James Cagney stars in this great movie with an utterly useless title about the department of Weights & Measures always looking out for the regular Joe Shmoes. More specifically they are after the crooked alderman Marty who is in the midst of an insidious plot to cheat consumers out of their product by shorting them […]
The Ghost Camera - 1933
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes an amateur sleuth after developing the film, and goes in search of the woman captured […]
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, […]
Phantom Of Chinatown - 1940
Dr. John Benton is murdered while giving a lecture about a recent archaeological dig where he uncovered an ancient Chinese scroll. Detective James Lee Wong (this time played by Keye Luke) is on the scene to find the killer and solve the mystery of why the scroll is worth killing over. I think I read […]
Blonde Ice - 1948
Woman reporter marries a string of wealthy men, all of whom end up dying mysteriously…
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 […]
Death Kiss - 1932
While filming the last scene of the movie “The Death Kiss” the leading male role Myles Brent actually gets murdered, and since he’s been around with most of the women on the film, there are too many suspects to sort through. That’s the plot of the movie, not trivia about the filming of this movie. Has […]
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”
Inner Sanctum - 1948
A man accidentally kills his fiancée as he exits a train. Just as the train pulls out, he drops her body on the rear platform. No one saw him do it, but someone does see him at the otherwise deserted station: a mischievous, freckle-faced boy. Later, he’s walking along a road when the town’s newspaper […]
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