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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry his longtime fiancée Phyllis when she is kidnapped by Mikhail Valdin and his sister Erena. It seems Drummond arrested Erena's husband, and now she's determined to make him pay. The kidnappers are wanted for the murder of an American millionaire, and Scotland Yard Inspector Neilson (John Barrymore) warns Bulldog that he may be next. »
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Dick Tracy is a comic strip detective and a popular character in American pop culture. The character of Dick Tracy is a hard hitting, fast shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of often grotesquely ugly villains. Dick Tracy was created by cartoonist Chester Gould in 1931 for a newspaper comic strip also entitled Dick Tracy. »
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Morgan Conway made his final screen appearance as Chester Gould's granite-jawed detective Dick Tracy in this RKO Radio programmer. This time around, Tracy's nemesis is bald headed jewel thief Cueball, played with blunt menace by Dick Wessel. »
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An accountant on vacation in San Francisco gets a dose of lethal, slow-acting poison. He then begins a desperate search for the individual responsible for his impending demise. D.O.A. is considered a classic of the film noir genre and in 2004 The Library of Congress added the film to its National Film Registry. »
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Director John Huston and actor Humphrey Bogart, who had previously collaborated on classics ranging from The Maltese Falcon to The African Queen, teamed up for the last time on Beat the Devil, the least known and most unfairly underrated of their five joint efforts. Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. »
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Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike, a convicted Nazi war criminal, and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is Kindler's fascination with antique clocks; but though Kindler seems secure in his new identity, he feels his past closing in. »
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Based on the short story "Dancing Men" from volume "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Victorian Sleuth, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are transplanted to WWII europe and help protect a scientist and his invention from the Nazis. »
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A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate. »
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Detour is a film noir cult classic that stars Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, and Edmund MacDonald. Although made on a small budget and containing only rudimentary sets and camera work, the film has garnered substantial praise through the years and is held in high regard. »
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A compelling Irish thriller which tells the story of Jack Davis who parks his car in a farmer’s field overnight as he attends an outdoor rock event with his friend Ben. He returns the following morning alone, the worse for wear to pickup his car only to find it’s been stolen and thats only the start of his problems. »
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A famous shocker based on the true story of the Marie Celeste, a ship found off the coast of Africa in 1872 with her sails set, but not a soul on board. During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one. Starring the great Bela Lugosi (best known for his performances as Dracula) as the religious seafarer Anton Lorenzen. »
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Great mystery-adventure stars Bela Lugosi as a malevolent mandarin with an arcane scheme for conquest and Wallace Ford as the hard-nosed reporter who's out to stop him. Mysterious Mr. Wong is a bad-movie buff's delight. »
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After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic (Mickey Rooney) is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control. »
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In the sixth and final installment of the Mr. Wong series, Keye Luke assumes Boris Karloff's former role as Detective James Lee Wong. When the only man who understands the mystery behind the ancient Chinese secret of "Eternal Fire" is murdered, the San Francisco police must join forces with amateur detective Jimmy Wong to track down the killer and avert disaster. »
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Bela Lugosi stars in Scared to Death, a funny and freaky horror thriller. Notably Lugosi’s only appearance in a color film, Scared to Death begins encouragingly with a dead woman lying on a slab in the morgue, beginning to narrate the circumstances which lead to her death, through a maze of murder involving a hypnotist, a midget and a mysterious figure in a blue mask. »
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Kansas City Confidential is a compact, gritty 1952 film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne. Perennial movie bad guys Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand and Jack Elam play the film's heavies. Four robbers hold up an armored truck getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck flower delivery truck driver is accused of being involved and is arrested and beaten up by the local police. »
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Bela Lugosi stars in Scared to Death, a funny and freaky horror thriller. Notably Lugosi’s only appearance in a color film, Scared to Death begins encouragingly with a dead woman lying on a slab in the morgue, beginning to narrate the circumstances which lead to her death, through a maze of murder involving a hypnotist, a midget and a mysterious figure in a blue mask. »
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The Green Glove is an action adventure film starring Glenn Ford, directed by Rudolph Mate. Glenn Ford stars as an American paratrooper who travels to France after the end of World War II to try and recover a jewel encrusted glove that had been stolen from a country church during the war. His quest leads him to a beautiful young tour guide (Geraldine Brooks), and a Nazi collaborator (George Macready) whom he had fought during the war. »
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown is a 1939 mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff. Third of the Mr. Wong series finds James Lee Wong investigating the murder of a wealthy Chinese woman. She had been helping to fund the purchase of airplanes to equip China in its 1930s struggle with Japan. »
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One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with luxury within her reach, persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." Soon, the Palmers are traced by one Danny Fuller, a sleazy character who claims the money is his. To hang onto it, Jane will need all the qualities of an ultimate femme fatale...and does she ever have them! »
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Can a man commit MURDER in a dream?...Here is the spine-tingling, blood-freezing answer...different from any mystery you've ever seen! A remarkable thriller about a young man's torture by nightmare when he wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream...but he then finds that he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." »
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When a police officer is gunned down by a man whom he had stopped to question, a city-wide dragnet fails to catch the shooter, leaving the police with only minor clues to go on. Later they discover that the same man has been selling stolen equipment through an electronics dealer, and they set a trap for him. But he shoots his way out of the trap and escapes. The police must piece together a description of the man's appearance and habits from witnesses and a few small clues. »
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Classic Roger Corman B-movie. A man wrongly imprisoned for murder breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him. »
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When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more murders occur. »
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A cabin cruiser is shipwrecked off the coast of a remote island, and its three passengers manage to reach the island safely. The island is owned by a strange and enigmatic count who invites them to stay. But he has an underlying motive for his apparent generosity: Count Zaroff enjoys hunting - and he only hunts the most dangerous game - humans!
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