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Among the Living
6.4

Among the Living

Dec. 12, 1941

Among the Living

A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
They Drive by Night
7.2

They Drive by Night

Jul. 26, 1940

They Drive by Night

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle ...
Stranger on the Third Floor
6.8

Stranger on the Third Floor

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his “evidence” has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Saloon Bar
6.9

Saloon Bar

Nov. 02, 1940

Saloon Bar

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Rebecca
8.1

Rebecca

Mar. 23, 1940

Rebecca

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died ...
Phantom of Chinatown
5.9

Phantom of Chinatown

Nov. 18, 1940

Phantom of Chinatown

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water ...
Night Train to Munich
7.2

Night Train to Munich

Aug. 31, 1940

Night Train to Munich

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach ...
Murder in the Air
5.5

Murder in the Air

Jun. 01, 1940

Murder in the Air

Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with ...
Murder Over New York
6.9

Murder Over New York

Dec. 13, 1940

Murder Over New York

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was ...
Island of Doomed Men
5.8

Island of Doomed Men

May. 20, 1940

Island of Doomed Men

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
The House of the Seven Gables
7

The House of the Seven Gables

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother ...
Foreign Correspondent
7.4

Foreign Correspondent

Aug. 16, 1940

Foreign Correspondent

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of ...
Escape
7

Escape

Nov. 01, 1940

Escape

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed ...
Doomed to Die
5.5

Doomed to Die

Aug. 12, 1940

Doomed to Die

Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit ...
The Door with Seven Locks
5.5

The Door with Seven Locks

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A ...
Contraband
6.9

Contraband

May. 11, 1940

Contraband

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes ...
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
7

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues ...
Charlie Chan in Panama
7.1

Charlie Chan in Panama

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy ...
Swanee River
6.1

Swanee River

Dec. 29, 1939

Swanee River

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern ...
The Spy in Black
6.9

The Spy in Black

Aug. 03, 1939

The Spy in Black

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
The Roaring Twenties
7.9

The Roaring Twenties

Oct. 28, 1939

The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie ...
Q Planes
6.5

Q Planes

Feb. 21, 1939

Q Planes

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test ...
Personal Column
6.9

Personal Column

Dec. 05, 1939

Personal Column

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the ...
Mr. Moto’s Last Warning
6.4

Mr. Moto’s Last Warning

A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in ...
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
5.8

Mr. Wong in Chinatown

Aug. 01, 1939

Mr. Wong in Chinatown

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 ...