John Gielgud

Laurence Harvey

Mervyn Johns

Sebastian Cabot

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet (1954)

Sally Gray

Trevor Howard

In this gritty film noir, cynical ex-RAF flyer Morgan, bored with civilian life, joins a break-in gang led by Narcy. On his first job, the getaway car crashes after killing a policeman. Morgan is framed as the driver and sent to jail. Seeking revenge, he escapes and heads for London. Along the way he's helped by a woman (Mrs. Fenshaw), who wants him to murder her husband. In London, Morgan is sheltered by Sally, who falls in love with him. He confronts Narcy and the gang in an abandoned warehouse. Brazilian Director Cavalcanti's crime drama should not be confused with the totally unrelated "They Made Me a Criminal" (1939). —Mike Rogers

I Became a Criminal

I Became a Criminal (1947)

Yvonne De Carlo

Alec Guinness

Celia Johnson

Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St. James has things well organized, a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving, if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port. —Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Kapteenin paratiisi

Kapteenin paratiisi (1953)

Deborah Kerr

During the depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her family who are unemployed.

Love on the Dole

Love on the Dole (1941)

6.1 / 10

Drama
Romance

7.2 / 10

Crime
Drama

6.9 / 10

Comedy
Romance

6.7 / 10

Action
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