A former gangster Dixie Logan tries to prove his innocence when a crooked commissioner frames him for a crime he actually didn’t commit. His wife helps by getting a job for the corrupt District Attorney to fish for evidence. Dixie’s wife in turn gets help from a reporter, who ends up developing some strong feelings […]
Videos released sometime between 1940 - 1949
Here Comes Trouble - 1948
A publisher for a newspaper is being blackmailed by a burlesque queen, so he sends one of his reporters to try and work things out with her. She ends up getting murdered, making the publisher, his reporter, and anyone connected with him now a suspect.
Spooks Run Wild - 1941
Here is an East Side Kids movie with Bela Lugosi about the kids being at camp and hearing about a killer on the loose. At night they look around and one of them is shot by a grave robber, which forces them to take shelter in a foreboding mansion. PeeWee, the kid who was shot, […]
Blonde Ice - 1948
Woman reporter marries a string of wealthy men, all of whom end up dying mysteriously…
Shock - 1946
Janet Stewart while hearing a fight went to her window and saw a man hit his wife with a candlestick and kill her. This sent her into a coma. As she comes out of it, she recognizes her caretaker, Dr. Cross, as the killer she saw before. She comes back to Dr. Cross’s sanitarium where […]
Back Room Boy - 1942
A man who is trying to get away from women is relieved when sent to a lighthouse to study the weather. However, even on the remote island he finds women right and left. I wish I had his problem.
British Intelligence - 1940
A spy vs. spy movie in which no one’s identity is easily identifiable. During WWI German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent to live with the family of a high ranking British official in London to gather information on them. Their butler is also a spy and she is to help him transmit British military […]
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 […]
Doomed To Die - 1940
A million and a half dollars in bonds were taken from one of Cyrus P. Wentworth’s ships before it was mysteriously sunk and, shortly afterward, Wentworth was found murdered. Wentworth was kicking out his daughter’s fiance, Dick Flemming, at the time of his death and Dick is arrested as the primary suspect, but reporter Bobbie […]