Posts Tagged ‘private-detective’

The Pearl of Death (1944)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Dennis Hoey | Evelyn Ankers | Miles Mander | Ian Wolfe | Charles Francis | Holmes Herbert | Richard Nugent | Mary Gordon | Rondo Hatton | J.W. Austin | Wilson Benge | Billy Bevan | Harry Cording
Directors: Roy William Neill
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When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes’ show-boating, he is naturally obliged to find it. Soon, he learns of a series of brutal murders that seemed to have been commited by a malevolent man mountain known only as the Creeper. Now, Holmes must deal with the seemingly overwhelming menace of this man and his boss in order to retrieve the pearl.

The Woman in Green (1945)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Hillary Brooke | Henry Daniell | Paul Cavanagh | Matthew Boulton | Eve Amber | Frederick Worlock | Tom Bryson | Sally Shepherd | Mary Gordon | John Burton | Harold De Becker | Leslie Denison | Tony Ellis
Directors: Roy William Neill
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Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.

Terror by Night (1946)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Alan Mowbray | Dennis Hoey | Renee Godfrey | Frederick Worlock | Mary Forbes | Skelton Knaggs | Billy Bevan | Geoffrey Steele | Gilbert Allen | Harry Cording | Boyd Davis | Gerald Hamer | Leyland Hodgson
Directors: Roy William Neill
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Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs’ mother, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes deftly switches diamonds with Lady Margaret while in her compartment. Soon after, Roland is murdered and the fake diamond is stolen. Red herrings abound as Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, discover the murderer’s hiding place and deduce that long-time foe Moriarty’s henchman Colonel Sebastian Moran is somehow involved in the crime.

The House of Fear (1945)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Aubrey Mather | Dennis Hoey | Paul Cavanagh | Holmes Herbert | Harry Cording | Sally Shepherd | Gavin Muir | Florette Hillier | David Clyde | Richard Alexander | Wilson Benge | Hobart Cavanaugh | Alec Craig
Directors: Roy William Neill
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In a gloomy mansion in the west of Scotland the seven members of the Good Comrades Club are dining. One of them receives a curious death threat, an envelope containing seven orange pips. He dies the next night in a car crash. At his funeral another member receives an envelope with six pips, and ten days later his body is recovered from the sea. Sherlock Holmes is called in.

Zero Effect (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Pullman | Ben Stiller | Ryan O'Neal | Kim Dickens | Angela Featherstone | Hugh Ross | Sarah DeVincentis | Matt O'Toole | Michele Mariana | Robert Katims | Tyrone Henry | Aleta Barthell | Tapp Watkins | Wendy Westerwelle | Lauren Hasson
Directors: Jake Kasdan
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Shifty timber tycoon Gregory Stark (’Ryan O’Neal’ (qv)) is being systematically blackmailed and the use of regular private detectives have proved ineffective. Stark decides to call upon the services of the renowned, reclusive Daryl Zero (’Bill Pullman (qv)), supposedly the world’s greatest detective. Stark is very surprised to find himself discussing the intimate details of the case with Zero’s amiable associate Steve Arlo (’Stiller, Ben’ (qv)) who explains Zero’s propensity for never meeting with clients. Zero, using his two ‘obs’ of objectivity and observation, quickly discovers the identity of the blackmailer but continues the case in order to discover exactly why the seemingly ordinary Gloria Sullivan (’Kim Dickens’ (qv)) is attacking Stark in this fashion. As Zero becomes more engrossed in the case and, even worse for him, becomes personally involved with Gloria he is forced to decide between the blackmailer and his client!

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jane Russell | Marilyn Monroe | Charles Coburn | Elliott Reid | Tommy Noonan | George Winslow | Marcel Dalio | Taylor Holmes | Norma Varden | Howard Wendell | Steven Geray | Henri Letondal | Leo Mostovoy | Alex Frazer | George Davis
Directors: Howard Hawks
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Lorelei and Dorothy are just “Two Little Girls from Little Rock”, lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Based on the Broadway musical based on the novel.

Secondhand Lions (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Caine | Robert Duvall | Haley Joel Osment | Kyra Sedgwick | Nicky Katt | Josh Lucas | Michael O'Neill | Deirdre O'Connell | Eric Balfour | Christian Kane | Kevin Haberer | Emmanuelle Vaugier | Adam Ozturk | Jennifer Stone | Mitchel Musso
Directors: Tim McCanlies
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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter’s mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he’s going to do with it.

The Golden Child (1986)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: J.L. Reate | Eddie Murphy | Charles Dance | Charlotte Lewis | Victor Wong | Randall 'Tex' Cobb | James Hong | Shakti | Tau Logo | Tiger Chung Lee | Pons Maar | Peter Kwong | Wally Taylor | Eric Douglas | Charles Levin
Directors: Michael Ritchie
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Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the ‘Chosen one’ who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.

Love in the Afternoon (1957)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gary Cooper | Audrey Hepburn | Maurice Chevalier | Van Doude | John McGiver | Lise Bourdin | Bonifas
Directors: Billy Wilder
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Director Billy Wilder salutes his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy about a middle-aged playboy fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Bob Hoskins | Christopher Lloyd | Joanna Cassidy | Charles Fleischer | Stubby Kaye | Alan Tilvern | Richard LeParmentier | Lou Hirsch | Betsy Brantley | Joel Silver | Paul Springer | Richard Ridings | Edwin Craig | Lindsay Holiday | Mike Edmonds
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character who (along with many others) exists along side of real humans. Eddy is a private eye who has seen better days and has been on the skids since the death of his brother at the hands of a Toon (cartoon character). Rogers’ boss hires Eddy to see if his sexy wife has other male interests, but things get out of hand as Roger is framed for murder with no one but the Toon hating Eddy to go to for help.