The Film Detective

Anna Neagel's first Hollywood performance! Featuring a star-making performance from then largely unknown actress Anna Neagel as the eponymous Cavell, Nurse Edith Cavell is a thrilling and heartbreaking biography of a woman who made an indelible mark on World War I history. Directed by frequent Neagel collaborator Herbert Wilcox, and with a supporting cast composed of Hollywood legends like Oscar Nominee Edna May Oliver (Little Women) and Oscar Winner George Sanders (All About Eve), this film...

Here's a fun-packed musical show about a struggling college so low on funds, that the only recourse is to contact some famous alumni. Fortunately, bandleader Louis Jordan is an alumni, which guarantees some swingin' jazz. The film is livened up by nine musical numbers, including 'Good Morning Heartache', 'Don't Worry 'bout That Mule', 'You've Got Have a Beat', and 'Long Legged Lizzie'.

HUMAN SACRIFICES! SAVAGE TORTURE! VOODOO RITES! Blood chilling revelations of the weird cult that practices its black magic in the impenetrable jungles of Central America! Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, and Henry Victor star in this comedy chiller from Monogram, directed by Jean Yarbrough ( House of Horrors, The Brute Man). It's all about a trio of plane crash survivors who take refuge in a mansion, where a sinister doctor is conducting zombie experiments. If you can sit through...

An indepth look at the crack epidemic in 1990s New York, Crackdown Big City Blues illustrates the anguish, brutality and violence associated with an addictive drug. Witness rival gangs fight to claim their turf in a war that reverberates across the whole community. In a rare raw, and gritty, look at a population struggling with a drug epidemic, this film examines the devastating effects of citizens caught in addiciton. Pertinent to every era, this hardhitting film addresses contemporary issues...

SEE desperate men fighting to the death over spoils that mean wealth to the victors! George O'Brien and Ray Whitley star in this tale of men involved in a tug of war over a tungsten mine in this RKO feature from director David Howard (Daniel Boone, The Mystery Squadron). Laraine Day (Foreign Correspondent, The High and the Mighty) also stars as a woman who has her own interests in the mine. Also, look for silent screen villain Fred Kohler (The Iron Horse, Hell's Heroes) in another of his...

Loretta Young and David Niven headline the cast of this comic look at the whimsies of love. Young plays Anita, a woman who breaks off her engagement to go on tour as a magician's assistant. Her decision is exciting as first, but she learns that there's more to life than magic. With an excellent cast that includes Zasu Pitts, Eve Arden, C. Aubrey Smith, Billie Burke, and Broderick Crawford, this fun little comedy was directed by Tay Garnett (The Postman Always Rings Twice) and will leave you...

John Huston's moving documentary about returning war veterans was suppressed by the United States government for over thirty years after it was produced. "Every man has his breaking point," says narrator Walter Huston. "These in the fulfillment of their duties as soldiers were forced beyond the limits of human endurance." Filmed at two Long Island locations (Edgewood State Hospital, and Pilgrim State Hospital), this account of ex-soldiers struggling with emotional trauma is unforgettable.

Fred MacMurray and Carole Lombard star in this tale of a swingin' trumpet player and the women who love him. Anthony Quinn, Franklin Pangborn, and Dorothy Lamour also appear in this feature from director Mitchell Leisen (Hold Back the Dawn, The Big Broadcast of 1938). Songs include "Then It Isn't Love" by the Oscar nominated songwriting team of Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger, plus several numbers sung by Lamour, who was just beginning her career but nearly steals the show from the more...

Such narrators as Lloyd Nolan and Burgess Meredith add their voices to this documentary about the attack by Allied forces on various Japanese strong-holds in the South Pacific in 1943 during the Second World War. The piece was produced by Frank Capra, and includes narration by Douglas MacArthur himself!

Here's a film, originally known as 'Monstrosity' that has lived on thanks to Mystery Science Theater. It was even made into a musical in 2010. It's quite the ghoulish treat involving a wealthy old woman who wants to put her own brain into the skull of a younger, beautiful girl. The eternal search for youth has never been so grisly!

This Pre- Code comedy stars Betty Compson as a young woman hired to distract a London playboy from marrying a gold digger. Problems arise when the playboy's father, who hired June (Compson) in the first place, starts to fall for her! Starring John Darrow, Gilbert Emery, and Margaret Livingston, this forgotten jewel from RKO Radio Pictures was directed by George Archainbaud (The Lost Squadron, Murder on the Blackboard) and puts yet another spin on the complexities of love...

Feud of the Trail places the dashing Tom Tylerr, a B-Western star (and the original Captain Marvel) in dual roles; as a man seeking justice against a band of outlaws, and the band's vicious gang leader. Capably directed by helmer Robert F. Hill (Flash Gordon, Tarzan the Fearless), and shot at the iconic Lazy A Ranch outside of Los Angeles, the film follows Tom Wade, an honorable man with a face that's nearly identical to nefarious gang leader Jack Granger. Using this to his advantage, Wade...