Today I Hang (1942) CRIME-MYSTERY



Stars: Walter Woolf King, Mona Barrie, William Farnum
Directors: Oliver Drake, George M. Merrick
Writer: Oliver Drake (story)

Henry Courtney, a wealthy importer is found murdered and the famous DeNormand necklace has been stolen. The false testimony of two witnesses, Rand and Hobbs, puts Jim O’Brien in the shadow of the hangman’s noose. Martha Courtney, widow of the murdered man and Jim’s former sweetheart is convinced he isn’t guilty, and promises crooked lawyer Roger Lanning the necklace – which Jim doesn’t have – if he can arrange for Jim’s escape. Rand and Lanning killed Courtney, but Lanning doesn’t know that Rand has the necklace.

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Night of the Living Dead



“Night of the Living Dead” is an American independent horror and cult film directed by George A. Romero and starring Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea and Karl Hardman. It premiered on October 1, 1968, and was completed on a US$114,000 budget. After decades of cinematic re-releases, the film ultimately became a financial success, grossing $12 million domestically and $18 million internationally. “Night of the Living Dead” was heavily criticized at its release owing to explicit content, but eventually garnered critical acclaim and has been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a film deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.

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Double Cross (1941) CRIME DRAMA



Stars: Wynne Gibson, Kane Richmond, John Miljan
Director: Albert H. Kelley
Writers: John A. Albert (original story), Milton Raison (screenplay)

A gambling joint run by Fay Saunders is raided by the police. Fay grabs the pistol of her sweetheart, police officer Steved Bronson, and kills one of the raiding policemen.Steve seizes the gun from her and is riddled by hie fellow officers who think he has turned on them. Steve, on his hospital death-bed tells his friend and fellow officer, Jim Murray, the real story, and Jim sets out to clear Steve’s name.

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The Dawn Express (1942) CRIME THRILLER



Stars: Michael Whalen, Anne Nagel, William Bakewell
Director: Albert Herman

A Nazi spy ring is after a U.S. Army formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline!

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Dangerous Passage (1944) CRIME DRAMA



Stars: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks and Charles Arnt
Director: William Berke
Writer: Daniel Mainwaring (original screenplay

Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.

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Law of the Jungle (1942) MANTAN MORELAND



Stars: Arline Judge, John ‘Dusty’ King, Mantan Moreland
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writers: George Bricker (original screenplay)

A former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless!

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Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943) MANTAN MORELAND



Stars: Edgar Kennedy, Richard Cromwell, Gale Storm, Mantan Moreland
Director: James Tinling
Writers: Walter Gering (original story and screenplay)

An amateur detective and a janitor attempt to uncover a kidnapped heiress!

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Rain – 1932 – Joan Crawford – Full Movie



Joan Crawford and Walter Huston give powerful performances in this drama directed by Lewis Milestone. Controversial for its time, the film tells the story of prostitute Sadie Thompson and the lustful preacher who tries to ‘save her’ when their ship makes an unscheduled stop over on the South Sea island of Pago Pago.

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Blackout (1954)



While down-and-out American Casey Morrow is quietly getting drunk in a London nightclub, a beautiful blonde approaches him and offers to buy him a drink. After Casey tells her that he is broke, they leave the club together and she offers him five hundred pounds to marry her. He quickly agrees but the next morning, he wakes up in artist Maggie Doone’s studio unable to remember what happened after he and the woman left the club. On the street, he sees a newspaper headline stating that Darius Brunner has been murdered and that his heiress daughter, Phyllis, is missing. A photograph of the daughter reveals that she was the woman Casey may have married the night before.

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