Two war friends go for a Mexican fishing trip. While driving they pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a psychotic killer and is wanted in nine states. He forces them to drive him through the desert and tells them that he will kill them later.
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Bank Alarm
An FBI agent is investigating the recent bank robberies and finds out much later that his sister is the girlfriend of the gang’s leader.
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Picture Brides (1934) CRIME-ADVENTURE
Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Regis Toomey, Alan Hale
Director: Phil Rosen
Writers: Charles E. Blaney, Harry Clay Blaney
A TALE OF TROPICAL LUST! Two guys on the rlamp take off for the jungles of Brazil. They go to work in a diamond mine, and “order” mail-order brides. When the young women get to their destination, they find out that everything isn’t quite what it’s cracked up to be!
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Murder with Pictures (1936) CRIME-MYSTERY
Stars: Lew Ayres, Gail Patrick, Paul Kelly
Director: Charles Barton
Writers: George Harmon Coxe (screenplay), Sidney Salkow (screenplay)
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story!
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Death From a Distance (1935) DETECTIVE
Stars: Russell Hopton, Lola Lane, George F. Marion
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Writer: John W. Krafft (story)
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
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Gang Bullets (1938) CRIME-THRILLER
Stars: Anne Nagel, Robert Kent, Charles Trowbridge
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Writer: John T. Neville (original screenplay)
A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant.
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The Inner Circle (1946) DETECTIVE
Stars: Adele Mara, Warren Douglas, William Frawley
Director: Philip Ford
Writers: Dorrell McGowan, Stuart E. McGowan
A private detective finds himself with a perfect new secretary. But after a notorious gossip columnist turns up murdered, she may prove too good to be true.
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Captain Calamity (1936) ACTION-ADVENTURE
Stars: Marian Nixon, George Houston, Vince Barnett
Director: John Reinhardt
Writers: Gordon Ray Young (story), Crane Wilbur (screenplay)
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
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Gambler’s Choice (1944) CRIME-DRAMA
Stars: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Russell Hayden
Director: Frank McDonald
Writers: Maxwell Shane (screenplay), Irving Reis (screenplay)
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York. Hadley’s main antagonist is his childhood friend Mike McGlennon. McGlennon, now a police lieutenant, is determined to stop the gambling activities of Hadley. Hadley’s and McGlennnon’s relationship becomes more complex, when they notice, that they both are in love with the attractive Mary Hayes. Mary sings in nightclubs under the stage name ‘Vi Parker’.
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Irish Luck (1939) [Action] [Adventure] [Comedy]
“Irish Luck” is anAmerican film directed by Howard Bretherton. The film is also known as “Amateur Detective” in the United Kingdom. Buzzy O’Brien is a bellhop in a hotel where a guest is murdered. The police blame Kitty Monahan and Buzzy succeeds in helping her escape and hides her at his home with his mother. Buzzy and his pal Jefferson manage to fumble their way to finding the real killer who was after the stolen bonds carried by the victim. Based on Charles Molyneaux Brown’s story “Death Hops the Bells.”
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Directed by Howard Bretherton, Scott R. Dunlap (supervising producer) and Grant Withers (associate producer), written by Charles M. Brown (story) and Mary McCarthy (screenplay), starring Frankie Darro as Buzzy O’Brien, Dick Purcell as Steve Lanahan, Lillian Elliott as Mrs. O’Brien, Dennis Moore as Jim Monahan, James Flavin as Hotel Detective Fluger, Sheila Darcy as Kitty Monahan, Mantan Moreland as Jefferson, Ralph Peters as Detective Jenkins, Tristram Coffin as Mr. Mace – Hotel Desk Clerk, Pat Gleason as Banning – Bond Robber, Gene O’Donnell as Bond Robber, Donald Kerr as Reporter, Howard M. Mitchell as Hotel Manager and Aloha Wray as Dancer.
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Source: “Irish Luck (1939 film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 11 May 2013. Web. 23 June 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Luck_(1939_film).
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