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...

(1949, Upgraded 8/26/21) Brian Donlevy, Ella Rains, Charles Coburn, Anna May Wong, Helen Walker.  Previously on VHS only, this film noir gem is now on our DVD list for the first time—from a beautiful 35mm print.  Donlevy is a big time businessman, but his wife and her lover are plotting to kill him...

(1954) Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith, Joy Shelton, Jack Allen, James Carney, Cameron Hall.  Kennedy play an American realtor living an unexciting life in England.  Adventure falls into his lap, though, on a weekend when his wife is out of town and he meets up with a gorgeous dame...

(1963, Upgraded 10/22/21) Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Corny Collins, Gisela Uhlen, Eddi Arent, Ady Berber. are being strangled one by one. The action centers around the dead mans creepy, country estate. When a wealthy man dies, the heirs to a dead mans fortune look forward to inheriting all his loot. However, soon the relatives are being killed off one by one, each of them strangled with...

(1962, Upgraded 10/23/21) Klaus Kinski, Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Eddi Arent. Scotland Yard investigate a grisly series of murders being orchestrated by a master criminal known as "The Shark"...

(1935, 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...

(1949, Upgraded 12/14/21) Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, Christine Norden, Tom Walls, Ralph Truman, Alexander Gauge. The dashing Richard Todd plays an up and coming author who absconds with his beautiful blonde mistress (the wife of his publisher) on an outbound train.  Soonafter the train leaves the station he has second thoughts and, much to the chagrin of everyone else on board, pulls the emergency cord and...