Ida Lupino Archives

7.102

High Sierra

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

NR

7.102

1941 Action 100 min Play

TV 7

Four Star Playhouse

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake ...

NR CBS

7

1952 Comedy 30 min Play

7.3

My Boys Are Good Boys

Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.

PG

7.3

1978 Crime 90 min Play

5.2

The Devil’s Rain

A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.

NR

5.2

1975 Horror 86 min Play

6.7

The Strangers in 7A

Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife (Ida Lupino) are held hostage by the crooks, who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery. Director Paul Wendkos stages the action essentially from the victim's point of view; we see only what they see, and are kept guessing as to the full ...

NR

6.7

1972 Crime 74 min Play

6.2

Junior Bonner

McQueen is Junior Bonner, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on ... after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls.

PG

6.2

1972 Drama 100 min Play

5.5

Strange Intruder

A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise.

NR

5.5

1956 Drama 82 min Play

6.1

Women’s Prison

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

NR

6.1

1955 Crime 79 min Play

6.2

The Big Knife

Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.

NR

6.2

1955 Crime 111 min Play

6.1

Private Hell 36

In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lili is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lili's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lili and Frank are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.

NR

6.1

1954 Crime 81 min Play

6

Jennifer

In this drama, a young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion. There she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.

NR

6

1953 Mystery 73 min Play

6.8

The Bigamist

A woman discovers her husband has another family in another city.

NR

6.8

1953 Drama 80 min Play

5.8

Beware, My Lovely

A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.

NR

5.8

1952 Crime 77 min Play

6.5

On Dangerous Ground

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

NR

6.5

1951 Crime 82 min Play

6.2

Woman in Hiding

Deborah Chandler's rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies a suspicion death. But charming Clark manages to win her over and marry her. On the honeymoon, Clark's former girl Patricia intervenes and opens Deborah's eyes, alas too late. Now Clark tries to kill Deborah. Believed dead by all but Clark, she flees. But drifter Keith Ramsey recognizes and follows her. Can she trust him? Can he believe her?

NR

6.2

1950 Crime 92 min Play