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Calling Bulldog Drummond
England The 1950sBulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
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A Case For P.C. 49
EnglandP.C. 49 grapples with a beautiful artist's model — A model’s scheme to murder a millionaire with the intention of inheriting his fortune is uncovered by a police constable.
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Rashomon
Kyoto Prefecture The 8th CenturyThe husband, the wife… or the bandit? — Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
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In a Lonely Place
CaliforniaThe Bogart suspense picture with the surprise finish! — An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
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D.O.A.
CaliforniaA Picture As Excitingly Different As Its Title! — Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
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Quicksand
CaliforniaA guy who yields to temptation just once...... ....and finds it's once too often! — Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
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Backfire
The 1940sThat "White Heat" girl turns it on again!.. — When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
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Dark City
Illinois Nevada CaliforniaA tense, tough drama of underworld violence and revenge ! — Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
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The Sleeping City
New YorkDANGER STALKS THE SILENT STREETS IN...THE SLEEPING CITY — A young doctor taking a break from work is shot in the head, and the police can't find a clue even as to a possible motive. Inspector Al Gordon (John Alexander) decides that he has to put some men on duty at the hospital, and one of them is Fred Rowan (Richard Conte), a detective with experience as an army medic, masquerading as an intern. What Rowan finds is a high-pressure world in which interns are hopelessly squeezed for time, sleep, energy, and -- most of all -- money, and walk a fine line on the edge of personal and professional disaster.
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The Clouded Yellow
EnglandTense, exciting, unusual ! — After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
California...the unpredictable way of a man's love for an evil woman! — A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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Madeleine
The 1850sHere are the virile, violent facts that caused the most famous jury verdict in history... — The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
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Undercover Girl
New YorkThe Inside Story of America's Daring Police Women! — After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.
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So Long at the Fair
🇫🇷 France The 1880sVicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
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Room to Let
England The 1900sIn 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper.
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The Lady Craved Excitement
EnglandA music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
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Mystère à Shanghai
ShanghaiIn Shangai, the "Green Dragon" threatens to kill Herbert Aboody, a rich exporter, unless he pays him 50,000 dollars. One of Aboody's secretaries calls inspector Wens for help. An amazing fact occurs, Wens kills Aboody and then disappears. What is the key to this mystery?
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The Third Man
🇦🇹 AustriaHunted by men ... Sought by WOMEN! — In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
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Impact
Idaho CaliforniaWanted By Two Women! One For Love! One For Murder! — After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
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Too Late for Tears
CaliforniaOne night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane persuades him to hang onto it 'for a while'. Soon, the Palmers are traced by one Danny Fuller, a sleazy character who claims the money is his.
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Chinatown at Midnight
Californiabehind the scenes story... as detectives trap killer inside San Francisco's Chinatown at Midnight! — A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a lady friend who operates an antique shop gets mixed up in a twisted murder plot.
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Black Magic
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyThe biggest picture in ten years! The greatest cavalcade of intrigue, spectacle, adventure and excitement you'll ever see on the screen — Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
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Paper Orchid
EnglandPaper Orchid is a 1949 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker, with a script written by Val Guest. It featured Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell and Garry Marsh. It is perhaps most notable for an early film appearance of Sid James, later to find success through the Carry On series.
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Murder at the Windmill
EnglandA man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.
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The Big Clock
New YorkThe Strangest and Most Savage Manhunt in History! — Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
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The Naked City
New YorkThe soul of a city. Her glory stripped! Her passion bared! — The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer.
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The Iron Curtain
Ontario The 1940sThe Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
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Appointment with Murder
California 🇮🇹 ItalyThe Hottest Date Mr. Suspense EVER HAD With Miss Mystery — The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert. This one has the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
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Docks of New Orleans
LouisianaDetective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company begin dropping like flies.
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The Golden Eye
ArizonaDeath lurks at every step...as your oriental super-sleuth stalks a desperate killer -- below the surface of the earth! — A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.
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A Woman's Vengeance
England The 1930sA cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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The Shanghai Chest
CaliforniaTHE MYSTERY OF THE ALPHABET MURDER CASE! — Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites.
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Snowbound
England 🇮🇹 ItalyGood and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
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The Greed of William Hart
Scotland The 1820sHart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names - Hart and Moore - recorded by the film's actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending "Burke" or "Hare", sentence by sentence.
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The Lady from Shanghai
Guerrero New York CaliforniaI told you... you know nothing about wickedness — A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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Song of the Thin Man
New YorkWILLIAM POWELL and MYRNA LOY and me too. We're all together again in a NEW MGM mystery comedy! — Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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My Favorite Brunette
CaliforniaHe's a hilarious hawkshaw... with a case on Dottie! — Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller cliches.
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
England The 1900sTHE SPIRIT... so willing! THE FLESH... so weak! THE ROMANCE... so wonderful! — In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. On her very first night she meets the ghost of the crusty former owner, Captain Gregg—and refuses to be scared off. They eventually become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a man's ghost haunting her bedroom.
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Crossfire
District of ColumbiaHate is like a loaded gun! — A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
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Repeat Performance
The 1940sTime stopped in its tracks... when she pulled the trigger! — Broadway star, Sheila Page, shoots Barney, her murderous husband on New Year's Eve. She flees her apartment and goes to her producer, John Friday. When she arrives, it is New Year's day, a year earlier. She has been given the chance to live life over and correct the errors of the past only to find that the end will be the same although the path will be different.
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Lured
EnglandDon't answer this ad... Don't... don't... don't... — Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
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High Tide
CaliforniaA car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that leading up to the accident.
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Moss Rose
England The 19th CenturyWhen a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl (Peggy Cummins) saw a gentleman (Victor Mature) leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a `lady.'
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Uncle Silas
England The 19th CenturyVictorian gothic melodrama based on the novel by Sheridan Le Fanu from a screenplay adapted by Aldwych farceur Ben Travers. This creepy chiller is saved from the doldrums by Robert Krasker's atmospheric cinematography, and fine performances from the ensemble cast. The BBC later filmed the story for television in 1987. In 1845, 17-year-old Caroline (Jean Simmons) is nursing her dying father. He has enough faith in the reform of his reprobate brother, Silas (Derrick de Marney), suspected but in the clear of murder, to place her under his wing after his death. The hitherto naive heroine soon learns that scheming Uncle Silas is planning to kill her in order to get his hands on the family fortune, aided by the equally corrupt governess Madame de la Rougierre.
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The October Man
EnglandThe Great Star of "Great Expectations" at His Greatest! — Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
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The Crime Doctor's Gamble
🇫🇷 FranceA SPREE in GAY PAREE ends up in MURDER! — While visiting France, a criminal psychologist tries to clear a disturbed young man of his father's murder.
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The Lone Wolf in London
EnglandThe Lone Wolf's Got A Way With Women Who Try To Get Away With MURDER! — Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned by a member of the nobility to help the latter raise money to pay a blackmailer. Lanyard later finds evidence to reveal the diamonds as having been stolen by a famous stage star.
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Dancing with Crime
England The 1940sWhen his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
CaliforniaMurder inside a studio! — Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
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