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Crime movies
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Crime |
Drama |
War |
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Kirk Douglas |
Ralph Meeker |
Adolphe Menjou |
George Macready |
Wayne Morris |
Wayne Morris |
Richard Anderson |
Joe Turkel |
Christiane Kubrick |
Jerry Hausner |
Peter Capell |
Peter Capell |
Emile Meyer |
Bert Freed |
Kem Dibbs |
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Stanley Kubrick |
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Plot Summary:
In Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" war is viewed in terms of power. This mesmerizing, urgent film about a true episode in World War I combines the idea that class differences are more important than national differences with the cannon-fodder theory of war, the theory that soldiers are merely pawns in the hands of generals who play at war is if it were a game of chess. The result of this amazing film has been the emergence of one of the great talents in contemporary cinema, the master whose greatest work was yet to come.
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Crime |
Film-Noir |
Mystery |
Romance |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Robert Wagner |
Jeffrey Hunter |
Virginia Leith |
Joanne Woodward |
Mary Astor |
George Macready |
Robert Quarry |
Howard Petrie |
Bill Walker |
Molly McCart |
Marlene Felton |
Robert Ivers |
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Gerd Oswald |
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Plot Summary:
Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It's his child, too, of course; but this ruins everything. Her moralistic father will disown her and will certainly never accept him. It seems he's trapped. Bud's mother knows something is troubling her son, but he won't talk to her about it. All she knows is that Bud doesn't want to turn out like his father, with holes in his shoes. He doesn't have to worry. As his mother says, when he turns his mind to something, he does it. Unknown to her, his thoughts have turned to murder.
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Comedy |
Crime |
Musical |
Romance |
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| Actors: |
Marlon Brando |
Jean Simmons |
Frank Sinatra |
Vivian Blaine |
Robert Keith |
Stubby Kaye |
B.S. Pully |
Johnny Silver |
Sheldon Leonard |
Danny Dayton |
George E. Stone |
Regis Toomey |
Kathryn Givney |
Veda Ann Borg |
Mary Alan Hokanson |
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
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Plot Summary:
All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan's $1000 bet that he can't get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you've got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, "Luck Be a Lady", "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat".
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Crime |
Film-Noir |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Ralph Meeker |
Albert Dekker |
Paul Stewart |
Juano Hernandez |
Wesley Addy |
Marian Carr |
Maxine Cooper |
Cloris Leachman |
Gaby Rodgers |
Nick Dennis |
Jack Lambert |
Jack Elam |
Jerry Zinneman |
Leigh Snowden |
Percy Helton |
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Robert Aldrich |
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Plot Summary:
Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer's car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike's policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story—meaning big money for him—because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed.
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Crime |
Mystery |
Romance |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Cary Grant |
Grace Kelly |
Jessie Royce Landis |
John Williams |
Charles Vanel |
Brigitte Auber |
Jean Martinelli |
Georgette Anys |
George Adrian |
John Alderson |
René Blancard |
Eugene Borden |
Lewis Charles |
Frank Chelland |
William 'Wee Willie' Davis |
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Alfred Hitchcock |
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Plot Summary:
John Robie is a one-time cat burglar, now reformed and living a blameless life in a plush villa. When a fresh set of burglaries rocks the Riviera all bearing the hallmark of Robie's own robberies, he is the natural suspect. Robie sets out to catch the new burglar himself, mainly to prove his innocence. He is aided by an American heiress, who initially is convinced that he is actually guilty. The title of the movie is derived from the proverb "Set a thief to catch a thief"
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Crime |
Drama |
Film-Noir |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Frank Sinatra |
Sterling Hayden |
James Gleason |
Nancy Gates |
Kim Charney |
Paul Frees |
Christopher Dark |
Willis Bouchey |
Paul Wexler |
James O'Hara |
Kem Dibbs |
Clark Howat |
Charles Martin Smith |
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Lewis Allen |
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Plot Summary:
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
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Crime |
Drama |
Mystery |
Romance |
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Humphrey Bogart |
Ava Gardner |
Edmond O'Brien |
Marius Goring |
Valentina Cortese |
Rossano Brazzi |
Elizabeth Sellars |
Warren Stevens |
Franco Interlenghi |
Mari Aldon |
Bessie Love |
Diana Decker |
Bill Fraser |
Alberto Rabagliati |
Enzo Staiola |
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| Directors: |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
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Plot Summary:
While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella's castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.
