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Black Dragons (1942)

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Rating: 4.6/10 A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that everyone’s true motives and identities are revealed. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

My Pal Trigger (1946)

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Rating: 6.7/10 Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy’s. When the Sovereign and Roy’s horse escape, Skoville shoots the Sovereign by mistake but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville slips and reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees a chance to clear his name. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Invisible Ghost (1941)

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Rating: 5.5/10 The town’s leading citizen becomes a homocidal maniac after his wife deserts him. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Shock (1946)

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Rating: 6.6/10 A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man whom she witnessed commit a murder. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

East Side Kids (1943)

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Rating: 5.9/10 Young street kid grows up and becomes a cop when he realizes that crime doesn’t pay. One of his childhood friends is in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, and the cop looks for evidence to free him. Meanwhile, the prisoner’s brother gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters, and inadvertently discovers the evidence that can set his brother free, if he can only get someone to believe him. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Fog Island (1945)

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Rating: 5.4/10 Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former business associates, and he also suspects that one of them killed his wife. He has invited the group to his island, tempting them by hinting about a hidden fortune, and he has installed a number of traps and secret passages in his home. He is aided in his efforts by a former cell-mate who holds a grudge against the same persons. When everyone arrives, the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and the thick fog that covers the island promise a tense and hazardous weekend for everyone. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

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Rating: 6.8/10 Melton, Chadwick and O’Brien, rich but lonely heads of an engineering firm, invite two young strangers to dinner on Christmas Eve. The two, James and Jean, fall in love and become friends with their three benefactors…until the latter are killed in a plane crash and come back to their old home as ghosts. In the coming months, true love encounters some rough spots; can ghostly O’Brien help the young folks? H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Meet John Doe (1941)

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Rating: 8.2/10 A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said he’d be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

The Outlaw (1943)

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Rating: 5.7/10 Western legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid are played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Bluebeard (1944)

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Rating: 6.1/10 Lucille meets Gaston Morrell, a puppeteer, and offers to make dresses for him. They begin to fall in love much to the envy of Renee, his former lover. Little does she know that he is a serial killer. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)

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Rating: 6.9/10 Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) saves noted Swiss physicist Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) from the Gestapo in Zurich and smuggles him to London. There, Tobel is reunited with his wife, Charlotte (Kaaren Verne), to whom he gives a coded message in the event he disappears. Tobel presents the weapon he developed to government officials, and when he is subsequently abducted by arch-villain Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill), Holmes and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) risk their lives to find him. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Machine Gun Mama (1944)

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Rating: 5.2/10 Ollie and John are a long way from their home in Brooklyn when their truck breaks down. When they run into a fair, they decide to sell their only valuable possession. It’s an elephant with the name Bunny, and Ollie has grown really attached to him. At the fair the ‘ferocious’ Nita Cordoba works and John falls in love with her, the feeling is mutual. Most employees of the fair are willing to buy Bunny, as the fair is in great commercial trouble and an elephant might just be the injection so barely needed. Owner Jose, however, has different ideas. He’d rather see the fair go down as that will be more benificial to him. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1947)

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Rating: 6.2/10 Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!