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HILDE WARREN AND DEATH (1917) Hilde Warren und der Tod Directed by Joe May Shot by Curt Courant

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Dee David, one of the victims in the Mickey Cohen ambush, primps in hospital while recovering slowly from gunshot wounds, July 22, 1949.

In the early hours of July 20, 1949 actress Dee David went to Sherry's, a café on Sunset Strip, where she met up with Frank Nicolli whom she reportedly had a romantic relationship with. Nicolli was a member of the Cohen crime family. Others at the café included Mickey Cohen, Neddie Herbert, a top lieutenant of Cohen's, and Harry Cooper, a Special Agent that had been assigned by the state attorney to guard Cohen. Four other members of various police agency's were also located around the café, assigned to guard Cohen after several failed assassination attempts had been made on him and Herbert.

At 4 am the party left the café with the police guards having left shortly earlier. As David, Cooper, Cohen, and Herbert stood on the sidewalk exchanging goodbyes gunfire opened up from the Bing Crosby building across the street. Cohen was hit in the shoulder, Cooper was hit twice in the abdomen, David was hit multiple times in the back (some reports say twice, others say three times, and still others say four times). Herbert was hit the worse leading investigators to theorize he was the target of the hit. He would succumb to his injuries about a week later while the other three recovered.

Less than 2 months later David would be mentioned in newspapers again when Frank Nicolli went missing while out on a $75,000 bail. David was reportedly the last person to see him and was able to tell police he had left her apartment to pick someone up at the airport. When her tip was not followed up on David went to the airport herself where she found Nicolli's abandoned car. Although Cohen believed Nicolli had been murdered the police did not and believed Cohen was hiding Nicolli and possibly planning to smuggle him into Mexico to avoid trial. However he was never found.

In February of the next year Cohen's house was bombed in another assassination attempt and Jack Dragna, who was questioned last July, was the prime suspect. Dragna had been the head of organized crime in LA until the late 1930s when Bugsy Siegel was sent to California by the East Coast mafia to set up operations. Once there Siegel teamed up with Cohen to gain majority control of LA's criminal syndications. After Siegel was assassinated in 1947, Cohen took over. Dragna wanted Cohen out of the way so he could regain full control.

At the time L.A. was trying to crack down on organized crime and clean out it's influence in the government. The knowledge that Special Agent Harry Cooper had been assigned as bodyguard to Cohen at tax payers expense enraged city councilmen. Dragna and Cohen were both ordered to appear before the Kefauver Committee. This resulting in Cohen being imprisoned for tax evasion in 1951 and Dragna receiving a deportation order to Sicily in 1953 (although he appealed this and passed away of natural causes in 1956 before the case was settled).

Cohen would survive another attempt on his life when serving a second prison term for tax evasion. After his release he became a businessman and celebrity and spent the later years of his life touring the country giving speeches and making television appearances before passing away of natural causes in 1976.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Jimmy Fratianno, a member of the Dragna crime family, became an FBI informant in exchange for leniency. He confessed to the murder of Frank Nicolli in 1949 when Nicolli refused to betray Cohen and join the Dragna gang.

In May of 1950 David and Cooper, who first met on the night of the shooting, got married. However David would leave him a year later and file for divorce on the grounds of "extreme cruelty", which would be finalized in 1954.

David's acting career was not successful and she never surpassed bit parts (as a newspaper article cruelly focuses on immediately after the shooting). She still worked in the industry as a film technician and a script girl.

In 1956 David would make newspaper headlines again after being beaten by the Sica brothers, two gangsters and friends of Cohen. David claimed that they broke into her house while she was in a business meeting with Alfred Shomo and beat her and her guest while the brothers, who were also business partners with David, claimed they were invited to the house and turned violent after David pulled a gun on them. At the time David was working on Spring Byington's show December Bride. Byington appeared in court and testified on David's behalf while Cohen testified for the brothers. The brothers were found not guilty.

