Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) (MOD)

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) (MOD)James Sullivan works the carny circuit, promoting the likes of a boxing kangaroo or grappling bear. Then the wheeler dealer meets a million dollar idea: beautiful swimming champ Annette Kellerman. She'll churn through a Thames River PR stunt. Cause a bathing suit scandal among Boston blue bloods. Headline New York's Hippodrome. And become a Hollywood swimsation as cameras roll and Rin Tin Tin looks on. Glamorous, amphibious Esther Williams portrays

His task: find the arch-baddie Green Goose and stop his world-domination plan

Little Pal

But when Vi Mason (Juli Reding)

a Vietnamese professor

Dustin Hoffman again distinguished himself as Dega

Rugged Clint Walker plays the title role

But don't worry - she's got this

dirt-poor juke joint dancer who comes to love Steve

battle evildoers and escape very-real danger if they are to succeed

custom-tailored costume recreating Ledger's signature style from The Dark Knight

' This turgid melodrama finds modern bachelor girl Patricia Berkeley (Bette Davis) dueling it out with modern housewife Nan Reynolds (Ann Dvorak) for the affections and ministrations of Nan's husband

uplifting story of guards and captives