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Thriller Chiller Horror Theatre DOA (1950)
A picture as excitingly different as its title!
Doomed to Die
Swamp Women
The Amazing Mr. X
Nabonga Nabonga (1944)
Midnight Manhunt Midnight Manhunt (1945)
British Intelligence (1940)
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Small-town
accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to
settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up
with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he's been given a
"luminous toxin" with no antidote and has, at most, a week to live! Not
knowing who did it or why, Bigelow embarks on a frantic odyssey to find
his own murderer. Compelling little film noir obviously made on a low
budget, though still is impressive today. O'Brien plays a CPA who was
given a slow-acting toxic poison and tries to solve who gave it to him
and why before times run out. Performances are definitely first-rate,
however as the mystery unfolds it becomes exciting to follow. Remade in
1988. 
Shipping
magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner
'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of
Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out
his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests
Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side,
is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James
Lee Wong to find the real killer.
A
plucky police woman infiltrates a group of hardened female criminals who
are planning to break jail and retrieve their loot of diamonds from its
swampy hiding place. Complications arise when the women abduct Connors
and begin fighting each other. Swamp Women, produced in 1955, was the
first film ever directed by Roger Corman. Flaming passions against a
background of weird adventure! The film follows undercover police
officer Lee Hampton after she infiltrates a prison, befriends three
female convicts, and helps them all escape. In reality, this planned
escape is part of a larger plot to find a diamond stash hidden deep
within the swamps of Louisiana. Small boats can run forever on a tank
full of gas, and can accommodate supplies for a party of six for many
days.
On
the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she
hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf. She then meets a
tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After
more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become
enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself
manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind. 4 Stars
Ray
Gorman (Buster Crabbe) travels to Africa track down money stolen from
his fathers company. He finds the money guarded by a beautiful girl and
her Gorilla protector. Nabonga was played by Ray 'Crash' Corrigan who
was one of the Three Mesquiteers (a series of Horse Operas in the late
30's). He played apes in "White Gorilla", and "Killer Apes" and the role
of "It" in "It, the Terror from Beyond Space" (1958). 
Reporter
Sue Gallagher (Ann Savage from Detour) finds an infamous gangster's
corpse in a wax museum. Her desire for a scoop is hindered by a meddling
rival (William Gargan), the museum's goofy maintenance man (Leo Gorcey),
and the ruthless killer (B-horror king George Zucco). Leo Gorcey Scores
Again
During
WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to
London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where
she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him
transmit secret war plans back to Germany. This is not a film for
casual viewing. Pay close attention from the very beginning and you will
be rewarded by being able to follow the twists and turns as this
intelligently scripted, complex plot unfolds. Boris Karloff plays a
domestic servant involved in espionage during World War I, in a film
that is filled with so many double agents that you won't be able to
figure out who is on which side until the film ends.
