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[Trailer] Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones. -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 7, 2024 - 1 comment

[Trailer] In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-using one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered. - IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Sep 22, 2024 - 3 comments

[TRAILER] Victorian-era Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) proclaims before his fellow members of a London gentleman's club that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days, further boasting that he will bet the princely sum of 20,000 pounds on the success of his endeavor. With his stalwart manservant Passepartout (Cantinflas) alongside, he goes forth on his adventure, pursued by a dogged Police Inspector (Robert Newton) who suspects Fogg of chicanery. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 23, 2023 - 3 comments

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 31, 2022 - 12 comments

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Mar 22, 2022 - 11 comments

Set in Casablanca, Morocco during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Nov 3, 2015 - 37 comments

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 26, 2015 - 14 comments