
After being criticized by the Citizens’ League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Hell’s Island (1955) Phil Karlson, John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. Read More »
Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) Douglas Sirk, Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn

Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate Read More »
If You Could Only Cook (1935) William A. Seiter, Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo

Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn’t love him and a board of directors who won’t listen to him. Read More »
Incident (1948) William Beaudine, Warren Douglas, Jane Frazee, Robert Osterloh

Stockbroker Joe Downey(Warren Douglas), mistaken in the dark for gangster “Slats” Slattery (Robert Osterloh), is brutally beaten by a rival gangster Read More »
Voice in the Wind (1944) Arthur Ripley, Francis Lederer, Sigrid Gurie, J. Edward Bromberg

A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Nazis during the war for playing a banned song. Read More »
Striker (1988) Enzo G. Castellari, Frank Zagarino, Melonee Rodgers, John Steiner

John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandanista prison in Nicaragua. Read More »
Mexicana (1945) Alfred Santell, Tito Guízar, Constance Moore, Leo Carrillo

In this musical comedy, a popular Mexican singer finds himself tiring of the constant adulation of rabidly adoring females Read More »
Birthright (1939) Oscar Micheaux, Carman Newsome, Ethel Moses, Alec Lovejoy

The restoration project added new sequences to Micheaux’s 1939 remake of his silent film Birthright. Read More »
Orchids and Ermine (1927) Alfred Santell, Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy

A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire. Read More »