SUDDENLY
1954 USA – 75 Minutes
Black & White – Crime Thriller
Directed by Lewis Allen
Starring Frank Sinatra & Sterling Hayden

The life of the President is in jeopardy when a group of assassins move into a small California town where he is due to arrive. They take over a home full of hostages and await their prey. Sinatra plays a cold-blooded sadistic murderer who will stop at nothing to kill the President. This well directed film is filled with many twists, turns and tense moments.

D.O.A
1950 USA – 83 Minutes
Black & White – Crime Thriller
Directed by Rudolph Mate
Starring Edmond O’Brien & Pamela Britton

While on vacation accountant Frank Bigelow (O’Brien) joins a group of partying clothes buyers in San Francisco for drinks and dinner. While at the table he spots a beautiful woman at the bar who he soon joins. During the encounter a mysterious man shuffles his drink with one containing poison. Poor Bigelow drinks part of the concoction and soon finds himself a walking dead man. After the initial shock he decides to find the murderer and the reason for his murder. The road he travels takes him on many twists and turns and only until the very end his life will the reason for his demise become clear.