Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.

Canyon Passage

1946

English

6.9

♡ 9

100%

Jacques Tourneur Director

Peter Whitney as Cornelius - Baggage Clerk

Ward Bond as Honey Bragg

Virginia Patton as Liza Stone / Bartlett

Gene Roth as Miner

In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

The Iron Curtain

1948

English

6.3

♡ 1

59%

based on memoir or autobiography

William A. Wellman Director

Gene Tierney as Anna Gouzenko

Peter Whitney as Cipher Lt. Vinikov

Stefan Schnabel as Col. Ilya Ranov

June Havoc as Nina Karanova

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.