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‘Sensational! Shocking! The inside story of the Nation’s Worst Crime Plot!’ Parole officers fight gangsters infiltrating the US parole system in the 1948 film noir crime thriller Parole, Inc. Director Alfred Zeisler’s low-budget 1948 black […]
Director William Beaudine’s 1948 Lindsley Parsons Picture Corporation/ Monogram Pictures poverty row double feature film adventure Kidnapped is another antique American version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale, this time with Roddy McDowall as the boy […]
Director Anthony Mann’s neat and well-plotted 1947 low-budget crime thriller Railroaded! stars John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, and Jane Randolph. It is an incisive, dour, dark-toned little 40s film-noir mobster tale with John Ireland […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s gritty, pacy, atmospheric minor 1949 black and white film noir crime thriller Trapped stars the then upcoming busy young star Lloyd Bridges as Tris Stewart, a counterfeiting criminal sprung from prison by […]
Writer-director Robert Bradbury’s 1935 Texas Terror stars a very young-looking John Wayne as Sheriff John Higgins, a lawman turned prospector who finds the real bad guy (LeRoy Mason) after it turns out he was falsely […]
Director William Beaudine’s 1948 low-budget Monogram Studios series thriller The Shanghai Chest is a just passable Charlie Chan entry, starring Roland Winters in his third film as Asian-American detective Charlie Chan probing killings apparently committed […]
Director Phil Rosen’s 1945 thriller The Red Dragon [Charlie Chan and the Red Dragon] is a standard, conveyor-belt late Charlie Chan entry from his Monogram Pictures phase. Sidney Toler is back again as the oriental […]