Essaness Productions

The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!

Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.

A group of young individuals in their mid-20s Kwan, Ploy, and Kawin who, in their newfound and unconventional love, look for a sense of belonging as the world comes to pause. In stillness, they face themselves and confront their personal identities in the shadows of family quarrels and the unforeseen future of their youth and the world. Kwan narrates a personal reflection on a mythical story her mother once told her. A woman who vowed to be born as a Dalha flower for the sake of love. As the myth threads a connection in Kwan's memory of her absent mother, Kwan comes to understand her conflicted identity. Following her mother's footsteps, she decides to embark on a journey in search of change.