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Few series have hooked me like 24, which is now in it’s 8th season. 24 returned for a two-night premiere with the first two episodes airing on January 17, 2010 and the following two episodes airing the following night.
The…

The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the adventure novel The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. The film stars Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.
There have been four major film versions of…

In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy’s widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew….

Yaphet Kotto plays a by-the-book black police lieutenant who has to work with a crude, racist and streetwise Italian-American captain, played by Anthony Quinn. They are after three black robbers who slaughtered five men—three Blacks and two Italians—in a raid…

Helene Hanff, best-known for her book 84 Charing Cross Road, was a scripter for the television series version of The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950-52), which began on the DuMont Television Network but soon moved to ABC. Shortly after the…

Boston Blackie gets himself arrested again after getting stolen jewels out of a bank safety deposit box for a friend.

IMDB: Lyle Endicott is a smooth manipulator, but he’s not smooth enough to save his job at a Manhattan art museum. And his talent doesn’t seem to have gotten him anywhere in life. “Why not just once can something go…

Originally 30 minutes per episode, the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents was expanded to 60 minutes in 1962 and retitled The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Hitchcock himself only directed 17 of the 270 filmed episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and only one…

Alfred Hitchcock Presents is well known for its title sequence. The camera fades in on a simple line-drawing caricature of Hitchcock’s rotund profile. As the program’s theme music, Charles Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette, plays, Hitchcock himself appears in…

No this show isn’t driving a tractor with a hand clutch. Doctor Paul Gironda has created a formula for the manufacture of synthetic gold. The International Research Foundation agrees to back his research. Just before he is to meet with them, he is heard screaming and disappears without a trace.

And Then There Were None (1945), directed by Rene Clair, is one of several film adaptations of Agatha Christie’s best-selling mystery novel And Then There Were None concerning several people summoned to an island retreat by a mysterious stranger, only…

The Astral Factor, also released as The Invisible Strangler is a 1976 film horror film starring Stephanie Powers and Robert Foxworth. Studying the paranormal allows a convicted strangler to make himself invisible to kill five women who testified against him…

The Avengers is a British television adventure series about secret agents in 1960s Britain. It was an early example of the spy-fi genre, often combining secret agent storylines with science fiction and fantasy elements, preceding the James Bond film series.…

Mobster Big Mike Morgan is killed. #2 Mobster, “Doc” Rogers re-organizes the mob. Rogers recruits Edward to run Acme Protective Agency, which is a front for a protection racket. Edward doesn’t know about the shakedown and thinks he’s running a…

Captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden) tries to remain sane while leading the 12th Precinct’s detectives: crochety, nearing-retirement Jewish-American Philip K. Fish (Abe Vigoda); naive but goodhearted Polish-American Det. Stanley “Wojo” Wojciehowicz (Max Gail); ambitious, arrogant African-American Det. Ronald “Ron” Nathan…

Beast from Haunted Cave is a 1959 horror/gangster/heist film directed by Monte Hellman and starring Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Richard Sinatra, and Sheila Carroll. Filmed in South Dakota, it tells the story of bank robbers fleeing in the snow who…

FBI and ATF agents on a pursuit to stop a truck carrying illegal guns as part of an illegal arms operation. The driver is killed, which leads to a disagreement with FBI and ATF agents, which would carry on throughout…

The Society of the Black Dragons sends Bela Lugosi (Dr. Melcher) to transform 6 japanese into indentical likenesses of American industrialists forming a 5th column. This is at the behest of the Nazis. This film isn’t as good as British…

A group of strangers are brought together in a haunted house and must contend with murder and $50,000 in stolen money. George Zucco as Amos Bradford aka The Black Raven.

Gang violence and racism among high school kids is the order of the day in this juvenile delinquent film with Rita Moreno making an appearece that Pre-dates her role in “West Side Story”. Also known as “This Rebel Breed”.

Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau , whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans. This is another movie…

Peter Falk in one of his earliest film roles Falk plays Nico, the leader of a beatnik gang. Lots of bongos bongoing and beatniks reciting poetry while dealing drugs and feeding people ground glass for kicks. Can you dig it…

Bloody Mallory is a 2002 French film directed by Julien Magnat and written by Magnat and Stephane Kazandjian. The film stars Olivia Bonamy, Adria  Collado, Jeffrey Ribier, Laurent Spielvogel, Valentina Vargas, Julien Boisselier, and Thylda Baras. The film’s score was…

Chester Morris plays Boston Blackie again in Booked on Suspicion. Blackie accidentally sells a counterfeit first edition of a Charles Dickens novel at an auction and gets arrested.

