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 […]
The Human Monster - 1940
A series of strange deaths takes place in London. All are accidents but the victims are single men with no family and they all have a link to a life insurance company run by the mysterious Dr. Orloff.
His Girl Friday - 1940
Hildy Johnson, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is getting ready to leave her career and marry a second time, this time to a somewhat bland, though well-meaning, insurance salesman. But not before her sly and charismatic ex-husband and boss Walter Burns (played by Cary Grant) tries every trick up his sleeve to get Hildy […]
The Fatal Hour - 1940
Detective James Wong is hired by Captain Street to help find the killer of Dan O’Grady. Mr. Wong does find the killer along with a large smuggling operation, but not until more people needlessly die. I do love these movies, but I also have to wonder how detective Wong gets such a great reputation. Usually the […]
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.
The Gorilla - 1939
Atwill, a wealthy and well-to-do man, finds his life threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla. Of course he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. It probably would have worked too, except right about the time the investigators show up a real escaped gorilla arrives on the scene and begins to confuse everything. Comedy […]
The Roaring Twenties - 1939
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
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”
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