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When a petty crook promises him a million pounds - and then turns up dying on his doorstep - Simon Templar realises he's in for one of the strangest and most dangerous cases of his career. The dying man mentions a criminal mastermind named 'The Tiger' and a tantalising clue to his location... and soon the Saint and his faithful manservant Horace are on a tiger hunt - in deepest, darkest Cornwall! The Tiger himself remains strangely elusive, but as Simon Templar mingles with Cornwall's high society he soon finds a pretty girl (Jean Gillie) and some dirty rotten bankers intent on swindling her out of her land rights. As the bullets start to fly and the double crosses come thick and fast, The Saint must uncover the connection between the girl's supposedly worthless land, some old smuggler's tunnels and a fortune in gold bullion from a recent bank robbery in Bristol! - Director:
- Paul L. Stein
- Cast:
- Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod
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The Saint never abandons a friend, so when his old pal Inspector Henry Fernack (Jonathan Hale) of the New York Police Department is accused of corruption, Simon Templar takes the first cruise liner to the Big Apple to sort things out - his way. Teaming up with small time loser 'Pearly' Gates (Paul Guilfoyle), The Saint discovers that the biggest racketeering case in years has collapsed. With the head detective discredited and the star witness ruthlessly gunned down, all the mobsters have walked free... The trouble is, now those same mobsters are all coming down with fatal cases of lead poisoning - and Templar's friend Inspector Fernack is always at the scene of the crime. Is he out to settle the score personally? And just who is the mystery brunette (Wendy Barrie) with a habit of pulling a disappearing act whenever Templar saves her from trouble? As one murder follows another, The Saint is running out of time to crack his most baffling case... - Director:
- Jack Hively
- Cast:
- George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale
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This is a star studded, madcap comedy about the rivalry between class nerd Jay Jay Manners (Michael J. Fox) and rich kid Beau Middleton (Anthony Edwards). When Jay Jay falls for Beau's girl Beth (Nancy McKeon), war breaks out. Beth is obviously attracted to Jay Jay but his credibility is reduced to zero after a series of pranks and dirty tricks. The battle comes to a climax when Jay Jay challenges Beau to a car race. Pulling out all the stops our hero is determined to prove that nice guys don't always finish last. - Director:
- Rod Amateau
- Cast:
- Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon, Todd Bridges
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The hallway of City Hospital looks ordinary enough, until you sense that the walls are painted with odd combinations of colours, there are goldfish in one of the I.V. bottles, and there's a candy striper and an orderly cuddling under a sheet on a gurney. There's no question that love is in the air; doctors with doctors, nurses with doctors, patients with nurses, and so on. The complications of these romantic trysts make daytime television soaps look like child's play. This hospital's hospitable, where you see no blood, and the only real injury is a broken heart. - Director:
- Garry Marshall
- Cast:
- Michael McKean, Sean Young, Gary Friedkin
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Gay Lawrence (George Sanders) is the debonair and ruthless amateur detective known only as The Falcon. He learns that his brother Tom (Tom Conway) has been reported murdered on a ship arriving from South America. The Falcon swoops to investigate and stalks the would-be murderers before learning that his brother is still alive. His hunt leads him into murky waters with a variety of spies, spivs, and racketeers arriving into New York. The Falcon pursues the gangsters and comes off worse when protecting a diplomat, so the scene is set for the Falcon's mantle to be passed to his brother. When Tom takes over the case, his investigations lead to the doors of a fashion magazine and a ring of Nazi spies... - Director:
- Stanley Logan
- Cast:
- George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
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Amy (Madchen Amick), a young college student, turns an ancient Aztec cloak into a party dress with disastrous results. Used in sacrificial ceremonies, the cloak transmits evil, supernatural powers to all who come into contact with it. As each member of Amy's family comes under the influence of the dress, the death toll mounts, until it is finally stolen by a mortuary assistant and the evil spreads to the entire neighbourhood. - Director:
- Tobe Hooper
- Cast:
- Mädchen Amick, Corey Parker, Daisy Hall
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In London, Fleet Street is going crazy. They've heard that Simon Templar (Hugh Sinclair), The Saint, is off on holiday to Switzerland with his close friend Monty Hayward (Arthur Macrae) and everyone wants the big scoop. What case is the famous adventurer really working on? Only intrepid lady reporter Mary Langdon (Sally Gray) manages to track him down - and soon wishes she hadn't. After a brutal murder, the Saint has come into the possession of a mysterious music box. It's a prize that has set a gang of Nazi agents on his trail, led by Rudolph Hauser (Cecil Parker). Now The Saint and his companions must escape from Switzerland aboard a speeding Alpine Express and somehow smuggle the music box to safety and home to the War Office... - Director:
- Leslie Fenton
- Cast:
- Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae
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All hell breaks loose when Jo Newton, a computer billionaire's daughter, downloads the evil 'Mangler' virus into her high school mainframe. The Mangler virus takes over the system as if it were alive. Faced with catastrophe, the students are forced to match their wits against the computer or face the reality of an excruciating electronic death. - Director:
- Michael Hamilton-Wright
- Cast:
- Philippe Bergeron, David Horner, Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff
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Charlie Chan In The Secret Service The World War II years, filled with espionage and spies of all sorts, were perfect for the foibles of Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler). And in this 1944 venture, America's Number One Chinese detective is enlisted by the Secret Service to find the person who murdered the inventor of a top-secret device.
