(1942) Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Edward Norris, Roger Pryor, Elisabeth Risdon, Dick Purcell. Morris is a fast-talking reporter who’ll do anything for a story. Shipwreck victim Parker falls for hi

(1935) Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, Sybille Schmitz, Marieluise Claudius, Max Gülstorff.  Although there is a subplot involving a jealous husband and a love triangle, the plot basically concerns a taxi driver, Walbrook, who has to deal with a shot-up corpse in the backseat of his cab.  Suspecting he might be blamed for the killing, he assumes the man’s identity...

(1949, Upgraded 8/26/21) Brian Donlevy, Ella Rains, Charles Coburn, Anna May Wong, Helen Walker.  Previously on VHS only, this film noir gem is now on our DVD list for the first time—from a beautiful 35mm print.  Donlevy is a big time businessman, but his wife and her lover are plotting to kill him...

(1954) Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith, Joy Shelton, Jack Allen, James Carney, Cameron Hall.  Kennedy play an American realtor living an unexciting life in England.  Adventure falls into his lap, though, on a weekend when his wife is out of town and he meets up with a gorgeous dame...

(1935, Universal) Austin Trevor, Gary Marsh, George Hayes, Robert Horton, Brian Buchell.  A visiting French sleuth steps in to help the police solve the “diary murders,” in which each victim is found in possession of a diary page of a dead actress. Before long a murdered corpse is found in a locked room!  This is one of those cool, intricate murder mysteries in a big old mansion filled with red herrings and other furtive types...

(1949, Upgraded 12/14/21) Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, Christine Norden, Tom Walls, Ralph Truman, Alexander Gauge. The dashing Richard Todd plays an up and coming author who absconds with his beautiful blonde mistress (the wife of his publisher) on an outbound train.  Soonafter the train leaves the station he has second thoughts and, much to the chagrin of everyone else on board, pulls the emergency cord and...

THE ISLAND MONSTER (1954) Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi, Renato Vicario, Patricia Remiddi.  This often-maimed Karloff thriller really isn’t all that bad if you can get past the fact that Karloff’s voice is dubbed by someone else.  A law enforcement agent heads to a small Italian island to break up a drug smuggling ring.  Things get complicated when the smugglers kidnap his daughter...

(1943) Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Robert Le Vigan, Arthur Devere, Albert Remy, Germaine Kerjean.  Rollin plays a long lost member of the “Groupi” family who has been called home to the family manor in the French countryside to marry his beautiful young cousin.  Before long he finds himself victimized by various family members, partly for fun, partly from hatred...