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Three original stories inspired by classic cinema. If you liked the movie, you'll love its Cinspiration. TORN CENTER was inspired by the 1956 film Storm Center starring Bette Davis and Brian Keith. A young woman finds herself with a dead man and gun at her feet and has no memory of what happened or who she is. Hoping her amnesia will pass soon, she escapes to small town Devondale, where she meets an interesting young man who wants to paint her portrait and probe her mind to unlock the meaning of her bad dreams-but he holds secrets of his own. Events come to a head when a slip-up brings her past to the town, amid its growing anti-communism targeting a beloved librarian. Revisit 1956's dark cloud of hate in Torn Center. FANCY MEETING YOU HERE was inspired by the 1951 film Goodbye, My Fancy starring Joan Crawford and Robert Young. Movie star Janice Reid is queen of the lady films-lady lawyer, lady doctor, etc. Her newest film, a departure from the lady franchise, will require a big, personal publicity campaign to woo her young fans into theaters, so she invites a contest winner into her home for several days. However, her plans for magazine fodder turn into a rekindling of an old romance with the fan's dad. But affairs of the heart are never easy, and complications built on deception arise, complications leading from Un-American accusations to madness and, ultimately, to tragedy. Backpedal to 1951, the dark days of McCarthyism, when a single word from the wrong person could mean freedom or imprisonment, with Fancy Meeting You Here. I MARRIED A COMMUNIST COLUMNIST was inspired by the 1949 film I Married a Communist AKA The Woman on Pier 13 starring Laraine Day and Robert Ryan. During the Cold War in 1949, former spinster Sheila's whirlwind marriage to respected newsman Hoyt seems made in Heaven, until the devil pokes his nose through the cracks. A Palm Sunday palm reader foretells of trouble ahead, but, as the newlyweds make plans to grow their family, Sheila brushes aside new, disturbing facts about Hoyt's past and the influence of his freethinking mother. However, when a change in job assignment exposes his true feelings about the American Dream, she can turn away no longer. Discover the depths our frightened wife plumbs to protect her cherished American way, back in the days when respectable people couldn't even trust their city press, in I Married a Communist Columnist. INVASION APPLE PIE was inspired by the 1952 film Invasion U.S.A. starring Gerald Mohr and Peggy Castle. During the height of the Red Scare, teen ham radio enthusiast Ginny tunes in to a Russian invasion in progress across America. Unable to rouse her drunken father and dismissed by police that late Friday night, she's left with only one option to share the dire news-the patrons of Murray's Tavern. As the evening unfolds and secrets are exposed amid imminent annihilation, everyone grows a little wiser. But is it too little too late? Set in 1952, Invasion Apple Pie underscores the notion that humanity's biggest enemy is itself.

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