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April 18, 2020by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

In Berlin a murderer (Peter Lorre) is on the loose, preying on young girls. As the police repeatedly fail to catch him, angry mob bosses and an angry mob take […]

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The Invisible Man (1933)

February 29, 2020by Alex Chafey 1 Comment

An invisible man (Claude Rains) arrives at a remote inn shrouded in goggles, overcoat and secrecy. After he’s aggravated by an over-helpful landlady he goes on a naked rampage against […]

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The Lady Vanishes

December 10, 2019by Alex Chafey 2 Comments

In the snowy Bandrikan mountains a group of holiday makers are left stranded in a hotel during an avalanche. It then switches from The Hateful Eight to Murder on the […]

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

December 8, 2019by Alex Chafey 1 Comment

A couple, Jill and Bob Lawrence (Edna Best and Leslie Banks), are on a skiing holiday in the Alps with daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam). When a holiday friend (Pierre Fresnay)  […]

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The Threepenny Opera

June 13, 2019by Dan Meier 1 Comment

This 1931 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s German play follows Mack the Knife (Rudolf Forster), a kind of celebrity crook à la the Krays or Jared Kushner.  The […]

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The Dark Eyes of London

May 17, 2019by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

Bela Lugosi plays Orloff, an ex-doctor-cum-insurance salesman who becomes a person of interest in a homicide inquiry after the bodies of several of his clients are found in Thames. This […]

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Waltzes from Vienna

May 9, 2019by Alex Chafey 5 Comments

In early 19th century Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Esmond Knight) plays second fiddle, both metaphorically and literally, in his father’s (Edmund Gwenn) orchestra, where he’s constantly denigrated by his elder […]

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Freaks

April 3, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Freaks is a pre-Code film with one of the greatest taglines in movie history: “Can a full-grown woman truly love a midget?” Following the success of Universal’s Dracula, MGM asked […]

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The Big Trail

March 20, 2019by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

This early John Wayne film from 1931 sees a band of pioneers heading out West to start a new town along the Oregon Trail. Together the families traverse dangerous plains […]

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Dark Victory

December 13, 2017by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

When a young socialite (Bette Davis) is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, she needs to come to terms with her early death, with the support of a sexy neurosurgeon […]

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