![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Mr. Wong in Chinatown From IMDb: A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun..... Keywords: mystery; murder; crime; Karloff; Mr. Wong Downloads: 7,692 Average rating: (4 reviews) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | The Chase - Seymour Nebenzal, Eugene Frenke Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends. The job proves nerve-wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help Eddie's lovely, fearful, prisoner-wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) to escape. The result leaves Chuck caught like a rat in a trap, vainly seeking a way out through dark streets... Keywords: Film-Noir; Peter Lorre Downloads: 13,424 Average rating: (6 reviews) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | That Uncertain Feeling - Ernst Lubitsch, Sol Lesser Against her better judgement, happily married Jill Baker (Merle Oberon) is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups Keywords: Comedy; Merle Oberon Downloads: 11,489 Average rating: (4 reviews) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | The Scarlet Pimpernel - Alexander Korda, Grace Blake London fop Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard) is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife (Merle Oberon) is also French, and she finds that her brother (Walter Rilla) has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is. Keywords: Adventure; Comedy; Leslie Howard; Merle Oberon Downloads: 16,708 Average rating: (8 reviews) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Back-Room Boy - Edward Black After being jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam (Arthur Askey) wants a job where he will encounter no women. He is sent to a lighthouse on a remote Scottish island which is being run as a meteoroligical station where he is supposed to be the only inhabitant. However, Jane (Vera Frances), a young girl, has stowed-away on his boat. She is looking for her uncle on the neighbouring island. Then model Bobbie turns up - her boat has been torpedoed... Keywords: Comedy; Arthur Askey Downloads: 1,844 Average rating: (10 reviews) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Carnival of Souls Atmospheric 60s B-horror film with a cult following. Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her... Keywords: Thriller; Horror Downloads: 77,212 Average rating: (34 reviews) |
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