A series of bond couriers have been brutally murdered, and while the police are totally baffled, fearless reporter Barney Callahan is tirelessly digging for clues. The investigation leads him to the Marine Cafe, where he has been romancing gorgeous chorus girl, Judy King. Barney suspects that nightclub owner Joe Marco is connected to the bond robberies. When Marco is shot to death, the killer frames Judy, who is arrested. The shell-shocked newsman launches into a desperate attempt to uncover...

"Ask mother," says the message scrawled in lipstick at a murder scene, written by an unidentified serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story if it bleeds, it leads and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to any high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer. Fritz Lang (The Big Heat), whose early career expressionist works would strongly...

Ask mother says the message scrawled in lipstick at a murder scene by an unknown serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story -- if it bleeds, it leads -- and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to the high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer. Fritz Lang (The Big Heat), whose early-career expressionist works would strongly influence the...

Known as America's Agatha Christie, leading female crime novelist Mignon Eberhart cowrote this faithful adaptation of her popular novel While the Patient Slept. It features a clever nurse (Aline MacMahon) summoned to a mansion when an elderly man (Walter Walker) has a stroke after reading a telegram from his disinherited son (Robert H. Barrat). The unexpected murder of his other son (also Robert H. Barrat) turns the nurse into an amateur sleuth as she joins forces with a handsome detective...

Michael Gordon never intended to be a boxer. But after he decks a burly brawler at a nightclub, a ring promoter encourages him to give the fight game a shot. Gordon, whose career as an artist is going nowhere, agrees. Besides, it will bring him closer to the woman who has KO'd his heart -- the promoter's wife. The corrupt world of boxing was a staple of postwar Hollywood in well-known works like Body and Soul, The Set-Up and Champion and in lesser yet admirable works like Whiplash. Romantic...

New York Newark Pittsburgh St. Louis. Vivian Palmer and Ross McBride are on the lam, trying to put daylight between themselves and pursuing coppers and a rival gang of jewel thieves. But Ross isn't a criminal; he's a G-Man posing as a crook to trick Vivian into leading him to her bosses. And Vivian isn't a dupe. She's wise to Ross's scheme. Under Sam Wood's direction, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy scram through larceny, duplicity and love in a she-and-he adventure that critics favorably compared...

Returning to the family ranch in Sagebrush, Tim Reynolds is looking to make peace with his gruff father and to spend time with beautiful Molly. But shifty sheriff Tate Hurley wants Reynolds to get out of town. Hurley, who holds the mortgage note on the ranch, is afraid that Tim and his pals, Pat and Injun, will ride to his father's rescue and throw a giant lasso around the sheriff's plans to foreclose on the property. Hurley is even more enraged when Reynolds beats him at the local rodeo and...

Whirlwind Knight follows the virulent actions of a bunch of thugs known as The Golden Dragon Gang. Desperate to get their hands on both halves of a divided treasure map - with each segment owned by one of two brothers - The Golden Dragons invade the siblings' home, slaying them mercilessly. They nevertheless fail to anticipate the ruthless vengeance of the third brother, who turns up wielding massive blades and slicing and dicing his way through thebaddies.

Whisky - An inspired and beautifully assured tragic-comedy about Jacobo, a sixty-year-old owner of a small, outdated sock factory, is illuminated with deadpan, repetitive, and monotonous detail. When his successful younger brother is expected for a visit, Jacobo asks Marta, his humble, loyal assistant, to pose as his wife. The brother, lively, inquisitive, and open, spontaneously suggests a seaside trip during which the three characters begin to reveal themselves in situations where farce,...

Alexander Mackendrick directed The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers for Ealing Studios before moving on to Hollywood where he directed Sweet Smell of Success. Here we present two more of his Ealing comedies: Whisky Galore from 1949 with a cast of Ealing regulars including Joan Greenwood, and The Maggie (1954), which stars Paul Douglas and was released in the US as "High and Dry."

Paul Lukas, Mary anderson, Helmut Dantine. A female reporter has info that lays suspicion upon a well known patron of the arts who may have murdered a young girl many years before. He makes several attempts to 'get rid' of her before she can prove her theory to the authorities.

