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The Last Curtain
EnglandAn insurance investigator tracks a series of robberies to a gang who are hiding the stolen jewels in the produce of a bakery.
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The Return of the Frog
EnglandThe Return of the Frog is a 1938 British crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Gordon Harker, Hartley Power and Rene Ray. It was a sequel to the 1937 film 'The Frog', which was based on an Edgar Wallace novel. The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
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The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
🇫🇷 France The 1910sTwo out-of-work private detectives disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
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Pépé le Moko
🇩🇿 AlgeriaPépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
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The Green Cockatoo
EnglandSong and dance man John Mills, guv’nor of the eponymous nitery, helps new-girl-in-town René Ray flee a false murder charge, except neither knows the corpse is Mills’ brother Robert Newton, and both cops and the real killers are hot on their trail.
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Dead End
New YorkTHE GREATEST GANGSTER THRILLER THAT EVER EXPLODED FROM THE SCREEN! — Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
🇲🇨 MonacoTriple murder for high stakes! A new high in mystery excitement! And laughs, too! — Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.
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Kid Galahad
New YorkEVERY WOMAN MUST MAKE A FOOL OF HERSELF OVER A MAN...ONCE! — Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
🇲🇳 MongoliaMr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
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Good Morning, Boys!
England 🇫🇷 FranceDr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.
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Dinner at the Ritz
🇲🇨 MonacoANNABELLA whose loveliness swept her to overnight stardom...in a picture as tensely exciting as she is excitingly lovely! — The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
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Internes Can't Take Money
New YorkHe risked his life to save a rat... And what did he get for it? — The young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
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The Squeaker
EnglandWho's hand writes these messages of death? — London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
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Love Under Fire
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sA supense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
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This Is My Affair
Minnesota The 1900sPresident McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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They Gave Him a Gun
The 1910sTwo Dramas of Cold-Blooded Violence and Smoldering Love combined into One Red-Hot GREAT Thrill Show — With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
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Forty Naughty Girls
New YorkHildegarde Withers (ZaSu Pitts) and Inspector Piper (James Gleason) try to solve a murder while attending the opening-night performance of a Broadway show. Comedy-mystery.
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Blake of Scotland Yard
EnglandSir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James thinks that their invention has the potential to prevent wars, and plans to donate it to the League of Nations. But a gang of criminals led by the elusive "Scorpion" steals the device, and Blake and his associates must recover the invention and determine the identity of the "Scorpion".
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Jump for Glory
EnglandA London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
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Premiere
🇦🇹 AustriaAs Fraulein Leander prepares for opening night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a variety of romantic misadventures. But she manages to show up on stage at the appointed time, scoring a huge success.
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Non-Stop New York
EnglandA young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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The Rat
🇫🇷 FranceJean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
EnglandSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
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Alarm in Peking
Beijing The 1900sSet against the backdrop of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion...
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You Can't Buy Luck
KentuckyWhen a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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Smash and Grab
EnglandJohn Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's most prestigious jewellers. As the chase leads him to Ireland, Forrest finds he needs help and who better to call upon than his impossibly elegant, highly capable wife, Alice?
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Landslide
WalesA landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be next?
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Jennifer Hale
EnglandA showgirl who is wrongly accused of murdering her manager goes on the run to try to prove her innocence.
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Double Exposures
EnglandA industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.
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Under a Cloud
EnglandJimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy. Their children know little about him but as he observes them he realises they have problems and his cunning might come to their aid.
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After the Thin Man
CaliforniaContinuing the fun in their NEW hit! — Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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The Walking Dead
The 1930sHE DIED a man with a hunger to love... and returned a monster with an instinct to kill. — Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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Bullets or Ballots
New YorkWHO Rules The Rackets ? This picture puts the finger on the political higher-ups! — After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Seven Sinners
England 🇫🇷 FranceEd Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
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Winterset
New York The 1930s The 1920sA man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
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The Last Journey
EnglandBob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
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Adventure in Manhattan
New YorkTHE GAL WHO TOOK MR. DEEDS TO TOWN STEPS OUT AGAIN... This time with handsome Joel McCrea...in the year's merriest melee of mirth! — Fun little film about an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville (Joel McCrea) is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton (Jean Arthur) and goaded by Phil Bane (Thomas Mitchell), the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
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Crown v. Stevens
EnglandWhen an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance
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The Unguarded Hour
EnglandLittle things May Wreck Your Love Affair! — A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.
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Dusty Ermine
England 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandA forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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Midnight at Madame Tussaud's
EnglandExplorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.
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The House of the Spaniard
England 🇪🇸 SpainA man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
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The Avenging Hand
EnglandA Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.
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I Cover Chinatown
CaliforniaFANTASTIC ADVENTURES IN A WEIRD AND SINISTER SETTING! — A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
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Prison Breaker
EnglandA British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..
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Living Dangerously
EnglandThe dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.
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The Mysterious Mister X
EnglandThe eccentric owner of a chateau, Lord Wilford, is fond of everything that is connected with criminal cases. His passion takes up so much time that even his secretary hardly has time to see her fiance. When mysterious letters arrive, announcing that a certain Mister X wants to steal a valuable statuette, the Lord is very enthusiastic. Apparently he himself will now experience a real criminal case! His secretary persuades him to hire a famous detective from London - none other than her fiance. But he is far from being a talented detective, and when a valuable pearl necklace disappears, the fiance falls under suspicion to be the thief.
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