Boris Karloff Movie Rankings
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3.5928
Based loosely on the life of infamous gangster, Al Capone is the story of Tony "Scarface" Camonte (Paul Muni). Big Louis Costillo, one of the last old-style gang leaders, is slain and all eyes turn toward Tony, but police have no proof Tony committed the crime. ... more about Scarface
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3.4096
As Dr. Frankenstein is on his deathbed a colleague forces him to help create another monster, this time a female. ... more about Bride of Frankenstein
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3.3265
With the talents of Chuck Jones, Boris Karloff, and Dr. Seuss combined, there was almost no way this could be anything but an instant classic. Watched regularly every holiday season and beloved by children and cynical adults alike, this animated gem is just that and more. ... more about Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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3.1514
Scientist Dr. Frankenstein creates and reanimates a creature compiled from various parts of the recently deceased. Rejecting his creation, the monster is forced to struggle with his life after death and the hideousness of his being. ... more about Frankenstein
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3.1446
Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. ... more about Black Cat
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2.9671
Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. ... more about Old Dark House
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2.9618
Wolf Frankenstein, son of Henry Frankenstein, returns with his wife, to his fathers estate to claim his inheritance. When he arrives with his family he recieves a hostile reception from locals. ... more about Son of Frankenstein
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2.9271
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. ... more about Mad Monster Party?
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2.9264
Peter Bogdanovich's debut feature is a thinly disguised account of ex-marine Charles Whitman, who, after murdering his mother and his wife, armed himself with a number of rifles and handguns and on a sunny 1966 Texas morning, began a shooting spree that killed and wounded forty-six people. ... more about Targets
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2.9241
In 1921 a field expedition in Egypt discovers the mummy of ancient Egyptian prince Im-Ho-Tep, who was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege. Also found in the tomb is the Scroll of Thoth, which can bring the dead back to life. ... more about Mummy
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In Edinburgh, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John Gray, a cabman, to clandestinely bring him exhumed bodies of the recently deceased for classroom demonstration purposes. ... more about Body Snatcher
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2.9118
A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of newspapers; he announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. ... more about Lured
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2.8229
Editor Hinchecliffe wants to boost circulation for his "New York Gazette" and city editor Randall puts his top reporter on a 20-year-old murder case in which Nancy Vorhees shot her lover. ... more about Five Star Final
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2.8127
Englishmen race to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan. They have to get there fast, as the evil genius Dr. ... more about Mask of Fu Manchu
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2.8078
The great hypnotist Professor Montserrat has developed a technique for controlling the minds, and sharing the sensations, of his subjects. He and his wife Estelle test the technique on Mike Roscoe, and enjoy 'being' the younger man. ... more about Sorcerers
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2.8035
Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). ... more about Bedlam
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An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced the pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people in order to get new clients. ... more about Comedy of Terrors
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2.7700
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. ... more about Man with Nine Lives
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2.7546
In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic, to which he gradually becomes addicted. ... more about Corridors of Blood
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2.7363
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka. ... more about Isle of the Dead
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A young man (Nick Adams) visits his fiance's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father (Boris Karloff) has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. ... more about Die
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2.7292
A demented scientist kills a man while experimenting with an aging serum. He is quickly arrested, tried, and sentenced to death, but even in prison, his horrible experiments continue. ... more about Before I Hang
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2.7074
Slim and Tubby are American cops in London to study police tactics. They wind up in jail and are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors who laugh at his experiments. He has more murders in mind. ... more about Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Gordon Creed travels to a remote site in the Chinese back country in order to obtain rights to a great oil reserve owned by wildcatter Jim Hallet, who is in danger of losing the rights to foreclosure. ... more about West of Shanghai
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2.6452
Visionary scientist Janos Rukh convinces a group of scientists and supporters to mount an expedition to the African continent to locate and study an ancient meteorite of great significance. ... more about Invisible Ray
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2.6186
After escaping from an asylum the mad Dr. Niemann (Boris Karloff) and his hunch back assistant (J. Carrol Naish) revive Count Dracula (John Carradine), the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr. ... more about House of Frankenstein
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2.5880
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. ... more about Lost Patrol
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2.5679
