(1960, Updated 4-15-25) Miyuki Takakura, Tatsuo Terashima, Yôichi Numata.  A wealthy businessman tries to orchestrate a marriage between his elder daughter and a young up-and-comer who he sees as a good candidate to someday to take over his business.  What dad doesn’t know, though, is that his daughter not only loves another man, but she’s also pregnant with child! When daddy ends up dead...

(1931, Updated 4-10-25) Benita Hume, Peter Hannen, Harold Huth, Walter Armitage.  Hum and Hannen are newlyweds, off on their honeymoon.  Hannen is also an inventor with secret plans.  Little do the newlyweds realize that international crooks are out to steal Hannen's plans, who is soon kidnappedby the bad guys.  However, when they find he’s not in possession of the plans, Hume is left to contend with the conniving, low-down scoundrel Harold Huth...

(1953) Scott Brady, Mary Castle, John Blythe, Gabrielle Brune, Colin Tapley, Lloyd Lamble, Ferdy Mayne.  An American arrives in London searching for his brother who, unknown to him, has been convicted of a murder and is within three days of being executed. He meets a beautiful night-club entertainer and part-time smuggler, who aids him in his quest to prove the innocence of his brother...

(1956, Updated 4-18-25) Lilli Palmer, Curt Jurgens, Winnie Markus, Adelheid Seeck, Hans Nielsen. Palmer was 42 and drop dead gorgeous when she made this film.  Her feminine appeal is electric—and it’s supposed to be.  She lures in struggling composer Jurgens into a life completely dominated by her—everything he does, everyone he knows, is closely watched over by her.  She is one wicked dame—shades of Play Misty for Me...

(1943, PRC) Barton MacLane, Charlotte Wynters, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Forrest Taylor. MacLane, in an unusual role, plays a tough, crusading district attorney. His target he is gunning for (pun intended) is a top local mobster played by Talbot. Unfortunately, Talbot enjoys is protected by a number of crooked politicians...

(1941) Harry Baur, Renée Faure, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Raymond Rouleau, Robert Le Vigan.  A fascinating film with a wonderful music score.  It’s Christmas Eve in a snow-covered mountain community.  The children are just getting out of school when a darkly-clad baron returns to his nearby chateau after a ten-year absence.  He is in hiding because of leprosy.  Meanwhile, a mysterious intruder attacks a local priest while attempting to steal a sacred ring from the church... 

(1935, Updated 4-8-25, 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...

(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...

(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...

(1929) Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  A pretty girl goes on a date with a young male artist.  When he gets her to his apartment he tries to rape her.  She kills him in self-defense...  Bonus Feature: THE FLYING SCOTSMAN (1929) Moore Marriott, Pauline Johnson, Ray Milland.  Milland (who was only 21 at the time) plays a fireman stoking the flames on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh...

(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...

(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...

 (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Ingmar Zeisberg, Paul Klinger, Judith Dornys, Friedrich Joloff.  The utterly imposing Dartmoor prison is surrounded on all sides by perilous swamps.  Yet a dozen prisoners have escaped in recent years—none of whom have ever been seen again...

(1930) Dorothy Boyd, Nigel Bruce, Audrey Carten, David Hawthorne, Frank Lawton.  This early British talkie, while a bit stiff, features a great cast, with Smith turning in an especially fine performance.  A murder occurs mid-way into the film, but it’s a mystery to the folks on screen...

(1929, Paramount) Claudette Colbert, Edward G. Robinson, David Newell, Donald Meek, Alan Brooks, Nellie Savage.  Robinson leads a group of con artists who use a phony lady psychic to scam wealthy but gullible socialites...

 (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...

(1929, Goldwyn) Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Joan Bennett.  This is an amazing early talkie; it looks and plays much more like a late ‘30s film than something from 1929.  WW1 vet Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond longs for excitement after returning to a boring post-war existence. His wish is granted when a young woman enlists his aid in freeing her uncle from a suspicious nursing home...

(1952) Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor, John Blythe, Thora Hird, John Horseley.  Walsh is a college lad who shatters his father’s dreams when he is basically expelled from Oxford University for being a bit of an upstart...