(1963, aka DER ZINKER, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Barbara Rütting, Günter Pfitzmann, Eddi Arent.  In this excellent Edgar Wallace thriller, Scotland Yard investigates a series of grisly slayings in which the victims have died from the poison of a venomous snake.  Is it a snake, or is it something far more sinister...

(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...

(1961) Johnny Cash, Cay Forester, Donald Woods, Ronnie Howard, Pamela Mason.  Cash plays a vile, hardboiled hood, hired to hold a bank president’s wife (Forester) hostage while the bank is being robbed.  Held at gunpoint in her own home, she is put through hell by Cash...

(1963, Anamorphic English Edition) Adrian Hoven, Ann Smyrner, Klaus Kinski, Ady Berber, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Vogel, Paul Dahlke, Gunter Meisner, Marianne Schönauer.  A truck driver (Hoven) innocently transports a drug dealer and his shipment of drugs.  They are stopped by members of an opposing drug gang (posing as police) and the dealer is shot dead.  The truck driver soon falls into a myriad of terrifying situations...

(1961) Jonathan Kidd, Lyn Statten, Frank Arvidson, John Harmon, Johnny Carpenter.  What a gritty, sleazy drive-in B-classic this is—it’s sooo enjoyable.  A man (Kidd) and his oh-so-seductive girlfriend (Statten) have a car accident.  He wanders away from the accident, now suffering from amnesia...

(1958) Minoru Ôki, Takahiro Tamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Hideko Takamine, Kin Sugai.  Two Tokyo cops board a train.  Their assignment is to find the escaped killer...

(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...

(1949) Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden, Sam Kydd. Dyall plays a bitter ex-con out to gain revenge on his former business partner who framed him.  Then he gets bad medical news—he has only six months to live...

(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...

(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...

(1937) Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings. Thomy Bourdelle, Henry Oscar, Joyce Kennedy.  This is an excellent Gaumont thriller.  Lowe plays a devil-may-care American detective traveling abroad in France.  During a costume party he finds a corpse in his hotel room, which conveniently disappears when he leaves to fetch the manager.   When the body disappears, Lowe and Cummings are lead on a trail of death and destruction...

(1932) Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried, G. A. Martin, Michel Duran, directed by Jean Renoir.  A diamond merchant is found dead, murdered, inside a car near a gloomy, muddy, foggy French crossroads...

(1958) Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef, Albert Lieven, Cec Linder, Katherine Kath.   Johnson went to England to film this story of a military doctor who’s falsely accused of illegal drug dealing...

(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...

(1961) John Ireland, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps, Timothy Beaton. A young couple movies into a new house. The wife notices that a strange man is peering in at them from outside in the middle of the n

 (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn, Maya Koumani, Terence Alexander, Mary Clare, Victor Brooks.  Jackson plays a recently-released-from-prison convict who has trouble finding work.  He changes name and...

(1947) Michael Medwin, Frank Hawkins, Winifred Melville, Jane Arden, Moyra O'Connell, Sid James.  A young British boy’s dad is convicted of murder and hanged.  The boy lands in a boarding school where he’s horribly bullied and ends up running away...

(1946) Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Ledoux, Andrée Clément, Thérèse Dorny, Pierre Juvenet, Albert Rémy, Robert Seller.  This French crime-drama is simply brilliant.  Fresnay is an infamous criminal who escapes from a shootout with the police.  He’s picked up on the road by a self-made millionaire who’s returning home to his only living relative, an aunt, whom he hasn’t seen since he was a child.  The car crashes and...