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mystery film
In 1942, during the Second World War, rubber is a valuable commodity. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the army, but also a private detective. Eddy swings into action when his father, police-sergeant Timothy J.
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mystery film
Dr. Robert Ordway gets a visit from Jimmy Trotter, who he helped out during his time on the parole board, and his fiancé Ellen, to get advice on their upcoming marriage. When Dr.
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mystery film
mystery film
A celebrated magician Chatrand the Great announces at the end of a performance in a radio broadcast that he is searching for the real identity of his assistant, a victim of amnesia who apparently lost his memory after suffering a head woun…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, mystery film, science fiction film
Paul Kane is suffering from short-term memory loss after his plane crashes. Kelton Reed and Dr. Harriet Fellows help Kane to remember his earlier life.
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Mysterie
After the death of a friend, private investigator Mike O'Kelly investigates an organisation that claims to be working for world peace, but turns out to be a front for a crime syndicate.
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mystery film, neo-noir
The story begins with a morose and brooding Detective (Duane Sharp) receiving a phone call from a local temple, saying someone is about to die. At the temple, a meditating monk (Howard Fong) is seen falling over, apparently dead. The Detec…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
Englishman Ronald Quayle was accused of murdering his father and, based on testimony offered by his stepmother Caroline, was found guilty and imprisoned. Managing to escape, he fled to the United States and found work in an oil field, wher…
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drama film
Phillip Bellamy, a leading barrister, tells his wife, psychiatrist Anne Dyson, about his most recent case defending a young man, Harry Jukes, who has apparently shot a policeman on a country road and been found by police still holding the …
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mystery film
When a wealthy old man dies suddenly, a local priest suspects something and begins to investigate.
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LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, mystery film, thriller
mystery film
crime film, silent film
Professor Appleby has terrorised his wife, Eleanor, but when he is murdered, and her lover, Derek goes missing, Eleanor suspects the worst. A mysterious stranger, known as 'Mr Quinny' or 'Mr Quin' appears, and begins to seduce Eleanor, but…
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mystery film
In an art gallery, drama critic John Earl sees a portrait of a beautiful woman painted by James Harlan Corbin [Lederer], gazing at it, entranced. He asks the gallery owner who the model was; the owner says that it was the artist's only mod…
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drama film, mystery film, romance film
The film revolves around three assaulted women who are living in the same compound. The movie takes a new dimension when one of them speaks up and it sparks a huge revolution.
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crime film, mystery film
After gangster Nate Girard (Onslow Stevens) is acquitted of the murder of Arch Cusick, his lawyer Stanley Redfield (Ernest Cossart) invites the press to a party at his apartment during which he is killed. At the party newspaper photographe…
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crime film, mystery film
Bulldog Drummond is injured when his sabotaged car is involved in a crash. When Jack Pennington agrees to masquerade as the sleuth, he is enlisted to help Ann Manders find her jeweller grandfather who has been kidnapped by a gang of crooks…
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mystery film
John Braun, healthy and athletic model for his fitness enterprise, gets fatally ill and on the next day changes his will, leaving everything to his company. John locks himself up in his study, but Nikki goes to talk with him. She waits in …
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Komödie, Mysterie, mystery film
Frankie Ryan works as a page boy at a radio station in Hollywood. His friend Jeff works in the same place, but as a porter. Their dream is to perform as radio comedians on the air, with their own show.
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mystery film
Gangster Lee Lother (Sidney Blackmer) is shot and killed during an ocean liner cruise, and we're introduced in flashback to the interwoven stories and characters of the suspects: con-man and jewel-thief Jimmy Brett and his accomplice, a wi…
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mystery film
A London-based newspaperman is about to head for Paris for his first vacation in three years when he becomes embroiled by the murder of a shopkeeper in the square where he lives, followed shortly afterwards by the shooting of a police cons…
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Mysterie, mystery film
An absent-minded Professor Downie (Forrester Harvey) makes a call upon Capt. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) as he is making plans for his much-delayed wedding to fiancée Phyllis Claverling (Heather Angel) in his ancestral home Templ…
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drama film, musical film, mystery film
A producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is have sex with her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she will soon get another note, and …
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comedy drama, mystery film
Captain John Winslow is notified by the Secretary of the Navy that his cruiser will be receiving a new firing control gear manufactured by World Electric company, which is supposed to revolutionize naval warfare. The gear vanishes and is q…
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