suspense

"Britt Reid," the millionaire publisher, dons a mask and goes out to fight crime in his famous automobile, "The Black Beauty." "Kato," the Korean science wizard, whom "Britt" saved from attackers years ago, has now pledged his life to serving "Reid" any way he can. Each chapter opens with the familiar Green Hornet theme, "Flight Of The Bumblebee." This is the first of two film serials distributed by Universal Pictures. 13 chapters total; 3/13.

A man arrested for bank robbery escapes and tries to track down the real culprits. You can find out more at IMDB.com.

From IMDb: Set in Cornwall where the young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of the Jamaica Inn. Mary soon realizes that her uncle's inn is the base of a gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. The girl starts fearing for her life. Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara and Leslie Banks

Glen Ford plays Michael Blake a WWII veteran who retuns to France to find a mysterious Green Glove he had discoverd during the early days of Normandy invasion.

An under-rated horror/slasher/mystery film. Patrick O'Neal, Mary Woronov, and John Carradine are among the actors. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and create a DVD to watch on your television.

Acclaimed film noir story of man trying desperately to find who has given him a slow-acting fatal dose of radium.

Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy pick up a hitch-hiker (William Talman) who turns out to be an insane escaped convict.

In San Francisco, a woman tries to track down her husband, who is hiding from a killer and from the police. The IMDB entry is here.

This is pure noir. Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy are a couple who receive a satchel full of money that was intended for someone else (Dan Duryea). He wants to turn the cash over to the authorities; she wants to keep it---no matter what the consequenses: "Jane, Jane, what's happening to us---what's happening. The money sits down there in an old leather bag and yet it's tearing us apart. It's poison, Jane. It's changing you, it's changing both of us." "Chances like this are never offered twice. This is it. I've been waiting for it---dreaming of it all my life, even when I was a kid."

An engrossing film noir with Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, and Jeanne Cagney. Needing money for a date, Rooney borrows $20 from the cash register, starting a chain of events that includes car theft, burglary, and possibly murder. Read more at the IMDB. (The video is interlaced in both the MPEG2 file and the Cinepack. If viewing with VLC, deinterlace with menu-path Video/Deinterlace/Blend.)

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