Charlie takes his time as he investigates the case of a scientist murdered for devising a way to protect US forces from German U-boats. Bedeviled by a gaggle of eccentrics, his nervous assistant (Mantan Moreland) and his exuberantly in-the-way offspring (Benson Fong and Marianne Quon), Charlie must decide which of a houseful of guests is actually the plan-purloining Master Spy!
The Chinese Cat
Number Three Son Tommy comes to the aid of a damsel is distress - by offering Charlie Chan's services - in this top-notch whodunnit fare starring Sidney Toler and Benson Fong.
Leah Manning (Joan Woodbury) has never stopped searching for her father's murderer, although the police and the DA gave up long ago. And now, to add insult to injury, an expert criminologist has written a novel accusing her mother of the crime! Charlie's investigation leads him to a cutthroat gang of gem thieves out to steal a wealth of diamonds hidden in a porcelain Chinese cat!
The Jade Mask
Some families have reunions - this one has alibis! In this thrilling 1945 endeavour, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) finds himself at odds with an entire family, any one of whom could be a killer!
Helped by his pseudo-intellectual Number Four Son (Edwin Luke) and his panicky assistant Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland), Charlie investigates the recent murder of a brilliant but much-loathed scientist (Frank Reicher) who invented a gas that makes wood as strong as steel. But the investigation is anything but elementary, as Charlie sleuths his way through suspicious scientists, sultry sisters, a silent cousin and a butler with a very stiff upper lip!
Meeting At Midnight
Released in 1944 as Black Magic, this unusually absorbing mystery was celebrated on the revival circuit, making it one of the best-known films of the series! Filled with fun spiritualist gags, like levitating hankies and gamboling skeletons, Meeting at Midnight is a rendezvous you'll want to experience again and again!
When Birmingham (Mantan Moreland) gets a job as a butler for the Bonner family, he doesn't know that they're con artists who specialize in trick seances. But things get really spooky when a murder occurs... and Charlie Chans daughter Frances becomes a suspect! Charlie (Sidney Toler)
surmises that nearly everybody has a motive - but even he doesn't yet realize how dangerous these ghoulish swindlers really are!
The Scarlet Clue
The unflappable Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) takes on a group of fast-track media types in this forties send-up of bad radio drama, snarling sponsors and tense thespians that also features Mantan Moreland and partner Ben Carter doing their classic nightclub routine - a Chan movie first!
A fatal mistake made by an impatient detective in Chans employ leads the master sleuth to a radio studio that is somehow connected to a radar operation in the same building. A bloody heel print, lethal cigarettes and an icy wind tunnel all provide Charlie with clues to a dastardly scheme to steal top-secret radar plans - out these suspects are experts at deceit. After all, it's their business!
The Shanghai Cobra
From the director of Kansas City Confidential and The Silencers comes this unusual Chan mystery. Containing a number of film noir elements unique to the series (such as a weary young detective, stark urban sets and a grown-up romance), The Shanghai Cobra is one of the most striking Chans of all!
