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A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him. Topic:

Seal Island is a 1948 American documentary film directed by James Algar. It won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Topic: Film "Seal Is

Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply. Topic: Film "Dick Barton: Special Agent" (1

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private inve

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore. Topic: Film "So You Wan

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son

Two window washers are mistaken for crooks by gangsters who are missing money. Topic: Film "The Noose Hangs High" (1948). Role: Meticulous television and film a

A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, howeve

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling. Topic: Film "So You Want to Be a Gambler" (1948). Role: Meticulous television and film

Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Role: Meticulous t

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered,

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family. Germany, Year Zero is a 1948 German

1948: an Egyptian filmmaker is creating newsreel stories about a volunteer force tasked to liberate Palestinian farmers. The journey propels him towards a chanc

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial. Task: Write a

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu. Topic: Film "Tarzan and the Mermaids" (1948). Role: Met

A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla. Topic: Film "Who Killed D

Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter,

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's rovi

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting. Task: Write a factual, original 150-190 word overview of the film "So You Want an Apartment" (1948). Constraints

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results. Hollow Triumph is a 1948 American film noir crime film d

This film was produced and released in 1944 by Film Enterprises for the 16mm school-and-institutional market, and was picked up and released in 1948 by Astor fo

A 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue. Released on February 18, 1948

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahea