The Film Detective

A series of wealthy men are murdered. Is it just a coincidence that they were all married to the same woman? Starring Leslie Brooks, Robert Paige, and Russ Vincent, this gem comes from director Jack Bernhard (Unknown Island, Decoy).

Spies learn that the Red Chinese have created a \"doomsday machine\" capable of destroying the planet. Meanwhile, a mission to Venus is taken over by the military, with half the male crew replaced by females. Is this for breeding purposes? What better way to see the end of the Earth than with a cast of television favorites, including Mike Farrell (M.A.S.H.), and Kasey Casem (Scooby Do). The movie also stars Grant Williams (The Incredible Shrinking Man).

Two Harlem crooks are in love with the same woman in this amusing tale that combines gangland rivalries with music. The cast is headlined by Monte Hawley but it's the lovely Jeni Le Gon who dominates the screen as Nita, the showgirl at the center of the storm. Songs include: 'Hole In The Wall', and 'Jitterbugs Cuttin' Rugs'. For trivia buffs: Director Arthur Dreifuss started out as a choreographer before directing a series of B-movies for Hollywood's Poverty Row...

In Drums of the Deep South, two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War. It's up to one brave woman to keep them form killing each other! With a strong cast including James Craig, Guy Madison, and Barbara Payton, this dramatic film was directed by William Cameron Menzies (Invaders from Mars, Chandu the Magician), and also features Barton MacLane, Robert Easton, and in an uncredited role, Denver Pyle (The Dukes of Hazzard).

When a peaceful European village is suddenly plagued by a string of gruesome murders, the nocturnal attacks are pegged on a mysterious giant bat. But the real culprit is mild-mannered, respectable Paul Kristan, a kindly professor with an enigmatic ailment that transforms him nightly into a bloodthirsty vampire. Directed by horror aficionado Frank R. Strayer and produced independently of the Hollywood studio system, this film bears many of the hallmarks of a Universal prestige picture, and was...

Featuring strong female characters portrayed by noir mainstays Linda Darnell, Leslie Brooks, Constance Worth and Rosemary DeCamp, "City Without Men" is a enthralling melodrama about four fiery women who congregate at a boarding house adjacent to the prison in which their men are incarcerated. With a score by the famed composer David Raksin, this witty and violent Poverty Row film also features a notable turn from "The Wizard of Oz's" Wicked Witch of the West herself, Margaret Hamilton.

Silent film legend Colleen Moore ("The Scarlet Letter" ) plays the eponymous Ella Cinders in this contemporary reimagining of the classic Cinderella fairy tale directed by the inimitable Alfred E. Green ("Baby Face" ). Moore is delightful as the lowly Ella, a household drudge who sees an opportunity to escape her miserable life when she wins a beauty contest and is promised an acting job in Hollywood. Thanks to her knack for physical comedy""perhaps an early inspiration for Betty Hutton or...

Tim McCoy, one of the unsung heroes of 1930s western pictures, stars in a dual role. First, he's 'Slim' Braddock, a miner who turns to robbing stagecoaches after being swindled by a banker. When Slim is murdered, his son Tim, also played by McCoy, seeks vengeance. Directed by B-movie legend Sam Newfield for Excelsior Pictures, this film is a showcase for McCoy, who appeared in more than 90 movies and in 1960 earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!

We may all be in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars! Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, and Bert Lytell star in this silent version of Oscar Wilde's classic play, directed by three time Academy Award nominee Ernst Lubitch. Voted one of the New York Times' 10 Best Films of 1925, the story concerns Mrs. Erlynne (Irene Rich), the secret mother of Lady Windermere, whose efforts to be introduced into society leads to a skewering of upper class hypocrisy...

It's Three against Three Hundred in this rip-roarin' range romance from Republic Pictures! The famous Three Mesquiteers ride into action to help out the Cattlemen's Association, who have been embezzled into bankruptcy by a conniving, two-faced bum named Hacket (Hooper Atchley). Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, and Max Terhune star, as well as Republic regulars Yakima Canutt and George Chesebro.

Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville in this forgotten thriller, also known as Murder at the Baskervilles. Holmes' holiday is disrupted when he finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Filmed at Twickenham Studios in Twickenham England, this Holmes adventure finds the grand master of sleuthing in the world of horse racing, and was based on the Arthur Conan Doyle tale, 'Silver Blaze.' Great fun for Holmes fans!

A nightclub singer (Edna Mae Harris) is framed for murder and sent to prison in this drama from writer/director Oscar Micheaux. Known for his complex approach to films about race relations, Micheaux's cast includes Robert Earl Jones as the detective trying to prove the singer's innocence. Among the featured musical numbers are 'You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby', and 'Chinatown My Chinatown'.