Films with: Preminger, Otto

Advise & consent

"A Senate subcommittee meets to confirm the President's controversial nominee for Secretary of State."

DVD 3538

Anatomy of a murder

A courtoom drama of premeditated murder as a jealous army lieutenant pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his beautiful wife.

DVD 1641

Carmen Jones

Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious and sexy Carmen Jones. Their ill-fated romance comes to a grisly end by the conclusion of the drama but not before their liaison has wreaked havoc with their lives and all who cross their paths.

DVD 1642

Exodus

This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film also depicts the struggle of the Jews in Palestine to gain partition, then profiles the main characters after the partition, fighting to continue as the nation of Israel.

DVD 6736

Fallen angel

"June Mills and her sister Clara live a quiet life in a small coastal town until Eric Stanton, a smooth-talking con man, comes into their lives. He seems to fall hard for June, but Clara believes he's interested only in the family fortune. Meanwhile, sultry waitress Stella catches Stanton's fancy and thinks he might be her ticket out of town. The local cop knows more than he's telling about his fellow citizens and their tangled relationships, which draw even tighter after a shocking murder"--Container.

DVD 12571

Laura

A detective is hired to find out who killed their daughter. Soon, he falls in love with her picture.

DVD 5327

Man with the golden arm

An ex-convict recovering from heroin addiction returns to the Chicago slums and struggles to become a musician.

DVD 7259

Stalag 17

A group of American G.I.'s in a German POW camp during World War II suspects the opportunistic Holden of being the spy in their midst.

DVD 344

They got me covered

Set against the backdrop of Washington D.C., Hope plays an eager but not-too-bright newspaper correspondent who tries to expose the activities of foreign spies. Lamour is the head of a news bureau, and together they become involued in murder, kidnapping and romance when they begin to track down the facts.

DVD 1012

Whirlpool

"A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her subconscious mind"--Container.

DVD 12574