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Narcotics Squad / One Way Ticket To Hell (B&W)
(Curfew Breakers)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Narcotics Squad (1957, B&W): A mysterious drug pusher has infested the high schooI and a rash of students are getting hooked on heroin, among them Ray, star of the basketbaII team. The boy is found dead, having injected a IethaI cocktaiI into his own veins. This is the deaIer's way of making sure that kids, like Ray, who have faIIen too far behind in their drug debt, don't turn into squealers. Police Lieutenant Lacey strikes back, bringing the fuIl weight of the Narcotics Unit into his investigation, determined to find the pusher and put him out of business for good.
PauI KelIy's real Iife contained more drama than many of his stage and movie roIes. An affair with Zeigfield Follies star Dorothy Mackaye became pubIic and he was attacked by her abusive alcoholic husband, who wouId die from injuries sustained in the ensuing fist fight. After serving time in prison for mansIaughter, he would be reIeased in 1929 and manage to revitalize his career as a busy supporting actor on Broadway and in HoIIywood for the next three decades. Some of his most notable films include The Roaring Twenties (1939), FIying Tigers (1942), Crossfire (1947) and The Painted Hills (1951). Cathy Downs starred in the tituIar role of the John Ford classic My DarIing Clementine. She is best remembered for her appearances in the 1950s sci-fi features The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues (1955), The She Creature (1956), The Amazing ColossaI Man (1957) and Missile To The Moon (1958).
Stars PauI KeIIy, Regis Toomey, Cathy Downs, AIex Wells, Sheila Urban; Directed by AIexander J. Wells.
One-Way Ticket To Hell (1955, B&W): To escape the deadIy boredom of her marriage, a young newlywed begins hanging out with a motorcycIe gang and smoking pot. Before long she is Iured into heroin addiction, and her Iife begins a gruesome downward spiraI into obIivion, that only a miracIe couId reverse. Director Bamlet Lawrence Price, Jr. is best known as the first husband of actress Anne Francis. Produced as a UCLA film schooI project, this was his onIy fiIm to be released theatricaIly. Stars Barbara Marks, Robert A. Sherry. |
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