(1944) Frank Jenks, Robin Raymond, H.B. Warner, Ray Walker. Reporters Jenks and Raymond try to get an interview with the head of a big foundation regarding a revolutionary new listening device. They soon end up at the lab of the real inventor, H. B. Warner...  

(1932) Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop, Cedric Hardwicke.  Like any good train murder mystery, there is an assortment of interesting characters, each seemingly with something to hide...

(1960) Joel Rinne, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Leo Riuttu. This is a good old-fashioned closed room murder mystery.  The world famous Lieutenant Palmu is brought in to investigate when a much-despised millionaire playboy is found dead in his interior pool—murdered.  Who is the killer?  There are some nice tongue-in-cheek moments thrown into this well-made murder thriller...

(1951) John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Roddy Rogers.  The Toff was a well-known, upper crust British detective character who appeared in magazines, books, and films, dating back to the early 1930s.  In this, his first motion appearance, he is well-played by John Bentley, who played him in both Toff films.  In this fast-moving mystery, a man walks out of a nightclub onto a darkened street.  Moments later he is knifed in the back...

(1917) Lon Chaney, Franklyn Farnum, Edith Johnson, Sam DeGrasse. Lon plays a bank cashier who discovers embezzling and confronts the criminals with the evidence. A bizarre twist of events follows an

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Directed by Fritz Lang.  Considered one of the greatest pieces of film noir cinema ever made.  Robinson, in one of his best performances, plays Chris Cross, a cashier who's just been given his gold watch at retirement. As fate would have it, he runs into a gorgeous woman (Fontaine) on the way home who soon has him wrapped around her finger...

 (1954) Hazel Court, Griffith Jones, Zena Marshall, Robert Percival.  What a great surprise this nifty (nifty is the word) British murder mystery turned out to be.  Insurance investigator Griffin Jones is duped by a gorgeous blonde and framed for murdering the wife of a rich businessman...

(1969, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Joachim Fuchsberger, Konrad Georg, Horst Tappert, Arthur Richelmann, Karin Hübner.  This film plays, in places, like an Edgar Wallace film; in other places like a seedy JD movie filled with troubled youths.  At a boarding school for boys a firebrand student goes missing.  It’s theorized he may have met with foul play.  When his rich father also goes missing...

(1936) Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Malcom Keen, Nora Swinburne.  Brook plays a drunken socialite who crashes his car on a lonely coastal spot where a smuggling operation is underway.  The smugglers don’t take kindly to being to discovered and beat the daylights out of him.  Later on he stumbles into a relationship with a girl who happens to be the brother of one of the smugglers...

(1965) Nélida Lobato, Nick Novarro, Richard Beebe, Robert Miller, John Richards, Alan J. Smith. An excellent example of the kind of gritty, seedy, sleazy, el-cheapo exploitation-crime films what were made in the early-to-mid ‘60s.  The Seventh Commandment, Shanty Tramp, The Sadist, and Commonlaw Wife are other prime examples...

(1954) Fernando Soler, Isabella Corona, Miguel Angel Ferriz. Soler is a kindly priest in a small village. He has a dark secret, though, and a local shopkeeper demands money from him. Late one night

(1946) Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Jack Raine, Tamara Desni, Beatrice Varley.  This film—the first Paul Temple movie—is a good one.  Temple is a spirited novelist and amateur sleuth.  After teaming up with an energetic female reporter, they investigate a gang of diamond thieves that Temple suspects is behind the death of the reporter’s policeman brother...

(1941, PRC) Chick Chandler, June Clyde, George Meeker, Gregory Gay.  In a pitch black apartment a girl screams.  There’s a gunshot, then a body hits the floor.  Moments later the girl snags a ride from an unsuspecting young fellow...

(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...