Lakeshore Classic Movies

The North Star (1943)

Five friends from a small Ukrainian village decide to travel to Kiev but their trip is cut short when German aircraft attack and their town falls under occupation after the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Michigan City, Indiana native Anne Baxter gets top billing in this World War II film.

The North Star (1943)

1h 45m

  • Detour (1945): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Detour (1945)

    S2023 E112 - 1h 7m

    A hitchhiker’s (Tom Neal) luck goes from bad to worse when the man who gave him a ride suddenly dies. Worried that he might be accused of murder, he hides the body and takes on the man’s identity.

  • Scarlet Street (1945): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Scarlet Street (1945)

    S2023 E59 - 1h 41m

    A mild-mannered, middle-aged cashier and wannabe painter (Edward G. Robinson) saves a pretty, young woman of the streets (Joan Bennett) from her threatening boyfriend. The cashier soon becomes embroiled into the two’s life of crime and a cycle of destruction that he can’t escape.

  • Quicksand (1950): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Quicksand (1950)

    S2023 E108 - 1h 18m

    Mickey Rooney stars as a mechanic who borrows $20 from the till to take out a new girl, expecting to pay it back the next day. Over the course of the night, he slips deeper and deeper into debt and trouble in this film noir that also stars Peter Lorre.

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