackie (Chester Morris) is framed for murder but manages to catch the culprit.

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    The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)

    A married assistant district attorney (Wendell Corey) is tricked into helping his married lover...

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    The Florentine Dagger

    A descendant of the notorious Borgias begins to believe that he has inherited their murderous...

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    The Gay Diplomat

    The Gay Diplomat was an attempt by RKO Radio to make a movie star out of Ivan Lebedeff, a Russian...

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    The Girl on the Bridge

    Hugo Haas wrote, produced, directed and starred in the tawdry but fascinating Girl on the Bridge....

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    Gunfighters (1947)

    A gunfighter (Randolph Scott) turns cowhand and then back again, fighting a cattle baron with two...

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    Hopalong Cassidy Returns

    The seventh of the "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns, Hopalong Cassidy Returns stars, as always, William...

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    I Want to Forget

    Fox signed Evelyn Nesbit purely for sensational value. Even at this late date, she was still...

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    International Lady

    Hungarian actress Ilona Massey stars as an operative for the Axis in this slightly tongue-in-cheek...

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    International Settlement

    In this adventure, set in Shanghai, a gunrunner gets entangled with a conspiracy to deliver customs...

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    Ivy

    An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

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    Murder by the Clock

    An eerie early-talkie mystery, Murder by the Clock spends most of its time in a cemetery. The...

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    New Orleans

    Two friends, one of them a jockey, pursue a woman who must be wooed with money. The other friend...

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    Paris Interlude

    During the 1920s, a Parisian femme fatale startles her friends by choosing a little-known journalist...

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    Strange Triangle

    In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to...

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    Surrender

    Of the many attempts by Republic Pictures' CEO Herbert J. Yates to turn his lady friend Vera Ralston...

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    Test of Honor

    Up until The Test of Honor, John Barrymore's film work only consisted of light comedy. But here he...

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    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    A sober professor (Edward G. Robinson) meets a model (Joan Bennett) and gets mixed up in murder when...

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    The Kiss of Fire

    Naples au Baiser de Feu (The Kiss of Fire) was one of several films made in France by veteran...

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    Le Dernier Tournant

    Long before James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice was filmed by MGM, there were two...

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    Latin Dragon (2004)

    An undercover agent (Fabian Carrillo) uses a bare-knuckle approach to battling the criminals who...

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    The Naval Chart

    A femme fatale lures a washed-up sailor onto a deep-sea treasure hunt.