A tough police inspector (Paul Naschy) tries to find the killer who is stalking the streets of Milan, leaving a fake dragonfly on each body. As the inquiry drags on, his wife (Erika Blanc) does some sleuthing, too. Overall the movie, originally titled Una libélula para cada muerto, is rather dull, albeit watchable. Mildly recommended …
Read the full post →“<em>A Dragonfly for Each Corpse</em> (1975)”
Unmemorable low-budget fare stars Neil Hamilton as a government agent who spots a villain (Victor Varconi) presumed dead in a plane crash. Said bad guy is now after aviation secrets and control of an aircraft plant, and he resorts to using both a temptress (a Doris Day, but not the Doris Day) and poison in …
Read the full post →“<em>Federal Fugitives</em> (PRC, 1941)”
Rival tongs are settling their differences through a marriage, but crooks target the gift, a jade necklace, that was given to settle the feud. Reporters covering the wedding get involved in the less-than-compelling action. The best performer in the cast is probably Tarzan, the Police Dog, but even he is no great shakes. Not recommended. …
A photographer investigates when his date, a stewardess, is kidnapped. Bad guys are after gold that her father had smuggled during the war, and among those interested are killer women who wear black tights and use an assortment of odd weapons, including records as throwing stars and measuring tapes as swords. Lots of fun, with …
Read the full post →“<em>Ore ni sawaru to abunaize</em> (1966)”
Lackluster tale of the smuggling of illegal aliens into the United States by air has Regis Toomey as the main investigator, the reliable J. Farrell MacDonald as another lawman, Esther Ralston as a bored young rich woman caught up with the gang behind the crimes, and Sidney Blackmer as a slick crook fascinated by the …
Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond (John Howard) and his fiancée Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell) will soon be heading to Switzerland to be married, but the murder of an inventor and the theft of his new explosive — which inadvertently ends up, at least temporarily, in Drummond’s possession, makes for a delay while the criminal plotters are …
Read the full post →“<em>Bulldog Drummond’s Revenge</em> (Paramount, 1937)”
A black-clad killer with a razor is stalking the denizens of a private clinic in nineteenth-century England. A new nurse has joined the staff of the institution, which is presided over by Dr. Vance (William Berger); soon, a thief (Françoise Prévost) is made welcome at the facility, too. Secrets and strange developments add to the …
District Attorney Thatcher Colt (Adolphe Menjou) heads out of town for a brief vacation, accompanied by his secretary (Ruthelma Stevens), but they don’t find the upstate New York town of Gilead particularly restful. A small circus comes to town, with a love triangle at the center of its prominent acts, and murder follows. Dwight Frye …
Read the full post →“<em>The Circus Queen Murder</em> (Columbia, 1933)”
After a man dies in a car crash shortly after increasing his insurance, suspicion falls on his widow, who is strapped for cash because of the insurance company’s reluctance to pay and is then helped to get a job with a charity that assists ex-convicts in returning to society. At the same time, Scotland Yard …
Someone is flooding England with counterfeit bank notes. Could the wealthy Peter Clifton (Hellmut Lange), who is subject to blackouts, be responsible? His new bride, Jane, finds an indication that may be the case. Fortunately, Chief Inspector Bourke (Siegfried Lowitz) is on the case in this West German Edgar Wallace Krimi, originally titled Der Fälscher …
