Reginald Sheffield

Eyes in the Night -- A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.

The Lady Eve -- Barbara Stanwyck is a calculating card shark who fleeces passengers on transatlantic ocean liners. When she discovers that an ingenious young millionaire (Henry Fonda) is on board, the scheming Stanwyck figures he'll be a pushover if she plays her cards right. Sure enough, he does fall for her, but surprise-she also falls for him. When he's tipped off that true romance is not in the cards because she's giving him a fast shuffle, Fonda?s fondness fades. Now Stanwyck realizes that if she wants to win him back, she's got to stop her double-dealing, and she does but not before she turns up a few tricks of her own.

"All for one and one for all!" as Gene Kelly leads the celebrated French swashbuckling trio against the evil Cardinal Richelieu in this adventure-filled classic. Academy Award-winning picture stars Oscar-winner Kelly ("Singin' in the Rain," "An American in Paris") as the high-spirited D'Artagnan, Oscar-nominee Lana Turner ("Peyton Place") as Countess de Winter, Oscar-nominee Angela Lansbury (TV's "Murder, She Wrote," "Gaslight") as Queen Anne, Vincent Price ("The Fly," "The House of Wax") as the evil Richelieu, Oscar-winner Van Heflin ("Shane"), Frank Morgan ("The Wizard of Oz"), and June Allyson ("Little Women"). Produced by Academy Award-recipient Pandro S. Berman ("Ivanhoe," "Top Hat," "Father of the Bride") this adaptation of the classic French tale remains one of the best.

The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in Technicolor. Gene Kelly romps his way through the role of D'Artagnan, the upstart cadet who joins veteran Musketeers Athos (Van Heflin), Porthos (Gig Young) and Aramis (Robert Coote) in their efforts to save their beloved Queen Anne (Angela Lansbury) from disgrace. They are aided in their efforts by the lovely and loyal Constance (June Allyson), while the villainy is in the capable hands of Milady De Winter (Lana Turner) and Richelieu (Vincent Price). Notice we don't say Cardinal Richelieu: anxious not to offend anyone, MGM removed the religious angle from the Cardinal's character. While early sound versions of Three Musketeers eliminated the deaths of Constance and Milady, this adaptation telescopes the novel's events to allow for these tragedies. True to form, MGM saw to it that Lana Turner, as Milady, was dressed to the nines and heavily bejeweled for her beheading sequence. Portions of the 1948 Three Musketeers, in black and white, showed up in the silent film-within-a-film in 1952's Singin' in the Rain, which of course also starred Gene Kelly.