Directed by: Gus Meins
Runtime: 53 min
Archive for the 'Mystery' Category
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 [...]
Directed by: Robert F. Hill
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
Runtime: 70 min
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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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
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
Directed by: Frank R. Strayer
People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
Runtime: 63 min
Directed by: Albert Herman
The Body Was A.W.O.L…. and a House Party was on the loose!
Runtime: 62 min
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
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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Directed by: William Rowland
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
Runtime: 79 min
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
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
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 [...]
Directed by: Sam Newfield
Six Fugitives Break For Freedom!
Runtime: 66 min
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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