On the beach at night, Christine Faber thinks she hears her husband Paul calling out of the surf… Shortly later, she meets Alexis, a tall dark man, who seems to know all about such mysterious things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and her younger sister Janet Faber become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis…
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The Bloody Brood
A person dies after eating a hamburger. His brother starts to investigate the death and comes across two beatniks who supply drugs and use violence for fun.
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Black Fury
Based on a real-life incident from 1929 in which a coal miner was beaten to death by company detectives. After being left by his girlfriend Karen for policeman William Gargan, the drunken coal miner played by Muni walks into a labor meeting. There he becomes elected and fights for the rights of the coal miners.
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Secret Agent (1936) – Alfred Hitchcock – Full Movie
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre. Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Lilli Palmer
Secret Agent (1936) is a British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young. Future star Michael Redgrave made a brief, uncredited appearance; he would play the male lead in Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes two years later. (Wikipedia)
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Detour (1945) [Film Noir] [Drama]
Piano player Al (Tom Neal) is bitter about having to work in a New York nightclub. After his girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake) leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, he decides to join her. With little money, he has to hitchhike his way across the country. In Arizona, bookie Charles Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald) gives him a ride in his convertible. Haskell has Al pass him pills several times along the way. That night, Al is driving while Haskell sleeps, when a rainstorm forces Al to pull over to put up the top. Unable to rouse Haskell, Al opens the passenger-side door. Haskell falls out and strikes his head on the ground. Al then realizes the bookie is dead. Fearful that the police will believe he killed Haskell, Al dumps the body off the side of the road, takes Haskell’s money, clothes and identification, then drives away. After spending the night in a motel, Al picks up another hitchhiker, Vera (Ann Savage), at a gas station. By sheer bad luck, it turns out that the femme fatale had also been picked up by Haskell earlier. She scratched him deeply in the arm and got out after he tried to become too friendly. When Al identifies himself as Haskell, she blackmails him by threatening to turn him in.
In Hollywood, they rent an apartment, posing as Mr. and Mrs. Haskell to provide an address when they go to sell the car. However, Vera learns from a newspaper that Haskell’s wealthy father is near death and looking for his son, who ran away as a youth after accidentally injuring his friend. Vera demands that Al impersonate Haskell, but Al balks at this notion, pointing out that he knows nothing about the dead man. Back in the apartment, Vera gets drunk, and they begin arguing. She threatens to call the police, running into the bedroom with the telephone and locking the door. She falls into a stupor on the bed, with the telephone cord tangled around her neck. Al tries to break the cord. Then, when he breaks down the door, he sees that he has accidentally strangled her. He goes hitchhiking again, but is picked up by the police.
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Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, produced by Leon Fromkess, written by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney, starring Tom Neal as Al Roberts, Ann Savage as Vera, Claudia Drake as Sue Harvey, Edmund MacDonald as Charles Haskell Jr, Tim Ryan as Nevada Diner Proprietor, Esther Howard as Holly, Diner Waitress, Pat Gleason as Joe, Trucker at Diner and Don Brodie as the Used Car Salesman.
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Source: “Detour” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 4 January 2013. Web. 07 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detour_(1945_film).
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Three Husbands (1951) [Comedy]
Three Husbands is a 1951 American film directed by Irving Reis. The movie is about a recently deceased playboy, who gets to heaven and is granted one wish like all newcomers will get there. He requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker. What they didn´t know before is, that he had affairs with their wifes.
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Directed by Irving Reis, produced by Isadore Goldsmith (producer) and Anthony Z. Landi (associate producer), written by Vera Caspary (story & screenplay), Edward Eliscu and Gertrude Purcell, starring Eve Arden as Lucille McCabe, Ruth Warrick as Jane Evans, Vanessa Brown as Mary Whittaker, Howard Da Silva as Dan McCabe, Shepperd Strudwick as Arthur Evans, Robert Karnes as Kenneth Whittaker, Emlyn Williams as Maxwell Bard, Billie Burke as Mrs. Jenny Bard Whittaker, Louise Erickson as Matilda Clegg, Jonathan Hale as Edward Wurdeman (Attorney at Law) and Jane Darwell as Mrs. Wurdeman.
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Source: “Three Husbands” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 7 April 2013. Web. 8 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Husbands.
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939) [Crime] [Mystery]
Mr. Wong in Chinatown is a 1939 American mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff. The story is about a pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, who is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl the name “Captain J” on a sheet of paper.
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Directed by William Nigh, produced by William T. Lackey, written by Hugh Wiley and Scott Darling, starring Boris Karloff as Mr. James Lee Wong, Marjorie Reynolds as Roberta ‘Bobbie’ Logan (reporter), Grant Withers as Police Capt. Bill Street, Huntley Gordon as Mr. Davidson (bank president), George Lynn as Capt. Guy Jackson (Aviation Corp. president) as Peter George Lynn, William Royle as Capt. Jaime (captain, Maid of the Orient), James Flavin as Police Sgt. Jerry, Lotus Long as Princess Lin Hwa (murder victim), Lee Tung Foo as Willie (Wong’s servant), Bessie Loo as Lilly May (Princess Lin Hwa’s maid), Richard Loo as Tong chief, Ernie Stanton as Burton (Davidson’s butler) and I. Stanford Jolley as Hotel clerk.
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Source: “Mr. Wong in Chinatown” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 5 April 2013. Web. 7 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Wong_in_Chinatown.
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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946) [Crime] [Action] [Mystery]
The movie “Dick Tracy vs. Cueball” is a 1946 American pulp action film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. The dark and moody film noir stars Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy in the second installment of the Dick Tracy film series.
