Union Station. Appointment with danger. Dark city. Rope of sand.
Notes:
Title from container. Union Station: William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, Nancy Olsen, Lyle Bettger. Appointment with danger: Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling, Jack Webb. Dark city: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don Defore. Rope of sand: Burt Lancaster, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre. Originally released as motion pictures.
Contents:
Union Station (81 min. : 1950) / directed by Rudolph Mate ; screenplay by Sydney Boehm -- Appointment with danger (89 min. : 1951) / directed by Lewis Allen ; written by Richard Green & Warren Duff -- Dark city (98 min. : 1950) / directed by William Dieterle ; screenplay by John Meredyth & Larry Marcus -- Rope of sand (104 min. : 1949) / directed by William Dieterle ; story & screenplay by Walter Doniger.
Summary:
Union Station: A tense crime thriller in the tradition of The Naked City. William Holden is a railroad police chief in a race against time, trying to bring down a gang of kidnappers who are holding a blind heiress for a $100,000 ransom. Appointment with danger: A hardboiled film noir stars Alan Ladd as a special investigator sent to Indiana to solve a murder and track down the sole witness to the act. Dark city: A desperate GI commits suicide after he gets taken by some grifters. After questioning by suspicious police they're told about the GI's mentally deranged brother who is out looking for payback. Rope of sand: Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) is back in Africa to claim the diamonds he has supposedly stolen two years ago. Standing in his way are the diamond syndicate head and the vicious commandant who had left Mike for dead years ago.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)830038124
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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