(1941, Warner Bros) Frieda Inescort, Paul Cavanagh, Turhan Bey, Bruce Lester, Heather Angel.  A creepy boarding house is the setting for this slickly-made Warner Brothers thriller where tenants in the house seem to be involved in nefarious criminal activities and—worst of all—murder...

(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...

(1968) Lionel Stander, Gordon Mitchell, Gastone Moschin, Erika Blanc, Terry-Thomas, Adolfo Celi, Gordon Mitchell.  If you like caper films, this is a good one, similar to Who’s Minding the Mint.  A group of prisoners execute a brilliant plan of escaping from prison to commit an elaborate robbery, but then return to their cells before anyone knows they’re missing...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1962) 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...