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The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the adventure novel The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. The film stars Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.
There have been four major film versions of the book. Hitchcock’s original has been the most acclaimed, and remains so today: In 1999 it [...]

In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy’s widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew….

Helene Hanff, best-known for her book 84 Charing Cross Road, was a scripter for the television series version of The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950-52), which began on the DuMont Television Network but soon moved to ABC. Shortly after the series began, Richard Hart, who played Queen, died and was replaced in the lead role [...]

Boston Blackie gets himself arrested again after getting stolen jewels out of a bank safety deposit box for a friend.

No this show isn’t driving a tractor with a hand clutch. Doctor Paul Gironda has created a formula for the manufacture of synthetic gold. The International Research Foundation agrees to back his research. Just before he is to meet with them, he is heard screaming and disappears without a trace.

And Then There Were None (1945), directed by Rene Clair, is one of several film adaptations of Agatha Christie’s best-selling mystery novel And Then There Were None concerning several people summoned to an island retreat by a mysterious stranger, only to meet their ends one by one.
The film changes certain characters’ names and adheres to [...]

The Astral Factor, also released as The Invisible Strangler is a 1976 film horror film starring Stephanie Powers and Robert Foxworth. Studying the paranormal allows a convicted strangler to make himself invisible to kill five women who testified against him at his trial.

Beast from Haunted Cave is a 1959 horror/gangster/heist film directed by Monte Hellman and starring Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Richard Sinatra, and Sheila Carroll. Filmed in South Dakota, it tells the story of bank robbers fleeing in the snow who run afoul of a beast that feeds on humans.

The Society of the Black Dragons sends Bela Lugosi (Dr. Melcher) to transform 6 japanese into indentical likenesses of American industrialists forming a 5th column. This is at the behest of the Nazis. This film isn’t as good as British Intelligence (1940), but is sort of along the same lines as WWII was [...]

A group of strangers are brought together in a haunted house and must contend with murder and $50,000 in stolen money. George Zucco as Amos Bradford aka The Black Raven.

Gang violence and racism among high school kids is the order of the day in this juvenile delinquent film with Rita Moreno making an appearece that Pre-dates her role in “West Side Story”. Also known as “This Rebel Breed”.

Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau , whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans. This is another movie based on The Most Dangerous Game.