Title | Year | Description | Call Number | Links |
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The Maltese falcon | 1941 | After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette. He encounters a gallery of high-living lowlifes who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the jewel-encrusted falcon. Huston, John 1906-1987. Wallis, Hal B. 1899-1986. Bogart, Humphrey 1899-1957. Astor, Mary 1906-1987. George, Gladys 1904-1954. Lorre, Peter |
PN 1995.9 .F54 M341 2006 | https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.3710080 |
The man who came to dinner | 1942 | A pompous lecturer is forced to spend the winter inside a prominent Ohio family's home due to injury, and proceeds to meddle with the lives of everyone in the household. Keighley, William 1889-1984. Davis, Bette 1908-1989. |
PN 1995.9 .C55 M369 2006 | https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.3718421 |
Beat the devil | 1953 | Spoof of caper movies in the vein of The Maltese falcon and Key Largo about of bunch of misfits scrambling after some uranium. Bogart, Humphrey 1899-1957. Jones, Jennifer 1919-2009 Lollobrigida, Gina 1928 Lorre, Peter Capote, Truman 1924 Huston, John 1906-1987. |
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The more the merrier | 1943 | To help the war effort, a patriotic young woman rents half of her apartment to a well-to-do, retired millionaire, who decides to play cupid by renting half of his half to a high-type, clean-cut nice young man. Russell, Robert. Ross, Frank. Flournoy, Richard F., 1900- Foster, Lewis R., 1898-1974. Stevens, George, 1904-1975. Arthur, Jean, 1900-1991. McCrea, Joel, 1905-1990. Coburn, Charles. |
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Secret agent of Japan | 1942 | Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston Foster), the manager of this combination bar and gambling house. He refuses to turn the letter over to her and she steals it. Bonnell later recovers the letter which contains a coded note. Kay reveals she is an agent of the British Secret Service. Bonnell, a fugitive from American justice, says he will turn over the note to the highest bidder. When he approaches the Japanese, they seize him but he escapes, after learning that the note was part of an alarm for Japanese fifth columnists everywhere after the attack on Pearl Harbor that has just been set in motion. Pichel, Irving 1891-1954. Larkin, John Foster, Preston 1900-1970. Bari, Lynn Madison, Noel Yung, Victor Sen 1915-1980 Carter, Janis 1921 Andriot, Lucien 1892-1979. Day, Alfred Newman, Emil |
PN 1995.9 .S68 S43 2012 | https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6406095 |