(1939, Paramount) John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, E.E. Clive, Reginal Denny.  A sparkling entry in the Paramount series as Hugh finds himself in Europe pursuing a bank robber.  Will he ever get married?  Great action and good fun in what proved to be the last entry of the Paramount series...

(1937, Paramount) John Howard, John Barrymore. A secret formula has been stolen and a scientist horribly murdered. Hugh Drummond tries to track down the gang of spies responsible in this slick B thr

(1935) Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson, Claude Hulbert, Gibb McLaughlin, Atholl Fleming.  Master sleuth Bulldog Drummond pulls into a gas station where his car is sabotaged by crooks.  Minutes later he crashes into Hulbert’s vehicle.  In the hospital, the injured Drummond asks Hulbert to temporarily masquerade as him...

(1948) John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Margaretta Scott, Abraham Sofaer. In this snappy mystery, Temple delves into the murder of several women, all of whom were patients of a strange, sinister doctor

(1929) William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Charles Lane, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Eugene Pallette, Ned Sparks. As early talkies go, this is a pretty good whodunit, with gorgeous silent star Brooks as a shrewd nightclub singer known as “the Canary.”  She has a bad habit of blackmailing her acquaintances...

(1944) Jesse Matthews, John Stuart, Beatrix Lehmann. An enjoyable, sometimes creepy British mystery thriller. Much of the action is centered about a spooky estate where a singer is forced to spend the night in order to...

CAT & MOUSE (1958) Lee Patterson, Ann Sears, Hilton Edwards, Victor Maddern, Stuart Saunders.  Patterson (from Jack the Ripper) is truly detestable as a shiftless army deserter who blackmails a young lady (Sears) into revealing the hiding place of some jewels stolen by her father some twenty years before...

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

(1929, Paramount) Wallace Beery, Warner Oland, Florence Vidor, Jack Oakie, Jack McHugh, Directed by William Wellman.  After witnessing a Chinatown murder, Vidor, a pretty socialite, gets a sudden crush on a Chinatown gang leader, played by Beery...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Elga Anderson, Ralf Wolter, Sabine Sesselmann. Drache is a suave private eye.  He’ss dumped into the middle of a murder mystery when a woman is shot dead in his office with his own gun...

(1953) Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Sheila Burrell, Richard Wattis, Joan Sims.  In this enjoyable anthology of three episodes of Colonel March of Scotland Yard, Karloff plays the smooth-talking title character.  He’s faced with three seemingly weird cases...