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called in to investigate a strange and complicated series of mysterious murders by cobra venom. Soon Charlie, Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong) and ever-present assistan- Director:
- Phil Karlson
- Cast:
- Sidney Toler, Manton Moreland, Joan Barclay
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When the Falcon (Tom Conway) and his sidekick Goldie Locke (Edward Brophy) rescue an exotic Brazilian beauty (Madge Meredith) from kidnappers, they find themselves caught up in a deadly international conspiracy! The girl's uncle has perfected a formula for creating industrial diamonds - a priceless secret that ruthless gangsters are well prepared to kill for. In a desperate race against time, the Falcon and Goldie must jump a train from New York to Miami and deliver the formula to a friendly scientist. The gangsters are closing in fast and the Falcon is in for one of the greatest adventures of his crime-busting career! - Director:
- William Berke
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- Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward Brophy
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When a worker at Gartley's Blue Ribbon Laundry is pulled into the titular laundry press and folded like a sheet, police officer John Hunton (Ted Levine) is called to investigate. Was it an accident, or is something more sinister going on? As more deaths and injuries occur under the watchful eye of owner Bill Gartley (Robert Englund), Hunton, with his demonologist brother-in-law Mark Jackson (Daniel Matmor) come to believe the machine might be possessed, and the town itself to be hiding a much deeper secret. - Director:
- Tobe Hooper
- Cast:
- Robert Englund, Ted Levine, Daniel Matmor
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Kibby Womack (Gene Hackman) and Walker Ellis (Burt Reynolds) are two best friends, riding high during Prohibition as the overseers or a major underground liquor distributor. When the men meet singer Claire (Liza Minnelli), who tells them she can get their product into hundreds of establishments, they go into business with her. Things hit a snag, though, when a love triangle develops between the three, complicating matters as they all try to stay one step ahead of the law. - Director:
- Stanley Donen
- Cast:
- Gene Hackman, Ron Masak, Liza Minnelli
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Kiss of the Vampire (1963)Kiss of Evil
Honeymooning in Bavaria, Gerald and Marianne Harcourt experience car trouble and are forced to spend a few days in a small, remote village. Soon Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner and the couple are persuaded to go. Their association with Ravna and his charming, beautiful family is to prove disastrous as they become unwittingly embroiled with this company of vampires who seek to initiate them into their diabolical creed. When the pair attend a masked ball at the chateau a few days later things start to go eerily wrong when Gerald begins to feel faint and Marianne disappears only to later return in front of a ceremony of gowned vampires and announced as their new disciple. - Director:
- Don Sharp
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- Clifford Evans, Edward de Souza, Noel Willman
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Whilst on vacation in Greece, Richard Fountain (Patrick Mower), an Oxford don and the Foreign Secretary's son, falls into the evil clutches of Chriseis (Imogen Hassall), leader of a coven of perverted socialites who number innocent victims in pursuit of their blood. Richard's long absence from Oxford prompts his close friends Tony Seymour, fiancee Penelope and Bob Kirby to instigate a search for him. The clues they find take them across the Aegan Sea to Hydra, a small island where the two men find Richard drugged and unconscious in an old castle. A Pagan orgy is building to a climax as Chriseis is preparing herself for her next victim... After a horrific struggle Chriseis flees, her mouth dropping with blood, and in a tussle with Kirby falls to her death. Richard is saved and returns to the sheltered life at Oxford, but the nightmare is just beginning... the spirit of Chriseis is not yet dead! - Director:
- Robert Hartford-Davis
- Cast:
- Patrick MacNee, Peter Cushing, Alexander Davion
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Hitler's plan to loot a treasure-laden island off Greece is underway. A prison camp is built where inmates dig up priceless art under the eye of the Austrian commandant Major Otto Hecht (Roger Moore). Zeno (Telly Savalas), the island's resistance leader and Eleana (Claudia Cardinale) scheme to defeat the occupiers. Leading a group of freedom fighters, they clash with the Nazis as they try to save the lives of condemned prisoners and to save the treasure hidden in the mountaintop monastery - Director:
- George P. Cosmatos
- Cast:
- Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven
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