The cheatin’ lyin’ wife of wealthy business man Walter Williams has her lover try to kill Walter and throw him down a cliff. When Walter survives, he moves to a small town to start a new life as an auto mechanic. Him and resident Marsha Peters fall in love and she eventually convinces Walter to […]
The Bat - 1926
A a group of guests in a mystery writer’s mansion are being terrorized by The Bat, a criminal who has hidden $20,000 dollars (A lot more back then) somewhere in the mansion. A detective searches for the Bat and the hidden money. I read on the Archive.org page for this that this movie was what […]
Suddenly - 1954
On hire to assassinate the president, three gangsters trap a family in their own house that overlooks a railway station while they wait for their target to arrive. I liked this movie okay, a highlight being that Frank Sinatra is in it.
For You I Die - 1947
Johnny Coulter, a convict just trying to serve his last year in prison, is forced by another inmate to attempt a prison break. They are successful and after the break they split up, but not for long. Johnny falls in love with a waitress, Hope Novak, and together they help authorities track and capture the […]
Please Murder Me - 1956
A lawyer successfully gets a woman tried for murder acquitted. Later he finds out she actually committed the murder. Guilt stricken and aware she can’t again be tried for the same murder, he hatches a plan that will bring her to justice.
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, 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, […]
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 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”
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