![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Mystery Liner - Paul Malvern
Captain Holling (Noah Beery) is relieved of command of his ship after he suffers a nervous breakdown. His replacement, Captain Downey (Boothe Howard), takes over the liner just as it is about to be used for an experiment in remote control. Professor Grimson (Ralph Lewis) has devised a system for controlling the ship from a laboratory on land. But as Grimson demonstrates the system and the special component that makes it work, a rival group is listening in, hoping to use the device for its own pu...
Keywords: Adventure; Mystery
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| The Clutching Hand: Chapter 7 - The Invisible Enemy - Adrian Weiss
Taken from IMDB: A scientist discovers a formula for making synthetic gold, but before he can reveal the secret to his colleagues at the International Research Foundation, both he and the book in which he has written the formula disappear. Super-detective Craig Kennedy and his partner are called in to find both the scientists and the formula. The Clutching Hand: Chapter 1 - Who Is the Clutching Hand? The Clutching Hand: Chapter 2 - Shadows The Clutching Hand: Chapter 3 - House of Mystery The Clu...
Keywords: Serial; Action; Crime; Mystery
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| Shadow of Chinatown: Chapter 1 - The Arms of the Gods - Sam Katzman
Sonya Rokoff acting as a representative of a European importing firm hires Victor Poten (Bela Lugosi), a Eurasian mad scientist who hates both whites and Asians, to ruin the tourist trade in San Francisco's Chinatown. Rokoff soon realizes that Poten has become an unstoppable monster, beyond her control. Poten's nefarious activities draw the attention of newspaper reporter Joan Whiting and her novelist boyfriend Martin Andrews who begin to investigate the mysterious, and violent events in Chinato...
Keywords: Serial; Crime; Horror; Sci-Fi
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| Black Dragons - Jack Dietz
A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that everyone's true motives and identities are revealed.
Keywords: Horror; Sci-Fi; Thriller
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| SOS CoastGuard chapter 1
1937 12 chapter rebulic serial
Keywords: cliffhanger; serial; Bela Lugosi; Ralph Bryd
Downloads: 1,081
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| Shadows of the Orient - Larry Darmour
Society dame smashes plot to make San Francisco's Chinatown the Hong Kong of the West.
Keywords: Action; Drama; Romance
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| The Headline Woman
Smug reporter with dinky, bifurcated moustache aids young woman suspected of murder. Details in next edition.
Keywords: Roger Pryor; Heather Angel; Ford Sterling; Jack La Rue; Franklin Pangborn; George 'Gabby' Hayes
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| The Phantom (1943) Serial - 15 Chapters - Columbia Pictures - Rudolph C. Flothow
The Phantom (1943) is a Columbia Pictures 15 chapter serial starring Tom Tyler in the title role. The serial is based on Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom. The serial also features Jeanne Bates as the Phantom's girlfriend Diana Palmer, and Ace the Wonder Dog as the Phantom's trusty German shepherd Devil (who is a wolf in the original comic). Professor Davidson plans an expedition to find the Lost City of Zoloz...
Keywords: The Phantom; Lee Falk; Serial; Cliffhanger; Tom Tyler
Downloads: 13,681
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| Murder with Pictures
Lew Ayres in a comic mystery.
Keywords: Lew Ayres; mystery
Downloads: 11,433
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| Sinister Hands
Murder at a seance.
Keywords: seance; murder; swami; Jack Mulhall; Mischa Auer
Downloads: 3,211
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| Let's Face It - Civil Defence
A cold war gem from the Civil Defence Department
Keywords: Nuclear War; Atomic Age; A Bomb; H Bomb; Civil Defence; Cold War
Downloads: 2,698
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| The Riverside Murder
A British mystery. Alastair Sim: No, no, no, now stay out! Judy Gunn: Oh, you monster! Alastair Sim: Aye, from Loch Ness.
Keywords: Alastair Sim; mystery; Judy Gunn; Basil Sydney
Downloads: 4,343
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| Invisible Avenger - Emanuel Demby, Eric Sayers
Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow (Richard Derr), investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.
Keywords: Action; Drama
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| Mystery Squadron: Chapter 1 - The Black Ace - Nat Levine
Taken from IMDB: Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam. Mystery Squadron: Chapter 1 - The Black Ace Mystery Squadron: Chapter 2 - The Fatal Warning Mystery Squadron: Chapter 3 - The Black Ace Strikes Mystery Squadron: Chapter 4 - Men of Steel Mystery Squadron: Chapter 5 - The Death Swoop Mystery Squadron: Chapter 6 - Doomed Myste...
