(1965, aka OPERATION HURRICAN: FRIDAY NOON, Upgraded 12/9/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Pascal, Helga Schlack, Helmut Fornbacher, Philippe Guégan. This is the first Jerry Cotton movie and it's a pretty good one.  Jerry’s after a gang of crooks who pose as a musical band as a front for their nefarious schemes.  They pull off numerous heist and eventually plan to blow up a school full...

(1966, Upgraded 12/16/22) 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 and the underworld to see...

(1965, Upgraded 12/28/20) Dolly Doreac, Bambi Miller, Birgit Nielsen, John Wala.  This movie has more topless nudity than just about any movie we’ve ever seen.  How is it that in these old movies about nudism the girls are all such total knockouts!  

(1966, Upgraded 12/16/22) George Nader, Yvonne Monlaur, Walter Rilla, Heinz Weiss, Helga Schlack. Here’s another good entry into Nader’s “G-man Jerry Cotton” series. A delivery truck from the U.S. Mint is hijacked...

(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...

(1946) Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Philip Merivale.  Robinson is excellent as the soft-spoken investigator, Mr. Wilson of the War Crimes Commission.  He is searching for the notorious Franz Kindler, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust, who is hiding, incognito, in plain sight.  Robinson releases one of Kindler's former cronies in an effort to track down his target, but he is murdered before he...

(1938, Upgraded 12/4/21) Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holme, C. Henry Gordon, George Barbier, Hedda Hopper, George Meeker. More jungle adventures of Tarzan as he intercedes on behalf of a safari of zoologists who are threatened by a underhanded guide who plans to sell one of their party (the beautiful Eleanor Holme) to a corrupt local ruler (played to the hilt by the sinister C. Henry Gordon).  Watch for the...

(1958, Upgraded 10/3/21) Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Lesley Bradley. Tarzan goes up against an unscrupulous hunter who wants to steal animals from the jungle. After Tarzan stops him dead in his tracks he then has to contend with the man's brother, who comes gunning for him.  Soon the setting shifts to a fabulous, lost city in 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...

(1948, Upgraded 12/18/22—Now in Color) Bill Lundigan, Virginia Bruce, Richard Loo, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguston, Victor Sen Young, Milton Kibbee, Carole Donne. Gritty espionage film of a U.S. agent falling into a web of "yellow peril" intrigue. Lundigan plays an agent for the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau...

(1959, Upgraded 12/16/21) Eddie Constantine, Richard Attenborough, Eva Bartok, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Jean Anderson. Forget Alphaville, this IS the best Constantine film. Eddie's a tough sailor who's being flown back to the mainland for trial. Also on board is the sleazy snake who turned him in, played to the hilt by Attenborough. The plane is filled with many colorful characters: stuffy socialites, sexy playgirls, etc. During the flight, a fire erupts...

(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...

(1935, Upgraded 11/27/22) Conrad Veidt, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier, Anna Lee, Beatrix Lehmann, John Turnbull, Cathleen Nesbit, Ronald Ward. You've simply never seen this wonderful British fantasy-drama from such a beautiful print. The setting is an old boardinghouse filled with a variety of people, all with different problems. They're lorded over by an evil, mephisto-like slum lord. The tenants' lives are changed forever by the arrival of 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...

(1956, Upgraded 3/21/21) Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Marika Lekaki, Giannis Argyris.  This is a brilliant piece of Greek filmmaking, filled with wonderful performances and perfectly written pieces of dialogue.  A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large and known womanizer. He somewhat reluctantly rules the local underworld until...

(1967 aka THE BODY IN CENTRAL PARK, Upgraded 12/13/22) - George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Richard Munch, Helga Anders. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter. There’s a terrific scene where...

(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...

(1960, Upgraded 11/10/21) Lurene Tuttle, Tris Coffin, Myrna Dell, Nelson Leigh, Don Grady, Victor Lundin, Paul Dubov, Eric Morris, Byron Foulger. Tuttle plays the sadistic, killer "mommy" who leads her murdering pack of bestial sons through a series of robberies and murders. Also featured are well-known criminals like Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger, and Alvin Karpis.  The gang's activities are...