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. ... more about Man Who Changed His Mind
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2.5387
In 1763, felon Abby Hale is sentenced to slavery in America. In Virginia, heroic Capt. Holden buys her, intending to free her, but villain Garth foils this plan, and Abby toils at Dave Bone's tavern. ... more about Unconquered
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2.5296
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. ... more about Tower of London
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2.4748
A Secret Service agent searches the jungle for his missing brother, also an agent. He encounters a young woman there who is also searching, but for her missing father. ... more about King of the Kongo
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2.4656
A gang of racketeers frames down-on-his-luck John Elman for murder. After a trial finds him guilty, evidence is brought forth proving his innocence, but it is too late and he is executed anyway. ... more about Walking Dead
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2.4565
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. ... more about Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
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2.4385
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. ... more about Curse of the Crimson Altar
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2.3895
Regarded by many as the best of the Charlie Chan series. The opera star Gravelle suffers amnesia. He is a recent escapee from an insane asylum, accused of murdering fellow performers (his wife and her lover). ... more about Charlie Chan at the Opera
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2.3743
When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. ... more about Mr. Wong
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2.3569
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2.3432
Noble-born cad Dennis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton), an evil madman who can't get over the death of his beloved, twenty years after she married his brother (Cavanagh) instead and ... more about Strange Door
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A wily D.A.(Brady) gets a 10 year conviction of a young 20 year old (Robert Graham)who he knows killed a man in self defense. Years later Brady becomes warden of the prison holding Graham. ... more about Criminal Code
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2.3324
A fictional account of a teen-aged Hans Christian Anderson. ... more about Daydreamer
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2.3309
When his friend Professor Kingsely (Ridges) is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Karloff) saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain. ... more about Black Friday
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2.2885
A high priest travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier. ... more about Mummy's Tomb
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2.2282
Mad Scientist, Dr. Henryk Savaard, is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. The police are alerted of Savaard's activities by his assistant's girlfriend. Savaard is arrested, convicted and sentenced to hang. ... more about Man They Could Not Hang
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2.2236
Crazy professor Nathaniel Billings is working on creating a race of supermen in the basement of a New England house. He sells the building to a naive woman and her ex-boyfriend to run as a hotel. Billings then teams up with equally crazy Dr. ... more about Boogie Man Will Get You
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2.2099
Jack Holt plays a federal agent who goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling operation headed by a mysterious Mr. X, a criminal mastermind whose identity is unknown even to his henchmen. Mr. ... more about Behind the Mask
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2.1716
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. ... more about Ape
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2.1643
Prophecy has it that younger twin Anton will kill brother Gregor in the castle's Black Room. Anton returns to the castle after a 10 year hiatus. Gregor, a Baron, has many attempts on his life as his subjects detest his tyranny. ... more about Black Room
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2.1552
For treating a wounded revolutionary, respected brain surgeon Dr. Gaudet is sentenced to the hellish French penal colony on Devil's Island. There, he rebels against the inhuman conditions and incurs the wrath of the brutal commander, Colonel Lucien. ... more about Devil's Island
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2.1095
Dr. Hohner (Karloff), theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. ... more about Climax
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2.0867
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami). ... more about Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer
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2.0547
Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa, where he encounters the sheik Mustapha, who not only possesses the evidence which will clear Grant but also the key to a fabulous diamond field. ... more about King of the Wild
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2.0372
Gunga Ram (Nino Marcel), a young elephant trainer, swears vengeance on the killers of his sister Indria (Lisa Howard) and her husband on the orders of the religious fire-cult leaders, the High Priestess (June Foray) and Ashok (Victor Jory). ... more about Sabaka
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Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn But Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. ... more about Bells
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1.9490
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight (Boris Karloff) to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. ... more about Voodoo Island
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1.9322
A writer investigating the execution of a serial killer known as "The Haymarket Strangler" 20 years previously begins to suspect that the wrong man might have been hanged. ... more about Grip of the Strangler
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1.9223
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. ... more about House of Rothschild
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1.9086
The Eye of the Daughter of the Moon, a golfball sized sapphire has been stolen in China and smuggled into the US. ... more about Mystery of Mr. Wong
