When a well-known actress gets into a car accident, a reporter comes to interview her. The dying actress tells the reporter that the death of her fiance a few years back was actually a murder. This bit of knowledge thrusts the reporter into a web of deceit and puts her life in jeopardy because now […]
Oath of Vengeance - 1944
A local store owner isn’t making any money because all of his customers are putting their supplies on credit, due to a conflict between the local ranchers and farmers. The store owner and his partner resolve to find what’s really behind the problem with the ranchers and farmers so maybe his customers can start paying […]
Trapped - 1949
Here is a nice little crime drama and semi-documentary about the U.S. Treasury going after counterfeiters, it has Lloyd bridges in it.
The Second Woman - 1950
In flashback from a ‘Rebecca’-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who’s being plagued by unexplained accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution…or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he’s in danger, […]
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 […]
The Amazing Mr. X - 1948
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf…then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but […]
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome - 1947
This Dick Tracy movie has Boris Karloff as Gruesome where he uses a toxic gas to paralyze people and rob banks. This isn’t to be confused with the series of shorts. Look for the weird part around 10 minutes in where they kind of break the 4th wall and reference Boris Karloff.
Jamaica Inn - 1939
In Cornwall in 1819, a young woman discovers that she’s living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
Captain Kidd - 1945
Captain Kidd is a merchant captain / pirate who slyly convinces the king of England into commissioning him as an escort to protect a ship full of treasure. He has dishonest intentions for the mission of course, but he later finds out another dishonest person is on board, someone from his past he thought dead. […]
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