(1939, Paramount) John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, E.E. Clive, Reginal Denny.  A sparkling entry in the Paramount series as Hugh finds himself in Europe pursuing a bank robber.  Will he ever get married?  Great action and good fun in what proved to be the last entry of the Paramount series...

(1937, Paramount) John Howard, John Barrymore. A secret formula has been stolen and a scientist horribly murdered. Hugh Drummond tries to track down the gang of spies responsible in this slick B thr

(1935) Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson, Claude Hulbert, Gibb McLaughlin, Atholl Fleming.  Master sleuth Bulldog Drummond pulls into a gas station where his car is sabotaged by crooks.  Minutes later he crashes into Hulbert’s vehicle.  In the hospital, the injured Drummond asks Hulbert to temporarily masquerade as him...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Nancy Drew mystery stories. In this, Carolyn Keene’s “The Bungalow Mystery,” Nancy and her pal Helen are caught in a violent storm while boating on Moon Lake. They are saved from drowning by a teenage orphan named Laura who afterwards tells Nancy about her cruel guardian. Nancy, in trying to help Laura, soon discovers a suspicious, secluded bungalow in the woods...

(1948) John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Margaretta Scott, Abraham Sofaer. In this snappy mystery, Temple delves into the murder of several women, all of whom were patients of a strange, sinister doctor

(1929) William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Charles Lane, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Eugene Pallette, Ned Sparks. As early talkies go, this is a pretty good whodunit, with gorgeous silent star Brooks as a shrewd nightclub singer known as “the Canary.”  She has a bad habit of blackmailing her acquaintances...

(1944) Jesse Matthews, John Stuart, Beatrix Lehmann. An enjoyable, sometimes creepy British mystery thriller. Much of the action is centered about a spooky estate where a singer is forced to spend the night in order to...

(1939, Upgraded 11/16/21) Marius Goring, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Helen Haye, Felix Aylmer, George Merritt, Ronald Shiner.  This is a fine old dark house thriller with all the usual elements:  The head of an old English family seems to have some dread secret.  His servants even seem furtive in nature.  Then there's the doctor whose...

CAT & MOUSE (1958) Lee Patterson, Ann Sears, Hilton Edwards, Victor Maddern, Stuart Saunders.  Patterson (from Jack the Ripper) is truly detestable as a shiftless army deserter who blackmails a young lady (Sears) into revealing the hiding place of some jewels stolen by her father some twenty years before...

(1971) James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Horst Frank, Rada Rassimov.  Impressive later Wallace thriller with a couple of imported American actors.  Malden is a blind, retired journalist who overhears a cryptic conversation in front of a medical facility.  That night a company guard is slain...

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

IN THE MONEY (1933) Skeets Gallagher, Lois Wilson; MURDER ON THE CAMPUS (1934) Charles Starrett, Edward Van Sloan;  ELLIS ISLAND (1936) Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon; GIRL WHO CAME BACK (1935) Shirley Grey, Sidney Blackmer.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...