Thrills! Drama! Mystery! Suspense! Part 1: The 1930's...
This decade is packed with these films. Some are genuine classics, while others are waiting to be rediscovered! Of course, not all are superb, but even most of the lesser movies are still fun to watch!...
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- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
- DirectorIrving PichelErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJoel McCreaFay WrayLeslie BanksA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffMelvyn DouglasCharles LaughtonSeeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsNatalie MoorheadRussell HoptonJ. Farrell MacDonaldHollywood star Irma Gladden piles up the haters as she goes along her merry way-until she's found dead in her car.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsRalph InceVera ReynoldsReed HowesA man, his wife and his best friend are aboard a yacht at sea that later gets shipwrecked. The husband soon starts to resent the attention paid to his wife by his friend.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsLionel AtwillSheila TerryTheodore NewtonA man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
- DirectorAlbert RayStarsLila LeeMonte BlueGwen LeeA murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
- DirectorMelville De LayStarsCharles HutchisonLucille PowersMontagu LoveA hero in a robbery comes up against a crime boss and the crooked guardian of the girl he loves.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsEd LowryVerna HillieJohn SheehanAn ancient curse and a killer ape are contained inside an old dark mansion.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsJohn MiljanJune CollyerRichard CarleDuring a stormy night at an old dark mansion, people who claim to see ghosts roaming the halls are later found murdered.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsFay WrayRalph BellamyMelvyn DouglasA paroled prisoner hits a man who's attacking a woman, then runs away, scared that he killed the man (he did not). From the book "Woman in the Dark" by Dashiell Hammett.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsNoah BeeryAstrid AllwynEdwin MaxwellPolice try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsShirley GreyCharles StarrettClaude GillingwaterThe owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends, but the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
- DirectorWilliam A. O'ConnorStarsLois JanuaryNoel MadisonSheila BromleyA drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."
- DirectorDenison CliftStarsBela LugosiShirley GreyArthur MargetsonDuring a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsClaude RainsFay WrayMary ClareA fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true ...
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsLon Chaney Jr.Zara TazilJohn InceA colonial police detective in an Eastern seaport seeks a stolen gem, and infiltrates the underworld by posing as a look-alike wharfside bar owner.
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsBasil SydneyJudy GunnZoe DavisShortly before an important meeting of five investors, one of them, Robert Norman, is shot dead in his study. The police come in to solve the crime, while headstrong journalist Claire Haines attempts to get the scoop on the story to impress her editor.
- DirectorMilton RosmerStarsTod SlaughterSophie StewartD.J. WilliamsIn 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by a villainous Squire's promises of marriage, and when she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gypsy lad is blamed.
- DirectorRoland D. ReedStarsLeslie FentonMuriel EvansNoel MadisonTwo men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
- DirectorFrank RichardsonVictor HanburyStarsNoah BeeryKathleen KellyLouis BorelA Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.
- DirectorHarry S. WebbStarsRichard TalmadgeLois WildeRoger WilliamsFired from the force, a cop attempts to solve a string of truck holdups.
- DirectorLloyd CorriganStarsBoris KarloffWarren HullJean RogersThe inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsRichard CromwellHelen MackLionel AtwillBank teller Jimmy Caldwell and his fiance, Ruth Holden, grow weary of struggling to make ends meet and decide to rob Jimmy's bank. The selfish young couple agree that even if they spend ten years in prison, it will not matter because they will have the money when they are released. During what appears to be a normal transaction, Jimmy gives Ruth $100,000 that he has taken from the vault, and after they hide the money in a music box, which they mail to Ruth's Uncle Billy for safekeeping, they turn themselves in. Mike Roberts, a detective for the bank's insurance company, tries to convince them to lighten their sentence by returning the money, but they consider the money rightfully theirs and refuse. The judge hearing their case is dismayed by their lack of repentance, and sentences them to one-to-ten years without parole. Jimmy and Ruth are then sent to separate prisons, but communicate by notes. Jimmy's tough cellmate, Blackie Clayton, tries to find out where the money is hidden, but Jimmy gives him misleading information. Sometime later, Roberts arranges for Jimmy and Ruth's paroles and attaches special stipulations that he hopes will make them go straight. The couple are paroled under the conditions that they have no civil rights and cannot marry for eight years. They are crushed by the conditions, but will not give in when Roberts tells them they will be free if they return the money. They try to retrieve the music box from Uncle Billy, but they discover that he has died and that his possessions are to be auctioned. They go to the auction, where they are outbid by auction aficionado Victor J. Holbrook, after which they go to Holbrook's apartment and explain that they need the box. Holbrook tells them he has already sent the box to his aunt, Martha Foster, and when Ruth and Jimmy return to their boardinghouse, they find Blackie waiting for them. He orders them to cut him in on the stolen money, but when Roberts appears, Blackie sneaks out after stealing their money and car. Jimmy and Ruth hop a train to Sunnydale, where Martha lives, and although they are detained by sheriff Ira Foster, Martha's husband, until they show their parole papers, they find Martha's guest farm, check in and locate the music box. After dinner, Roberts, alerted by Ira, shows up to warn Jimmy and Ruth that Blackie is close on their trail. Later that night, Blackie threatens Ruth that he will kill Jimmy unless she gives him the money. Jimmy and Ruth attempt to elude Blackie, but he soon catches up with them and fights with Jimmy. Ruth knocks Blackie out with the music box, after which Roberts appears on the scene. The beleaguered young couple give Roberts the money and determine to live an honest life, in which they will earn their happiness instead of stealing it.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsJohn LoderAnna LeeFrancis L. SullivanA young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsTod SlaughterJohn WarwickMarjorie TaylorA man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the murderer.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsVictor McLaglenWilliam GarganPaul KellyAdults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsBasil RathboneBoris KarloffBarbara O'NeilIn the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
- DirectorMelville ShyerStarsMary AinsleeBetty CompsonWilly CastelloA rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsSally BlaneJohn DarrowJ. Farrell MacDonaldA reckless young society girl whose uncle is a judge is assigned a young offender as her chauffeur to try to help straighten her out.
- DirectorArmand SchaeferStarsJack MulhallPhyllis BarringtonCrauford KentDuring a séance at an elderly millionaire's house, the millionaire is murdered. The detectives investigating the crime discover that everyone who was at the séance had a motive for killing the man.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsIvor NovelloElizabeth AllanA.W. BaskcombA landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsJack MulhallNatalie MoorheadClara Kimball YoungA gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.
- DirectorAlbert RayStarsGinger RogersLyle TalbotHarvey ClarkPat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building.
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsBela LugosiBruce BennettJoan BarclayFeature version of the 1936 serial "Shadow of Chinatown."
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsWallace FordBarbara PepperJoan WoodburyA mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
- DirectorColbert ClarkAlbert HermanStarsBela LugosiViva TattersallMalcolm McGregorA mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang - whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike - may be involved in the crimes.
- DirectorDavid HowardArmand SchaeferStarsClyde BeattyCecilia ParkerSyd SaylorFeature version of the 1934 Mascot serial "The Lost Jungle".
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJames CagneyJean HarlowEdward WoodsAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsPaul MuniGlenda FarrellHelen VinsonWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsBoris KarloffMarie WilsonEddie CravenAn army private and his new bride are trying to honeymoon on an island occupied by the military and a murderer.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsBarbara StanwyckBen LyonJoan BlondellA nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsChester MorrisLucille BallWendy BarrieA plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRobert DonatMadeleine CarrollLucie MannheimA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsNova PilbeamDerrick De MarneyPercy MarmontA man on the run from a murder charge enlists the help of a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.