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A world tour of classic films (pre-1980):

Afghanistan - Like Eagles (1967) no subs

Albania - The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (1953) Eng subs

Algeria - The Winds of the Aures (1967) no subs

Angola - Sambizanga (1972) No subs

Argentina - Black Ermine (1953) Eng subs

Armenia - Zare (1926) no subs

Australia - For the Term of His Natural Life (1929) Eng

Austria - The Hands of Orlac (1924) Eng

Azerbaijan - The Cloth Peddler (1945) no subs

Belgium - The Crab w/ the Golden Claws (1947) Eng subs

Brazil - Onde Estás Felicidade (1939) no subs

Bulgaria - Specialist in Everything (1962) no subs

Cambodia - Apsara (1966) no subs

Canada - Back to Gods Country (1919) Eng

Chile - Three Sad Tigers (1968) no subs

China - Princess Iron Fan (1941) Eng subs

China - Mulan Joins the Army (1939) Eng subs

Columbia - Claws of Gold (1926) no subs

Cuba - The Last Supper (1976) Eng subs

Czechoslovakia - Ecstasy (1933) Eng subs

Denmark - The Abyss (1910) Eng subs

Egypt - Cairo Station (1958) Eng subs

Estonia - Young Eagles (1927) no subs

Finland - The Day the Earth Froze (1959) Eng dub

France - Zou Zou (1934) Eng subs

Georgia - Saba (1929) no subs

Germany - Metropolis (1927) Eng

Greece - Daphnis and Chloe (1931) no subs

Honduras - My Friend Angel (1962) no subs

Hungary - Little Mother (1935) no subs

India - Aah (1953) Eng subs

Indonesia - Pareh (1935) no subs

Iran - The House is Black (1963) Eng subs

Ireland - Knocknagow (1918) Eng

Israel - The Hero’s Wife (1963) no subs

Italy - Fast and Sexy (1958) Eng version

Jamaica - The Harder They Come (1972) Eng

Japan - Dragnet Girl (1933) Eng subs

Kazakhstan - Amangeldy (1939) no subs

Korea, North - My Home Village (1949) Eng subs

Korea, South - Viva Freedom! (1946) Eng subs

Latvia - Blow, Wind (1973) No subs

Lebanon - The Broken Wings (1962) Eng subs

Lithuania - The Girl and the Echo (1964) no subs

Malaysia - My Son, Sazali (1956) Eng subs

Mexico - Salón México (1949) Eng subs

Moldova - Lullaby (1959) no subs

Mongolia - Tsogt Taij (1945) Eng subs

Nepal - Maitighar (1966) no subs

Netherlands - Fanfare (1958) Eng subs

New Zealand - 100 Crowded Years (1941) Eng

Niger - Return of an Adventurer (1966) Eng subs

Nigeria - Fincho (1957) Eng

North Macedonia - Miss Stone (1958) no subs

Norway - Nine Lives (1957) Eng subs

Paraguay - The Blood and the Seed (1959) no subs

Peru - No Stars in the Jungle (1967) no subs

Philippines - Pearl of the Pasig (1950) Eng subs

Poland - Black Pearl (1934) Eng subs

Portugal - Aniki-Bóbó (1942) Eng subs

Romania - The Queen’s Flower (1946) no subs

Russia - The Stone Flower (1946) Eng subs

Senegal - Boro, Sarret (1963) Eng subs

Serbia - Karađorđe (1911) Eng subs

Singapore - Love (1948) Eng subs

Slovenia - Kekec (1951) no subs

South Africa - Lord Oom Piet (1962) Eng

Spain - The Electric Hotel (1908) no subs

Sri Lanka - Kapatikama (1966) no subs

Sudan - The Dislocation of Amber (1975) no subs

Suriname - Wan Pipel (1976) Eng subs

Sweden - It Rains on Our Love (1946) Eng subs

Switzerland - Heidi (1952) Eng dub

Taiwan - Wave (1973) no subs

Tajikistan - Rustam and Suhrab (1971) no subs

Thailand - King of the White Elephant (1940) Eng

Trinidad and Tobago - Bim (1974) Eng

Tunisia - The Girl from Carthage (1924) no subs

Turkey - The Broken Disc (1959) no subs

Ukraine - Man With a Movie Camera (1929) Eng subs

United Kingdom - It’s Love Again (1936) Eng

United States - Bringing Up Baby (1938) Eng

Uruguay - Souls on the Coast (1923) no subs

Uzbekistan - Delighted by You (1958) no subs

Venezuela - The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon (1949) no subs

Vietnam - Together on the Same River (1959) Eng subs

Zimbabwe - Shangani Patrol (1970) Eng

***All these links are watchable as of January 2025. Not every country is included here because not every country had a film industry or has films available online. I recommend looking up any film on here that you watch as a lot of them have very interesting backstories. “No subs” means no English subtitles. They may have subtitles in other languages.

Please don’t let a lack of subtitles stop you from trying a movie from another country. Movies, especially silent ones, can be understood and enjoyed regardless of language barriers! <3

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