Joan Crawford

A glamorous but alcoholic socialite, trapped in a marriage to an older man, finds herself falling in love with the young musician whose performance she is underwriting.

Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre...

A determined carnival dancer, an aspiring politician and a malevolent manipulator of public figures form the basis of this drama.

Monica Rivers is the owner of a traveling circus that is plagued by a series of mysterious deaths. When a high-wire performer becomes the first victim, he is replaced by Frank Hawkins, an even more daring aerialist. But Frank's attentions to Monica make her business manager, Dorando, jealous. After Dorando becomes the brutal killer's next victim, Police Superintendent Brooks arrives at the scene. With motives such as jealousy and revenge, the mystery...

A wealthy lady playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to kill her.

When two teenagers make prank phone calls to strangers, they become the target for terror when they whisper "I saw what you did" to a psychopath who has just murdered his wife.

Released from a mental hospital 20 years after having committed the axe murders of her husband and his lover, a woman moves in with her brother, his wife, and her own daughter, who is now 23. When axe murders start occurring, police think she has reverted to her old ways.

Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in a man's world : be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. Ethel moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion in high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one, a high-rolling racketeer, abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap, right back to...

Woman in hiding: Mill heiress Ida Lupino thought she had the ideal man in new hubby Stephen McNally, but when she learns of his intent to take a murderous shortcut to her family fortune, she becomes a "Woman in Hiding" (1950). Female on the beach: Lonely widow Joan Crawford learns that her newly purchased seaside abode comes with a deadly legacy (1955). Unguarded moment: Esther Williams may be out of the pool, but not out of danger, as a high school...