Gruesome, just out of jail, goes to the Hangman’s Knot saloon, where his old crime crony Melody is now playing the piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer. where 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. At a bank where Tess Trueheart happens to be, Gruesome and Melody use the nerve gas to incapacitate the security guard. They rob the place and shoot a cop on the sidewalk before Dick Tracy arrive …
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Author: womo
Dick Tracy Detective
Dick Tracy is faced with a series of brutal murders in which the victims are all from different social and economic backgrounds and mysteriously killed. Suspects abound but Dick Tracy step by step gets the clue that there will be fifteen murders in all. But why are different offenders are killing in common indiscriminately various people. Or is their any hidden connection?
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Scarlet Street
After a dinner celebrating twenty-five years of employment, Christopher Cross walked home. Chris breaks up a violent quarrel between a man and a woman and, after the man flees, offers to escort the woman home. She introduces herself as Katherine “Kitty” March and asks Chris to buy her a drink. When Chris admits he is married, Kitty feigns shock, but convinces him to rent a painting-studio. But more and more, the middle aged painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman…
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Born to Battle
An association hires the „Cyclone” Tom Saunders in order to look into cattle thefts for whom they suspect a pair of “nesters”. Tom discovers that the nesters are an old man and his young daughter who are not capable of rustling. Then he supects Nate, a foreman at a ranch.
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Brand of the Devil
Molly Dawson, a female ranch owner is losing cattle to the Devil’s Brand, a gang of rustlers. She sends for the Texas Rangers who work undercover to bring the gang to justice.
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Invisible Ghost
Kessler is being controlled by homicidal impulses from his wife. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler’s gardener. When an mysterious man is executed for a murder done by Kessler, his twin brother tries to unravel the truth …
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Parole, Inc.
Because of some notorious criminals are unjustifiably released on parole, the Federal Government sends agent Richard Hendricks to investigate. Hendricks infiltrates the criminal gang. However, the clever Barney Rodescu, who is the brain behind the racket, soon finds out Carson’s true identity…
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Indestructible Man
Charles “Butcher” Benton was a double-crossed convicted robber and murderer and who was executed in the gas chamber. His body is unlawfully sold to a scientist, where experiments accidentally revive him and make him also impervious to harm. After killing the doctor and his assistant, he sets out to avenge himself on his attorney and the lawyer’s henchmen…
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Edward Sedgwick – Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) – Best free legal movies ever 54 – Comedy
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious mixture of all that was good and everything that was bad in Buster Keaton’s talkie features.
sidenote: The Movie was completely filmed in Buster Keaton private 10,000- square-foot Mediterranean palazzo in Beverly Hills
This movie is part of the collection: Comedy Films
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Producer: Buster Keaton
Production Company: Metro Goldwyn, Mayer
Audio/Visual: sound, black & white
Keywords: Comedy; Buster Keaton
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Invisible Ghost (1941) [Horror] [Thriller]
“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 left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler’s gardener. When an innocent man is executed for a murder done by Kessler in the house, his twin brother visits and tries to unravel the mystery. In the end it ends up that Kessler really is the killer and he doesn’t know it. Kessler looks at the painting of his wife (that is stabbed on the throat) and then walks out to be arrested.
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Directed by Joseph H. Lewis, produced by Sam Katzman and Pete Mayer, written by Al Martin and Helen Martin, starring Bela Lugosi as Charles Kessler, Polly Ann Young as Virginia Kessler, John McGuire as Ralph Dickson and Paul Dickson, Clarence Muse as Evans (the Butler), Terry Walker as Cecile Mannix, Betty Compson as Mrs. Kessler, Ernie Adams as Jules Mason, George Pembroke as Police Lieutenant Williams, Ottola Nesmith as Mrs. Mason, Fred Kelsey as Detective Ryan, Jack Mulhall as Detective Tim, Fred Aldrich as Guard at Ralph’s Exeuction, Lloyd Ingraham as The Psychiatrist and Robert Strange as Coroner Kirby.
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Source: “Invisible Ghost” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 1 April 2013. Web. 20 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Ghost.
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