Sentences with phrase «blackmail scheme»

Of course it can't end well — especially when the sleazy couple become the victims of an even sleazier private detective and his blackmail scheme.

The action kicks off when Marlowe is hired by the elderly and wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to investigate a blackmail scheme; what the sleuth uncovers instead is a labyrinthine plot that involves murder and threatens to ensnare the millionaire's two daughters, the sultry Vivian Rutledge (Bogie's real - life squeeze Lauren Bacall) and the volatile Carmen (Martha Vickers).

When the disc containing said memoirs is lost at the gym and recovered by two gym employees (Frances McDormand and Brad Pit), all hell breaks loose — and that hell involves the Russian embassy, a thwarted blackmail scheme, and a surprising invention by Harry.

, tells the story of high school senior Carson Phillips (Colfer), who masterminds a blackmail scheme...

When a lucrative government contract is set to be awarded by honest government worker Jim Hawley (Tom Selleck), a low - life businessman (Barry Sullivan) attempts to get his hands on the contract by setting Hawley up for an elaborate blackmail scheme.

On the other hand, there were all these mega-billionaires who (a) threatened to target him if he voted no; (b) promised him huge campaign contributions if he went along; and (c) would pay to call him a «hater» and a «homophobe» and even, perhaps, pay «witnesseses» to allege he was in the closet as part of a blackmail scheme.

In a Lonely Place (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD)(1950), directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in arguably the greatest performances of their careers, is film noir with no guns or gangsters or femme fatales or blackmail schemes, yet it is among the most devastating noir dramas you'll ever see: an ambiguous study of love torn apart from within.

This dark comedy, action crime thriller mainly features «inventive blackmail schemes, flamboyant gangsters, power politics, greed, evangelicals and sex,» which sounds like fun.

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Iris Dupont, a budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain - smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, feels sure she can break into the ranks of The Devil's Advocate, the Party's underground newspaper, and there uncover the source of its blackmail schemes and vilifying rumors.

Not exact matches

«Other allegations of economic and financial crimes include: soliciting for inappropriate favors from agencies and multi-national companies; compelling an agency to grant loans; blackmailing a construction company to do some work at the Speaker's Asokoro, Abuja plot; and designing a scheme to scam members of the House through deductions from their salaries for supposed mortgage arrangements.»

«We are persuaded that this fabricated report may not be unconnected with the schemes by the present administration to set - up and frame the National Publicity Secretary for his outspokenness in highlighting its negatives, for which he has been receiving threats, litigations, blackmails and unfounded allegations from government officials.

For as long as the Billions audience has known him, United States Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) has been scheming to become the governor of New York: courting Albany kingmaker Black Jack Foley (David Strathairn); enduring the unplaceable accent of a woman named George (Mary Louise Parker); stealing a laptop from his own dominatrix to ensure he couldn't be blackmailed.

It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way.

In the meantime, the aliens threaten the castle, demanding the power of the Orgue be handed over to them, even blackmailing and saying Astro / Barrage stole an alien's wallet earlier (who gave it to Astro when they back downed as a «payment,» but in reality, it was part of their scheme).