Nigel Bruce

Basil Rathbone

Lionel Atwill

Whit Bissell

Sherlock Holmes helps a scientist escape the clutches of the Gestapo in Switzerland and gets him to England. The man has invented a revolutionary new bombsight that will significantly aid Britain's war effort. Now that he's in England he should be safe, right?—grantss

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)

Amanda Blake

John Derek

Jean Willes

Outside a tavern, best friends Art Bradley and David Clark exchange punches over a girl. Art is drunk and pulls a knife on David, who hits Art over the head with a rock. Art dies and a panicked David drives home, where his parents are having a card party. Outside the house David hoses down his car to get rid of the mud stains, then runs upstairs to wash his dirty, bloody face and change his dirty clothes, then walks downstairs to greet his parents' guests like nothing is wrong. But the police call the house to inform David's father Howard, a retired criminal attorney, of Art's death; Art's mother is one of the Clarks' guests. They all go to the morgue to identify the body and the doctor gives Art's mother a sedative and sends her to bed. David feigns surprise about Art's death, but later his father confronts him and he admits that he killed Art. Although it looks like a classic case of self-defense, David hesitates to inform the police. David's father urges him to surrender to the police and also tell his mother that he did it. She takes a radically-different approach, advising him to keep quiet because he could go to prison. David's father tells him to follow his conscience about confessing, to the district attorney. The day David and his father walk into D.A.'s office for David to confess, the D.A. receives word that Art's killer has been arrested. The suspect is Joe Eisner, a well-known illegal bookie to whom Art owed money. Realizing that an innocent man has been wrongfully arrested for Art's killing, David sees his chance to avoid prison time by allowing Joe Elsner to take the blame. Ashamed about his son, David's father keeps quiet but urges David to do the right thing--then Joe Eisner's wife asks David's father to defend her innocent husband. She knows that Howard Clark is retired but she argues that he is the best criminal lawyer in town who's been recommended to her. Of course, Howard Clark refuses to help her, knowing his son David is the culprit. However, David and his mother Ellen convince David's father to take the case and defend the innocent Joe Elsner, to ensure that an innocent man won't take the blame for David's deed. Persuaded by these arguments, Howard Clark agrees to defend Joe Elsner, but the court proceedings don't go as planned: a tough prosecutor and an untruthful witness for the prosecution complicate matters. At the same time, a guilt-ridden David becomes more and more desperate to find inner peace by confessing to the killing.

The Family Secret

The Family Secret (1951)

Victor Sen Yung

Ruth Roman

Richard Jaeckel

Too many years in the Orient have made a bitter man of Dr. Dan Maynard (Edmond O'Brien), an American surgeon, and too little emotional stability has tarnished the Tangier-born Rita King (Ruth Roman). They meet when a night-raid by Shanghai's police chief brings all westerners together in the Waldorf House Hotel, where they are interned under the guardianship of the coldly cruel Major Ling Wu (Philip Ahn). Only Rita is free to come and go due to her friendship with Shanghai;s new police chief, Colonal Zorek (Marvin Miller. The liberty and luxury in which she lives arouses Maynard's contempt. But his opinion changes when she is instrumental in getting Major Wu replaced and punished, and when she arranges for a young girl, Penny Warren (Jeanne Perreau'), to be taken to a hospital for an emergency operation. But when a spy hunt reaches a bitter climax, and an internee is shot down while trying to escape, Maynard believes the tip-off came from Rita. —Les Adams

The Shanghai Story

The Shanghai Story (1954)

Sophia Loren

Majel Barrett

Anthony Quinn

After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Some suspect that Rose's demand for a lavish lifestyle pushed her husband to a life of crime, and they blame her for his death. Widower Frank Valente is attracted to Rose, and must convince her that real love exists. He must also deal with his own daughter, who has her own reasons for opposing his marriage to Rose.

The Black Orchid

The Black Orchid (1958)

Aldo Ray

Julie Adams

Nehemiah Persoff

Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths. —Marty McKee

Psychic Killer

Psychic Killer (1975)

Virginia Mayo

Michael Ansara

Joel McCrea

Ned Bannon comes across rustlers and is shot and left for dead, but is found in time by a wagon train heading for California. When he recovers he becomes suspicious of the two outsiders who are leading the train into a dead-end valley owned by his hostile half-brother. Braving his relative's animosity going back to the Civil War, Bannon makes contact to try and avoid a showdown. —Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

The Tall Stranger

The Tall Stranger (1957)

Carolyn Jones

Kevin McCarthy

Dr. Miles Bennell returns to his small town practice to find several of his patients suffering the paranoid delusion that their friends or relatives are impostors. He is initially skeptical, especially when the alleged doppelgangers are able to answer detailed questions about their victim's lives, but he is eventually persuaded that something odd has happened and determines to find out what is causing this phenomenon.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Peter Whitney

John Larch

Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element, particularly saloonkeeper Bannister, wanes dramatically, too, as he starts to take his job seriously. It is his love for a decent, caring woman that keeps Dave in town, but can she convince him to lay down his gun and start a new life?