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Crime |
Drama |
Romance |
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Marlon Brando |
Karl Malden |
Lee J. Cobb |
Rod Steiger |
Pat Henning |
Leif Erickson |
James Westerfield |
Tony Galento |
Tami Mauriello |
John F. Hamilton |
John Heldabrand |
Rudy Bond |
Don Blackman |
Arthur Keegan |
Abe Simon |
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Elia Kazan |
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Plot Summary:
The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry's brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey's sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.
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Crime |
Horror |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Vincent Price |
Frank Lovejoy |
Phyllis Kirk |
Carolyn Jones |
Paul Picerni |
Roy Roberts |
Angela Clarke |
Paul Cavanagh |
Dabbs Greer |
Charles Bronson |
Reggie Rymal |
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| Directors: |
André De Toth |
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Plot Summary:
A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men have a fight. The sculptor is knocked out in the scuffle and left to "perish" among the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. The opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the city morgue. His assistant begins to suspect his boss of foul play, especially after the deranged wizard of wax begins eyeing his assistant's lovely girlfriend's friend as a model for a waxed figure of Marie Antoinette.
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Crime |
Drama |
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Lloyd Bridges |
Moira Lister |
Alan Wheatley |
Leslie Phillips |
Hélène Cordet |
Andre Van Gyseghem |
Tom Gill |
Bruce Beeby |
Rachel Roberts |
Lionel Blair |
Robert Harbin |
Charles Bottrill |
Verne Morgan |
Marjorie Hume |
Raymond Rollett |
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| Directors: |
Charles De la Tour |
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Plot Summary:
American Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges) arrives in London to take up an interrupted romance with Pauline French (Moria Lister), whom he hasn't seen in six years. At the airport a man standing alongside Pryor is slain by an unseen sniper, and he is detained by Scotland Yard for questioning. Released, he goes to Pauline's apartment, and learns that she had an intimate association with the slain man and is not interested in talking about it. Scotland Yard also knows this and Pryor and Pauline are kept under surveillance. After complications involving the dead man's wife, it is found that the man Pauline knows isn't dead at all and isn't who he is supposed to be.
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Crime |
Drama |
Film-Noir |
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| Actors: |
Charles McGraw |
Marie Windsor |
Jacqueline White |
Gordon Gebert |
Queenie Leonard |
David Clarke |
Peter Virgo |
Don Beddoe |
Paul Maxey |
Harry Harvey |
Peter Brocco |
Ivan Browning |
George Chandler |
George Chandler |
James Conaty |
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| Directors: |
Richard Fleischer |
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Plot Summary:
When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he's coming to trial she has to be escourted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.
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Crime |
Drama |
Film-Noir |
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| Actors: |
Dick Powell |
Rhonda Fleming |
Richard Erdman |
William Conrad |
Regis Toomey |
Jean Porter |
Jay Adler |
Joan Banks |
Gloria Saunders |
Hy Averback |
Renny McEvoy |
Lou Lubin |
Benny Burt |
Robert Bice |
Ralph Brooks |
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| Directors: |
Robert Parrish |
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Plot Summary:
"Rocky" Mulloy is framed for a murder and a holdup he didn't commit and pulls a five year stretch in prison. He is finally pardoned when a friend returns from overseas to corroborate his testimony in court. "Rocky" then goes hunting for the real culprits so this his prison buddy, believed to be innocent, can also be pardoned. Nancy Morgan, wife of his friend, falls in love with him along the way, and he also has a few bullets fired at him by an oily character. "Rocky" finds the guilty party in a place he didn't think about looking.
