(1934 AKA HOLLYWOOD HOODLUM)June Clyde, Frank Albertson, Jose Crespo. A wildly irresponsible publicity agent keeps getting fired from his studio. After he’s given another chance, he hires an obscure actor and presents him to t

(1951) Lawrence Tierney, Aliene Robert. Here's another nice little suspenser starring everybody's favorite film noir bad guy, Lawrence tierney. A paroled criminal working at a gas statin plans a robbery that

(1968, Upgrade 10/31/21) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Horst Tappert, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Beautiful Karin Baal inherits the mysterious old Blackwood castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. Exacerbating the situation is the fact that dead bodies are starting to pile up, their flesh torn from attacks by a...

(1932) Jerry Verno, Anthony Holles, Edgar Norfolk, Philip Durant, Sybil Grove Verno plays a bemused office clerk who has grand ideas about his future.  He’s caught play acting in front of his boss’s mirror and is loudly reprimanded.  Concurrently, a convicted jewel thief is released from prison and tailed by the police in the hope of him leading them to a cache of stolen pearls...

(1966, Upgraded 10/30/21) Gunther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch. Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls. Things get nutty when some of the girls die mysteriously. A hunchback killer is on the loose! Scotland Yard is called. More murders occur, the screams of...

(1964) Dimitri Nabokov, Maria Luisa Geisberger, Ben Salvador, Sandro Pizzochero.  A quartet of bank thieves rendezvous in a secluded castle to divvy up a bundle of diamonds, which had been hidden there by their dead boss.  But the jewels are secured in an iron-clad safe and the only way to open it is with a combination of keys, one having been given to each of the thieves...

I AM A CRIMINAL (1938, Monogram) John Carroll, Kay Linaker, Craig Reynolds, Martin Spellman, Lester Matthews.  Carroll is a gangster that the local DA (Matthews) wants to lock up and then throw away the key.  After going through a series of intriguing events, Carroll ends up jumping bail and hiding from the cops in a mountain resort...

(1936, Banner) Norman Foster, Elaine Shepard, Vince Barnett, Theodore von Eltz, Arthur Lake, Polly Ann Young. Two brothers run a Chinatown jewelry store that’s also a fence for “hot” goods. When one of the brothers’ wives decides to cut out, the other brother murders her—the corpse ending up in the trunk of a car!  

(1942) Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Edward Norris, Roger Pryor, Elisabeth Risdon, Dick Purcell. Morris is a fast-talking reporter who’ll do anything for a story. Shipwreck victim Parker falls for hi

(1935) Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, Sybille Schmitz, Marieluise Claudius, Max Gülstorff.  Although there is a subplot involving a jealous husband and a love triangle, the plot basically concerns a taxi driver, Walbrook, who has to deal with a shot-up corpse in the backseat of his cab.  Suspecting he might be blamed for the killing, he assumes the man’s identity...