Danger on the Air (1938) CRIME-MYSTERY

Stars: Nan Grey, Donald Woods, Jed Prouty Director: Otis Garrett Writers: Betty Laidlaw (screenplay), Robert Lively (screenplay) Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from cyanogen gas, administered in some mysterious fashion. Harry Jones, head …

Scarlet Street (1945) [Film Noir] [Drama]

Scarlet Street is an American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on the French novel La Chienne (The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir. The principal actors Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and …

Convict’s Code (1939) [Drama] [Crime]

Convict’s Code is a 1939 American film directed by Lambert Hillyer. The movie (also known as “Paroled to Exile”) is about a man, who’s framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his honor and find the real criminals. …

Club Paradise (Sensation Hunters) (1945) [Drama]

“Club Paradise”, aslo known as “Sensation Hunters” is a 1945 American drama film. The movie is about a naive young girl, which lookings to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.— — Directed by Christy …

Borderline (1950) [Crime] [Drama] [Romance]

Pete Ritchie (Raymond Burr) runs a narcotics smuggling operation to the USA from Mexico, which the Los Angeles Police Department and the US federal government have unsuccessfully tried to stop. Because of Ritchie’s careful operating procedures, US authorities haven’t even been able to find out the identities of his sources or customers and are desperate …