Appointment with Murder (1948)
The Hottest Date Mr. Suspense Ever Had... with Miss Mystery
ジャンル : 謎
上映時間 : 1時間 7分
演出 : Jack Bernhard
脚本 : Don Martin
シノプシス
The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert sees the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.
A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series.
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.
The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another victim is discovered.
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert sees the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
ルイジアナ州ニューオリンズ。看護士のキャロラインは、老婦人のヴァイオレットと脳梗塞で全く身動き出来ない夫のベンが住んでいる古い屋敷に住み込みで働くことになった。その屋敷には鏡が一つもなく、至る所に魔よけのレンガ屑が撒いてある。働き始めて間もなく、バイオレットから全ての部屋を開けられる合鍵を預かるキャロライン。そしてある日、彼女はその鍵でも開けられない部屋を発見する。そこから、土地に伝わる古呪術“フードゥー”の存在と、昔この家で起こった惨劇を知らされる。
検察官を目指し法科に通うダービーは、世間を騒がす最高裁連続殺人に関する自分なりの説をまとめ文書を作った。それがいつの間に国家の上層部の黒幕の目に触れ、“ペリカン文書”と名付けられ、彼女は命を狙われる。恋人でもあった恩師は殺された。孤立無援の彼女を助ける者は新聞記者のD・ワシントンの他にいない……。ジョン・グリシャムのベストセラーをジュリア・ロバーツ主演で映画化したサスペンス・スリラー。
1999年12月31日。1000年紀(ミレニアム)最後の日に悪魔が復活。だが悪魔が世界を支配するためには、運命の下に生まれた一人の女が必要だ。教皇の命により悪魔の魔手から彼女クリスティーンを護るべく修道士がNYに飛ぶが、悪魔の前に成す術は無い。だが元刑事で今は民間警備会社で働くジェリコ・ケインは運命に導かれるまま、悪魔からクリスティーンを守る役目をまかされる事になる。新世紀を賭けた壮絶な死闘が今始まろうとしていた。
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions and endure attacks from a supernatural source. Jess must warn her disbelieving family before it is too late to save them.