(1947) Eric Portman, Sally Gray, Patrick Holt, Dermot Walsh, Denis O’Dea.  This is a very engaging Victorian era murder mystery, set in England and France in 1898.  Portman and Holt play rich siblings who absolutely hate each other.  Portman, the suave sophisticated one, falls in love with Gray.  Much to his chagrin, Gray falls in love with and marries his younger, no-nonsense brother, Holt.  Before long, though, murder’s afoot as Holt ends up dead...

George Hamilton, Cameron Mitchell, Lucianna Paluzzi. This is a real bad movie gem (2.5 on IMDB).  A luxurious yacht is found floating on the Aegean Sea, apparently abandoned, except for two lifeless bodies.  Proceeding from this perplexing beginning, the story—which is told in flashback by Hamilton (who's dead!), revolves around a Greek setting where a stewardess is viciously killed by a masked maniac...

(1944) David Farrar, Manning Whiley. A fine British murder mystery that was one of the later entries in the famed Sexton Blake series. On a dark, foggy night a mysterious stranger saws off the hand

(1938) Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard, Aimé Clariond, Serge Grave.  This is another forgotten von Stroheim gem.  A group of college boys form a secret society with an ultimate plan of going to America.  There’s a mystery afoot, though, when people start disappearing.  Things take a turn for the worse when an art professor turns up dead—murdered!