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Warner Bros’ 1940 mystery comedy crime thriller Calling Philo Vance stars British stage actor James Stephenson, who takes over as S S Van Dine’s dilettante detective hero Philo Vance for one film only. ‘Rich Inventor […]
Writer-director John Harlow’s 1943 over-the-top Sexton Blake black and white British wartime crime mystery thriller Meet Sexton Blake! stars reliable actor David Farrar, who is well cast as the famous detective called in by the […]
The 1936 Columbia Pictures black and white mystery thriller Meet Nero Wolfe is based on the 1934 novel Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout. Edward Arnold plays the gruff, boozy, stay-at-home New York detective hero. ‘I CAN […]
‘7 MEN AND ONE WOMAN – their incredible plan – to steal a $2,500,000 military payroll!’ Director Jack Shea’s 1968 thriller Dayton’s Devils is written by Fred De Gorter, and stars Leslie Nielsen, Rory Calhoun […]
Christopher Lee calls Penny and the Pownall Case ‘a Z-feature, a truly grisly free-for-all’. Director Slim Hand’s engaging 1948 British second feature mystery film Penny and the Pownall Case, starring Ralph Michael, may be obscure but […]
Director George King’s 1938 black and white British crime thriller Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror stars George Curzon as super-sleuth Sexton Blake who, along with Tony Sympson as Tinker, investigates a case of stolen […]
Director Oswald Mitchell’s 1948 black and white horror movie The Greed of William Hart [Horror Maniacs] is a lip-smacking, body-snatching British low-budget feature that stars the appropriately named Tod Slaughter as corpse-pincher William Hart, though […]