(1936, Victory) Regis Toomey, Sheila Terry, Molly O’Day, Robert Warwick, Fuzzy Knight. Terry’s brother is framed by gangsters for a crime he didn’t commit. Toomey comes to her aid and tries to bring the r

(1946, Fox) William Gargan, Carole Landis, Richard Crane, John Ireland, Mary Anderson. A car rolls up to a police station where it dumps the murdered body of a shady private detective. Landis, who’s

(1932, Mayfair) Eddie Nugent, Priscilla Dean, Robert Elliott, Ann Christy, George Chesebro. After being spurned, the wife of a powerful DA murders her illicit lover in cold blood. Her son takes the

(1935, Mascot) Norman Foster, Judith Allen, Sid Blackmer. A great Mascot B film! A tough cop gets a big-time gangster thrown in jail, only to have his lawyer girlfriend get the crook out of the sla

(1934) Cedric Hardwicke, Conrad Veidt, Mary Ellis, John Stuart, Jeanne Stuart.  This is a very engaging murder drama.  Mary Ellis is a proper British wife who’s fallen under the spell of a suave yet unscrupulous Egyptian, wonderfully portrayed by Veidt.  Desiring to be free of the man she no longer loves, Ellis and Veidt plot to slowly poison her husband...

(1936, Chesterfield) Cecilia Parker, Russell Hopton, Warner Richmond, Theodore Von Eltz. This is the kind of movie Chesterfield did best, an old-fashioned crime caper. After crooks knock over a...

(1933) John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Mickey Rooney, Natalie Moorhead, J. Carrol Naish. An upcoming prizefighter is expected to throw a championship fight. He may have different ideas, though. This leads

(1961) George Sanders, Pascal Bressy, Marie-Claude Breton, Robert Dalban. An upper crust murder mystery. The murder victim was a scheming photographer, who was also a blackmailer. His target had be

(1930) Dorothy Boyd, Nigel Bruce, Audrey Carten, David Hawthorne, Frank Lawton.  This early British talkie, while a bit stiff, features a great cast, with Smith turning in an especially fine performance.  A murder occurs mid-way into the film, but it’s a mystery to the folks on screen...

(1963, Anamorphic English Edition) Adrian Hoven, Ann Smyrner, Klaus Kinski, Ady Berber, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Vogel, Paul Dahlke, Gunter Meisner, Marianne Schönauer.  A truck driver (Hoven) innocently transports a drug dealer and his shipment of drugs.  They are stopped by members of an opposing drug gang (posing as police) and the dealer is shot dead.  The truck driver soon falls into a myriad of terrifying situations...

(1951) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott, Walter Crisham. One great gangster film!  Travers is a gorgeous society dame who wants to get away from it all.  She’s kidnapped by two small-time thugs. LaRue gives the best portrayal of his life as a bigtime gangster who, along with his Ma-Barkerish mother, owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and illicit types. 

Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 470 pages or more of whodunit thrills. “The Black Gang” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, by H. C. “Sapper” McNeile. Bulldog Drummond Returns! This double novel’s second tale features another great fictional detective in Louis Joseph Vance’s “Alias the Lone Wolf.”

(1947) Michael Medwin, Frank Hawkins, Winifred Melville, Jane Arden, Moyra O'Connell, Sid James.  A young British boy’s dad is convicted of murder and hanged.  The boy lands in a boarding school where he’s horribly bullied and ends up running away...

(1943, PRC, Upgraded 12/5/21) George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Robert Livingston, Noel Madison, Charles Middleton, Byron Foulger, Robert Middlemass. Zucco is the manager of a mysterious inn filled with terror and murder...

THE BLACK RIDER (1954, upgraded 4/16/25) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries, Vincent Ball.  This B-film crime-quickie has minor elements of both horror and sci-fi.  Hanley is an effervescent reporter who tackles the story of a mysterious, hooded black rider who is seen a motorcycle near a crumbling castle on full moon nights.  Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...?  

(1959) Sabine Bethmann, Joachim Hansen, Rudolf Forster, Tilla Durieux. The daughter of a wealthy businessman has an affair with a married man and gets pregnant. The two scheme to hire an actor to mar

(1929) Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  A pretty girl goes on a date with a young male artist.  When he gets her to his apartment he tries to rape her.  She kills him in self-defense...  Bonus Feature: THE FLYING SCOTSMAN (1929) Moore Marriott, Pauline Johnson, Ray Milland.  Milland (who was only 21 at the time) plays a fireman stoking the flames on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh...

(1961) Peter Van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Eva Bartok, Claus Holm, Werner Peters.  Van Eyck is a prosecuting attorney who loses a murder case, although he’s certain the accused man was guilty of his wife’s murder.  Obsessed with the case, he follows up on his own and stumbles into a whole torrent of twists...