Wallace Scott

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• Movie7.7

  CrimeThriller

  The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

  Out of the Past

  1947 · 663 votes

• Movie7.2

  WarDrama

  Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.

  Sergeant York

  1941 · 239 votes

• Movie7.4

  CrimeMystery

  Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

  The Killers

  1946 · 446 votes

• Movie7.7

  ComedyCrime

  The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

  Monsieur Verdoux

  1947 · 491 votes

• Movie7.6

  DramaCrime

  Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

  Scarlet Street

  1945 · 458 votes

• Movie6.4

  CrimeThriller

  After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.

  The Street with No Name

  1948 · 53 votes

• Movie5.8

  AdventureDrama

  Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

  Wake of the Red Witch

  1948 · 52 votes

• Movie6.7

  MysteryCrime

  A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.

  Dressed to Kill

  1946 · 143 votes

• Movie5.8

  HorrorScience Fiction

  The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.

  Invisible Agent

  1942 · 64 votes

• Movie6.7

  Western

  In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

  Canyon Passage

  1946 · 70 votes

• Movie6.2

  CrimeDrama

  George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.

  The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

  1945 · 56 votes

• Movie5.7

  Adventure

  A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.

  Tarzan and the Huntress

  1947 · 63 votes

• Movie6.3

  ComedyRomance

  Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.

  Without Reservations

  1946 · 21 votes

• Movie6.6

  MysteryThriller

  When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.

  Moss Rose

  1947 · 19 votes

• Movie6.5

  Drama

  Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

  The Hard Way

  1943 · 23 votes

• Movie6.8

  ActionAdventure

  When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...

  Murder in the Big House

  1942 · 5 votes

• Movie6.6

  DramaCrime

  When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.

  Ivy

  1947 · 28 votes

• Movie6.6

  Western

  An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.

  The Iroquois Trail

  1950 · 5 votes

• Movie4.5

  DramaFantasy

  Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. This is a charming story about how America changed due to the cival war, only in a different and more subtle way than ever told before.

  Rip Van Winkle

  1914 · 2 votes

• Movie3.8

  MusicWestern

  Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden.

  The Vigilantes Return

  1947 · 3 votes

• Movie5.5

  ActionAdventure

  The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.

  Captain China

  1950 · 6 votes

• Movie

  Drama

  The Port of Missing Men

  1914

• Movie

  Drama

  An old woman in Frederick, Maryland during the U.S. Civil War displays her American flag in defiance of the armies of Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson. Based on the folk tale that grew from the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.

  Barbara Frietchie

  1915

• Movie

  Drama

  An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.

  The Rogues of Paris

  1913