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Bombay Clipper
🇮🇳 IndiaMURDER IN THE SKIES!...And you won't believe your eyes until the astounding solution! — Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
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A Gentleman After Dark
New York The 1920sDON'T WORRY, TWO-TIMER...I WON'T KILL YOU...NOW! — A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
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Juke Girl
Florida The 1930sSure She's Easy To Meet .....but try and forget her! — During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
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Broadway
New York The 1920sTogether for the first time! — Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die
The 1940sAn Empty Grave... A Cunning, Gunning Ghost... And Michael Shane! — A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
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Alibi
🇫🇷 France The 1930sIn 1930s France a bar hostess (Margaret Lockwood) helps a man (James Mason) prove himself innocent of murder.
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Dr. Broadway
New YorkSpecialist In Heart Trouble... and Lead Poisoning! — A New York doctor (Macdonald Carey) saves a chorus girl (Jean Phillips) from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Blue, White, and Perfect
HawaiiMike Shayne battles smugglers and spies to keep them in the U.S.A. It's his most dangerous assignment! — In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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Nightmare
Scotland EnglandAn ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
🇫🇷 France The 1880sThe Mystery-master's spine-clutching classic of the Phantom Mangler of Paris! — A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
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Front Line Kids
EnglandTwo teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating.
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Suspected Person
EnglandAfter a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...
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The Maltese Falcon
CaliforniaA story as EXPLOSIVE as his BLAZING automatics! — A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
🇫🇷 FranceA village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
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Shadow of the Thin Man
CaliforniaFUNNIER THAN EVER in their first new laugh-thriller in 2 years! — High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
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High Sierra
CaliforniaHE KILLED... and there on the crest of Sierra's highest crag... HE MUST BE KILLED! — Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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Rage in Heaven
England 🇫🇷 FranceIn This Man Was Hidden the Soul of a Beast! — Robert Montgomery plays a jealous man who plots to fake his death and incriminate his wife's suspected lover.
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The Face Behind the Mask
New YorkWhat fiendish fury turns man into monster? — In this low-budget thriller, Peter Lorre plays Janos Szabo, an immigrant from Hungary who is a skilled craftsman. After he's caught in a fire, his face is horribly scarred; his terrifying appearance makes it impossible for him to get a job. With nowhere else to turn, Janos begins working for the criminal underworld. Janos begins having second thoughts about his life of crime when he falls in love
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Charlie Chan in Rio
🇧🇷 BrazilA pair of murders in Rio de Janeiro leads the local police to call the famed detective. Charlie is puzzled, at first, when it appears that one of the murderers is killed by the first victim's widow.
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Swamp Water
GeorgiaA hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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Meet Boston Blackie
New YorkMurder in the Tunnel of Love! — When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
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The Saint In Palm Springs
CaliforniaGeorge Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps, smuggled from England. Wendy Barrie is the true heir to this treasure, and the Saint is engaged to protect her and the stamps. Our hero meets Barrie in a posh Palm Springs resort, where a gang of homicidal thieves have converged to relieve the girl of her inheritance. Three murders and one kidnapping attempt later, the villains are foiled by the Saint, with the aid of his onetime partner in crime Pearly Gates (Paul Guilfoyle). The Saint in Palm Springs is the sixth in RKO's series of films based on the character created by Leslie Charteris.
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Lady Scarface
IllinoisMarked Woman! Gun-Moll! Killer Queen! — A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
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Honky Tonk
The 19th CenturyAnother "Boom Town" but better ! — Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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They Met in Bombay
🇮🇳 India 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sStealing jewels for profit . . . and hearts for pleasure! — A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as the Japanese army invades China.
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No Hands on the Clock
NevadaMYSTERY...MADNESS...MURDER! — A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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Devil Pays Off
🇨🇺 CubaA Traitor Sets a Trail of DEATH TRAPS! — A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
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Mercy Island
FloridaThe beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
EnglandThird and final film in the series of ‘Inspector Hornleigh’ comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Scotland Yard
EnglandHe stole a banker's face! - and his wife — Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
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They Drive by Night
CaliforniaNo picture in 1940 will have bigger thrills! — Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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The Letter
🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇸🇬 SingaporeFascinating, Tantalizing and DANGEROUS! — After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
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Doomed to Die
CaliforniaThe master of crime cleans up the dirty game of murder! — Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
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Castle on the Hudson
New YorkThe big John Garfield thrill ! — A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Brother Orchid
New York England 🇫🇷 France 🇲🇨 Monaco 🇮🇹 ItalyWe'd like youse to meet Brother Orchid! — When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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City for Conquest
New YorkA story with all the fire and fury of its two great stars! — The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Murder Over New York
New YorkWhen Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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Girls Under 21
The 1940sToo old for play-things... and too young for love! — Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie White, and five of her friends. With the aid of her old boyfriend, she manages to divert them from their juvenile-delinquent path leading to disaster for each.
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Crimes at the Dark House
EnglandA madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate so he can murder his enemies.
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East of the River
New YorkJoey and Laurie were sweethearts... — Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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Adventure in Diamonds
🇿🇦 South AfricaA government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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Girl in the News
EnglandAn elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
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Calling Philo Vance
🇦🇹 AustriaPhilo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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They Came by Night
EnglandA man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
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Stern von Rio
🇧🇷 BrazilThis is one of the very few films with dancer and leading lady La Jana in a starring role before she died very young from pneumonia. Her sexy costumes and dances are always worth a look. Otherwise this is a reasonably well paced, but not overly convincing mix of love story, crime story and a bit of a musical with none of these three being sufficiently developed. The story? A man finds a big diamond and gives it as an engagement gift to the dancer Concha though the diamond belongs to the landowner (Gustav Diessl) on whose territory it was found and his men immediately reclaim it. Diessl wants to present the diamond in Europe, but Concha isn't likely to give up, manages to get the job as mannequin who presents the diamond the first time and indeed at this event the diamond disappears.
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I Was an Adventuress
🇫🇷 FrancePosing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
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The Flying Squad
EnglandInspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
🇫🇷 France The 1910sWHO is the man without a past?... WHAT secret sealed his lips? — A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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