When a nagging wife commits suicide, her husband is threatened with a murder frame by his lawyer, unless he kills a certain female reporter for him.

Old Quebec - an urban labyrinth of secrets and lies.A routine assignment to interview a famous actress takes newspaper reporter Mary Roberts (Mary Anderson) down a nightmarish alley of corruption and death. The actress, who is dying in the hospital after a violent car accident, tells Mary that she was imprisoned in an insane asylum for claiming that her husband was murdered. When her editor abruptly cancels the story, Roberts becomes determined to uncover the truth.Her investigation leads to...

An actor who plays a detective on the radio tries to solve a real-life murder.

The complete "The Whispering Shadow" serial on two DVDs.

Defiant, brave and free, the great abolitionists Thomas Garrett, William Still and Harriet Tubman, along with hundreds of lesser known and nameless opponents of slavery, formed a Corridor of Courage stretching from Maryland's eastern shore through the length of Delaware to Philadelphia and beyond -- making the Underground Railroad a real route to freedom for enslaved Americans before the Civil War. Long-format interviews with prominent historians blend with dramatic reenactment to create a...

A grouchy college professor, who thinks that anything "supernatural" must have a logical explanation, goes on vacation to a lonely coastal village. When an old whistle is found on the beach one day, the professor blows through it. Little does he know that he has just awakened a supernatural terror beyond his comprehension. This excellent British horror gem is a must. Based on the chilling tale by M. R. James. Cool. From 35mm. ALSO: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1928) Herbert Stern,...

When beautiful Mary returns home to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.

Earl Conrad (Richard Dix, Cimarron), a man suffering from the loss of his wife, is so depressed that he hires a hitman to kill him. However, when Earl finds out that his wife is actually alive, he tries to stop the job. But now the man who hired the killer is dead and the hitman is after Earl. Will Earl stop the killer before it's too late? Also starring Gloria Stuart (Titanic), THE WHISTLER is a suspenseful crime drama.

All you gotta do is trade a handful of lead for a hatful of gold. When the governor announces a $5000 reward for the capture of Serge Karlov - dead or alive - every gunslinger in town vows to bring him in.Every one except Dan Savage, who knows better than to tangle with the most dangerous criminal the west has seen in thirty years. But Karlov makes a lifelong enemy out of Savage when he murders his partner. Dan infiltrates Serge's gang and begins to eliminate the crooks one by one, clawing his...

Texas Ranger Larry Graham risks his life in order to recover a small fortune in stolen cash. Captain John Saunders, chief of the local Rangers, is dead set on forcing the recently imprisoned but uncooperative Ace Beldon to reveal the location of the $250,000 he stole. Posing as a fellow inmate, Ranger Graham stages a jailbreak with Ace in tow, gaining his trust and joining his gang. Captain Saunders warns him that it may be too dangerous to proceed, but Graham wants to see this mission through...

When car trouble stalls his elopement, mystery writer Wally Porter ("Crime is my racket," he declares) doesn't know he's sharing drinks with gangsters who want to rub out a defiant brewer who won't pay for "protection." After he boasts he's "probably the world's greatest living authority on murder," timid Wally and his flirty fiancee become hesitant hostages in homicide planning. If the title and the premise are more familiar via its zippy 1941 remake starring Red Skelton as the radio sleuth...

Kay Francis portrays a woman who dedicates her life to humanity in this stirring true story of Victorian England's greatest heroine. Trained in Europe as a professional nurse, Florence Nightingale (Francis) finds no hospital in London will hire her. Defying the tradition that wartime nurses be men, Florence travels to Scutari, Turkey, where she tends to British casualties of the Crimean War. Fighting disease in the wards and in trenches, Florence wins the love of the patients, soldiers and...

A young cancer sufferer, Betty, and her partner Mark plan on acting out a suicide pact during one last romantic trip. In their intended last days, cracks begin to show as reservations about their plan start to grow in Betty. The mental turmoil caused by their impending end slowly turns them against each other and despite losing a willing participant, Mark will do everything he can to ensure the pact goes ahead... Romeo won't let Juliet spoil their destiny of leaving this world together as a...