Death on the Nile (1978), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), The Devil's Brother (1933), Phantom Lady (1944), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), Executive Action (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Frameup movies.
Storyline: Based on the Dame Agatha Christie novel, our favorite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov), is on a cruise up the Nile. He is surrounded by an interesting assortment of characters, including a wealthy heiress and her husband, on their honeymoon. It appears that everyone hates the heiress.
Plot Keywords: cruise, twist ending, murder, riverboat, reference to karl marx, detective, buttocks ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe Ross is a rising star. He's designed a process that will make his company millions. He wants a bonus for this work, but fears his boss will stiff him. He meets a wealthy stranger, Jimmy Dell, and they strike up an off-kilter friendship. When the boss seems to set Ross up to get nothing, he seeks Dell's help. Then he learns Dell is not what he seems, so he contacts an FBI agent through his tightly-wound assistant, Susan Ricci. The FBI asks him to help entrap Dell. He accepts, a sting is arranged, but suddenly it's he who's been conned out of the process and framed for murder. Bewildered and desperate, he enlists Susan's aid to prove his innocence.
Plot Keywords: con game, camera, invention, inventor, brother sister relationship, secret, airplane stewardess ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At Stanlio's urging, Ollio foists himself off as the dread singing bandit Fra Diavolo and unknowingly attempts to rob the notorious brigand himself. As punishment, Diavolo orders Stanlio to hang Ollio, but gives them a second chance when Stanlio bungles the job. Taking them on as his retainers, Diavolo travels to the Tavern de Cucu in his guise as the foppish Marquis de San Marco to rob the rich, aged Lord Rocburg and woo beauteous Lady Pamela. Stanlio drives Ollio and the innkeeper to distraction by playing "earsie kneesie nosie" and "finger wiggle," and gets drunk helping Ollio fill tankards of wine, sending him into an uncontrollable laughing fit. The boys plot to capture Diavolo but wind up with him in front of a firing squad.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: italy, nobility, bull, candle, duck, falling down stairs, handkerchief ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar. Returning home, he finds his wife strangled and becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady (or her hat). In prison, Scott gives up hope but his faithful secretary, "Kansas," doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Can she save Scott in time?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: secretary, murder, jazz musician, drummer, false accusation, nervous breakdown, mental illness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a man. Includes the whitewash episode, puppy love, the graveyard murder, the boys' running away to Jackson's Island, the salvation of Muff Potter, and the cave adventure.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: raft, buggy, singing, prayer, childhood, frog, slapstick comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two stories. The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.
Plot Keywords: obsession, outlaw, outlaw gang, gang leader, bartender, rodent, reptile ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On his way home to West Texas, Tom Buchanan rides into the Californian border town of Agry, and into a feud between several members of the Agry family. In helping out a Mexican seeking revenge on one of them, Buchanan finds himself against the whole family.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: ranch, corrupt sheriff, frameup, lawlessness, hug, robbery, framed for murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A dramatization about how the high level covert conspirators in the JFK assassination might have planned and plotted the assassination based on the data and facts of the case. It posits that a covert group of rogue intelligence agents, ultra-conservative politicians, unscrupulously greedy business interests, and free-lance assassins become increasingly alarmed at President Kennedy's policies, including his views on race relations, winding down the Vietnam War, and ending the oil depletion allowance. They decide to terminate him through an "executive action" utilizing three teams of well-trained snipers during JFK's visit to Dallas and place the blame on supposed CIA operative Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: rogue agent, archive footage, death, murder, newsreel footage, politics, reenactment ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hercule Poirot, the best detective in the world decides to travel on the Orient Express. The train accidentally gets stopped because of a small avalanche. Little did he know that a murder was planned and that a person on this train was capable of committing such crime.
Plot Keywords: palestine, palestinian, train, based on novel, whodunit, shorthaired woman, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shag Johnson, owner of the Johnson Brothers Rodeo, has been trying for years to gain control of the World-Wide Wild West Show managed by Jennifer Benton, by fair means or foul. Gene Autry and Frog Millhouse arrive on the scene during a battle between the two rival shows and rescue Pa and Ma McCracken from an attack by Johnson's hired henchmen. All hands are carted off to jail, and great crowds are attracted there by Gene's singing, and Pa McCracken decides to add the singing cowboy to his World-Wide show. He does and Gene skyrockets the box-office receipts, which enrages Johnson since it appears certain that World Wide will be able to secure the contract for the annual Capistrano festival and the following Madison Square Garden rodeo. Gene refuses Johnson's offer of $10,000 per week to change shows, and Shag hires Jenkins to burn the Capistrano set-up to the ground. Pa McCracken is seriously injured and Gene learns that only a specialist from the east can save him, and his fee is $5,000. He accepts Johnson's offer in order to pay the doctor, and Jennifer is heartbroken over his apparent disloyalty. At Johnson's show, however, Gene learns of Johnson's duplicity, forces confessions from Shag and Jenkins, makes the former pay Pa's doctor bill and release Gene from his contract.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, jail break, competition, ruse, despair, desperation, double feature film ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: stage, arrest, u.s. marshal, marriage proposal, horse and wagon, punched in the face, san francisco california ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A law student takes a job as the night-watchman in a morgue, thinking that he will have much time to study, with his biggest problem being his paranoia in this scary setting. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and the student ends up getting mixed up with one of the murders, becoming a suspect.
Plot Keywords: morgue, male frontal nudity, corpse, friend, murder suspect, dead prostitute, haunted by the past ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A reformed hunter now living secluded in a wildlife sanctuary after the disappearance of his teen daughter years ago saves a young girl from being killed by a serial killer but get caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game. His path crosses with the town's sheriff who also seem to bring the serial killer to justice after the discovery of a dead body of a teen girl.—Fella_shibby@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: serial killer, hunting, human hunting a human, revenge, sheriff, dead girl, motel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed three minutes while golfing with the president. Flint finds that the president has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: doppelganger, crashing through a window, grappling hook, listening device, passionate kiss, champagne, ballet ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.—Terry Brooks <TEXICANTBROOKS@NETSCAPE.NET>
Plot Keywords: arizona territory, sonora mexico, frameup, army, cemetery, native american attack, native american chief ...
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