Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
In wartime San Francisco, a chemist has a secret formula that is being sought-after by both sides. Nightclub owner Willard Gates (Laird Crager) hires hitman Philip Raven (Alan Ladd) to secure the formula and cancel the chemist. Singer Ellen Graham (Veronica Lake) and her police detective boyfriend (Robert Preston) also become involved in the complicated case. It’s “spy versus […]
Frank Enley (Van Heflin) and Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) were best friends and served together during World War II. When they were captured by the Germans and spent time in a Nazi POW camp, something happened that changed their lives forever. Some years later the old wounds have not healed, and an angry confrontation becomes […]
World War II veteran Nico Garcos (Richard Conte) returns home to find that his father has been maimed, and his trucking business hijacked. The man responsible is local mobster Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb). Garcos seeks revenge by loading a truck with apples and driving to Figlia’s marketplace to block his operation. As the conflict […]
Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home to LA after two years of drifting and trying to forget his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne De Carlo). He can’t. She is now married to mobster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea), but they nevertheless become involved in a clandestine affair. He gets his old job back as an armored truck driver, […]