Timeless Classics – Color, Black & White, Silent and More!
“Invisible Ghost” is a horror film starring Bela Lugosi, shot in black and white, and directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Lugosi plays Kessler, a man controlled by homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife, who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has …
“Algiers” is a 1938 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. Written by John Howard Lawson, the film is about a notorious French jewel thief hiding in the labyrinthine native quarter of Algiers known as the Casbah. Feeling imprisoned by his self-imposed exile, he is drawn …
“Hell’s House” is a 1932 American drama film directed by Howard Higgin. The screenplay by Paul Gangelin and B. Harrison Orkow, set during the waning days of the Prohibition era, is based on a story by Higgin. When orphaned Jimmy Mason is taken in by his Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, he meets their boarder …
The story is of a man who is brought back from the dead and whose body is hijacked by the soul of an executed gangster, consequently making the deceased man a high proze criminal. At the beginning of the story the happy couple Phillip Bennett and Louise Hammond are engaged to be married. A major …
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“Doomed to Die” is a 1940 mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong. Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate’s murder. It is a sequel to the 1940 film, “The Fatal Hour”. — Directed by William Nigh, produced by Paul Malvern and Scott R. Dunlap, written …
“Isle of Forgotten Sins” is an American South Seas adventure film released on August 15, 1943, with Leon Fromkess in charge of production, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (who is also credited with the film’s original story) and featuring top-billed John Carradine and Gale Sondergaard. “Isle of Forgotten Sins” was subsequently reissued in a version …
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The gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law and hides himself out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that yields him a big bundle. But because of this he now has the cops and the FBI after him. Also the local crime …
Piano player Al don´t like to work in a New York nightclub. Because of his girlfriend Sue leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, he decides to move to L.A. as well. on the way in Arizona, bookie Charles Haskell Jr. gives him a ride in his convertible. Haskell has Al pass him pills several times …
The district attorney Roger Andrews gets appointed as special prosecutor in order to smash a crime ring after he becomes the hero of a police capture. With the help of the newspaper reporter Ann and an informant, Roger gets a confession by the killer who was hired by ring. source
Mary and two of her friends are challenged by some men to a drag race. The car is forced off a bridge. All three women seemed to be drowned until Mary suprisingly emerges from the river with no memory of her survival. Mary accepts a new job as a church organist. But strange things start …