Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another exciting quest in Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb. Ace Zucco has a new partner, reporter Fay Kendall, who is more than a match for the rowdy photographer. Daily Dispatch editor Mac sends them on assignment accompanying his niece Kate as she tries to find Rick Banning, her fiancée, an archeologist who disappeared while working in Egypt. A letter from Rick directs them to Lord Darby in England. The trail takes them from London to Scotland and finally to Egypt where they discover more than they bargained for as they search for the lost city of Lemuria.
Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and friend, Dr. Watson.
Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Arntz, police officer
An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.
Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.
Sir Eric Hazarias
A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang. Obstructing his sinister plan to rule the world are Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation investigator, Tal Shan , Pendrang native, and Marjorie Elmore, daughter of scientist Dr. Elmore, unwilling assistant to Sir Eric.
Police Inspector Holtz
El Hombre Lobo y Drácula llegan al laboratorio del Dr. Edelman para pedirle una cura que los libere de sus instintos asesinos. Pero mientras el Hombre Lobo es sincero, Drácula unicamente está planeando acercarse a la encantadora enfermera del doctor, a quien quiere seducir para que se convierta en una de sus siniestras novias. El monstruo de Frankenstein y una joven jorobada completan el plantel de criaturas terroríficas.
Pat Coyle
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
Alec Ritchfield
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.
Inspector Arnz
El científico trastornado Gistar Niemann (Boris Karloff) escapa de prisión y se convierte en el director de un macabro viaje a través de la cámara de los horrores. Retirando la estaca en el pecho de un esqueleto, resucitará al famoso Conde Drácula (John Carradine), y le enviará a matar al responsable de sus años de presidio. Además, encontrará congelados al Monstruo Frankenstein (Glenn Strange) y al Hombre Lobo (Lon Chaney Jr.), enterrados bajo las ruinas del conocido laboratorio del Doctor Frankenstein. Cuando les devuelve a la vida, el monstruo se volverá incontrolable.
Waterlow
Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight, prepares for the next war by planting a spy in the British Admiralty. Edgar Barrier plays the dual role of the German spy and his British twin brother. When one twin is killed, the other assumes his identity. The question: is the surviving brother the "good" one or the bad? It is up to C. Aubrey Smith, cast as Scotland Yard inspector Sir Christopher Belt, to sort out the mystery. Though it owes a great deal to the aforementioned Oppenheim yarn, Secrets of Scotland Yard is actually based on a novel by Denison Clift, who also wrote the screenplay.
Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?
Charles Finch
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
Cyrus Maldor
Una serie de misteriosos asesinatos llama la atención del Presidente de Estados Unidos, que entrena a Grant Gardner para convertirlo en un superhéroe. El Dr. Clinton Lyman le confía a Cyrus Maldor sus planes y que él es el responsable de los asesinatos. Maldor avisa a la policía pero Lyman activa el Vibrador Dinámico y convierte a Maldor en el malvado Escarabajo. El Escarabajo huye del laboratorio y empieza a hacer el mal. Grant Gardner, ahora convertido en el Capitán América, va a derrotarlo.
Mayor of Vasaria
El resucitado Hombre Lobo, buscando una cura para su enfermedad acude en busca de la ayuda del doctor Frankenstein. Cuando llega a su castillo descubre que el Dr. ha muerto a manos del los habitantes del pueblo, y levanta las sospechas de éstos, que comienzan a perseguirlo. En su huida se esconde en las galerías del castillo donde libera del hielo al monstruo de Frankentein.
Moriarty
El detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) y su fiel ayudante el doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) se enfrentan al colaboracionista nazi Profesor Moriarty. Moriarty tiene entre sus planes secuestrar a un científico británico que ha creado una nueva mira de bombardero para atacar al ejército alemán.
Dr. King
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
The Baron
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Society, led by the sinister Baron (perennial B-movie villain Lionel Atwill) plots to pave the way for an Axis invasion of the U.S.A. by destroying America's defenses. When their plans are discovered by the Dead End Kids, the gang is too suspicious of "the coppers" to ask for help. The FBI send in their Junior G-Men to stop the spies, but when one of the Dead Enders is kidnapped, the two groups must work together to smash the Black Dragons once and for all!
Teutonic Gentleman
El reportero Homer Smith accidentalmente implica a Marcia Warren en su misión para evitar que los nazis bombardeen convoyes aliados con aviones-robot.
Varnoff
Tommy Layton, un joven aventurero, convence a los chóferes de un autobús, muy necesitados de dinero, para que le lleven desde Chicago a Los Ángeles. Una vez allí tiene la intención de participar en una regata en Hawai. Los conductores , Algy y Wellington, son perseguidos por un detective contratado por la propia empresa. Layton, ya en su yate, los rescata y los contrata como miembros de su tripulación para la regata. Camino de Hawai, se enfrentan a un huracán y terminan en una isla desierta.
The Baron
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
Dr. Fish
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
Dr. Bohmer
Otro hijo del viejo Frankenstein (Cedrick Hardwicke) intenta aclarar la verdad sobre el monstruo (Lon Chaney Jr.) y debe lidiar con un ambicioso colega (Lionel Atwill) y con el jorobado Ygor (Bela Lugosi). Ejemplo efectivo de comedia negra, con transplantes de cerebro, un monstruo que trepa a los tejados para bajar el globo de una niña, aparatos de ciencia loca, y una implausible y divertida trama de conquista del mundo por parte de Ygor, en su más alto rango de protagonismo en toda la saga.
Rawitch
Las tropas de Hitler invaden Varsovia. En la ciudad, una compañía de teatro que iba a representar una obra, se ve obligada a sustituirla por Hamlet. Mientras, la esposa del actor principal empieza a flirtear con un apuesto oficial.
Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
A fugitive doctor (Lionel Atwill) tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.
Dr. Paul Rigas
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Dr. Bruce
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Harry Compton
Dos amigos que pretenden hacerse ricos con el negocio del petróleo en los campos de Oklahoma, comienzan a tener problemas cuando se enamoran de la misma mujer.
Russell aka Henry Woodruff
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Dr. Suderman
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
Jim McLaughlin
Un corredor de bolsa de Wall Street es encarcelado por desfalco. Su hijo, recién licenciado en la universidad, intenta conseguir trabajo para pagar la fianza. Sin embargo, debido a la reputación de su padre, es rechazado en todas partes. Dadas las circunstancias, acaba entrando en una banda mafiosa y llega a ser la mano derecha de un poderoso gángster.
Cliveden Compton
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 fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
General Bazaine
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
Professor Marakov
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Paul Messenger
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
Hugo Zurof
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
Walter Stevens
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
Dr. James Mortimer
Durante más de doscientos años una maldición parece haber caído sobre la aristocrática familia de los Baskerville. Cuando Sir Charles es hallado muerto en extrañas circunstancias, el legendario Sherlock Holmes y su compañero Watson comienzan a investigar y llegan a la conclusión de que la próxima víctima será Sir Henry, el único miembro vivo de la familia y, por tanto, el heredero universal de la fortuna de los Baskerville.
De Rochefort
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Krogh
De vuelta al ancestral castillo 25 años después de la muerte del monstruo, el hijo del doctor Frankenstein conoce a Ygor, un pastor loco que esconde a la terrible criatura. Buscando limpiar el nombre de la familia, revive al monstruo y lo intenta rehabilitar.
Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
Biopic sobre el compositor austriaco Johann Strauss. Con una romántica Viena como telón de fondo, el film aporta datos sustanciales de la vida del músico, sin llegar a ser un documental biográfico en sentido estricto.
Breuer
Terminada la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), tres soldados alemanes regresan a casa y se encuentran con un país destruido y sumido en el caos. A pesar de su precaria situación economica, deciden unir sus escasos recursos para construir su propio coche. La relación entre ellos se complica cuando conocen a una hermosa mujer.
M. Beaumarchais
Siglo XVIII, El célebre actor inglés David Garrick (Brian Aherne) anuncia, con prepotencia y arrogancia, que irá a París para enseñar los actores franceses el arte de la interpretación. Entonces los miembros del grupo teatral de la Comedia Francesa deciden darle una lección.
Mike Roberts
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Col. Fenwick
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
Col. Vigo
La historia de siete personas: sus vidas y amoríos en Madrid durante la Guerra Civil.
Prosecutor
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
Gerald A. Axton
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
Ludwig
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" Hans Teller, a German prisoner, and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners.
Mr. Stephen Whittaker
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
Colonel Bishop
Inglaterra, siglo XVII. Bajo el reinado de Jacobo I, primer monarca de la dinastía de los Estuardo, son constantes los enfrentamientos entre la Corona y el Parlamento. El doctor Peter Blood, un hombre entregado por entero a sus pacientes, vive al margen de los problemas políticos. Pero su actitud cambia cuando, injustamente acusado de traición, es enviado como esclavo a las Indias Occidentales. Dotado de una gran habilidad y astucia, consigue escapar y se convierte en el temible pirata Capitán Blood.
Maj. William Brennan
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Captain Cole
Un reportero de un periódico, especializado en casos de asesinato, se verá envuelto en una trama parecida a las que cuenta.
Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
España, 1890. Durante las fiestas de Carnaval, Antonio Galván, un joven oficial, conoce a Concha Pérez, una misteriosa mujer que trabaja en una fábrica de tabacos y que rápidamente cae en sus redes. A su vez, Concha seduce y ridiculiza a Don Pascual, un oficial de la Guardia Civil que intentará convencer a Galván de que Concha es una mujer muy peligrosa. Otro éxito de la pareja Sternberg- Dietrich.
Inspector Neumann
Un inspector de policía investiga una serie de extrañas muertes en una población checa. Las víctimas presentan en el cuello pequeñas marcas que hacen sospechar que lo que está pasando es obra de vampiros.
Henry Dumont
Un brillante escritor, empobrecido y pacifista, empieza a trabajar para una editorial y escribe artículos contra la guerra. Cuando descubre que el editor lo ha traicionado y se ha aliado con los fabricantes de municiones para hacer dinero a costa de la guerra, él se vuelve loco.
John Pointer
Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.
Julius Beaufort
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
Brough
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
Herr Von Sturm
Cinta de espías ambientada en el Berlín de 1915. Los servicios secretos alemanes sospechan que entre sus aliados turcos hay un hombre que trabaja para los ingleses. La investigación del caso se la encomiendan a una espía, que averigua que la célebre Mata Hari no es de fiar y que descubre a un agente británico...
John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
Colonel André Muffat
Nana (Anna Sten) es una joven que sueña con triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo. Por ese motivo trabaja sin descanso en París. Un día tiene un golpe de fortuna, y un admirador suyo se decide a crear una revista musical donde Nana sea la única estrella. Esto le lanza a la fama, y pronto se ve rodeada de numerosos fans, que están ansiosos por conocerla en persona. Entre sus admiradores están el veterano Gran Duque Alexis, y un joven galán con quien no tarda en iniciar un romance. Pero el hermano mayor de su amante también anda enamorado de Nana, y los celos se cruzan en su camino. El Gran Duque se entera de la relación de Nana con el joven teniente, y destina a éste a un peligroso emplazamiento en Argelia. Nana, desesperada y presionada por el Gran Duque, abandona el espectáculo y se refugia en los brazos del hermano mayor de su antiguo amante. Un tiempo después, éste regresa de Argelia para luchar contra los prusianos.
Inspector Wallace
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Robert von Helldorf
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
Baron von Merzbach
A la muerte de su padre, Lily deja su hogar y se traslada a Berlín con su tía. Allí, conocerá a Richard, un joven escultor a quien servirá de inspiración.
Jerome Breen
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
Eric Gorman
Un zoólogo, millonario, deportista y celoso hasta la locura utiliza los animales del zoológico para eliminar a los pseudo pretendientes y no tanto de su esposa. La primera víctima aparece con los labios sellados para que «no bese nunca más a otra mujer casada».
Ivan Eigor
Tras una pelea con su socio, un frustrado escultor londinense contempla atónito cómo éste incendia el museo con el fin de cobrar el seguro y poder pagar las deudas. El artista queda inconsciente en medio del fuego, pero sobrevive, aunque con las manos quemadas. Años más tarde reabre el museo en Nueva York.
Aubrey St. John
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Dr. Otto von Niemann
Una serie de crímenes en el pueblo de Klineschloss, todos ellos con masivas pérdidas de sangre y mordeduras en la garganta, unido a una plaga de murciélagos, hace pensar a las autoridades del pueblo que se encuentran ante la amenaza de un vampiro.
Dr. Jerry Xavier
Seis personas han sido asesinadas en la calle Mott muy cerca de la Morgue donde funciona la peculiar academia de medicina del Doctor Xavier. Todos los crímenes han sido cometidos, en noches de luna llena, por una suerte de caníbal que asesina con un bisturí y luego desolla a sus víctimas. Con la venia de la policía, el doctor Xavier procurará averiguar si el asesino está entre sus colaboradores, mientras un periodista husmea cuanto puede y trata de enamorar a la hija del científico.
Sir Austin Howard
Un noble inglés asume la culpabilidad y va a juicio después de que su hijo estrangule a su amante.
Lester
Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.
Kenneth Gordon
A tough fellow from out West falls for young woman who is being pursued by a smarmy high-society type.
Courtenay Urquhart
Eve's Daughter was the fourth and final screen teaming of Billie Burke and Thomas Meighan. This time out, Burke is cast as Irene Simpson-Bates, who is disheartened to learn that her millionaire father has left her with a mere $15,000. She is subsequently courted by two men: Poor but respectable John Norton (Thomas Meighan), and rich but disreputable Courtenay Urquahrt (Lionel Atwill, in his American screen debut).