Directed by: Gus Meins
Runtime: 53 min
Romance on the Run (1938)
Rogues Gallery (1944)
Directed by: Albert Herman
Reporter Patsy Reynolds (Robin Raymond) and photographer Eddie Porter (Frank Jenks)are assigned to interview John Foster (Davison Clark), head of the Emmerson Foundadtion regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds (H. B. Warner), the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.
Runtime: 57 min
Rogue’s Tavern (1936)
Directed by: Robert F. Hill
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
Runtime: 70 min
Phantom Patrol (1936)
Directed by: Charles Hutchinson
Noticing the resemblance between himself and noted author Steven Norris, wanted gangster Dan Geary kidnaps Norris and assumes his identity. His charade is successful for a while but when his new stenographer reads some of his latest writing to Mountie McGregor, McGregor become suspicious.
Runtime: 54 min
Phantom of Chinatown (1940)
Directed by: Phil Rosen
Detective James Lee Wong is on the scene as archeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned from an expedition in China where a valuable ancient scroll was recovered, is murdered while giving a lecture on the expedition.
Runtime: 61 min
Phantom of 42nd St (1945)
Directed by: Albert Herman
An actor is killed during the performance of a play and critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O’Brien) undertakes to solve the crime. Claudia Moore (Kay Aldridge, in her last movie role), the girl he loves, is suspected, but when two more deaths occur, she is also threatened by the Phantom Killer. During a production of “Julius Caesar” the killer makes a final attempt.
Runtime: 58 min
Phantom Express (1932)
Directed by: Emory Johnson
An engineer at the throttle of a locomotive speeding through a tunnel sees the lights of a train approaching from the other end. Although the signals say the track is clear, he still sees the train’s lights. He grinds the train to a halt, derailing it. He survives, but many passengers are killed. He is fired in disgrace, but sets out to prove his innocence by finding the “phantom express.”
Runtime: 55 min
Panther’s Claw, The (1942)
Directed by: William Beaudine
What was the meaning of the fateful claw-prints that meant death to the receiver? IT’S SPINE-CHILLING!
Runtime: 70 min
Mysterious Mr. Wong, The (1934)
Directed by: William Nigh
Investigating a series of murders in Chinatown, wise-guy reporter Jason Barton is captured by the megalomaniacal Mr. Wong, desperately trying to complete his collection of the twelve gold coins of Confucius, with which he will be able to acquire the power to become ruler of a large province in China.
Runtime: 63 min
Murder on the Campus (1933)
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn’t do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
Runtime: 73 min
Monster Walks, The (1932)
Directed by: Frank R. Strayer
People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
Runtime: 63 min
Missing Corpse, The (1945)
Directed by: Albert Herman
The Body Was A.W.O.L…. and a House Party was on the loose!
Runtime: 62 min
Midnight Phantom (1935)
Directed by: Bernard B. Ray
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.
Runtime: 57 min
International Crime (1938)
Directed by: Charles Lamont
Lamont Cranston, amatuer criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston (Thomas Jackson.)
Runtime: 62 min
Inner Sanctum (1948)
Directed by: Lew Landers
A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.
Runtime: 62 min
House of Secrets (1936)
Directed by: Roland D. Reed
Globe-trotter Barry Wilding (Leslie Fenton) intercedes when a man annoys Julie Kenmore (Muriel Evans) on a ship crossing the English Channel, but she refuses to tell him her name or address. Barry determines to find her in London, but he is summoned to a lawyer’s office and informed that he has inherited “The Hawk’s Nest”, a large estate outside London. He has to sign a declaration that he will never sell the property. He arrives there and is roughly put off his own property be trespassers who have taken up residence. Despite offers to buy the estate and warnings to get out of England, Barry refuses to do either. Julie appears and tells Barry she is living at “The Hawk’s Nest” and he must allow her and her father, Dr. Kenmore (Morgan Wallace), to continue to live there for at least six months, and he can not visit her there. But Barry continues to try to solve the mystery that surrounds his inheritance even after being attacked by three American gangsters. Barry tries to enlist the aid of Scotland Yard, but, for some unfathomable reason, they refuse to help him. Mystery piles on mystery before the amazing and unusual conclusion.
