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Law and Disorder
England The 1940sOn the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
England The 1890sThe Struggle of Super-Minds in the Crime of the Century! — Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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Rio
🇧🇷 BrazilDiabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
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Jamaica Inn
England The 1810sIn coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an inkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
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The Roaring Twenties
New York The 1920sThe land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick! — After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Jesse James
The 1880s The 1870sMotion Pictures' Supreme Epic ! — After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
CaliforniaTHE WIZARD OF CLUES!!! Nick Carter lives again in the fierce brutal...dangerous era of TODAY! — Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
🇵🇷 Puerto RicoHUNTED BY THE POLICE!...STALKED BY A KILLER! — In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong
CaliforniaA gay party is interrupted by murder and the world's most costly jewel stolen! — Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
EnglandDuring a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
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Invisible Stripes
New YorkThree Men and a Girl... Bound by Invisible Ties - Branded by Invisible Stripes — A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
New YorkAMERICA'S TWO-FISTER ANSWER to the Gun-Mad Rats Who Rule the Underworld! — Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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On the Night of the Fire
EnglandA barber (Ralph Richardson) gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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Way Down South
Louisiana The 1850sIn the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
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Fast and Furious
New Jersey New York The 1930sCrime doesn't pay with these two super sleuths on the job! — Joel and Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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Island of Lost Men
🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇸🇬 SingaporeA Chinese general's daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.
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Sergeant Madden
The 1910sThe Father A Cop . . . The Son A Killer — A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Code of the Secret Service
🇲🇽 MexicoSecret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
EnglandDuring a holiday by the British seaside, Inspector Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
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Inquest
EnglandA woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.
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Der grüne Kaiser
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Zentrale Rio
🇧🇷 BrazilMaria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.
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Design for Murder
EnglandWhen a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
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The Body Vanished
EnglandA Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.
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La tradition de minuit
The 1930sFive people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens when they discover a dead body in a bedroom upstairs.The five people all become suspects.
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Shadows over St. Pauli
🇩🇪 GermanyNo overview found.
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Angels with Dirty Faces
New York The 1930s The 1920sThe saga of America’s dirty faced kids... and the breaks that life won’t give them! — In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
New York... a thunderbolt of thrills and intrigue! — A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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Mr. Wong, Detective
CaliforniaThousands asked to see Collier's Magazine famous detective on the screen... here he is! — A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
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They Drive by Night
England“Shorty” Matthews (Emlyn Williams) having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover (Ernest Thesiger), continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
England 🇬🇫 French GuianaPeter Lorre gives you your greatest thrill — The Japanese detective (Peter Lorre) rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
HawaiiWhile Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
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A Slight Case of Murder
New YorkHigh finance teaches a racketeer new tactics! — Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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The Mad Miss Manton
New YorkOut of the social register and into the police blotter! — When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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Lord Jeff
EnglandSpoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
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I Am the Law
New YorkA Fight Prosecutor Smashes A Defiant Racket Empire! — With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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King of Alcatraz
CaliforniaA convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
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The Gaunt Stranger
England'The Ringer' is coming, with murder in mind — and only one man can help Scotland Yard catch him... — A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
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Crackerjack
England The 1930sLondon has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
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Kate Plus Ten
EnglandKate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
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Covered Tracks
🇫🇷 France The 1860sSéraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning Séraphine goes to meet her every trace of her presence has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her. The bewildered young woman must find someone who believes her. Previous version of So Long at the Fair (1950).
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Josette
LouisianaVoila! It's the oo-la-laughingest escapade in the History of Love! Gayer than a Mardi Gras . . . and merry with Gordon and Revel's latest songs ! — Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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Invisible Enemy
England 🇫🇷 FranceJeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
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Mr. Reeder in Room 13
EnglandCapt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
England"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
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The Lafarge Case
The 19th CenturyBased on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .
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