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Lakeshore Classic Movies
Touch of Evil (1958)
Season 2023
Episode 119
Charlton Heston portrays a Mexican narcotics officer on his honeymoon with his American wife (Janet Leigh) across the border. When a man is murdered, he is drawn into the mystery in this film noir directed by and co-starring Orson Welles.
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Charles Laughton must outwit his cutthroat crew, as well as top gunner Randolph Scott.
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Film noir with painter (Edward G. Robinson) caught in the web of a pretty, young woman.
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Assassin Frank Sinatra takes a widow and her family hostage in a small California town.
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1:29:39
Film adaptation of the prize-winning play about life in the village of Grover’s Corners.
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Paul Robeson faces the harsh realities of life as a coal miner in his Welsh community.
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Abbott and Costello’s fairy tale about a boy who trades family cow for some magic beans.
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Laurel & Hardy are nursery-rhyme characters who come and go in a surreal fantasy.
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1:10:24
Buster Keaton works father’s Mississippi riverboat in comic masterpiece of the silent era.
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1:32:26
Politician is haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal his secret.
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1:32:51
Carole Lombard brings home ‘forgotten man’ William Powell to be her family’s new butler.
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1:51:10
WWII veteran (Van Johnson) meets young socialite (Elizabeth Taylor) and falls in love.
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1:45:56
German aircraft attack a Ukrainian village and soon the town falls under Nazi occupation.