An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

A down-on-his-luck ex-GI Joe Rolfe finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he’s finally released for lack of evidence–after having been beaten up and tortured by the police–he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cop.

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Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s’ Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

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Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor’s daughter, cross the border posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn’t want to go.

Extra commentary track by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Steve Mitchell is included.

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Quote:
I’ve always cited this movie as the best ever made in (Alabama), as well as the most authentic. Maybe that’s in part because watching it is experiencing the apotheosis of Southern sleaze—a bit like festering for hours in the seediest possible Alabama Greyhound depot in August without air conditioning…Though the movie’s politics are liberal, its moral outrage is so intense you may come out of it wanting to join a lynch mob.” – Film critic and Alabama expatriate Jonathan Rosenbaum, writing in his book Essential Cinema.

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Phil Karlson (“The Phenix City Story”/”Kansas City Confidential”/”Scandal Sheet”) directs with verve this gripping caper thriller based on a Good Housekeeping serialized magazine story that was based on the novel by Jack Finney and is well-written by John Barnwell, William Bowers, Stirling Silliphant and Frank Tashlin.

Four college chums from the fictitious Midwestern University, Al (Guy Madison), Brick (Brian Keith), Roy (Alvy Moore) and Ronnie (Kerwin Mathews), vacation in Reno and while gambling at the crowded Harold’s Casino are told by a cop that this casino is impossible to rob, after being humiliated when falsely accused of abetting a casino robber. Back at the university, the level-headed law student Al, the group’s leader, proposes to his club singer girlfriend Kay (Kim Novak). Kim’s vocals were dubbed by Jo Ann Greer. Meanwhile Al’s best bud, the sweet but volatile Brick, who saved his life in Korea during the war, has the former captain worried that he was released too early from his treatment at the VA’s mental ward for psychological problems caused by the war. In one incident, Brick goes violent on the new boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend and has to be pulled off the boy by Al or he might have murdered him.

By the time the next college vacation period rolls around later in the semester, rich boy Ronnie, whose dad is an oil man and owns a ranch near Reno, comes up with a foolproof scheme for the four roommates to rob the high-security Harold’s Casino that no one thinks can be robbed. Ronnie wants to rob the joint just to know he was able to do it and intends on returning the money. Brick, worried about flunking out of law school, and the always playful wise-cracking Roy, agree. But Ronnie insists they need Al to pull it off. Brick knowing Al wouldn’t agree to such a dumb prank, instead talks him into going with the boys to Reno with Kay, in the trailer Ronnie secretly just purchased, and marrying her in the place that calls itself ‘The biggest little city in the world.’

When Al is told about the heist on the road to Reno he confronts Brick, who pulls a gun and threatens to kill anyone not going along with the heist. Kay is recruited to be the driver of the getaway car.

The implausible heist is pulled off in a plausible enough manner, as the tension mounts when the boys enter the casino in disguises and force the casino money bag man (William Conrad) at gunpoint to cooperate or else. Under Karlson’s sharp direction, it becomes easy to forget that this heist for fun plot-line was a crackpot idea and highly unlikely to happen in real life. But as a movie story, it couldn’t be more entertaining. — Dennis Schwartz (Ozus’ World Movie Reviews)

2.25GB | 1h 23m | 1024×552 | mkv

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An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. Aware that he is the only witness against them, the gang members seek out his identity and terrorize him and his family to keep him from testifying against them. Only by psychologically playing one gang member against the others is the man able to bring the police to his rescue.

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Synopsis:
A down-on-his-luck ex-G.I. finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he’s finally released for lack of evidence, after having been beaten up and tortured by the police, he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cops.

1.98GB | 1 h 39 min | 758×576 | mkv

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