Files tagged with Crime

Reefer Madness
1936 - 67 mins

Considered the archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie, really an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use. Reefer Madness has become a cult classic because of its dated (1937) outlook on marijuana use and is the height of camp entertainment. »

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Family Enforcer (The Death Collector)
1976 - 85 mins

Saturday Night Fever (sans the music) meets The Godfather (sans the great acting) ... you look at this and you realise that the 1970s really were a fashion dead zone. If they'd had Taste Police out on the streets you wouldn't have to waste your time trying to screw the hoods on tax evasion ... just lock em up for wearing a too loud shirt and hair-cuts that'd look better on those posh poodles old ladies carry under their arm. »

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Call it Murder (Midnight)
1934 - 76 mins

Humphrey Bogart and OP Heggie star in the story of a jury foreman who helps send a woman to the electric chair, only to later have his daughter kill her lover in a fit of passion. The old "If it were your own daughter" plot device forms the basis of the independently-produced crime melodrama. »

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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937 - 64 mins

In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry his longtime fiancée Phyllis when she is kidnapped by Mikhail Valdin and his sister Erena. It seems Drummond arrested Erena's husband, and now she's determined to make him pay. The kidnappers are wanted for the murder of an American millionaire, and Scotland Yard Inspector Neilson (John Barrymore) warns Bulldog that he may be next. »

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Great Guy
1936 - 75 mins

After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the New York Department of Weights and Measures. However, he soon discovers that the organization is full of corruption. »

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Dick Tracy's Dilemma
1947 - 60 mins

Dick Tracy is a comic strip detective and a popular character in American pop culture. The character of Dick Tracy is a hard hitting, fast shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of often grotesquely ugly villains. Dick Tracy was created by cartoonist Chester Gould in 1931 for a newspaper comic strip also entitled Dick Tracy. »

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
1947 - 65 mins

Befitting his status as a genre star, Boris Karloff earns top billing over leading man Ralph Byrd in RKO's final Dick Tracy caper. The former Frankenstein monster plays an escaped convict masterminding a daring bank robbery. A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', finds out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. »

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Dick Tracy Vs Cueball
1946 - 62 mins

Morgan Conway made his final screen appearance as Chester Gould's granite-jawed detective Dick Tracy in this RKO Radio programmer. This time around, Tracy's nemesis is bald headed jewel thief Cueball, played with blunt menace by Dick Wessel. »

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Swamp Women
1955 - 67 mins

Swamp Women was the first film directed by a young Roger Corman while in his twenties and is an early display all the classic B-movie sensibilities which were to become his trademark throughout his career. »

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Sex Madness
1938 - 57 mins

This is a typical sex exploitation film from cult director Dwain Esper, along the lines of his other classic - Reefer Madness, supposedly to deal with venereal diseases. Wild parties, lesbianism and sex out of wedlock and the dangers of the casting couch are some of the forms of "madness" portrayed. The "educational" aspect of the film allowed it to portray a taboo subject which was otherwise forbidden by the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930. »

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D.O.A.
1949 - 83 mins

An accountant on vacation in San Francisco gets a dose of lethal, slow-acting poison. He then begins a desperate search for the individual responsible for his impending demise. D.O.A. is considered a classic of the film noir genre and in 2004 The Library of Congress added the film to its National Film Registry. »

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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 - 75 mins

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period. The Film was the first in a series of increasingly confident pictures which would make his name worldwide, and lead ultimately to his departure for Hollywood in 1939. »

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Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon
1943 - 68 mins

Based on the short story "Dancing Men" from volume "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Victorian Sleuth, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are transplanted to WWII europe and help protect a scientist and his invention from the Nazis. »

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Sherlock Holmes - Dressed To Kill
1946 - 72 mins

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate. »

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Quicksand
1950 - 79 mins

After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic (Mickey Rooney) is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control. »

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Indestructible Man
1956 - 70 mins

300,000 Volts of Horror! indestructible Man tells the story of Butcher Benton (Lon Chaney), a double-crossed convicted robber and murderer who dies in the gas chamber and is inadvertently revived by a lone-wolf cancer researcher who claims his body from the prison and subjects it to further massive jolts of electricity. »

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Kansas City Confidential
1952 - 99 mins

Kansas City Confidential is a compact, gritty 1952 film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne. Perennial movie bad guys Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand and Jack Elam play the film's heavies. Four robbers hold up an armored truck getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck flower delivery truck driver is accused of being involved and is arrested and beaten up by the local police. »

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Splintered
2005 - 8 mins

Sometimes you have to help your mates, no matter what happens. Gavin tries to rebuild his shattered friendship with his best friend after a botched crime. »

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The Green Glove
1952 - 89 mins

The Green Glove is an action adventure film starring Glenn Ford, directed by Rudolph Mate. Glenn Ford stars as an American paratrooper who travels to France after the end of World War II to try and recover a jewel encrusted glove that had been stolen from a country church during the war. His quest leads him to a beautiful young tour guide (Geraldine Brooks), and a Nazi collaborator (George Macready) whom he had fought during the war. »

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Panic In The Streets
1950 - 96 mins

Panic in the Streets is a semidocumentary film noir directed by Elia Kazan shot exclusively on location in New Orleans, Louisiana. The film tells the story of Clinton Reed, an officer of the U.S. Public Health Service (Richard Widmark) and a police captain (Paul Douglas) who have only a day or two in which to prevent an epidemic of pneumonic plague after Reed determines a waterfront homicide victim is an infected.

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He Walked By Night
1948 - 79 mins

When a police officer is gunned down by a man whom he had stopped to question, a city-wide dragnet fails to catch the shooter, leaving the police with only minor clues to go on. Later they discover that the same man has been selling stolen equipment through an electronics dealer, and they set a trap for him. But he shoots his way out of the trap and escapes. The police must piece together a description of the man's appearance and habits from witnesses and a few small clues. »

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The Fast And The Furious
1955 - 73 mins

Classic Roger Corman B-movie. A man wrongly imprisoned for murder breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him. »

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