Trigger-fast excitement!
Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is genuine but subsequently learn it has been stolen by a gang of art thieves who plan to kill the spinster to prevent her from later identifying it.
Tap a face for their filmography
Tap a face for their filmography
Tap a face for their filmography
May Robson
Phoebe Tuttle
Irene Hervey
Irene Donovan
Dean Jagger
Fred Stevens
Douglass Dumbrille
Jerome Culver
Arthur Loft
Stu Saddler
Charles Cahill Wilson
Editor Herbert Claxton
Gene Morgan
Slug Beemis
Paul Fix
Emory
George C. Pearce
Sam, the hotel proprietor
George McKay
Detective-Sergeant Casey
John Carr
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
1952
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.
Open details →
2000
Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann McKay, has a plan of her own.
Open details →
1966
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
Open details →
1957
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Open details →
1998
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?
Open details →
1963
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.
Open details →
1964
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his guilt. Once again she begins her own investigation.
Open details →
1955
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
Open details →
1947
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Open details →
1985
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.
Open details →
1977
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Open details →
1961
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
Open details →
1941
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Open details →
1948
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Open details →
1986
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
Open details →
1939
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Open details →
1955
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Open details →
1955
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Open details →
2003
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
Open details →
1992
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.
Open details →
