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Agatha Christie’s 1969 detective novel Hallowe’en Party is re-titled, reworked and transposed from England to Venice as the third of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films, the 2023 mystery crime drama A Haunting in Venice. Agatha […]
Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1950 American crime film thriller Bunco Squad is written by George Callahan, based on the novel Fortuneer by Reginald Taviner, and stars Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley and Elisabeth Risdon. […]
‘A mad murdering midnight menace! ‘ Director Benjamin Stoloff’s quaintly entertaining 1933 Bryan Foy Productions/ Columbia Pictures Old Dark House murder mystery horror film Night of Terror [He Lived to Kill] [Terror in the Night] stars Bela […]
Director Gordon Wiles’s modest 1935 mystery Charlie Chan’s Secret is set in a creepy old mansion in San Francisco, where Chan (Warner Oland) endures séances, apparitions, a hurled knife, and Herbert Mundin’s insufferable comic butler […]
Director Sidney Gilliat’s well-made, finely acted 1948 drama London Belongs To Me [Dulcimer Street] is based on the novel by Norman Collins, and stars Alastair Sim, Stephen Murray, Richard Attenborough and Fay Compton. In this […]
Directors Basil Dearden and Alberto Cavalcanti’s haunting 1944 British black and white fantasy mystery drama The Halfway House stars Mervyn Johns and his real-life daughter Glynis Johns as an inn-keeper (Rhys) and his daughter (Gwyneth) […]
Though burdened with a heavy cargo of silliness, co-storywriter/director Marcus Adams’s 2002 British horror chiller is often quite skilful and creepy. Joe Absolom, Tom Bell, Lara Belmont and America’s Lukas Haas are among those in deadly […]