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- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsJill AdamsEddie ByrneLyndon BrookAs he is about to retire, a police officer discovers that his daughter is mixed up with a criminal gang and is about to go to prison for a crime she didn't commit. Against his better judgment, he comes up with a plan to keep her from going to prison.
- DirectorMax NosseckStarsLawrence TierneyAllene RobertsMarjorie RiordanParoled sociopath and career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his family's trust when he masterminds a complex armored car robbery.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsRobert RyanJan SterlingBrian KeithThe owner of a salmon cannery in Alaska hires a man who had formerly been his partner, and comes to regret it.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsGene BarryLydia ClarkeMichael MooreAn atomic scientist's son is kidnapped by enemy agents.
- DirectorCharles LedererStarsJoan EvansMelvyn DouglasLynn BariShunned by her self-absorbed parents, a teenage girl's need for love and attention drives her to delinquency and a suicide attempt - an act that finally brings her parents to their senses.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsJack PalanceConstance SmithByron PalmerAfter an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsRichard ToddEva BartokJohn GregsonTravelling to Venice to locate an ex-partisan on behalf of a French insurance company, a British private detective gets mixed-up in a political assassination conspiracy.
- DirectorHenry S. KeslerStarsRuth RomanSterling HaydenWerner KlempererDuring the 1950s, a man's car trip from L.A. to Texas turns into a Cold-War espionage drama after his car breaks down and he accepts a lift from a stranger.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsHoward DuffColeen GrayJohn HowardA young woman gets involved in a racket in which beautiful young models marry for money.
- DirectorBernard GirardStarsRobert HarlandPippa ScottMajel BarrettScandal erupts in a small town when a high school teacher is romantically linked with one of her male students.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsAlan LaddCarolyn JonesDiane BrewsterA struggling artist in a small town becomes the prime suspect when his wife mysteriously disappears.
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsSusan HaywardKirk DouglasPaul StewartUnhappy about the appointment of an army general to the chairmanship of an atomic energy committee, a publishing empire female tycoon invites the general to her country estate in an effort to entrap him and ruin his reputation.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsElizabeth TaylorVittorio GassmanJohn EricsonRich beauty Louise Durant follows her violinist lover to conservatory in Zurich. A pianist there falls for her. Violinist prioritizes music over Louise, pianist loves Louise more. She must choose between the two men.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsRod CameronGale RobbinsAllison HayesLawyer Marc Hill helps clear the name of his girlfriend's father who is accused of murdering a man that was blackmailing him.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsClaire TrevorSally ForrestCarleton G. YoungTennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsLew AyresTeresa WrightVictor JoryA badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsTom ConwayEva BartokJoy SheltonA private detective solves a murder of which he has been accused, and tracks down a gang of jewel smugglers.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsCharles BickfordBonita GranvillePaul KellyThe story of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the German occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindszenty was arrested, tortured, and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Soviet occupation forces and their Hungarian collaborators out of the country.
- DirectorJoel NewtonStarsIda LupinoHoward DuffRobert NicholsAgnes Langley gets a job, through Jim Hollis, as caretaker of an old and vacated estate. The owner's cousin, Jennifer, was the last occupant and mysteriously disappeared. Agnes soon begins to believe that Jennifer was murdered and that Jim, whom she has fallen in love with, is responsible.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsDean StockwellNatalie TrundyJohn LarchHigh-school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove; unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsDebbie ReynoldsBobby VanBarbara RuickPansy is sent off broken-hearted to an eastern school, but with help from Happy Stella Kowalski's all-girl band, several hundred students, and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.
- DirectorPaul SloaneStarsSally ParrPatrick WaltzWalter ReedA young man who insists that he is innocent is slated to be the first executed in the prison's electric chair.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsAnna NeagleFrankie VaughanJanette ScottFrankie Vaughan stars as young pop singer Johnny Burns, who is enlisted reluctantly by Frances Baring (Anna Neagle), a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. As a result, Johnny falls for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by Janette Scott.
- DirectorWalter StrateStarsWilliam HollandLili DawnMitchell KowallPsycho stalks the streets of Greenwich Village, killing and scalping his victims.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneWilliam DemarestAgnes MooreheadKelly Hansen, the tough boss of a timber crew clearing property owned by Jessie Crain and her niece Sharon Wilks, is--unknown to anybody else--working to pay back money stolen by his brother Joe Roberts, who has a changed name, and has no love for his brother. Just as the debt is about paid off, Joe is killed in a truck accident that starts a blazing forest fire.