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A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon fathers body and discovers that Dad died with his long time mistress

When a policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesnt want her to see other men, so he creates an alter ego who will be her only customer

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex Nazi cafe singer and the U S congresswoman investigating her

In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss socialite daughter

Frustrated former journalist Chuck Tatum now working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about trading post owner Leo Minosa trapped in a cave to rekindle Chucks career, but the story soon escalates into a media circus

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters

After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P O W camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J J Sefton, is suspected of being an informer

In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommels headquarters He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use

A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his familys chauffeur, but its his more serious brother who would be the better man for her

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and film making

Charles Slim Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing

Down on his luck Hollywood producer Barry Dutch Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement only to discover the horrible truth behind her success

When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return

Jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise

When his family goes away for the summer, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbor

A crooked lawyer persuades his brother in law to feign a serious injury

A Los Angeles insurance representative is seduced by an alluring housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator

A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home But little Sue Sue finds herself in a whole heap of grown up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major

A brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Josephs endorsement in turn of the century Austria

A middle aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client

During a high profile Mafia testimony case in Californias Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed next door neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems

A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout