The Locket

Dec 20, 1946

1h 25m

★ 6.4

Her Mysterious Secret Wrecked 3 Men's Lives! Not love, not money...but a haunting hunger drove her to lie, cheat, steal. Why? IT'S THE STRANGEST SECRET EVER TOLD!

Overview

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Nancy

Laraine Day

Dr. Harry Blair

Brian Aherne

Norman Clyde

Robert Mitchum

John Willis

Gene Raymond

Nancy - Age 10

Sharyn Moffett

Drew Bonner

Ricardo Cortez

Lord Wyndham

Henry Stephenson

Mrs. Willis

Katherine Emery

Mr. Wendell

Reginald Denny

Mrs. Bonner

Fay Helm

Mrs. Monks

Helene Thimig

Mrs. Wendell

Nella Walker

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

5.0

Two

May 8, 2007

This film was based on Zoran Zivkovic's stories, in which the main motif is number two: a number that unites a man and a woman, sky and earth, yin and yang... It also tells two stories that are merged into one whole.

6.5

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Dec 13, 1935

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.

6.3

Christmas Holiday

Jul 31, 1944

Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.

5.7

The Fallen Sparrow

Aug 19, 1943

Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.

7.0

Scandal Sheet

Jan 16, 1952

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

5.6

Crack-Up

Sep 6, 1946

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

6.7

Raw Deal

May 21, 1948

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than Rick intended...

6.1

When Strangers Marry

Aug 21, 1944

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.

6.8

T-Men

Dec 15, 1947

Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

5.6

Three Summers

Sep 30, 2006

Jørgen lives abroad, but every summer he comes back to Denmark with his wife. He invites, as usual, his neighbours and their teenager son, Thomas, for dinner at his place. Only, this time there is a strange tension in the air between the adults. After dinner, Jørgen and Thomas go to the beach for a walk. They discover that both have secret problems, and the fact they cannot talk about them is creating great stress. As they disclose their secrets to each other, a friendship starts. But through the course of the next two summers their relationship develops in a way they would never have expected.

5.6

Inside Job

Jun 14, 1946

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

6.5

Fallen Angel

Nov 15, 1945

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.

7.2

Pépé le Moko

Jan 28, 1937

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

6.2

Macao

Apr 11, 1952

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?

5.8

The Las Vegas Story

Jan 30, 1952

When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.

6.1

Hoodlum Empire

Apr 15, 1952

It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.

5.5

The Houston Story

Feb 1, 1956

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.

5.6

Experiment Perilous

Dec 18, 1944

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.

7.7

Monsieur Verdoux

Sep 26, 1947

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.