Boston Blackie, ex-convict and amateur magician, is doing his act at a prison-for-women, and an inmate takes the opportunity to do her own disappearing act while Blackie is doing his. Held as an accomplice, Blackie gets away and starts the…

In this adventure, John Barrymore replaces H.B. Warner as Col. Nielsen and shadows Drummond in various guises as he tries to rescue his beloved Phyllis from arch-criminals seeking revenge against him. As usual, the story is fast-paced and full of…

As his wedding to Phyllis Clavering approaches, ‘Bulldog’ Drummond has taken extreme precautions to avoid getting caught up in another adventure that would delay the wedding. But even as they make their final preparations, their friend Colonel Neilsen (H. B.…

The intended wedding of Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond (John Howard) to Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell) at her villa in Switzerland is stopped short (once again) when someone murders the Swiss policeman who is guarding their wedding presents. The killer makes…

While preparing to marry his fiancee (for the umpteenth time!), Drummond discovers that there is a treasure buried somewhere in the secret passageways beneath his ancient British estate.
When England’s most-noted history professor reveals this to Drummond, he is invited…

Castle is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered as a mid-season replacement on ABC on March 9, 2009. The series is produced by ABC Studios. Nathan Fillion stars as Richard Castle, a famous mystery novelist who is initially called…

The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) also known by its German title Die Folterkammer des Dr. Fu Man Chu, is the fifth and final Fu Manchu film with Christopher Lee portraying the title character. The spy/crime film was filmed in…

Audrey Hepburn stars as Reggie targeted by men for her murdered husbands fortune, Cary Grant plays Peter Joshua, a charming bachelor whom Reggie. With his help, Reggie tries to unravel the secrets to her husband’s hidden fortune. Also stars Walter Matthau.

Three men are convicted of bank robbery, the main evidence against them being that their fingerprints were found at the scene. However, Charlie Chan believes them to be innocent, and his investigation reveals that they are indeed innocent and that…

An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions, is presumed dead…but local sleuth Charlie Chan is not so sure, and flies to San Francisco to investigate further. Somehow, the missing Colby is there ahead of him…but…

Charlie’s Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast on the ABC…

This time Buzzy O’Brien (Frankie Darro) is a florists delivery boy. He still thinks he’s a detective though and finds out that his boss was in a foreign espionage ring. Only Buzzy, with his sometime faithful companion Jefferson (Mantan Moreland)…

A light-weight action crime drama (that played as more of a comedy in some episodes, particularly in the first season) created by Rick Rosner, it starred Erik Estrada as macho, rambunctious Officer Francis (“Frank”) “Ponch” Poncherello and Larry Wilcox as…

Charles Bronson plays Joe Martin. Joe has a jaded past, but has settled down and become a fisherman married to Lee Remick Liv Ullman. Some of his old army buddies look him up and want him to smuggle heroin in…

Colonel March is a fictional detective created by John Dickson Carr. He appeared in a number of short stories written in the 30s and 40s about “locked-room” and “impossible crime” mysteries. He was an official attached to Scotland Yard in…

A man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals.

Nico Geraldi is a tough undercover cop in the manner of Serpico. His rough and unkempt appearance belies his seriousness regarding crime and criminals. As a ring of pickpockets and thieves plagues Geraldi’s city, he attempts to find the fences…

“Olive Oyl” is stuck in a Haunted House with murderers!
Zasu (pronounced Zay-Sue) does her best “Olive Oyl” impersonation walking around whining and ringing her hands or attaching herself to the policeman’s laynard. I kept waiting for her to say…

D.O.A. (1950), a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Mata, is considered a classic of the genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man’s quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he…

A con man gets himself an early parole from prison by seducing the female psychologist. Once out, he immediately sets into motion a plan to rob the bank at Los Angeles International Airport. Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a…

Yul Brynner plays an ex-hit man who comes back to avenge his brother’s murder.  His pupil is taught the ways of contract killing.  There’s car chases and actions scenes.  This movie basically low down, action, low budget fun.  Not for…

Ralph Byrd, who had played the square-jawed sleuth in all four Republic movie serials, and in two of the RKO feature length films, reprised his role in a short-lived live-action Dick Tracy series that ran on ABC from 1950 to…

Dick Tracy graduated to four feature films, produced by RKO Radio Pictures. Dick Tracy (aka Dick Tracy, Detective) (1945) was followed by Dick Tracy vs. Cueball in 1946, both with Morgan Conway as Tracy. Ralph Byrd returned for the last…

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (also known as Dick Tracy Meets Karloff and Dick Tracy’s Amazing Adventure (UK) ) is a 1947 thriller film starring Boris Karloff.
A gang of criminals discover a nerve gas, which can simulate death. They utilize…

Dick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of often grotesquely ugly villains.…

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball is a 1946 film starring Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy. It is considered by many Dick Tracy fans to be the best of RKO’s Dick Tracy films.
Luxurious diamonds are stolen but before the thief can…