Posts Tagged ‘acapulco-mexico’

Out of the Past (1947)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mitchum, Robert | Greer, Jane | Douglas, Kirk | Fleming, Rhonda | Webb, Richard | Brodie, Steve | Huston, Virginia | Valentine, Paul | Moore, Dickie | Niles, Ken | Benedict, Brooks | Blake, Oliver | Blanco, Eumenio | Bly, Wesley | Brill, Hubert
Directors: Tourneur, Jacques
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For the last three years, Jeff Bailey has been laying low and trying to live a normal life. He’s been running his own gas station but prior to that, had been a pretty good private detective. His last job had been for a gangster, Whit Sterling, who him to find Kathy Moffat, who just happens to have shot him, and recover the $40,000 she stole. Jeff found her in Mexico but fell in love with her. She eventually ran out on him and he decided it might be better if he found a new line of work. When one of Sterling’s henchmen happens to see him pumping gas, he’s summoned to the gangster’s Lake Tahoe estate. Sterling’s offer is quite simple: recover some incriminating tax files and all will be forgotten. Jeff soon realizes however that he’s being set up and framed for murder.

Murder in Three Acts (1986)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Ustinov, Peter | Curtis, Tony | Samms, Emma | Cecil, Jonathan | Allende, Fernando | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Eichhorn, Lisa | Elcar, Dana | McCain, Frances Lee | Mercer, Marian | Muldaur, Diana | Pryor, Nicholas | Tomei, Concetta | Evans, Jacqueline | González, Ángeles
Directors: Nelson, Gary
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Hercule Poirot’s assistant, Hastings, calls him down to Acapulco in Mexico where he can write his memoirs but Hastings drags him to a party populated with Hastings’ new friends. There’s Janet Crisp - the writer, Daisy Eastman and her daughter ‘Egg’, Ricardo Montoya, Dr. Strange, Miss Milray the housekeeper and Charles Cartwright the famous American actor. But at the party another guest - Rev. Babbington - dies from poisoning and when Dr. Strange also dies from poisoning, Poirot must swing into action before the serial killer strikes again…

Buster (1988)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Collins, Phil | Walters, Julie | Lamb, Larry | Lawrence, Stephanie | Beaven, Ellie | Attwell, Michael | Brown, Ralph | Ellison, Christopher | Hancock, Sheila | Jarvis, Martin | Wood, Clive | Quayle, Anthony | Byrne, Michael | Innocent, Harold | Vansittart, Rupert
Directors: Green, David
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Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can’t contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.