Martin Balsam

A retired hitman decides to take one last job to avenge the murder of his brother by a mafia gang.

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane, on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Travelling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates, a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

Holly is an eccentric New York City playgirl who becomes interested in her next-door neighbor, a writer who is “sponsored” by a wealthy patron.

An architect gets drawn into the Los Angeles underworld when his father prepares to go public with the connection between the cops and the drug trade.

When a shady but alluring duo, a prince and a wheeler-dealer, try to take over a Swiss bank, they end up with a silver mine and romantic problems.

An account of the troubled life and brief career of Jean Harlow, who rose to Hollywood stardom during the 1930s.