HOT MONEY GIRL (1959) Eddie Constantine, Christopher Lee, Dawn Addams.  Constantine and Addams hatch a plot to recover a parcel of priceless jewels from behind the iron curtain.  Their quest takes them to an old convent that’s now a German police barracks. Lots of tense moments as they break through security lines. PLUS:  THE UNSTOPPABLE MAN (1960) Cameron Mitchell, Marious Goring, Harry Corbett.  Mitchell is a tycoon whose son is kidnapped.  There’s a huge ransom demand and the cops tell Mitchell to let them handle it.  Mitchell, though, takes matters into his own hands.  There’s a bit of sci-fi as Mitchell defends himself with a futuristic, hand-held flame projector...

BLACK DICE (1951) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott. Travers is a society dame who is kidnapped by two small-time thugs. LaRue gives the best portrayal of his life as a bigtime gangster who owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and illicit types. PLUS:  NIGHTBEAT (1947) Ronald Howard, Maxwell Reed, Anne Crawford.  In this superb film noir gem, Ross and Howard play young men who join the police force.  Ross succeeds; Howard fails.  Howard ends up on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with a shady nightclub owner, brilliantly played by Reed...

LABYRINTH (1959) Nadja Tiller, Peter Van Eyck, Nicole Badal, Amedeo Nazarri, Hannah Wieder. Labyrinth is a bizarre, brilliant film about a group of mental misfits in an out-of-this-world sanatorium

HORROR OF BLACKWOOD CASTLE (1968) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Baal inherits a mysterious old castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. That’s when bodies start

(1963) Karin Dor, Joachim Fuchsberger, Horst Frank, Werner Peters, Paul Klinger. One of the most sought-after Edgar Wallace-style  films. A man dies in a blazing car crash.  His widow comes under suspicion by a life insurance company, which had just raised the payout in the event of his death.  But there is something far more sinister afoot, and murder soon...

(1964) Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond, Margot Trooger, Catherine Schell, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent.  There’s a plot afoot to steal the Crown Jewels!  It all starts when a corrupt businessman breaks a two-bit crook out of Dartmoor prison.  Why?...

(1960, Upgraded 12/31/20) Karin Dor, Joachim Fuchsberger, Elizabeth Flickenschildt, Fritz Rasp, Eddi Arent. A creepy German-made Wallace thriller about the ghost of a hanged man who returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die...

(1963, English Language, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Karin Dor, Harry Riebauer, Rudolf Fernau, Hans Neilsen, Dieter Eppler, Walter Giller, Ingmar Zeisberg.  Finally, a beautiful widescreen English edition of this classic Krimi horror thriller.  A hooded maniac is on the loose...

(1961, Upgraded 10/22/21) Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Marianne Hoppe, Rudolf Fernau, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski, Fritz Rasp. A beautiful young girl is almost murdered.  Fuchsberger is the slick inspector who tries to sort things out.  No explainable motive can be found until a 20 year old murder is uncovered...

(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...

(1962, Upgraded 10/25/21) Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Adrian Hoven, Pinkas Braun, Christiane Nielsen, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent. A mysterious criminal gang relocates to jolly old London.  Their plan?  To extort as much money as they can from various British elders.  There's murder involved...

(1963, Upgraded 11/7/21) O. W. Fischer, Karin Dor, Klaus Kinksi, Werner Peters, Eddi Arent.  The London police are perplexed by three horrible murders. Each victim has been killed by a “black widow” bullet.  Bodies start piling up before a slick reporter begins to figure things...

(1962) Joachim Hansen, Senta Berger, Hans Reiser, Chris Howland, Helga Sommerfeld, Leonard Steckel, Peter Carsten. The chilling tale of a series of grisly murders at a famed English Hotel in London's Soho district. The killer uses a sharp knife to knock off the hotel guests.  Hansen, a slick detective, is called in...

(1964, aka DER HEXER, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Drache, Sophie Hardy, Carl Lange, Eddi Arent.  The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up...

(1938, aka NOBODY HOME) Gordon Harker,Hartley Power,Rene Ray, Una O'COnner, Cyril Smith. A somewhat obscure British Edgar Wallace chiller. The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by Scotland Yard. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks him down and kills him anyway, in spite of the Yard's efforts.  Who really is...

(1964, Upgraded 12/31/20) Hansjorg Felmy, Ann Smyrner, Hans Nielson, Walter Rilla, Wolfgang Lukschy, Heinz Engelmann. Mystery at the track! A well-known thoroughbred is slain by a rival horse owner. Soon jockeys are being murdered by a mysterious...

(1966) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Margaret Lee, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski.  The plot begins with a botched heist that ends with one of the criminals shooting a police officer...

(1969, Upgraded 10/31/21) Horst Tappert, Karin Huebner, Fritz Wepper, Ilse Page, Stefan Behrens, Hubert von Meyerinck, Fritz Wepper, Ewa Strömberg.  Scotland Yard detective investigates a series of drug-related murders of gangsters and girls. It starts with a man who is found dead in a London hotel room—a knife stuck in his chest and a glass eye in his...