(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...

(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...

(1952, Upgraded 10/25/22) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. Terrific action drama about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime, which leads him...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1961, Upgraded 5/12/22) Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen, Bernard Blier, Pierre Blanchar.  Blanchar is a Nazi war criminal who lives in a magnificent old castle.  He gathers a number of his old allies for nefarious purposes...

(1940, Upgraded 9/10/21) Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester, Holmes Herbert, Leonard Mudie. Boris has grotesque makeup on once again. This time he portrays Valdar, a Nazi spy trying to sabotage the war effort in England.  The beautiful Margaret Lindsay is also a spy but does she work for...

(1969, Upgraded 12/14/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Heidy Bohlen, Miha Baloh, Michaela May, Herbert Fux.  An FBI agent is killed by the mob after making off with five million in gold bars in a robbery gone bad. Agent Jerry Cotton is called in to...

(1968, Upgraded 12/12/22) George Nader. Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Solar, Carl Mohner. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist. Jerry is able to make off with the loot himself—12 million bucks!  Watch for a...

(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...

(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...

(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...