THE STEEL KEY (1953) Terence Morgan, Joan Rice, Raymond Lovell.  Morgan is a suave, roguish fellow who lives on the edge of criminality while bringing crooks to justice himself—much like “The Saint.”  In this well-made British thriller (with a slight sci-fi element), he investigates a gang of crooks who have stolen (from a blind professor) a scientific formula for hardening metal...

TANGIER ASSIGNMENT (1955) Fernando Rey, Bob Simmons, June Powell, Bill Brandon, Ángel Picazo.   Ray, in an early role, plays an undercover agent who tracks down a dangerous smuggling ring, finally ending up in Morocco.  Soon, he finds himself mixed up with...

THERE GOES BARDER (1955) Eddie Constantine, May Brit, Roger Saget.  Eddie plays a less than reputable, devil-may-care con-man.  He finds himself approached by a shady ship owner Saget, who was impressed with Eddie's fighting skills.  Saget wants Eddie to become one of his security investigators.  His job: hunt down the criminal responsible for making off with Saget’s company funds and hijacking his cargo...

(1961) Eddie Constantine, Barbara Laage, Claude Cerval, Stefan Schnabel, Saro Urzi, Norma Burgo.  Eddie is sent on a top secret mission to rescue a fellow agent who is being held captive.  The culprit is an unknown double agent...

 (1967) Louis Jourdan, Senta Berger, Edmund O’Brien, Maurice Garrel. In this special 2-disc set, you get beautiful anamorphic editions of both the English language version as well as the original French-language version (with English subs).  Jourdan plays a poorly selling novelist-turned-unlucky-gambler in this engaging French spy movie. He soon becomes a pawn in a huge espionage plot concerning the defection of a famed laser scientist to the Red Chinese.  A little slow at first but the film really kicks into gear in the second half.  There are a couple of cool fight scenes, one especially with a guy going after another with a knife. O’Brien has a nice part as Jourdan’s publisher; Senta is drop dead gorgeous.  Beautiful color, from 35mm.

(1966) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Horst Frank, Dominique Wilms. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It’s a race between agent Jerry Cotton

(1960) Jean Thielment , Jean Tissier, Danielle Godet, Ivan Desny.  A fast-moving espionage thriller about two top secret agents who find themselves in a desperate race against time for the possession of valuable secret documents.  Sudden death waits around every corner...

(1944, PRC) John Carradine, J. Carroll Naish, Maris Wrixon, Edwin Maxwell, Terry Frost.  This is probably the best quality DVD available of this PRC espionage thriller.  Carradine and Naish are Nazi spies combing the San Francisco waterfront for a stolen code book, which also has the names of countless Nazi agents.  They soon leave a trail of brutal killings and blackmail...