Charade (1963)

Audrey Hepburn stars as Reggie targeted by men for her murdered husbands fortune, Cary Grant plays Peter Joshua, a charming…

Lady In the Death House (1944)

Mary Logan is accused of murdering a blackmailer. She is innocent but waiting on death row. Lionel Atwill plays the…

X Marks the Spot (1942)

A cop gets killed when he runs into some gangster Marty Clark heisting a warehouse. This is a film noir,…

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)

Based on the Sir Authur Conan Doyle story “The Dancing Men”, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are placed in WWII…

Charlie Chan In the Trap (1945)

“Charlie Chan In the Trap” Two members of a show troupe are murdered, and Charlie Chan is called in to…

Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money (1945)

While on his way to Australia on an unrelated case, Charlie Chan investigates two murders involving “hot money” that occur…

Dick Tracy Detective (1945)

Dick Tracy made four feature films at Radio Pictures. Dick Tracy (this film) was followed by Dick Tracy vs. Cueball…

They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

Johnnie Bradfield (John Garfield) is a boxer falsely accused of murder. He disappeared and is presumed dead. The only witnesses…

Gangster Story (1959)

This is a really low budget crime film with Walter Matthau. It makes me think it would have been a…

And Then There Were None (1945)

And Then There Were None (1945), directed by Rene Clair, is one of several film adaptations of Agatha Christie’s best-selling…

Go Get Em Haines (1936)

Steve Haines is a reporter looking for a scoop. He follows a rich man aboard an ocean liner and gets…

Jekyll and Hyde (1990)

Michael Caine gives a tour-de-force performance as both the unconventional Dr. Jekyll and his alter-ego, the fiendish Mr. Hyde. Cheryl…

Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1947)

Dick Tracy’s Dilemma is a 1947 film starring Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy.
Also called Mark of the Claw in…

Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950)

Socialite wants a divorce from her wealthy husband, but she thinks he’s gonna kill her. Well it doesn’t work out…

International Crime (1938)

Lamont Cranston, amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, finds himself involved…

Parole Inc. (1950)

IMDB: An expose of the bribery of parole board officials by the underworld to obtain the illegal release of hardened…

Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)

Princess Lin Hwa is killed by a poisoned dart on the way to see Mr. Wong. She was on a…

Marie Galante (1934)

Marie Galante is a pretty French girl with a job delivering telegrams when she gets accidentally abducted by a drunk…

Laser Mission (1989)

Michael Gold (Brandon Lee) is sent to convince Dr. Braun (Ernest Borgnine), a Laser specialist, to defect to the United…

Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)

James Wong investigates the murder of a man who came to visit. He was the head of a chemical company.…

Woman In Green, The (1945)

The Woman in Green is a Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson,…

Sherlock Holmes – Dressed to Kill (1946)

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music…

Stranger, The (1946)

Edward G. Robinson pursues a nazi war criminal named Franz Kindler. He thinks it’s the kindly college professor played by…

D.O.A. (1950)

D.O.A. (1950), a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Mata, is considered a classic of the genre. The frantically-paced…

Great Flamarion (1945)

The Great Flamarion is an arrogant, friendless, sideshow marksman who displays his trick gunshot act in the vaudeville circuit. He…

Whispering City, The (1947)

Taking place in Quebec City, The Whispering City tells the story of a lawyer and a patron of the arts,…

Detour (1945)

A piano player, Al (Neal), sets off hitchhiking his way to California to be with his girl. Along the way,…

I Love Trouble (1948)

I Love Trouble is a 1948 film noir written by Roy Huggins from his first novel The Double Take, directed…

For You I Die (1947)

A 1947 film-noir about an inmate with only a year on his sentence who is forced to participate in a…

Get Christie Love (1972)

This is a 1972 made for TV movie about a police woman named Christie Yur Under Arrest Sugah Love. This…

Limping Man, The (1953)

Lloyd Bridges plays an ex-GI, Frank Pryor, who arrives in London to visit a wartime girlfriend, whom he hasn’t seen…

Shriek In The Night, A (1933)

A man falls to his death from the balcony of his penthouse apartment. Two reporters (Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot) …

Black Dragons (1942)

The Society of the Black Dragons sends Bela Lugosi (Dr. Melcher) to transform 6 japanese into indentical likenesses of American…

Chasing Trouble (1940)

This time Buzzy O’Brien (Frankie Darro) is a florists delivery boy. He still thinks he’s a detective though and finds…

Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936)

An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions, is presumed dead…but local sleuth Charlie Chan is…

Timetable (1956)

A man pretending to be a doctor holds up a train and escapes with a $500,000 payroll. The insurance company…

Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959)

Steve McQueen plays a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. It’s based on a…

Mr. Arkadin (1955)

Mr. Arkadin is a French-Spanish-Swiss coproduction film written and directed by Orson Welles. Its history is quite convoluted; the story…

Eyes In the Night (1942)

Blind detective Duncan Maclain (Edward Arnold) is visited by old friend Norma Lawry, looking for help in getting rid of…

Hoodlum, The (1951)

Lawrence Tierney (“Reservoir Dogs”) plays an unreformed, hardened criminal who has just been released from prison. While working at his…

Big Combo, The (1955)

This violent, dark film tells of tormented Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde), who is on a personal crusade to…

Terror by Night (1946)

Terror by Night is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes mystery film inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, loosely based on The…

Death Kiss, The (1932)

David Manners plays a crusading studio writer, Adrienne Ames plays an actress, Bela Lugosi plays a studio manager, and Edward…

Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)

Pilot Peter Roma carries a precious amulet, but is shot down over China by a Russian agent who also wants…

Fatal Hour, The (1940)

Another James Lee Wong mystery places Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) in San Francisco’s Chinatown when a smuggling ring on the…

Bloody Brood, The (1959)

Peter Falk in one of his earliest film roles Falk plays Nico, the leader of a beatnik gang. Lots of…

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)

Diamonds are stolen. Before the thief can safely hide them he is strangled by ex-conman Cueball (Dick Wessel). Cueball takes…

Hell’s House (1932)

When orphaned Jimmy Mason is taken in by his Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, he meets their boarder Matt Kelly,…