Madonna of the Desert (1948)
Overview
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 0.1533 |
Directed By
George Blair
Crew
Stephen Auer
Mort Glickman
John MacBurnie
Harry Keller
Frank Arrigo
John McCarthy Jr.
George Milo
Bob Mark
Louise Landmier
Joe Dill
Fred Stahl
Herbert Kirkpatrick
Donald Biddle Keyes
Dorothy Yutzi
George Blair
Albert DeMond
Frank Wisbar
Howard Lydecker
Theodore Lydecker
C.B. Lawrence
Adele Palmer
Joseph Dubin
Ernest Gold
William Lava
Walter Scharf
TOP CAST
Lynne Roberts
Monica Dale
Don 'Red' Barry
Tony French (as Donald Barry)
Don Castle
Joe Salinas
Sheldon Leonard
Nick Julian
Paul Hurst
Pete Connors
Roy Barcroft
Buck Keaton
Paul E. Burns
Hank Davenport
Betty Blythe
Mrs. Brown
Martín Garralaga
Papa Baravelli
Grazia Narciso
Mama Baravelli
Frank Yaconelli
Peppo
Maria Genardi
Mrs. Pasquale
Renee Donatt
Maria Baravelli
Vernon Cansino
Enrico
Similar Movies
Deep Water
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
Enter the Void
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.
Raw Justice
The mayor of a small town hires a bounty hunter to find his daughter's killer, but it turns out to be a very dangerous job.
Hyena
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
The Robbery of the Third Reich
During 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authorities ever.
Killing Emmett Young
In the Philadelphia police department, Emmett Young is a hotshot, a workaholic newly promoted to homicide. He learns he has a disease that will soon kill him painfully, so he hires a stranger to arrange his own death. With one eye on the calendar (he's allowed a few days' grace before his murder), he pursues a final case, the serial killing of young women. Emmett develops a profile of the assailant. Meanwhile, his fixer hires an ex-cop to kill Emmett, a lonely security guard whom the fixer taunts and belittles. In this limited time, can Emmett sort out what's important?
Slap me to Sleep
Three reckless robbers target a chinese mafia club. They do not know, however, that the bartender, the only one who knows the safe combination, is narcoleptic and falls asleep suddenly when he gets too emotional...
Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann
True story of a young woman's abduction by a deranged loner that led to the largest manhunt in the history of Pennsylvania.
In My Daughter's Name
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
Death Will Return
Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza’s niece and her fiancé, Norton’s physician, and the hotel staff. Inspector Fox and his assistant, policeman Petridis, are assigned the investigation of the crime. While the suspects’ questioning is under way, some more people arrive at the hotel: detective Tilemachos Christofis with his assistant Aliki, and lieutenant Karalis, a sworn enemy of the victim, complicating things even more.
3 Nights
When the corpse of mobster Miguel "el chino" Sanabria surfaces, everyone thinks his death is the result of an argument during the heat of the moment. That is, everyone except Officer Ferran (Victor Mayo), who believes something more menacing was at fault. Along with Picasso (Juanko Vellido), the last person to see Sanabria alive, Ferran sets out to find the truth behind the murder -- and learns something about his own destiny in the process.
A Patch of Blue
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Domino
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.
Diary of a Chambermaid
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
Raigyo
A black clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through a phone sex club.
Angels Don't Sleep Here
A man is accused of murder and manipulated into a web of deceit as his thought-to-be dead twin brother plots revenge on those who tried to kill him.
Dear Murderer
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
Innuendo
Tuuli grows up in an oppressively religious and abusive family in Finland. To escape from the shadow of her angelic twin sister she travels to Melbourne, Australia. Curious of sexuality, she becomes a nude model for art classes. Her innocent surface reveals sordid cracks as she sets about exerting her twisted version of righteousness.
Black Moon Rising
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.