(1969, Upgraded 10/31/21) Horst Tappert, Karin Huebner, Fritz Wepper, Ilse Page, Stefan Behrens, Hubert von Meyerinck, Fritz Wepper, Ewa Strömberg.  Scotland Yard detective investigates a series of drug-related murders of gangsters and girls. It starts with a man who is found dead in a London hotel room—a knife stuck in his chest and a glass eye in his...

(1972, Upgraded 12/28/20) Antonio Sabato, Uschi Glass, Rossella Falk, Pier Paolo Copponi. A black-gloved killer is on the loose, leaving crescent moon medallions at the scene of his killings. Sabato and Glass are the...

(1955) Myron Healy, Don C. Harvey. Don't confuse this with the earlier Universal serial. An interesting prison-life drama focusing on a breakout attempt inspired by the famous radio series. From 16mm.

(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...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam, George Curzon, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A married couple, vacationing in Switzerland, becomes aware of an assassination plot. Before they can inform the police, though, their daughter is kidnapped to keep them quiet.  Things end up in a strange London church that's being used as a...

(1965, aka MANHATTAN NIGHT OF MURDER, Upgraded 12/9/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Monika Grimm, Peter Kuiper, Silva Solar. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Their specialty is extorting money from small business owners.  Things get out of hand, though, when they murder one of the merchants.  The only witness is...

(1932, Upgraded 8/18/21) Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten, Miles Malleson. Wontner's third Sherlock Holmes film.  A beautiful but troubled young woman comes to Sherlock Holmes asking for protection from an escaped killer.  Also at play is a missing treasure. Things take a turn for the worse when...

(1964, Upgraded 10/27/21) Hildegarde Kneff, Gotz George, Klaus Kinski, Richard Munch, Carl Lange. The nephew of a murdered millionaire decides to track down his uncle's killer. He faces many life-threatening dangers as he tries to break into the inner circle of the sinister criminal "The Tortoise." Although not officially...

(1957, Upgraded 12/20/21) Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Lee Patterson, Vincent Winters, Robert Ayres, Alan Gifford, Sean Connery. A banker's son is accidently locked in an air-tight vault that's not set to open again for over 60 hours. The problem is that the boy has, at most, ten hours of oxygen left.  It's a life-and-death race against time to save the boy's life in this great British thriller...

(1934, Upgraded 10/15/21) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge, E. Alyn Warren, Lotus Long, Robert Emmett O'Connor. No classic, but critics have been unkind to this film that contains one of Bela's meatier villian roles. He has some priceless dialogue as he plays a madman seeking the...

(1945, Upgraded 10/15/21) James Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers. Edgar Ulmer's best PRC next to Detour. A boy dreams his dad dies and his mom becomes prey to a con-man, and it all comes true! A well-crafted thriller that...

(1933, Upgraded 12/8/21) Lionel Atwill, Sheila Terry, Theodore Newton, Paul Hurst. This is a well done Monogram mystery chiller with Atwill in a dual role. A man seen at the scene of a murder is known to be mute. Yet, he is seen and heard talking while leaving the scene of the crime. Whats the ploy and who's the real killer?  Some tense scenes in a drawing room with detective Paul Hurst just "fooling around" at the piano...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1948, Upgraded 12/30/20) Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell, Jack Webb.  Basehart portrays one of the most brutal, ingenious killers ever put on the screen in this story of the LA police and their hunt for him.  The opening drive-up scene is very memorable and will jolt you right out of your seat...

(1933, Warners, Upgraded 11/11/21) William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Paul Cavanough. There's no doubt that William Powell was one of the best screen detectives in the history of film, and here's a fine example. Powell is Philo Vance trying to solve a murder centered around seven suspects and a dead...

(1930, Upgraded 4/3/21) Eric Von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Don Douglas. Strange drama about a crazed ventriloquist and ;his dummy, "Otto," which exudes a strange hold over him. Von Stroheim is SUCH an SOB. Lots of big staged musicical numbers that reek of nostalgia...