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Doomed To Die (1940) [Crime] [Drama] [Mystery]

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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”.

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Directed by William Nigh, produced by Paul Malvern and Scott R. Dunlap, written by Hugh Wiley, Ralph Gilbert Bettison and Michael Jacoby, starring Boris Karloff as James Lee Wong, Marjorie Reynolds as Roberta ‘Bobbie’ Logan, Grant Withers as Capt. William ‘Bill’ Street (Homicide Squad), William Stelling as Dick Fleming, Catherine Craig as Cynthia Wentworth, Guy Usher as Paul Fleming (Dick’s father), Henry Brandon as Victor ‘Vic’ Martin (attorney), Melvin Lang as Cyrus P. Wentworth, Wilbur Mack as Matthews (Wentworth’s assistant), Kenneth Harlan as Ludlow (chauffeur) and Richard Loo as Tong leader.

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Source: “Doomed to Die” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 9 April 2013. Web. 20 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomed_to_die.

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Monsoon (Isle of Forgotten Sins) (1943) [Adventure] [Drama]

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“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 cut from 82 to 74 minutes and retitled “Monsoon”. Composer Leo Erdody, a long time friend of Edgar G. Ulmer included several songs and pieces from Richard Wagner’s music in the film

The female owner of a seedy dive and brothel on a South Seas island meets two treasure hunters looking for a sunken ship full with cargo of gold. She persuades them to let her in on the deal. Complications ensue because of intrigue, double-crosses and an approaching violent monsoon.

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Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, produced by Leon Fromkess and Peter R. Van Duinen, written by Edgar G. Ulmer (originally story) and Raymond L. Schrock (sceenplay), starring John Carradine as Clancy, Gale Sondergaard as Marge, Sidney Toler as Krogan, Frank Fenton as Burke, Veda Ann Borg as Luana, Rita Quigley as Diane, Rick Vallin as Johnny Pacific, Tala Birell as Christine, Patti McCarty as Bobbie, Betty Amann as Olga, Marian Colby … as Mimi and William Edmonds as Chief.

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Source: “Isle of Forgotten Sins” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 21 February 2013. Web. 20 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Forgotten_Sins.

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Detour

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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 along the way. Unable to rouse Haskell, Al opens the passenger-side door. Haskell falls out and strikes his head on the ground…

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Gangster Story

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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 boss try to find him first because of the fact, that an outsider can pulled off a heist like that in his territory…

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Carnival of Souls

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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 to happen and she becomes invisable.

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The Amazing Mr. X

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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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Black Fury

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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

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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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