Film
★ 7.4
1949
The Set-Up
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Expose of the $8,000,000,000 gambling syndicate and its hoodlum empire!
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.
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Edmond O'Brien
Mal Granger
Joanne Dru
Gail Mason
Otto Kruger
Carl Stephans
Barry Kelley
Vince Walters
Dorothy Patrick
Trudy Maxwell
Don Porter
Larry Mason
Howard St. John
Lieutenant Pete Wright
Robert Osterloh
Gizzi
Sammy White
Chippie Evans
Fred Aldrich
Peterson - Carl's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Phillip Barnes
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Jay Barney
Detective Carter (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
Chippie's Date (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
Bookie (uncredited)
Frank Dae
Pop (uncredited)
George DeNormand
Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Sidney Dubin
Mendel Weiss (uncredited)
Charles Ferguson
Bookie (uncredited)
Bert Freed
Steve Marshak (uncredited)
William Getts
Hoover Dam Guide (uncredited)
1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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1947
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
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1938
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
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1955
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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1951
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
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1955
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
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1950
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
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1957
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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1947
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
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1956
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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1949
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
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1973
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
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1960
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
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1950
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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2003
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
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1941
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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1976
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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2007
Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
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1953
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
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1931
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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