With a happier ending than the Victorian novel of the same name, this Shirley Temple movie is about a little girl when she is left at a boarding house. Her father is thought to have been killed in the Boer War.
A jeweler is robbed and despite the indignation of his competitor over the police investigation, Joe and Frank investigate the case.
In this episode of Dragnet, Joe and Frank investigate the murder of a vaudeville actress who keeps her valuables in a trunk in her room.
Diamonds are stolen. Before the thief can safely hide them he is strangled by ex-conman Cueball (Dick Wessel). Cueball takes the diamonds and continues on murdering people that he believes are trying to double-cross him. Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway) allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the diamonds but what happens when Cueball vows to eliminate Dick Tracy?
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. A fem fatale pits her its against Sherlock Holmes to find the secret code and retrieve the forged plates for bank of England notes before the police and Sherlock Holmes.
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….
Joe Friday and Frank Smith go after a burglar that kills any pet birds he finds.
A soldier in WWI must perform emergency surgery being assisted only by a voice on the radio
Buster Crabbe and Cullen Crabbe and cowboy sidekick Fuzzy Knight have adventures in the Foreign Legion.
Jose Ferrer received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring performance as Cyrano de Bergerac. Mala Powers played Roxane, and William Prince portrayed Christian de Neuvillette.
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
In this episode Jed decides he’s gonna become a banker. Buddy Ebsen stars as Jed.
The Commissioner sends Steve Mitchell secret agent off to foreign lands where he usually kicks some butt. This TV series is from 1952 on NBC.
Superman must stop a madman from destroying Manhattan with electronically controlled earthquakes.
A mild mannered man has a premonition about an earthquake in this series that was a predecessor of Outer Limits and Twilight Zone.
This movie stars Dennis O’Keefe and Gail Russell. It’s the true story about Dan Patch, who held the record for being the fastest harness horse in the world from 1909 to 1938.
This is a pre-code film about some frivolous rich people, a young secretary, and the weird goings on in 1930. It stars Basil Rathbone and Constance Bennet.
A man pretending to be a doctor holds up a train and escapes with a $500,000 payroll. The insurance company puts its best investigator, Charlie Norman, on the case to work. A pretty nifty film noir.
This is a western with a cast consisting entirely of little people. It’s obvious that Tiny Town was built for normal sized people who were killed and eaten by the towns citizens.
Strange Illusion is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. According to noir historian Spencer Selby the film is,A stylish cheapie by the recognized master of stylish cheapies.
The “Isle of Forgotten Sins” is a nightclub in the South Seas run by Marge (Gale Sondergaard). Two deep sea divers Mike (John Carradine) and Jack (Frank Fenton) meet a man (Sydney Toler) who knows where a gold treasure is.
Ukrainian villagers, through guerrilla tactics, fight against the Nazis in the Ukraine. Despite being a pro-Soviet film, the North Star was re-edited because the portrayal of idyllic communism was uncomfortable.
Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years.
Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years.
Jim Taggert, a ships engineered is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, a gangster who was running away from trouble at home. Jim finds out Morgan is in league with the Nazis and he’s been selling them weapons.
Gripping film noir crime drama about a manhunt for a ruthless killer who plays a deadly cat and mouse game with the police. Starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Whit Bissell, and Jack Webb, this movie was the basis for “Dragnet”. Watch for Whit Bissell, the unsung but solid bit player who has appeared in hundreds of films and TV shows.
Jock Mahoney is a private eye who is investigating the murder of an insurance investigator. He finds out the insurance investigator has a sordid past and had enemies that weren’t too unhappy about his demise.
A husband brings his second wife to the family estate, tries to drive her insane with skull oriented halloween gags and invalidates her experiences with the unwitting help of the local priest. Developementally disabled gardener is thrown in for creepiness and scapegoating thrills.
A young woman named Arletty (Marianna Hill) moves back home to find out what happened to her estranged father an artist However as she arrives in the California beach house she runs into some decidedly odd behavior.
Code 3 was a popular 1950′s crime show about the Los Angeles County sheriffs department. In this case, they must take on a random sniper.
Killers from Space is a 1954 Science Fiction Films where Peter Graves (Mission Impossible) fights some evil conquerors from the planet Venus. The venutians look just like we humans except they wear painted ping pong balls over their eyes.
Here’s a pretty good little film noir presentation from the 1940′s. It stars Edward G. Robinson and Lon McCallister. You’ll notice the bad girl that is a very young Julie London of later singing fame.
The Green Goddess is worshipped by Guatemalan natives. She contains jewels and riches, including the formula for an ancient superexplosive. Tarzan to the rescue.
An ex-con with a loving brother and a chip on his shoulder throws in with a man converting stolen guns to automatics to sell to the underworld.
A former POW is set up to take the fall for a smuggler who is involved with agents behind the Iron Curtain. This show is also known as Treasury Men In Action.