Films with: Robinson, Edward G.

Barbary Coast

A ruthless gambling boss cannot win the love of the girl he made into a star attraction in his California saloon during the Gold Rush.

DVD 12591

Citizen Welles The stranger ; The trial.

The stranger (ca. 95 min.): An ex-Nazi is allowed to escape from a German war crimes prison after WWII to lead the Allies to a notorious spy planning to revive the Third Reich. The trail leads to a small Connecticut town where intrigue and murder combine for a tense situation. The trial (ca. 118 min.): Portrays the experiences of Josef K as he is mysteriously arrested by agents of the police for an unspecified crime. Josef is then plunged into a nightmare world of an inescapable legal bureaucracy that assumes he is guilty.

DVD 1343

Confessions of a Nazi spy

The FBI investigates a German international spy ring in the days leading up to World War II. The story is a brisk connect-the-dots tale that ties German-American Bund operatives (Francis Lederer, George Sanders and Paul Lukas among others) to Berlin. Chief among those connecting the dots: FBI Agent Edward Renard.

DVD 8188

Double indemnity

Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.

DVD 4498

Key Largo

A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.

DVD 267

Little Caesar

A small-time hood rises to criminal fame and power. Adapted from W.R. Burnett's novel.

DVD 6399

Scarlet Street

Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results.

DVD 5304

Soylent green

Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous truth about the secret ingredient of "Soylent Green."

DVD 4420

Ten Commandments

The story of the life of Moses from the Pharaoh's household through his life of leading his people to freedom.

DVD 545

Two seconds

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.

DVD 8068

Two weeks in another town

The dramatic portrayal of an alcoholic actor's redemption and rehabilitation.

DVD 10882

Woman in the window

A professor of criminology is the pawn in a shocking crime thriller with a surprising twist.

DVD 5741