The Apartment (1960), Double Indemnity (1944), A Face in the Crowd (1957), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Little Manhattan (2005), Counsellor-at-Law (1933) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Elevator Operator movies.
Storyline: A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: prejudice, trial, lynching, circumstantial evidence, lynch mob, courtroom, death sentence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their separate ways. Thomas Crown, a successful, wealthy businessman pulls up in his Rolls and collects it. Vickie Anderson, an independent insurance investigator is called in to recover the huge haul. She begins to examine the people who knew enough about the bank to have pulled the robbery and discovers Crown. She begins a tight watch on his every move and begins seeing him socially. How does the planner of the perfect crime react to pressure?
Plot Keywords: american abroad, teamwork, spotlight, bank robbery, split screen, beach, cemetery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bill Lawrence wins a slew of prizes on a radio quiz program. His happiness is short-lived when he discovers he'll have to sell the prizes in order to pay the taxes on them.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: indiana, internal revenue service, mailman, moving van, new york city, newspaper reporter, newspaper story ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>, A. Nonymous
Plot Keywords: tax evasion, police, washington d.c., bookkeeper, deception, racial stereotype, slot machine ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Judith Nelson quit her medical studies to marry. Years later, her husband, a physician, divorces her to be with another doctor. Deeply frustrated, she now lives alone in her luxury apartment in New York, looking for a new meaning for her life. Pat Francato, the janitor and lift-boy, has a troubled life himself: Gambling debts and the tragic death of his daughter took away all his spirit. One day, he and Judith meet in the right mood and a fragile friendship starts to grow. They can help each other to get on their feet again. But one false move could destroy everything they built so carefully.—Julian Reischl <julianreischl@mac.com>
Plot Keywords: f rated, masseur, nurse, terminal illness, tattoo, drink thrown into someone's face, club ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Plot Keywords: murder, female nudity, dysfunctional marriage, marriage, sex scene, double life, murder investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.—Silast
Plot Keywords: rejuvenation, date, dice, door bell, elevator operator, elevator, fight ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A wealthy woman, trying to discourage a former boyfriend from pursuing her, hires a young songwriter who needs money to pay off his gambling debts to pretend to be her boyfriend. The problem is that the "phony" boyfriend is actually really in love with her.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: based on play, trial, unrequited love, womanizer, jumping off a balcony, contract, gambling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When her brother is killed in the mysterious explosion of a new field-gun for the U. S. Army, Irene Eaton goes to Washington D. C. to call upon Colonel Shaw, head of the Army Military Intellegence. The gun explosion was just one of many acts of sabotage recently pulled off by a foreign sabotage gang. Shw and his aides are the subject of increasing criticism from Congressmen and politicians such as Everett Brock because they haven't captured the gang members and leaders. Shaw appoints Irene to root them out and sends her off to the Dome Cafe which is the headquarters of the gang.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: washington monument washington d.c., waiter, undercover operation, suicide, secret plan, secret agent, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A newspaper publisher (Emory Parnell) is being blackmailed by a burlesque queen (Joan Woodbury), and he sends one of his reporters (William Tracy) to talk to her. The girl is murdered and the reporter, the publisher and the publisher's daughter (Beverly Loyd) all come under suspicion.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: clown, balloon, war veteran, war hero, violinist, suspect, stage show ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1938 Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins (from the cast of The Wizard of Oz (1939)). Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.—<rth@ece.arizona.edu>
Plot Keywords: dwarf, title spoken by character, dog, map, sword, sword fight, mistaken identity ...
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