Keywords: Aviation, Action Adventure, serial
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| Payoff, The - Harry D. Edwards
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Keywords: Action; Crime; Mystery; Romance
Downloads: 27,292
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| Murder Is News
A rather dull and talky mystery.
Keywords: mystery; John Gallaudet; Iris Meredith; George McKay
Downloads: 1,757
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| The Whispering Shadow: Chapter 1 - Master Magician - Nat Levine
Taken from IMDB: A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang - whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike - may be involved in the crimes. Chapter 1 - Master Magician Chapter 2 - The Collapsing Room Chapter 3 - The All-seeing Eye Chapter 4 - The Shadow Strikes Chapter 5 - Wanted for Murder C...
Keywords: Crime; Horror; Adventure; Mystery; Sci-Fi; Serial
Downloads: 1,758
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| The Nasty Rabbitt - James Landis
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| Take Heed Mr. Tojo - Walter Lantz
The first of the Mr. Hook cartoon series, his main purpose was to sell war bonds. Hook is set a decade in the future, and he is telling his young son about his exploits during the war and how war bonds helped him defeat an evil Japanese pilot who was trying to attack the fleet.
Keywords: Animation; Short
Downloads: 1,779
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| The Shadow
The Shadow knows, and he'll tell unless you fork over a princely sum.
Keywords: mystery; British; old dark house; Henry Kendall
Downloads: 6,037
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| MonsterpieceTheaterPresents07
Terror In The Midnight Sun
Keywords: monsterpiece
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| Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
Hanvey is a detective who's hired by an insurance company to find a missing emerald. He finds it, when he tries to turn it in, serious complications arise.
Keywords: emralds; mystery; feature films
Downloads: 1,975
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| Teenagers Battle The Thing
A mummified ape man is brought back to life and wreaks havok. This movie was shot in 1958 and is black and white. A later version of this film was released in color with a half hour of new scenes shot in 1972 added and titled "Curse Of Bigfoot".
Keywords: horror; scifi; feature films
Downloads: 8,284
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| Purple Death From Outer Space - DemonPlanet
Feature Length complication movie of the "Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe" Cliffhanger Serial.
Keywords: Flash Gordon; Public Domain
Downloads: 10,228
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| Dracula Has Risen From The Grave - trailer
Preview of Christopher Lee's third film outing as the lord of the vampires for Hammer Films.
Keywords: trailers; horror; Dracula
Downloads: 2,107
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| Law of the Jungle (1942)
Arline Judge joins a safari to escape the clutches of an enemy agent in this jungle adventure.
Keywords: adventure; jungle; feature films
Downloads: 5,740
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| Seven Doors to Death - Arthur Alexander, Alfred Stern
Also Known As "Vanishing Corpses" A shot rings out in a darkened apartment; a woman screams and flees, tricking architect Jimmy McMillan into giving her a ride....
Keywords: Mystery; Romance
Downloads: 9,283
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| Ship's Reporter Interview with Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi is interviewed aboard ship on returning from England after making Vampire Over London.
Keywords: Interview; Bela Lugosi
Downloads: 1,087
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| Captured in Chinatown - Louis Weiss
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
Keywords: Crime; Mystery; Romance
Downloads: 1,974
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| I Killed That Man (1945)
A man sentenced to death decides to come clean and tell the cops who hired him to do the killing. Just as he is about to confess he's killed by a poison dart.
Keywords: murder; mystery; feature films
Downloads: 4,217
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| Dead End Kids: Junior G-Men Part 1
A gang of street kids work with the FBI in to find and rescue their leader's father, a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist group. Stars include: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, and Kenneth Lundy among others. This crime drama is divided into 12 chapters. Part 1 contains chapters 1 and the first half of chapter 2. Part 1 chapter 1 and begin chaprter 2 Part 2 finish chapter 2, chapter 3, begin chapter 4 Part 3 finish chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6 Part 4 finish ...
Keywords: G-Men; 1940; crime; drama
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| The Big Sleep trailer - Jack Warner
This is the trailer for my favorite Bogart flick, The Big Sleep. It's my favorite for several reasons, but primarily because it introduced me to Raymond Chandler's excellent Novels.
Keywords: murder; mystery; crime; Bogart; Bacall
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| Murder at Midnight
Gun used during charades turns out to be loaded with real ammo instead of blanks.
Keywords: murder; mystery; charades
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| Exile Express - Eugene Frenke
Anna Sten plays Nadine Nikolas, a Russian emigrant to the United States who is diligently studying for her citizenship qualification exam and employed as a laboratory assistant for a research chemist, Dr. Hite (Harry Davenport) who has developed a sort of pesticide that can also be a horribly lethal weapon. Some foreign power wants to get the formula, and the authorities suspect that Nadine is involved in the plot...
