George Macready

Jeanne Bates

The Soul of a Monster

The Soul of a Monster (1944)

Richard Kiel

Richard Arlen

Barbara Nichols

An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies resembling animated pottery in this low-budget sci-fi film. Enjoy the opening and closing shots of the alien spacecraft resembling a Christmas tree bauble dancing in space, the faces of the "duplicated" humans shattering like a cheap vase when thrown to the floor, and the formative "duplicates" as they are cooked up in the lab in individual coffins. The alien's heart is softened by the persevering goodness of a beautiful blind woman, deeply conflicting his motives as the film plods to its "climactic" confrontation between the humans and their counterfeit duplicates.

The Human Duplicators

The Human Duplicators (1965)

Jock Mahoney

Dorothy Malone

Randolph Scott

A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.

The Nevadan

The Nevadan (1950)

Frank Hagney

Claire Trevor

Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinks he's a wanted man and flees to Prescott, Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret, who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line from which Mourret is trying to steal gold. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his, he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he goes after them himself. —Maurice VanAuken

The Stranger Wore a Gun

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)

Theresa Harris

Darryl Hickman

Percy Helton

Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him to achieve his end. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of easy money, easy sex with an alluring young woman and the promise of easy success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician but a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to show him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who might be "Old Nick" , that is to say Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man again.

Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

Robert Wagner

Mary Astor

Jeffrey Hunter

Student Bud Corliss is wooing Dorother Kingship purely for her father's mining fortune. When he finds she is pregnant he realises she is likely to be disinherited, so cleverly stages her suicide. After a couple of months her sister back home finds evidence to question the suicide verdict, but by then has a new boyfriend of her own...

A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

Edgar Buchanan

Wallace Ford

With the help of Kate Hardison (Marguerite Chapman), the Coroner Creek hotel keeper, Chris Danning (Randolph Scott) learns that Younger Miles (George Macready) is the man who killed his fiancée. Chris is hired by rancher Della Harms (Sally Eilers) as her foreman, and plots his revenge against Miles. But one of the latter's henchmen cripples Chris' trigger-hand. —Les Adams

Coroner Creek

Coroner Creek (1948)

Bruce Bennett

Beverly Garland

Lon Chaney Jr.

A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that's the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on his family's southern estate where she discovers that a failed medical treatment has turned him into an alligator mutant.

The Alligator People

The Alligator People (1959)

Nina Foch

Will Geer

George Raft

Los Angeles hotel lobby florist Johnny Allegro is a man with a secret: he's a former criminal who escaped from Sing Sing prison. However, Johnny went straight and became a legitimate businessman. One day, a high-class, well dressed attractive blonde runs into his arms in the hotel lobby and pretends she's his date for the evening. She whispers in his ear that she is being followed, in danger and needs Johnny's help to escape. Intrigued, Johnny agrees to play along and help the stunning blonde beauty. They sit in the hotel bar and talk. Her name is Glenda Chapman and she wants to escape the police detective who sits in the lobby shadowing her. Over the following days, Johnny falls for Glenda who lives in the hotel. Unfortunately, Johnny is visited in his flower shop by Treasury Agent Schultzy, who tells Johnny that he knows about Johnny's real identity and that Johnny is an escaped criminal. However, Johnny is not arrested. Instead, the Treasury Agent asks him to assist the government ...

Johnny Allegro

Johnny Allegro (1949)

Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency, with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. 2 days later, she awakens - in a different house, in different clothes, and with a new identity. She's told she is the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Hughes, and has suffered a nervous breakdown. Is Julia really 'Julia', or, is it true that she's lost all memory of who she is? —Les Adams

My Name Is Julia Ross

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Michael Murphy

Roger Perry

Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Donna's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylaid, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house. —Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Count Yorga, Vampire

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

Harry Morgan

Margaret Field

When powerful publishing tycoon Earl Janoth commits an act of murder at the height of passion, he cleverly begins to cover his tracks and frame an innocent man whose identity he doesn't know but who just happens to have contact with the murder victim. That man is a close associate on his magazine whom he enlists to trap this "killer" - George Stroud. It's up to George to continue to "help" Janoth, to elude the police and to find proof of his innocence and Janoth's guilt.

The Big Clock

The Big Clock (1948)

Kirk Douglas

Adolphe Menjou

Richard Anderson

The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack. —Keith Loh

Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory (1957)

Bette Davis

Estelle Winwood

Philip Carey

After the funeral of her brother-in-law, Edith Phillips learns that Margaret de Lorca, her rich twin sister, had tricked her way into marriage with the man she also loved. So she kills Margaret and assumes her identity and life-style. However, her life becomes complicated by her late sister's sleazy boyfriend, Tony Collins and Sgt. Jim Hobbson, a Los Angeles detective who loved the "dead" Edith.

Dead Ringer

Dead Ringer (1964)

5 / 10

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6.3 / 10

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War
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7.1 / 10

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6.7 / 10

Crime
Film-Noir

6.7 / 10

Western

5.6 / 10

Action
Horror

6.3 / 10

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Crime

7.1 / 10

Action
Crime

5.8 / 10

Action
Drama

7.7 / 10

Action
Crime

8.4 / 10

Action
Drama

7.3 / 10

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