Luxurious diamonds are stolen but before the thief can safely hide them aboard an ocean liner he is strangled by ex-conman Cueball. Cueball takes the valuable diamonds and is given refuge by Filthy Flora, madam of the Dripping Dagger Bar, and then continues on murdering people that he believes are trying to double-cross him. Dick Tracy allows his attractive girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the diamonds but is put in grave danger when Cueball vows to eliminate …
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Directed by Gordon M. Douglas, produced by Herman Schlom, written by Chester Gould (characters), Luci Ward (story) and Dane Lussier, Robert E. Kent (sceenplay), Eric Taylor and Chester Gould (comic), starring Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy (the unstoppable detective in search of Cueball), Dick Wessel as Harry “Cueball” Lake (a murderous diamond thief. Gets his name after his big, round head. He strangles his victims with a braided leather hatband.), Anne Jeffreys as Tessie Trueheart (Dick Tracy’s lovely girlfriend), Lyle Latell as Pat Patton (Tracy’s bumbling partner), Esther Howard as Filthy Flora (madam of the Dripping Dagger), Ian Keith as Vitamin Flintheart (an aged thespian and friend of Tracy), Max Wagner as Max (Dripping Dagger bartender).
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Source: “Dick Tracy vs. Cueball” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 4 January 2013. Web. 7 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_vs._Cueball.
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Dick Tracy meets Gruesome (1947) [Crime] [Action]
The movie “Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome” (also known as “Dick Tracy meets Karloff” and “Dick Tracy’s Amazing Adventure”) is a 1947 thriller film starring Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, and Boris Karloff. The film is the fourth and final installment of the Dick Tracy film series.
Just out of jail, Gruesome goes to the Hangman’s Knot saloon, where his old crime crony Melody is now playing piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer, where X-Ray and a mysterious mastermind are in possession of a secret formula and hatching a sinster plot. Ignoring a warning not to touch anything, Gruesome sniffs a nerve gas that paralyzes him. He appears to be dead and is taken to the city morgue. Dick Tracy is at headquarters speaking with college professor Dr. Tomic, a scientist who suspects someone has been following him. At the morgue, Tracy’s sidekick Pat has his back turned when Gruesome wakes up and knocks him out. Pat describes him to Tracy as looking a lot like the actor Boris Karloff.
At a bank where Tess Trueheart happens to be, Gruesome and Melody use the nerve gas to incapacitate the customers and security guard. They rob the place of more than $100,000 and shoot a cop on the sidewalk before Tracy and his men arrive. Gruesome demands half of the loot from X-Ray …. or else. Tracy tries to learn the secret of the formula from Dr. Tomic’s top assistant, Professor Learned, before going after Gruesome and his gang. It all ends in a shootout, with Gruesome shot by Tracy, and then back at headquarters, where Tracy ends up frozen by nerve gas just as he’s about to kiss Tess.
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Directed by John Rawlins, produced by Herman Schlom, written by Chester Gould (characters), William Graffis and Robert E. Kent (story), starring Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy (The tough, square-jawed detective), Anne Gwynne as Tess Truehart (Tracy’s girlfriend, who witnesses the bank robbery), Boris Karloff as Gruesome (A corpse-like gangster), Skelton Knaggs as Rudolph X-Ray (Gruesome’s spectacled henchman), Edward Ashley as Dr. Lee Thal (an interested party), June Clayworth as Dr. I.M. Learned (Prof. Tomic’s assistant), Lyle Latell as Pat Patton (Tracy’s bumbling sidekick), Tony Barrett as ‘Melody’ Fiske (a greedy, piano-playing thug), Jim Nolan as Dan Sterne (a nosy newspaper reporter), Joseph Crehan as Chief Brandon (Tracy’s reliable boss) and Milton Parsons as Dr. A. Tomic (a State U. physicist).
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Source: “Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 17 March 2013. Web. 6 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_Meets_Gruesome.
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Dick Tracy (1945) [Crime] [Action] [Mystery]
The movie “Dick Tracy” (also known as “Dick Tracy, Detective”) is a 1945 American pulp action film based on the Dick Tracy comic strip created by Chester Gould. The film is the first installment of the Dick Tracy film series.
Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway), a supremely intelligent police detective, must solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds, are viciously slashed to pieces by the one known as Splitface. Suspects flourish but Tracy must find the common link of extortion and revenge before more are killed.
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Directed by William A. Berke, produced by Herman Schlom, written by Eric Taylor and Chester Gould (comic), starring Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy (the tough detective, who let’s nothing stand in the way of justice), Anne Jeffreys as Tess Trueheart (Tracy’s girlfriend, who often falls victim to her boyfriends workoholism), Mike Mazurki as Alexis “Splitface” Banning (a psychotic ex-con who seeks revenge. His weapon is a sharp surgical knife. He has a big disfiguring scar across his face), Jane Greer as Jane Owens (a suspect), Lyle Latell as Pat Patton (Tracy’s bumbling assistant), Joseph Crehan as Chief Brandon (the reliable chief of police), Mickey Kuhn as Junior (Tracy’s adopted son), Trevor Bardette as Prof. Linwood J. Starling (a strange medium, and also a suspect), Morgan Wallace as Steve Owens (a stern businessman), Milton Parsons as Deathridge the Undertaker (a mysterious, skeletal suspect) and William Halligan as Mayor (the worried mayor of Chicago).
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Source: “Dick Tracy (1945 film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 17 March 2013. Web. 5 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(1945_film).
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