(1946) Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Evile Drain, Guy Favieres.  Romance and Dalban are lovers—she would do anything for him, including a stretch in women’s prison for a crime she didn’t commit.  When an elderly woman is murdered in the neighborhood (for money), suspicion falls Dalban’s way.  Simon, as Dr. Vargas (aka Mr. Hire), has witnessed the crime and has proof of Dalban’s guilt...

ONE WAY OUT (1955) Jill Adams, Eddie Byrne, Lyndon Brook, John Chandos, John Bushelle.  Eddie is a police official about to retire.  He is horrified, however, when he finds out his own daughter is innocently mixed up with a gang of crooks.  Even worse, they’re blackmailing Eddie, threatening to send her to prison for a crime she didn’t even commit if he doesn’t play along.  With his career hanging in the balance, Eddie comes up with a daring plan...

(1956, Upgraded 3/21/21) Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Marika Lekaki, Giannis Argyris.  This is a brilliant piece of Greek filmmaking, filled with wonderful performances and perfectly written pieces of dialogue.  A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large and known womanizer. He somewhat reluctantly rules the local underworld until...

(1959) John Ireland, Ellen Schwiers, Birgitta Anderssonen, Frank Sundstrom, Ralph Brown.  Ireland plays a tough guy who’s been tried, convicted, and imprisoned for an arson charge he didn't commit.  Once out of prison, he is bound and determined to find the real criminal and clear his name.  The trail leads him to Sweden, where he encounters many dangerous twists and turns...

(1967) Dana Andrews, Jeanne Valérie, Salvo Randone, John Elliot.   A master criminal in a wheelchair summons a number of other hustlers together for illicit purposes.  His ace in the hole is that he holds a blackmail card over all of them.  The plan is to pull off an elaborate caper and knock over a high-roller jewelry store, which houses one of the world’s most valuable sets of ancient jewels...

(1947) Ronald Howard, Maxwell Reed, Hector Ross, Anne Crawford, Christine Norden, Syd James.  In this superb film noir gem, Ross and Howard play young men who join the police force.  Ross succeeds; Howard fails.  Howard soon ends up on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with a shady nightclub owner, brilliantly played by Reed.  

Ronald Howard, Michael Gough, Elizabeth Sellers, Marie Ney. Gough plays a man who was captured by jungle natives and held captive for two years. Later, after returning to civilization and his wife,

NIGHT TRAIN FOR INVERNESS (1960) Norman Wooland, Jane Hylton, Dennis Waterman, Valentine Dyall, Silvia Francis.  Some of these little Brit thrillers of the ‘50s and ‘60s are real gems.  In this nail-biting film, Wooland, an ex-con just out of jail, kidnaps his son, whom his wife has previously kept from him.  Wooland and his son, along with his disgruntled girlfriend (marvelously played by Hylton) board an all-night express train.  Unknown to them...