Cast members of a show at the Alden theatre are being terrorized by a hunchback killer known as the Fiend, using frozen bullets, and two have been killed. Newspaper reporters Jean Monroe, drama editor, and Frank Gordon, accompanied by a dumb photographer, Elmer are on the story. Jean receives a note from Ted Wallington, the star of the play,”Satan’s Bride”, to meet him. From him, she learns the note was a fake, the lights go out and the Fiend strikes again as Wallington slumps to the floor dead. Peter Fortune, the author of the show, who has helped the police solve previous cases, agrees to assist on this case, but insists on working alone. Read More »
Mystery
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Robert F. Hill – A Face in the Fog (1936)
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Jean-Pierre Melville – Le samouraï (1967)
France1961-1970CrimeJean-Pierre MelvilleMysteryQuote:
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology—maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le samouraï defines cool.Read More » -
Jack Gold – Praying Mantis (1983)
1981-1990Jack GoldMysteryThrillerUnited KingdomSynopsis:
‘Public television’s “Mystery!” series has acquired a three-part romp through amorality that, right up to its overly pat ending, is bound to fascinate devoted viewers. “Praying Mantis,” which begins tonight at 9 on WNET/Channel 13, has been adapted quite skillfully by Philip Mackie from a novel by the French writer Hubert Monteilhet. So despite the preponderance of British accents, the flavor of the nasty machinations is strictly Gallic.Read More » -
Yasuo Tsuruhashi – Gosaigyô no Onna AKA Black Widow Business (2016)
2011-2020JapanMysteryYasuo TsuruhashiImdb:
A predatory middle-aged woman and her partner prey upon aging older men of a certain wealth. The idea is as old as the history of mankind itself: take the man’s money in exchange for something pretty on his arm’s and a good time (to start). You would think more than half a dozen former husbands may be a red flag and it only becomes when two daughters with their radars up seek to dig deeper into the woman taking their father’s inheritance and wealth. Not that any of this is slowing the scoundrels down.Read More » -
Lewis D. Collins – The Leavenworth Case (1936)
1931-1940Lewis D. CollinsMysteryUSAA remarkable monkey may hold the key to the mysterious murder of a wealthy philanthropist.Read More »
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Tsutomu Hanabusa – Kakegurui the Movie: Zettai Zetsumei Russian Roulette AKA Kakegurui Part 2: Desperate Russian Roulette (2021)
2021-2030JapanMysteryThrillerTsutomu HanabusaA school appears peaceful from a distance, but a fierce gambling battle takes place once again. Yumeko Jabami is involved in the battle.Read More »
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Lewis D. Collins – Ticket to a Crime (1934)
1931-1940CrimeLewis D. CollinsMysteryUSAA Man is found murdered at the Lido Country Club and, although several people are under suspicion, including Elaine and Willis Purdy, the police can not find the murderer; but private detective Clay Holt, and his pretty secretary Peggy Cummings unearth the vital clue and bring the killer to justice.Read More »
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Dimitri de Clercq – You Go to My Head (2017)
2011-2020Dimitri de ClercqDramaFranceMysteryQuote:
In a desolate stretch of the Sahara, a mysterious car accident leaves a young woman lost and alone. Jake, a reclusive architect, finds her unconscious. He drives her to the nearest doctor, to discover that she is suffering from post-traumatic amnesia. Jake claims that he is her husband and names her Kitty.Read More » -
Seth Holt – The Nanny (1965)
1961-1970Hammer FilmsMysterySeth HoltThrillerUnited KingdomSynopsis:
Bette Davis is an English nanny whose charge is a rude 10-year-old Joey, just discharged from a disturbed children’s home where he’d spent two years undergoing treatment for drowning his little sister in the bath. He returns to an unloving father, fragile mother, and doting nanny — whom he hates. Suspicion arises again when his mother is poisoned, and Joey continues to insist Nanny is responsible. Joey contends the nanny was responsible for his little sister’s death, and only the upstairs neighbour girl believes him.Read More »









