Stars: Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan Director: Sam Newfield Writers: Arthur Caesar (original story), Harry L. Fraser (screenplay) Young man goes to work for gangsters to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend. source
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Edgar Buchanan Director: Felix E. Feist Writers: John Twist (screenplay), James R. Webb (screenplay) A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron. source
Stars: Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell Director: Roger Corman Writers: Robert Hill (screenplay), Victor Stoloff (screenplay) Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls. source
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 …
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In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton (Charles Miller) the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words “Eternal Fire” are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong (Keye Luke) and Captain Street (Grant Withers) …
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AGNES LANGSLEY GETS A JOB THROUGH JIM HOLLIS AS A CARETAKER OF A OLD AND VACATED ESTATE. THE OWNERS COUSIN JENNIFER WAS THE LAST OCCUPANT AND MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED. AGNES SOON BEGINS TO BELIEVE THAT JENNIFER WAS MURDERED. AND THAT JIM WHOM SHE HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH IS RESPONSIBLE. STARRING IDA LUPINO AND HOWARD DUFF. …
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A man posing as a physician holds up the baggage-car crew and escapes with a $500,000 payroll while the train speeds through the Arizona night. , Paul Bruckner, a fake doctor leaves the train with his “patient” and the “patient’s wife”, who is really Bruckner’s wife Linda. Charlie Norman, an insurance investigator is put on …
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Dr. John Benton the famous explorer, collapses and dies right in the middle of a lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert after he drinks from a water bottle. Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have only one: hs last words “Eternal Fire.” Benton’s secretary Win Lee reveals …
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Johnny Dill, a door-to-door salesman happens to be the exact double of a notorious gangster. When the gangster murders a rival, Dill is really in trouble. He is then stuck between the forces of good, represented by attorney Allen, and evil. source
Police lieutenant Sam Carson discovers a corpse with gunshots in a car left in front oft he police station. Janet is questions by Carson after her name was found in the dead’s man book. And yes, Bard blackmailed her friend for $20,000. Carson is pressured by Max Calvert, a newspaper owner to arrest Janet in …
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