The Challenge 1948  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Tom Conway, June Vincent, John Newland, Eily Malyon, Terry Kilburn, Richard Stapley, Stanley Logan, Oliver Blake, Houseley Stevenson, Leyland Hodgson
Tom Conway is Bulldog Drummond for the second (and last) time in this weak episode. A sea captain, who is thought to know the location of a hidden treasure of gold, is murdered by greedy relatives. Bulldog Drummond is out to bring those responsible to justice.
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Double Crossbones 1951  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Adventure
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter, Will Geer, John Emery, Stanley Logan, Kathryn Givney, Hayden Rorke, Morgan Farley, Hope Emerson, Charles McGraw, Alan Napier, Robert Barrat, Glenn Strange, Gregg Martell, Jeff Chandler
After being wrongly accused of piracy, 18th-century shopkeeper apprentice Dave Crandall (Donald O'Connor) takes refuge on a pirate boat and, through a series of unlikely events, earns the reputation as the most dangerous pirate sailing the world's seas.
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Escape to Glory 1940  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Submarine Zone
Director: John Brahm
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Constance Bennett, John Halliday, Melville Cooper, Alan Baxter, Edgar Buchanan, Marjorie Gateson, Francis Pierlot, Jessie Busley, Stanley Logan
A British ship is attacked by a German U-boat at the onset of World War II. The reactions of the frightened passengers–from a German doctor to a drunken Irishman–are chronicled in this good story.
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The Falcon's Brother 1942 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Stanley Logan
Cast: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Don Barclay, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan, Charlotte Wynters, Keye Luke, Eddie Dunn, Charles Arnt
This Falcon mystery is the last one with George Sanders in the title role. Guy Lawrence (Sanders) is investigating an espionage plot in South America when he is killed. His brother (Tom Conway) steps in as the new Falcon in this–and the next nine–Falcon films.
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Nightmare 1942 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Tim Whelan
Cast: Diana Barrymore, Brian Donlevy, Henry Daniell, Eustace Wyatt, Arthur Shields, Ian Wolfe, Hans Conried, Gavin Muir, Stanley Logan, John Abbott
Gambler Brian Donlevy breaks into Barrymore's house the night her husband is murdered. They are both suspects and so must track down Nazi spies to clear themselves. Not a bad wartime suspense story.
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 The Spider Woman 1944 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon, Vernon Downing, Alec Craig, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Logan, Harry Cording
Gale Sondergaard is the Spider Woman whose game is to drive gamblers to the point of suicide so that she can collect on their insurance. Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) puts an end to her evil deeds in this good episode.
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That Forsythe Woman 1949 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Compton Bennett
Cast: Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Janet Leigh, Harry Davenport, Halliwell Hobbes, Stanley Logan, Lumsden Hare, Aubrey Mather
Based on John Galsworthy's novel, "The Man of Property," from "The Forsythe Saga," Soames Forsythe's (Errol Flynn) marriage goes on the rocks, and the split has repercussions that echo throughout the family.
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| 1. The Challenge (1948)
2. Double Crossbones (1951)
3. Escape to Glory (1940)
aka: Submarine Zone
4. The Falcon's Brother (1942)
5. Nightmare (1942)
6. The Spider Woman (1944)
aka: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman
7. That Forsythe Woman (1949)
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