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Crime |
Film-Noir |
Romance |
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Cathy O'Donnell |
Farley Granger |
Howard Da Silva |
Jay C. Flippen |
Helen Craig |
Will Wright |
Marie Bryant |
Ian Wolfe |
William Phipps |
Harry Harvey |
Will Lee |
Jim Nolan |
Teddy Infuhr |
Byron Foulger |
Guy Beach |
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Nicholas Ray |
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Plot Summary:
In the '30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid" harder than ever.
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Adventure |
Crime |
Drama |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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| 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 |
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| Directors: |
Roy William Neill |
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Plot Summary:
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.
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Crime |
Drama |
Film-Noir |
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Bette Davis |
Paul Henreid |
Claude Rains |
John Abbott |
Benson Fong |
Russell Arms |
Jean De Briac |
Cyril Delevanti |
Earle S. Dewey |
Richard Erdman |
Ross Ford |
Kenneth Hunter |
Boyd Irwin |
Philo McCullough |
Einar Neilsen |
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Irving Rapper |
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Plot Summary:
Music teacher Christine Radcliffe thought Karel Novak to have been killed in the war. She loves him more than ever and insists they marry. At their reception her benefactor and former lover offers Karel the chance to solo his new cello concerto. Hollenius torments Christine and she shoots him. The concert is a success and Karel promises to stand by Christine.
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Crime |
Horror |
Mystery |
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| 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 |
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Roy William Neill |
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Plot Summary:
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.
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Adventure |
Crime |
Drama |
Mystery |
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Basil Rathbone |
Nigel Bruce |
Marjorie Riordan |
Rosalind Ivan |
Morton Lowry |
Leslie Vincent |
Martin Kosleck |
Rex Evans |
John Abbott |
Gerald Hamer |
William 'Wee Willie' Davis |
Tom Dillon |
Frederick Worlock |
Sven Hugo Borg |
Wilson Benge |
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Roy William Neill |
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Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father's assassination. Because the prince has been educated in Great Britain, Holmes persuades him to masquerade as Watson's nephew Nicolas on a ocean liner bound for Algiers. Unfortunately the ship is filled with red herrings as well as real assassins, and Holmes is challenged to outwit them all and deliver his charge to his destination. Among the suspects are a knife-throwing circus performer, two shadowy archaeologists, a hulking deaf mute, an enigmatic ship's steward, a chanteuse with a mysterious song case, and a gun-toting British dowager.
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Adventure |
Crime |
Drama |
Horror |
Mystery |
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| 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 |
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Roy William Neill |
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Plot Summary:
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.
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Crime |
Drama |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Barry Fitzgerald |
Walter Huston |
Louis Hayward |
Roland Young |
June Duprez |
Mischa Auer |
C. Aubrey Smith |
Judith Anderson |
Richard Haydn |
Queenie Leonard |
Harry Thurston |
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René Clair |
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On a remote and isolated island, ten people - 8 invited guests and two servants - find themselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone record, that as they have all been responsible for someone's death, they in turn will die before the weekend is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding. One by one, the guests are killed and one of them suggests that the killer is likely among them.
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Crime |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Basil Rathbone |
Nigel Bruce |
Gerald Hamer |
Paul Cavanagh |
Arthur Hohl |
Kay Harding |
Miles Mander |
David Clyde |
Ian Wolfe |
Victoria Horne |
Harry Allen |
Ted Billings |
Bill Cartledge |
Charles Francis |
Olaf Hytten |
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Roy William Neill |
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A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back, because some of them have seen strange luminous shapes, and then some sheep were found with their throats slashed. Their worst fears seem to be confirmed when Lady Penrose is found killed in the same way. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Quebec, attending a meeting of the Royal Canadian Occult Society, where they are involved in a sharp debate with Lord Penrose about his village's legend. Not long after Lord Penrose receives word of his wife's death, Holmes receives a letter that the dead woman had written before she died, begging for his help and protection. When Holmes goes to the village to investigate, he finds himself hunting a determined murderer who is also a master of disguise.
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