Keywords: Drama
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| MonsterpieceTheaterPresents05
Battle of the Worlds starring Claude Rains
Keywords: monsterpiece
Downloads: 1,161
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| The Sphinx - Sid Rogell
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Lionel Atwill; Mystery; Murder
Downloads: 2,899
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| Tomorrow at Seven - Samuel Zierler
A mystery writer (Chester Morris) is determined to discover the identity of the "The Black Ace", a killer who always warns his intended victim, then leaves an ace of spades on the corpse as his calling card.
Keywords: Mystery
Downloads: 4,483
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| Payoff, The - Jack Schwarz
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 8,443
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| Discarded Lovers
An early mystery set at a movie studio.
Keywords: mystery; Jason Robards, Sr
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| General Electric Theater: I'm a Fool - Mort Abrahams
In "I'm a Fool", James Dean plays "The Boy" aka "Walter Mathers" alongside Eddie Albert's on-screen narration of the same character. Natalie Wood appears in this "Fool", cast as the young woman Dean falls in love with.
Keywords: Classic TV; Drama; Natalie Wood; James Dean
Downloads: 2,197
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| The World Gone Mad - Phil Goldstone
The World Gone Mad is a 1933 drama/horror film which pits the district attorney's office against crooks defrauding a corporation from within, unbeknownst to the company's owner. This film is in the public domain.
Keywords: 1930s; horror; corruption
Downloads: 10,498
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| The Adventures of Tartu
AKA "Sabotage Agent" A beautiful girl! A dangerous mission! A Brit (Robert Donat) who happens to be fluent in both Rumanian and German -- and a top-notch chemist into the bargain -- is sent behind enemy lines to destroy a poison gas factory. Starts off as a credible spy thriller, with the Nazis really earning audience hatred, then morphs into a James Bond-style fantasia, complete with an enormous secret underground factory and an overdone superweapon...
Keywords: poison gas; superscience; propaganda; espionage; sabotage; secret agent; undercover; factory; hungary; chemist
Downloads: 4,512
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| Study in Scarlet - Samuel Bischoff
Taken from IMDB: Members of a secret "trust" that meets in Limehouse are being murdered; a victim's widow enlists Sherlock Holmes' help.
Keywords: Mystery; Sherlock Holmes
Downloads: 25,605
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT (1959)
Juvenile deliquents! Teenage gangs! This is the movie that showed the big time how! Stars Tom Pittman and a cast of various hoods.
Keywords: high school big shot; teenage
Downloads: 3,610
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| Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
From IMDb: An amateur detective and a janitor try to find a kidnapped heiress.
Keywords: Crime Drama; Mystery; Monogram; Feature Films; 1940s
Downloads: 8,722
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| Bulldog Drummond's Revenge - Louis King
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028670/ Most of the story-line revolves around a secret new explosive that a scientist has invented, which the villains would obviously love to get their hands on. Some of the better moments come when the main action interferes with Drummond's plans to marry Phyllis (Louise Campbell), while flustering the befuddled but ever-helpful Algy (Reginald Denny). John Barrymore is always good fun as Colonel Neilson, and he makes good use of his opportunities here, while E.E...
Keywords: Bulldog Drummond; John Barrymore; suspense; mystery
Downloads: 24,366
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| Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 1 - Golden God - Hiram S. Brown Jr.
Based in 1824 Mexico, Zorro leads a fighting force to battle the mysterious Don Del Oro, who plans to become emperor of Mexico.
Keywords: serial, cliffhanger
Downloads: 18,482
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| Green Archer, The: Chapter 1 - Prison Bars Beckon - James W. Horne
Taken from IMDB: Michael Bellamy inherits Garr Castle, but his brother, Abel has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself. When Michael's wife, Elaine, fails to return after visiting Abel, her sister Valerie Howett, accompanied by their father, Parker Howett and private detective Spike Holland, rent an adjoining estate, determined to investigate the case. The Green Archer: Chapter 1 - Prison Bars Beckon The Green Archer: Chapter 2 - The Face at the Window The Green Archer: Chapt...
Keywords: Action; Adventure; Crime; Drama; Serial
Downloads: 3,973
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| Invisible Ghost - Sam Katzman, Banner Pictures Corp.
Bela Lugosi plays the role of Mr. Kessler, a man haunted and disturbed by the death of his wife. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. More information is also available from the Wikipedia article here.
Keywords: ghost; Bela Lugosi; 1940s
Downloads: 14,229
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| The Face at the Window
Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.
Keywords: wolf; man; horro; suspense; slaughter
Downloads: 13,614
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
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