Mr. District Attorney

Feb 20, 1947

1h 21m

★ 6.5

There's A Law Against A Woman Like Her!

Overview

An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.

Genres

Crime

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Steve Bennett

Dennis O'Keefe

Craig Warren

Adolphe Menjou

Marcia Manning

Marguerite Chapman

Harrington

Michael O'Shea

James Randolph

George Coulouris

Miss Miller

Jeff Donnell

Berotti

Steven Geray

Ed Jamison

Ralph Morgan

Franzen

John Kellogg

Secretary

Doris Houck

Switchboard Operator

Lillian Wells

Doorman (uncredited)

Gene Roth

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

6.2

Crime of Passion

Dec 28, 1956

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

7.1

Angel Face

Jan 2, 1953

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

7.0

Silmät hämärässä

Feb 1, 1952

A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.

6.3

Cry Terror!

May 2, 1958

A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.

7.8

Touch of Evil

Mar 30, 1958

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

5.4

Real

Jun 28, 2017

Jang Tae-Young is a popular trouble shooter in the criminal world. He is cold and ambitious. He dreams of building a casino hotel one day. A reporter then goes to Jang Tae-Young.

0.0

Dryland

Apr 3, 2019

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7.0

The Desperate

Apr 18, 1964

A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleague Tokumochi and others regard him with suspicion, he is tormented by remorse.

7.9

The Night of the Hunter

Jul 27, 1955

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

7.4

The Lady from Shanghai

Dec 24, 1947

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

7.6

Mildred Pierce

Oct 20, 1945

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

10.0

Rest Stop

Jan 1, 2004

On a cold and lonely night, a hapless driver stops to investigate an isolated rest stop. He finds himself caught in a series of deadly accidents…

4.7

Pikajuna pohjoiseen

Jun 1, 1947

The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other appears.

7.7

Strangers on a Train

Jun 27, 1951

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.

7.6

Out of the Past

Nov 25, 1947

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.

7.5

Scarface

Apr 9, 1932

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

7.6

The Big Sleep

Aug 23, 1946

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

7.7

The Maltese Falcon

Oct 18, 1941

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.