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1.8856
Hiram Stokley is a recently desased corpse who learns that he has 24 hours to mastermind and perform one good deed in order to get into Heaven, so he enlists the help of his long deceased girlfriend Cecily, a ghost, to stop his greedy lawyer, Reginald ... more about Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
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1.8264
Also known as "The Jade Elephants." Silent. Black & White. ... more about Man from Downing Street
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1.8264
On a dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. ... more about Unholy Night
Not Available on DVD
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1.7716
The West Indies island of Portuga exists mainly for sponge diving. But the best area of collection is frequented by a very large manta ray. ... more about Sea Bat
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1.7714
In this tongue-in-cheek movie inspired by Poe's poem, Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. ... more about Raven
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1.7438
A scientist notices strange frequencies coming from within the Earth. He and his assistants discover a living rock underneath a volcano. ... more about Fear Chamber
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1.5981
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. ... more about Mr. Wong in Chinatown
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1.3546
An uproarious comedy spoof which mixes sinister dealings with funny happenings. the combination of Lorre, Karloff and Lugosi makes this film a nostalgic rarity. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song ("I'd Know You Anywhere"). ... more about You'll Find Out
Not Available on DVD
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1.3057
Millionaire sets out to prove that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home and throw the kids off. ... more about Bikini Beach
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1.1415
Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk. ... more about Behind That Curtain
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0.9132
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming comic book writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine himself as a hero experiencing great adventures. His dream becomes true when he accidently meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. ... more about Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to ... more about British Intelligence
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To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. ... more about Cracked Nuts
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Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. ... more about Doomed to Die
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When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. ... more about Fatal Hour
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When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name. ... more about Fatal Warning
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Baron Victor Von Frankenstein (Boris Karloff) has fallen on hard times; he was tortured at the hands of the Nazis for not cooperating with them during World War II and he is now badly disfigured. ... more about Frankenstein - 1970
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John Smith is a young architect who changed his name from Marco Ricca when he realized that being a notorious bootlegger's son was not likely to help his career. ... more about Guilty Generation
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In the European village of Gudenberg in 1890, Prof. Mayer and his assistant Isabel have created a powerful ray machine. One of the powerful rays is shot into space and attracts a flying saucer. ... more about Incredible Invasion
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Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. ... more about Invisible Menace
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A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. ... more about Miracle Man
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"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. ... more about Night World
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Early in the 19th century, the USS Constitution is launched as part of an effort to stop piracy in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, a young man determined to go to sea is befriended by the bos'n of the merchant ship Esther, and he joins her crew. ... more about Old Ironsides
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Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank embezzlement scandal. ... more about Public Defender
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Morna Dabney is engaged to soldier Clay MacIvor in the days before the War Between the States. ... more about Tap Roots
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Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan's African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lion Jad-bal-ja to save Haws from being sacrificed to a lion-god. ... more about Tarzan and the Golden Lion
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An American soldier, W. Dangerfield Phelps and his detested sergeant, company top kick Peter McGaffney, are captured by the Germans while engaged in a bitter fist fight inside a shell-hole on the Western front. ... more about Two Arabian Knights
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Cal Reynolds, known as The Utah Kid (Rex Lease) eludes a sheriff's posse and takes refuge in Robber's Roost, a hideout for outlaws running from the law complete with its own dirt-floor saloon. ... more about Utah Kid
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After an American diplomat inexplicably explodes a bomb during an international peace conference in Venice, killing himself and everyone in the room, CIA boss Frank Rosenfeld calls ex-agent Bill Fenner in on the case. ... more about Venetian Affair
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When his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship, the man's son signs on as a crewman to discover the real killer and clear his father. ... more about Vultures of the Sea
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A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country. ... more about Yellow Ticket
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