Kent Smith

The Night Stalker

Admin — Tue, 11 Jan 1972 00:00:00 +0000

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of gruesome murders in Las Vegas. It seems that each victim has been bitten in the neck and drained of all their blood. Kolchak is sure that it is a vampire. He’s hot on the trail, but nobody believes him. His editor thinks he’s nuts and the police think he’s a hindrance in the investigation, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hand.

Death of a Gunfighter

Admin — Fri, 04 Apr 1969 00:00:00 +0000

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it’s time for a change. That ask for Patch’s resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town’s future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town’s dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.

Strangers When We Meet

Admin — Wed, 29 Jun 1960 00:00:00 +0000

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

Sayonara

Admin — Thu, 05 Dec 1957 00:00:00 +0000

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

The Damned Don’t Cry

Admin — Sun, 07 May 1950 00:00:00 +0000

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

The Fountainhead

Admin — Sat, 02 Jul 1949 00:00:00 +0000

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

The Spiral Staircase

Admin — Wed, 06 Feb 1946 00:00:00 +0000

In 1916, beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for elderly, ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren’s two adult sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion. Mrs. Warren becomes concerned for Helen’s safety when a rash of murders involving ‘women with afflictions’ hits the neighborhood. She implores her physician, Dr. Parry, to take Helen away for her own safety. When another murder occurs inside the Warren mansion, it becomes obvious that Helen is in danger.

The Curse of the Cat People

Admin — Sat, 01 Apr 1944 00:00:00 +0000

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father’s late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

This Land Is Mine

Admin — Fri, 07 May 1943 00:00:00 +0000

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.

Cat People

Admin — Sat, 05 Dec 1942 00:00:00 +0000

Serbian fashion designer Irena Dubrovna and American marine engineer Oliver Reed meet in Central Park, fall in love and marry after a brief courtship; but Irena won’t consummate the union for fear that she will turn into a panther compelled to kill her lover, pursuant to a belief harbored by her home village.