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    The Hidden Eye

    A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of...

  • The House Across the Street picture
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    The House Across the Street

    A demoted managing editor (Wayne Morris) continues hounding a racketeer, as an advice columnist.

  • The Housekeeper's Daughter picture
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    The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)

    A mobster's moll (Joan Bennett) leads a newsman (Adolphe Menjou), cub reporter (John Hubbard) and...

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    In the Line of Duty

    Efficiently assembled by low-budget Monogram Pictures, In the Line of Duty is a serviceable...

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    Life Goes on

    In this British thriller, a hapless fellow learns that he has chosen to stay in a problematic hotel...

  • The Madonna's Secret picture
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    The Madonna's Secret

    This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows...

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    Midnight Episode

    Stanley Holloway carries the ball, comedically and dramatically, in the British Midnight Episode....

  • The Missing Lady picture
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    The Missing Lady

    The Shadow (Richmond) investigates the murder of an art dealer with his only clue being a stolen...

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    Mister 880 (1950)

    A Secret Service agent (Burt Lancaster) tracks a bogus $1 bill to a U.N. translator (Dorothy...

  • Murder on the Blackboard picture
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    Murder on the Blackboard

    New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Edna Mae Oliver) sounds out a murder for her detective...

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    Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)

    Private eye Nick Carter (Walter Pidgeon) romances a stewardess (Rita Johnson) and busts a foreign...

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    Phantom Lady (1944)

    Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening,...

  • Philo Vance's Secret Mission picture
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    Philo Vance's Secret Mission

    S.S. Van Dine's gentleman detective is reduced to an ordinary "hard boiled" gumshoe in this...

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    The Return of Doctor X (1939)

    A cub reporter (Wayne Morris) gets the scoop on a bloodthirsty doctor (Humphrey Bogart) brought back...

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    Return of the Frontiersman

    With Return of the Frontiersman, Warner Bros. continued to test the acting abilities of their...

  • The Return of the Whistler picture
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    The Return of the Whistler

    A private eye (Richard Lane) helps a man (Michael Duane) trace his missing bride (Lenore Aubert).

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    Scandal Sheet

    The publisher (Burt Lancaster) of a tabloid hires a desperate newswoman (Pamela Reed) to dig up...

  • Seven Keys to Baldpate picture
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    Seven Keys to Baldpate

    In this fifth film version of the play by George M. Cohan and Earl Derr Biggers, Phillip Terry...

  • The Shadow Returns picture
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    The Shadow Returns

    The Shadow Returns was the first of three above-average Monogram features based on the popular radio...

  • Shadows of Tombstone picture
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    Shadows of Tombstone

    Shadows of Tombstone is a fair-to-middling Rex Allen western. This time out, Rex and his sidekick...

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    The Sleeping City (1950)

    One of the finest and most troubling films to come out of Universal-International, The Sleeping City...

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    So Dark the Night (1946)

    This well-plotted and executed film noir suffered from its lack of star power, but has become...

  • Somewhere in the Night picture
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    Somewhere in the Night (1946)

    An amnesiac Marine (John Hodiak) and a nightclub singer (Nancy Guild) find clues to his past:...

  • The Spider picture
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    The Spider

    In this mystery, a detective and his partner are hired by a carnival psychic to help her find her...

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    Stepping Fast

    While this fast-paced action picture from cowboy star Tom Mix was a little lighter on the Western...

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    Street of Chance

    Based on Cornell Woolrich's novel The Black Curtain (later dramatized several times on the radio...

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    The Thirteenth Guest (1932)

    Trying to solve a bewildering mystery, guests assemble to re-create a dinner party where the host...

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    This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)

    Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford...

  • Two O'Clock Courage picture
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    Two O'Clock Courage (1945)

    An amnesiac murder suspect (Tom Conway) meets a woman cabby (Ann Rutherford) who helps him figure it...

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    White Face

    White Face was one of the last cinematic endeavors of the prolific novelist Edgar Wallace, who died...