Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
A man walks through the long corridors of a police precinct until he finally reaches homicide headquarters. “I want to report a murder” he says. “Who was murdered?” they ask. “I was” he answers. At some point during the past 24 hours, CPA Frank Bigelow (Edmond O’Brien) was slipped a mickey of slow-acting poison. With […]
Hardboiled detective Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) is assigned to protect a tough-as-nails gangster’s moll (Marie Windsor) from mobsters who want her silenced. On a train from Chicago to an L.A. grand jury, the flat-foot and the femme fatale fight like cat and dog. Fellow travelers include a woman and her son, several small-time crooks and […]
On a New York subway, FBI agents are shadowing Candy (Jean Peters), a femme fatale who is delivering stolen government microfilm to her communist boyfriend. Pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) unwittingly filches the film and is out the door before the G-men realize what happened. Both the feds and the reds give chase as McCoy […]
J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) is a Walter Winchell-like columnist who abuses his power as though he were, well, Walter Winchell. Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is a sycophantic press agent who is more than willing to do Hunsecker’s bidding, even if it means ruining a reputation or two. The real Winchell was outraged and tried […]
Mexican cop Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) and his new American wife (Janet Leigh) are crossing the border into California as Orson Welles executes a 3 1/2-minute continuous crane shot, one of the cinema’s most famous opening scenes. A bomb goes off and Vargas finds himself investigating the incident alongside American detective Hank Quinlan (Welles). Forget […]