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Affable Jim Williams is hosting one of the most important parties of the Savannah Christmas season. John Kelso is a magazine reporter who finds himself amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on the party. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Between being...
3) The thin man
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The thin man: "The start of it all! Nick and Nora Charles invite you to bring your own alibi to Dashiell Hammett's jaunty whodunit about a missing inventor that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing"--Container.
After the thin man: "New Year's Eve and a new mystery surrounding the philandering husband of Nora's cousin. Round up the usual suspects, including James Stewart in an early screen role."--Container.
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Despite their best efforts, the team members are only human. As the agents work on varied and complicated cases, details about their personal lives continue to unfold. This season, Samantha Spade deals with being a single mom and resourceful agent Elena Delgado recovers from a recent and unpleasant custody battle with her ex.
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Now back in San Francisco after their holiday in New York, Nick and Nora Charles find themselves trying to solve another mystery. Nora's cousin Selma is accused of having murdered her husband, but for Nick it's clear that she is not the murderer and he starts to investigate, supported by Nora and Asta.
7) Crossfire
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"Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. 'Hate', Finlay says, 'is like a gun.' ... Finlay is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects and Montgomery [is] a vicious bigot, a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S."--Container....
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"A debonair lawyer is suspected in the murder of a nosy newspaper columnist. Aided by a classy, sassy and marriage-minded partner, he untangles the Manhattan maze of double-crosses, disguises, and misdirections all without disarranging his dinner jacket or bruising his gin"--Container.
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"Who's that in the frilly cap and apron, toting a tea tray? Not a pert French maid, but spinster sleuth Miss Marple in disguise. And it's not Darjeeling that's caught her interest -- it's murder! Margaret Rutherford makes her first appearance in this sly, engaging mystery based on Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington. Comfily ensconced in her railway carriage, Miss Marple sees a strangulation aboard a passing train, then follows a trail of baffling...
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After the dawn of sound and before the Production Code, Hollywood ran wild and free. Fearlessly and frankly tackling subjects and scenes that would quickly become forbidden to a generation of filmmakers, these seldom-seen pre-Code wonders are both revelatory and sin-sational. This fifth volume takes a walk on the wild side.
Hard to handle: Con leads to con when the prize money for a rigged dance marathon is stolen.
Ladies they talk about: "Nan Taylor,...
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Errol Flynn stars as an upper crust gentleman who is juggling two identities. Behind his public persona as an investment counselor lies his secret identity as a detective novelist. When he stumbles onto a real murder, he finds himself in danger, not just from the killer but from his wife finding out what he's up to.
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"Tom Conway continues his run as the suave society sophisticate sleuth Tom Lawrence in the second half of the smash RKO mystery series. Making the title role strictly his own, Conway clearly delights in mixing the detective with the dash. The war years and thereafter see the Falcon head out west for an extended sojourn, tackling criminals up and down the coast!"--Container.
The Falcon out West: "A society sleuth turns cowboy to investigate a Texas...
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Fast company: Who bumped of bibliophile Otto Brockler? Mystery turns a new page when bookdealers and amateur sleuths Joel and Garda Sloane (Melva Douglas, Florenc Rice) sift through clues and suspects.
Fast and loose: When a rare Shakespeare manuscript is stolen, the stage is set for murder.
Fast and furious: The Sloanes, rescuing a friend, are falsley accused of gunning down a shady beauty-pageant promoter.
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Miscreants beware! The Falcon is on the hunt! Suave, sophisticated, hard-boiled and high-minded, amateur sleuths Gay and Tom Lawrence.
The gay Falcon: "A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam"--Www.tcm.com, viewed March 27, 2015.
A date with the Falcon: "The gentleman detective postpones his wedding to find a cache of stolen diamonds"--Www.tcm.com, viewed March 27, 2015.
The Falcon takes over: "A society sleuth and a lady reporter...
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Josie and the Pussycats, an all-girl pop group, along with Alan, their roadie and Josie's love interest, Alexander, the manager, and his sister, Alexandra, find mystery and adventure wherever they go. Their claws and fangs emerge to bust the meanest dudes, all without messing up their hair and makeup for their next big sold-out concert.
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Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
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Shadows over Chinatown (65 mins.): Charlie Chan, along with number two son, Jimmy, and his chauffeur, Birmingham, has come to San Francisco to help solve a mysterious murder. The soon encounter a series of unexplained coincidences involving a missing woman, a pickpocket, a dead body and an insurance scam.
Docks of New Orleans (65 mins.): Charlie Chan, along with his enthusiastic "number-two son," Tommy, and his chauffeur, Birmingham, are brought...
19) The verdict
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Scotland Yard superintendent Grodman retires in disgrace when a man he helped convict is exonerated after being hanged. When someone commits the perfect crime, a locked-room murder, Grodman seeks to redeem himself by solving the case.
20) Terror by night
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When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner murdered, olmes must discover wtic of his suspicious fellow passenges is responsible. Aided by Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, he discovers the murderer's hiding place is somehow involved in the crime. This is the thirteeth film of the Rathbone/Bruce series.