(1935, Reliable) Richard Talmadge, Thelma White, Robert Frazer, Mildred Harris, Robert Walker, George Chesebro.  A wild Talmadge action film involving a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.  Watch for the rooftop race with the crooks at the film’s harrowing climax...

Here's a great collection of trailers from the golden age of mystery-crime pictures.  Here's the list:  Broadway Big Shot (1942), Manhattan Shakedown (1939), Boss of Big Town (1943), Hidden Menace (1940), Gentleman from Dixie (1941), Inside the Law (1942), Gallant Lady (1942), Detective Kitty O’Day (1944), Adventures of Kitty O’Day (1944), Incident (1948), I’ll Name the Murderer (1936), Notorious (1946)...

Here's a great collection of trailers from the golden age of mystery-crime pictures.  Here's the list:  Big Town (1932), Amateur Crook (1937), Special Inspector (1939), What Price Vengeance (1937), Let’s Get Tough (1942), Shadows Over Chinatown (1946), The Chinese Cat (1944), Behind the Mask (1946), The Missing Lady (1946, Shadow), Pearl of Death (1944, Holmes), Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Holmes)...

(1930) Huguette Duflos, Kissa Kouprine, Maxime Desjardins. It’s a dark night at a mysterious castle. Inside, a scientist works in his lab, which is filled with glowing equipment.  The night is interrupted by the arrival of a fiend...

(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Adrian Hoven, Renate Ewert, Hans von Borsody, Jochen Brockmann.  This cool Krimi offering is available with English subtitles for the first time.  Inside a smoky nightclub called “the Green Spider” a beautiful singer finishes her song, then the band takes over, playing a raucous jazzy tune.  Lost in all the noise is the sound of a gunshot...

Grant Withers, Dorothy Tree. Murder and mystery surround the theft of a precious gem at a big social party. Naturally, Mr. Wong is called in to investigate. Boris is fun to watch. From 16mm.

(1939) Henry Kendall, Kathleen Kelly, Richard Gofe, Alastair Sim, Guy Middleton.  Kendall plays a down and out, unemployed family man who’s behind on his rent and has his gas cut off by his landlord.  Desperate to make ends meet, he comes up with an incredible ruse.  He creates a non-existant alter-ego, “Mr. Davis,” and begins an elaborate con-game that becomes wildly successful...

(1934, aka THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY) Malcolm Keen, Jane Baxter, Leslie Banks, Ian Hunter, Ernest Thesiger, Viola Keats, directed by Michael Powell.  This is a pretty good whodunit, with lots of suspects to choose from.  A gala social party is being held at the house of a big newspaper publisher.  The publisher (played to hilt by Keen) is a total cad...

(1961) Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Diane Clare, Robertson Hare.  A college student falls to his death from his window when he encounters an intruder in his room...

MURDER ON LENNOX AVENUE (1941) Mamie Smith, Alec Lovejoy, Norman Astwood, Gus Smith.  The setting for this all-black drama is Harlem, 1941.  Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace an apartment building’s ousted, crooked leader (who wants revenge!) is having a hell of a time contending with his young ward, a two-timing womanizer whose affairs are approaching crisis level...

(1952) Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Tod Slaughter, Frank Hawkins. These two episodes are from an obscure Brit detective TV series.  Barr, as Morley, is an ex-police inspector, now in private practice.  He’s called in by two elderly sisters who say that someone is plotting to kill them...