Category: Feature Films

Director: Irving Pichel Writers: Dana Burnet (story), Dana Burnet (screenplay) Stars: John Beal, Maurice Moscovitch, Albert Dekker source

My wife Penny hasn’t seen this movie since she was a small child. MERRY CHRISTMAS PENNY source

The 47 Ronin (元禄 忠臣蔵 Genroku Chūshingura, “The Treasury of Loyal Retainers of the Genroku era”) is a 1941/1942 black-and-white two-part jidaigeki Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, adapted from a play by Seika Mayama. The film chronicles the end of the lives of the forty-seven Ronin. source

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Stars: Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez, John Carradine Director: Norman Foster Moto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British. source

http://zodiacrevisited.com/ http://zodiacrevisited.com/charlie-chan-at-treasure-island/ This film is the 1939 installment of the Charlie Chan series in which the world-famous detective travels to Treasure Island and, with the help of the San Francisco Police and a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, does battle with the evil Dr. Zodiac. Many people familiar with the Zodiac Killer believe that …

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Old School Saturday Night Date Mystery Action Flick source

Walk a Crooked Mile is a 1948 film noir crime film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Louis Hayward, Dennis O’Keefe and Louise Allbritton. A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more …

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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 gambling addict is the logical suspect in the death of a card-playing neighbor who caused his relapse – too logical, think the two detectives on the case. (s: IMDB) Director: Jean Yarbrough Written by Albert Band, Elwood Ullman Starring Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Eleanore Tanin, Douglas Dick, James Flavin, Gregg Palmer, Harry Tyler, Ann …

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