A shy ladies’ companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The […]
Something secret is going on. You may or may not be in on it. The main narrative sure isn't. Spoooooky.
Midnight Limited - 1940
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train “The Midnight Limited” and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, […]
The Invisible Killer - 1939
A murder is committed in a gambling joint that baffles police and investigators. When someone decides to come clean and give some info, he is also murdered in the same bizarre way. Victims of these murders are always full of bullets right after answering the phone. Could the killer somehow be harnessing a force of […]
Mr. Wong In Chinatown - 1939
A woman seeking help from detective James Wong is killed (Like the two other movies so far, people need to stay away from Mr. Wong!) with a poison dart before she has a chance to explain anything to Mr. Wong. As she dies she has just enough time to scribble “Captain J”
The Mystery of Mr. Wong - 1939
The second of the Mr. Wong series. In this one Boris finds Brandon Edwards who is getting the largest star sapphire in the world, the “Eye of the Daughter of the Moon”. He confides in Wong that his life is in danger. He dies, and in another few murders the sapphire gets juggled around a […]
Mr. Wong, Detective - 1938
This is the second in a series of movies that exist in a strange subset of Mystery / Detective movies where the detective is of Oriental decent. You know, because people from the East have superior and almost mystic deductive qualities, perfectly suiting them to work as detectives for crowded cities in the USA. Anyway, […]
Danger on the Air - 1938
When a soda magnate, Caesar Kluck, is found murdered at a radio station, it’s mostly Benjamin Franklin Butts’s (surely a joke name) job to sort through the plethora of suspects that had great reason to hate and kill Caesar.
Young and Innocent - 1937
Man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.
Juggernaut - 1937
An evil, mad doctor (played by Boris Karloff) is in need of funds for his devious experiments so he cooperates with the greedy wife of a rich man to try to get at his money.