Runtime: 70 min
Horace Takes Over (1942)
Directed by: William Beaudine
A young newlywed couple from a small town decide to spend their wedding night at a posh hotel in New York City, since they only have one day before the husband has to report for duty in the army. However, instead of a romantic evening together, they find themselves mixed up with gangsters, stolen loot and missing bodies.
Runtime: 69 min
Go Get’em Haines (1936)
Directed by: Sam Newfield
Reporter Steve Haines (Boyd), on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
Runtime: 56 min
Flight to Nowhere (1946)
Directed by: William Rowland
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
Runtime: 79 min
Fatal Hour (1940)
Directed by: William Nigh
When Captain Street’s best friend Dan O’Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more murders occur.
Runtime: 68 min
Dressed To Kill (1946)
Directed by: Roy William Neill
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
Runtime: 72 min
Doomed to Die (1940)
Directed by: William Nigh
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office…at the very moment of kicking out his daughter’s fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street’s side, is so convinced he’s wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
Runtime: 67 min
Desert Escape (1940)
Directed by: Sam Newfield
Six Fugitives Break For Freedom!
Runtime: 66 min
Daughter of Horror (1955)
Directed by: John Parker
As the narrator invites us to explore the horrors of an insane mind, a young woman wakes from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room. We follow her through the skid-row night and encounters with an abusive husband; a wino; a pimp and the rich man he panders for; a flashback to her traumatic childhood; violence; pursuit through dark streets; dementia. Filmed in film-noir style throughout; only the narrator speaks.
Runtime: 56 min
D.O.A. (1950)
Directed by: Rupolph Mate
Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week’s fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he’s been given a “luminous toxin” with no antidote and has, at most, a week to live! Not knowing who did it or why, Bigelow embarks on a frantic odyssey to find his own murderer.
Runtime: 83 min
City of Missing Girls (1941)
Directed by: Elmer Clifton
A number of young girls turns up dead or missing, and the one connection they have is that they were all students at a drama school. The town District Attorney suspects that the school is a front for a prostitution racket, and when he is framed and blackmailed in an attempt to stop his investigation, a female reporter goes undercover to try to expose the racket and clear the D.A.’s name.
Runtime: 71 min
Chasing Trouble (1940)
Directed by: Howard Bretherton
Jimmy O’Brien (Frankie Darro) and Thomas Jefferson (Mantan Moreland) are flower deliverers for Rose Florists, and Jimmy, also an amateur handwriting analyst, has a problem. A certain John Henderson is sending flowers to the gorgeous Susie Kerry (Marjorie Reynolds) on a regular basis, and Susie, and Jimmy do not approve. He has analyzed Henderson’s handwriting and written him off as being womanish and unfit to marry a girl like Susie. He loses no time in telling her so. In the process, he discovers that Susie has been sending flowers to herself because she is lonely – and also that she is now jobless. Upon arrival, Jimmy discovers from a handwriting sample that ‘Bill Jones’ and Fred Morgan are one and the same persons. Next, it turns out that Phyllis Benton has been brutally murdered. From here on, mystery is rife. Morgan claims to be a G-Man working undercover to trace international spies, of which the murdered woman is supposed to be one. He ‘deputizes’ the highly enthusiastic Jimmy to be his assistant. Meanwhile, Callahan (Milburn Stone), a reporter for the Star Dispatch, is tracing down a network of foreign saboteurs and has begun making some connections of his own.
Runtime: 64 min
Black Raven, The (1943)
Directed by: Sam Newfield
A group of strangers are brought together in an old, dark house and must contend with two murders and $50,000 in stolen money.
Runtime: 61 min