The Film Detective

Rather than a gorgeous Hollywood starlet, actor Cameron Mitchell ("Carousel"), playing cowboy Ted Daniels, shares the screen in this film with a magnificent wild horse named Gallant Bess, who he tames, trains and keeps for himself. But after Ted is gravely injured in a fixed rodeo, Bess is stolen away from him and forced to join a cruel traveling carnival in this fast-paced western from director Lew Landers ("The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin").

Robert Vaughn and Aldo Ray star in this sci-fi thriller about Nazi's trying to resurrect the Third Reich by the use of clones! Co-written and co-directed by David L. Hewitt (The Mighty Gorga, The Girls From Thunder Strip), the film also stars Keenan Wynn (Dr. Strangelove) and Merrie Lynn Ross (The Class of 1984, The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood). Added atmosphere comes from the music by William Loose, known for scoring such cult favorites asTrader HorneeandThe Big Bird Cage!

Produced by the legendary filmmaker Frank Capra, this Armed Forces Information Film is a fascinating and authentic overview of the bloody and dramatic Japan-US conflict in the Pacific Theater in 1944. Featuring animation from Walt Disney Studios, "Attack in the Pacific" guides the viewer from Guadalcanal through Midway to Iwo Jima (the devastating Battle of Okinawa was yet to come) through deftly edited archival footage featuring the likes of Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and...

Customs agents battle smugglers in this low budget suspense tale featuring Tom Keene (Crossfire, Plan 9 From Outer Space). The story concerns two agents of the U.S. Customs Department assigned to break up a gang of gun-smugglers in Macao, led by American gangster Gil Burris (Cornelius Keefe). This little jewel from director E. Mason Hopper also stars Wera Engels, Warren Hymer, and Tetsu Komai as Wong! Film buffs might like to know that Hong Kong Nightswas brought together by no-nonsense...

Shot in just five days for a meager $20,000, "Girls in Chains" was nonetheless a massive success at the time of its release thanks in part to the tactful direction of B-movie maestro Edgar G. Ulmer, former apprentice to Fritz Lang and William Wyler. Arline Judge ("The Mysterious Mr. Wong") plays Helen Martin, a clean-cut girl who is forced to accept a position at a girls correctional facility after she loses her respectable teaching position because her sister is married to a notorious...

D.W. Griffith directed this dramatic tale of a man who escapes to the South Pacific with his daughter after murdering his wife's lover. The film stars Carol Dempster, Richard Barthelmess, and George MacQuarrie, and was made at great peril: Griffith and his crew experienced a hazardous voyage from Miami to the Bahamas during the film's production, with two men going overboard and no food for three days.The Love Flowerremains one of his lesser known films, but still boasts Griffith's vaunted...

Lillian and Dorothy Gish star in D.W. Griffith's stirring love story set during the first World War. Though this film has come under fire for its brutal depiction of German soldiers, it's still remarkable for its scale and scope, and its no-holds-barred look at war. Griffith shot most of the movie in Southern California, but also gained permission from the British government to film in highly restricted areas of England. Also, look for uncredited appearances by Noel Coward and Erich von...

This iconic film noir stars Richard Basehart as a cold-hearted cop killer. With a supporting cast that includes Whit Bissell, Jack Webb, and Roy Roberts, this feature from director Alfred L. Werker (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Shock) is generally considered one of the great police dramas of all time, and a forerunner of TV's 'Dragnet'. Helped by the incomparable camera work of cinematographer John Alton, and an uncredited assist from director Anthony Mann, the film was described in...

Tim McCoy, one of the earliest and most memorable actors of American Westerns, plays Lightin' Bill Carlson, a former federal agent posing as a Mexican desert guide named El Puma who is escorting an archeological expedition helmed by Professor Lucius Lloyd (Forrest Taylor) through the Indian badlands on Mexico. Full of rousing action sequences and fine performances that elevate the film out of the B Western formula, "Fighting Renegade" is the fifth film in the "Lightning Bill Carlson" series.

"Get away from me. Don't touch me, you ape. You hairy ape!" So says wealthy society girl Mildred Douglas (Susan Hayward) when she boards a freighter and encounters Hank Smith (William Bendix), a stoker with a brutal disposition. Her callous comment sends Smith on a journey of self examination. Based loosely on the play by Eugene O'Neil, this was one of the last movies directed by Alfred Santell, a Hollywood journeyman who began his career in the silent era on the Mack Sennett lot. The film...

Bela Lugosi headlines this creepy thriller about an influential man who becomes a bloodthirsty maniac after his wife deserts him. It was the first of nine films made by Lugosi for Sam Katzman of Monogram Pictures, but it's director Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy, The Big Combo) who elevates this low budget potboiler into something memorable. Aided by veteran cinematographers Harvey Gould and Marcel Le Picard, Lewis creates the perfect atmosphere for this tale of a murderer who strikes in the night...

Hailed in 2003 by The British Film Institute as "a rare work of cinematic genius," this occult tale comes from writer/director Willard Huyck, known for his work on such popular movies as American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and of course, Howard the Duck. Starring a bevy of 1970s eye candy, including Anitra Ford, Joy Bang, and Marianna Hill, Messiah of Evil is about a young woman (Hill) whose search for her missing father brings her to a strange seaside town under the...