
Janet Spencer (Linda Stirling) has a blow-out and walks into the Armstrong Chemical Company to ask John Armstrong (Tristram Coffin for help Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Murder in the Air (1940) Lewis Seiler, Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys

Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. Read More »
The Shanghai Cobra (1945) Phil Karlson, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong

When three employees of a bank are found murdered with cobra venom, Charlie Chan connects Read More »
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / L’assassin habite… au 21 (1942) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier

Dapper Inspector Vorobechik (‘Wens’ for short) is assigned the case of a serial killer Read More »
Shanghai Chest (1948) William Beaudine, Roland Winters, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan

Vic Armstrong arrives at his Uncle Judge Armstrong’s home just in time to answer the telephone. Read More »
The Ape Man (1943) William Beaudine, Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford

Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster Read More »
Midnight Manhunt (1945) William C. Thomas, William Gargan, Ann Savage, Leo Gorcey

In a cheap hotel room in New York City Jelke shoots gangster Joe Wells, takes a package Read More »
Phantom of the Opera (1943) Arthur Lubin, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains

Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois Read More »
Doctor, Beware / Teresa Venerdì (1941) Vittorio De Sica, Adriana Benetti, Irasema Dilián

A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep Read More »
Calling Philo Vance (1940) William Clemens, James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. Read More »