The Film Detective

The crew of a fishing boat discovers an abandoned luxury yacht with a dead body onboard. They claim the vessel as salvage, not knowing $500,000 worth of heroin has been stashed inside by a drug smuggling ring! Chris Warfield, Sally Fraser, and Chick Chandler star in this forgotten independent thriller from director Robert Gottschalk. Filmed in five days near Santa Catalina Island, the movie was conceived by Gottschalk as a showcase for the Panavision photographic process, which he'd invented....

Three Musketeers of the Mesas in a rough riding romance of the roaring West! William Boyd plays the title role for the first time in this, the first of 66 Hopalong Cassidy features. In this one, Cassidy helps warring cattlemen join forces to battle a gang of rustlers. George "Gabby" Hayes and James Ellison also star, but look for Charles Middleton, best known for playing Ming The Merciless in the old Flash Gordon serials, as ranch foreman Buck Peters (a role originally offered to Boyd).

Lew Ayres is the undisputed king of the newsboys in this stirring melodrama from Republic Pictures. Ayres plays Jerry Flynn, a young man from the slums whose girlfriend leaves him for a rich gangster. Determined to become a success, Flynn pours his energy into a newspaper distribution business that becomes the best in the city, but at what price? Also starring Alison Skipworth, Helen Mack, and Alice White, this movie shows what kind of people grow out of the squalor of the tenements

There's A New Godfather In Town and everybody wants his body, including the FBI, some foxy chicks, and the Mafia! An explosive confrontation is brewing when a young black criminal (Rod Perry) runs afoul of a mob operated heroin cartel. Written and directed by John Evans, and produced by schlock king Jerry Gross (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song) this is a crime flick that deserves to be rediscovered. So watch it, sucka!

Ellery Queen (Eddie Quillan) finds himself in the middle of mystery involving a rare Chinese postage stamp and the murder of two men, both killed in locked rooms. Directed by three-time Oscar nominee Ralph Staub, this enthralling feature from Republic Pictures will keep you guessing!

Roy Rogers finds himself elected sheriff in a wild Texas town after the Civil War. But can Roy handle a place under martial law? And can he save Gabby Hayes from being executed? And how many songs will he get to sing? Clear the burrs from your saddle and get ready for a good one, also starring Marjorie Reynolds, plus Sally Payne as Belle Starr, Queen of the Oklahoma Outlaws!

Government agent Gordon (Hal Taliaferro) goes undercover to investigate an ongoing war between cattlemen and sheepmen. But he soon finds himself framed for murder! This low budget western from the short-lived Empire Pictures is from the golden era of shoot 'em ups, when audiences knew who the bad guys were, and couldn't wait for the good guys to serve up some just punishment!

Ernest Hemingway's classic tale gets the Hollywood treatment in this 1952 adventure from Twentieth Century Fox. Gregory Peck stars as Harry Street, a hunter reflecting on his life as he lies dying while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. The movie, which also starred Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward, received Oscar nominations for cinematography and art direction, and was listed as one of the top ten films of the year by the National Board of Review. Thanks to a star-studded cast and...

Cult director Bert I. Gordon was at the helm for this terrifying story of supernatural passion. On an island community off of California, Tom Stewart (Richard Carlson) is preparing to marry the woman he loves. When his old girlfriend, Vi, confronts him at the top of the island's lighthouse, the railing breaks and the scorned woman falls. Tom's relief fades when her vengeful spirit begins to follow him wherever he goes. He's soon tormented, body and soul, by an unforgiving she-ghost! Susan...

William Lundigan and Peggie Castle star in this tale of a romantic triangle that takes place during an archaeological expedition in Southern Mexico. Filmed almost entirely in Veracruz, Mexico, this independent production was helmed by cult director Reginald Le Borg, a Hollywood veteran behind such late night classics as Diary of a Madman, Weird Woman, and The Mummy's Ghost!

Here he is: the one, the only GROUCHO! Legendary comedian, Groucho Marx, hosts this laugh-a-minute quiz show, where three couples face off, answering questions of varying difficulty. This game show is sure to make you laugh as contestants struggle to keep up with Marx's lightning-quick wit and goofy antics.

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...