An adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s story for early television. This isn’t really the best adaptation, but it is really cool to see Bela Lugosi (who plays the Fortunato) doing early tv, even in the bad health (plus addiction) he was in at the time.
Videos released sometime between 1940 - 1949
The Phantom Creeps - 1949
Bela Lugosi stars in this serial turned made-for-tv-movie complete with mad scientists, Lugosi hamming it up, a crazy robot, and all the other reasons you would ever want to watch a movie like this. Does knowing the story really help you make your decision to watch?
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.
Reign of Terror - 1949
Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked by him for the guillotine and a key to help him eventually emerge as the country's dictator. He hopes his agents will recover it, but, if it falls in to the wrong hands, it would mean his political ruin and death.
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Red Light - 1949
The former employee of a trucking company, currently in prison for embezzling the company, plans his eventual revenge against his former boss.
The Golden Eye - 1948
When a low-profit gold mine starts suddenly making money, the owner gets suspicious and calls Charlie Chan (Ronald Winters) to investigate. Chan finds some shady business and even murder…
Casper The Friendly Ghost – There’s Good Boos Tonight - 1948
Casper makes friends with a little fox. Animation by Myron Waldman, Morey Reden and Nick Tafuri. Scenics by Anto Loeb. Story by Bill Turner and Larry Reilly. Music by Winston Sharples. Narrator is Frank Gallop. Produced in 1948.
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 […]
Blonde Ice - 1948
Woman reporter marries a string of wealthy men, all of whom end up dying mysteriously…
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