Man from Del Rio

Man from Del Rio (1956)

Humphrey Bogart

Hugh Beaumont

Sessue Hayakawa

Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.

Tokyo Joe

Tokyo Joe (1949)

Beverly Washburn

Evelyn Keyes

Dorothy Malone

Sheila Bennet returns to New York from Cuba carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds - and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail, while Public Health Doctor Wood searches in vain for the unknown person spreading the deadly disease far and wide. Meanwhile, the increasingly ill Sheila is concerned only with her faithless husband Matt, who plans to abscond with the diamonds. —Rod Crawford

The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) (1950)

Joanna Moore

Troy Donahue

Helen Westcott

A college professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a prehistoric fish. While examining the find he is accidentally exposed to it's blood, turning him into a murderous Neanderthal.

Monster on the Campus

Monster on the Campus (1958)

Harry Morgan

Richard Conte

John Ireland

During World War II, a soldier is hit by a grenade that deforms his face and leaves him with amnesia. Sometime later, he is recovered and learns that his name is George Taylor and he is discharged from the Army. He finds a letter written by a man named Larry Cravat who would be his pal and he goes to Los Angeles to seek out Larry Cravat to find his identity. He goes to a bank, a hotel, a Turkish bath, and a night-club following leads. He is beaten up by Hubert, the henchman of Anzelmo who dumps him at the front door of the singer Christy Smith who works in a night-club. George tells his story to her and Christy decides to help him. She calls her boss and friend Mel Phillips who schedules a lunch with his friend Police Lt. Donald Kendall and Christy. They learn that Larry Cravat was a private investigator who somehow received $2,000,000 three years ago in Germany from a Nazi who was immediately deceased. Then George receives a tip to go to the Terminal Dock where he meets Anzelmo who explains that Larry Cravat is wanted by the police for the murder of a man at the dock to keep the money. Larry has disappeared and Anzelmo believes George Taylo is the man who was with him and probably the killer. George's further investigation finds that a man named Conroy was a witness to the crime, but he was hit and run by a truck and is interned at the Lambeth Sanatorium. When George meets Conroy, he realizes that the man was stabbed but he tells where he hid the suitcase with the money before dying. Now George is close to solving the mystery. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Somewhere in the Night

Somewhere in the Night (1946)

Audie Murphy

Virginia Grey

Joan Evans

Cool, cultured John Gant rides into Lordsburg. Gant is a professional killer, and although no one knows who he is there to kill, they are all worried. Everyone has enemies, and maybe Gant is in town for them. While they wait for him to make his move, paranoia starts taking over...

No Name on the Bullet

No Name on the Bullet (1959)

Richard Haydn

Jennifer Jones

Reginald Gardiner

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. While there, she becomes friendly with Adam Belinski, a charming Czech refugee. She also becomes interested in a dull shopkeeper named Mr. Wilson. Belinski soon falls in love with Cluny and tries to keep her from marrying Wilson.

Cluny Brown

Cluny Brown (1946)

Yvonne De Carlo

Burt Lancaster

Ann Blyth

At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.

Brute Force

Brute Force (1947)

Richard Denning

Ben Chapman

A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discovers a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free. The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée of one in the expedition, with whom it has fallen in love.

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Paul Newman

Patricia Neal

Brandon De Wilde

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

Hud (1963)

Jay Silverheels

Flora Robson

Errol Flynn

Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, he overtakes a Spanish ship, and when he comes aboard, he finds Doña Maria (Brenda Marshall), a beautiful Spanish royal. He is overwhelmed by her beauty, but she will have nothing to do with him because of his pirating ways (which include taking her prized jewels). To show his noble side, he suprises her by returning the jewels, and she begins to fall for him. When the ship reaches England, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Flora Robson) is outraged at the actions of Thorpe and demands that he quit pirating. Because he cannot do this, Thorpe is sent on a mission, and in the process, becomes a prisoner of the Spaniards. Meanwhile, Doña Maria pines for Thorpe, and when he escapes, he returns to England to uncover some deadly secrets. Exciting duels follow as Thorpe must expose the evil and win Doña Maria's heart.

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk (1940)

Claire Trevor

Raymond Burr

Marsha Hunt

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for Rick, who owes him $50,000. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, knowing that Joe will be caught escaping and be shot or locked away forever. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than he's supposed to, and we are posed with two very important questions: Is Joe really the cold and heartless criminal he appears to be, or is there a heart of gold under that gritty exterior? And does Joe belong with the tough, street-wise Pat, or with the prim, moralizing Ann? —Martin Lewison

Raw Deal

Raw Deal (1948)

Scott Brady

Ann Doran

Kenneth Tobey

In post WW II, Los Angeles, a cop's killed in the middle of the night. With no leads, the chief of police assigns Sgts. Jones and Brennan to investigate and apprehend the killer. They target low-level criminals, such as Paul Reeves, hoping he'll lead them to bigger fish, specially, the one who shot and killed the cop. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night (1948)

6.5 / 10

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7.7 / 10

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6.3 / 10

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6.3 / 10

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7 / 10

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7.7 / 10

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