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Criterion Channel
83
7.8
/40716/
76
/671/
74
/553/
3.9
/40231/
95
/37/
90
/819/
90
/16/

To Have and Have Not (1945)
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
63
6.7
/6155/
70
/169/
63
/172/
3.4
/3321/
83
/6/
63
/69/

The Flying Deuces (1939)
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.
poster
74
44
7.0
/1734/
69
/34/
64
/21/
3.4
/606/
100
/7/
74
/14/
74
/7/

My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
poster
The Roku Channel
60
34
6.6
/1747/
64
/31/
62
/32/
3.2
/997/
45
/44/

The Crooked Way (1949)
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
poster
Hoopla
70
26
6.9
/455/
61
/6/
60
/6/
3.4
/267/
98
/371/

Spy Smasher (1942)
Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Nazi agents operating within the US, led by the treacherous sabotage leader codenamed The Mask.
poster
60
21
6.3
/1291/
60
/22/
60
/23/
3.1
/755/
55
/5/

Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?
poster
Hoopla
58
21
6.3
/1670/
65
/38/
59
/22/
3.1
/415/
42
/10/

The Scarlet Clue (1945)
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
poster
61
15
6.1
/764/
57
/24/
64
/18/
3.2
/219/

Red Mountain (1951)
Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed.
poster
58
15
6.3
/851/
63
/22/
58
/18/
3.2
/538/
45
/3/

The Power of the Whistler (1945)
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
poster
59
14
6.6
/612/
68
/10/
64
/12/
40
/16/

O.S.S. (1946)
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.
poster
58
12
6.1
/497/
50
/15/
57
/13/
3.2
/376/

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines (1943)
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.
poster
50
12
6.2
/821/
64
/19/
56
/16/
21
/4/

Submarine Command (1951)
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
poster
63
11
6.6
/468/
62
/12/
61
/13/
3.4
/355/

Hellfire (1949)
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
poster
MGM Plus
39
6
5.2
/548/
47
/7/
48
/10/
9
/5/

Outpost in Morocco (1949)
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
poster
?
6.3
/39/
50
/1/

Gallant Lady (1942)
A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.
poster
?
4.9
/75/
45
/2/

For God and Country (1943)
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
poster
?
5.6
/82/
60
/1/
37
/3/

Bad Boy (1939)
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve Carson, a fellow employee, is constantly flaunting the money he has won at the race track. Johnny also bets the races, but loses heavily and takes some of the firm's money to cover his losses.
poster
?
5.9
/47/

Oh, What a Night! (1944)
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his niece.
poster
52
?
5.7
/133/
50
/1/
50
/1/

The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)
This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats. Included in the film are ice skating numbers and songs.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
42
?
5.1
/221/
35
/2/
40
/5/

The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951)
In 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La Roche and Major Nicolet to Normandy in search of the members of a group of rebels. A Masked Cavalier, the niece, Lady Christianne, of the Marquis De Montableau, announces at a secret meeting of the Normandy underground leaders that the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo was willed to her and she will use it to finance their cause. Her uncle, the only one who can decipher the symbols on the sword of Monte Cristo, the key to the treasure, derides her stand against the Emperor. La Roche takes possession of the sword and has the Marquis put into the dungeon. Christianne, as the Masked Cavalier, regains the sword from La Roche, but Captain Renault apprehends her and returns to sword to La Roche.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
?
5.6
/213/
73
/39/
50
/1/

Hold That Woman! (1940)
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
poster
Hoopla
?
6.2
/51/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Spy Smasher Returns (1966)
Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial "Spy Smasher," cut down to one hour and sold for TV release in 1966 in a syndication package with other truncated Republic serials.
poster
47
?
4.3
/162/
56
/3/
40
/5/

The Invisible Killer (1939)
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there. He discovers that gambler Jimmy Clark was killed as he answered a telephone call, and his body is riddled with bullets but Jerry can't find any weapon. Sue is amazed to see Gloria Cunningham there. Gloria's father is one of the town's leading reformers and she is engaged to District Attorney Richard Sutton. Ross decides to give Sutton all the information he needs and makes an appointment to go to Sutton's home. Once there, Ross is called to the telephone before he can give any information, and is killed in the same mysterious manner as Jimmy Clark.
poster
60
?
6.2
/206/
60
/9/

Hold That Blonde! (1945)
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
poster
63
?
6.6
/168/
60
/1/

The Tiger Woman (1944)
Greedy oil speculators, led by Morgan, are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home. Allen Saunders of Inter-Ocean Oil wants to develop the oil, too, but fights with Tiger Woman to stop the bad guys.
poster
?
5.8
/73/
50
/1/

Television Spy (1939)
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
poster
?
5.0
/96/
75
/2/
40
/1/

The Case of the Baby-Sitter (1947)
The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is their stolen loot. Neal eventually catches on when he realizes that this is the quietest child on earth. Running a scant 41 minutes, Case of the Baby Sitter was designed to be shown in tandem with another Screen Guild Productions "briefie," The Hat Box Mystery: the films were shot back to back, with Tom Neal and Pamela Blake starring in both.
poster
56
?
6.7
/188/
45
/4/
58
/2/

The Savage Horde (1950)
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle baron.
poster
62
?
6.4
/107/
60
/1/

Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
poster
60
?
5.7
/116/
62
/4/
57
/3/

S.O.S Tidal Wave (1939)
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
poster
66
?
6.9
/285/
66
/3/
60
/2/
3.6
/413/

Till We Meet Again (1944)
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.
poster
?
6.1
/32/

Underground Agent (1942)
In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
poster
?
6.0
/58/
70
/1/

The Last Warning (1938)
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
?
4.4
/307/
57
/4/
50
/11/

They Raid by Night (1942)
The British Commandos send Bob Owen to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include Eric Falken and Harry. Inga, a Norwegian girl to whom Falken was once engaged but who has become the sweetheart of Oberst Von Ritter, betrays their hiding place.
poster
57
?
5.8
/178/
60
/1/
55
/4/

Phantoms, Inc. (1945)
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.
poster
40
?
6.1
/133/
10
/1/
50
/2/

Insurance Investigator (1951)
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
poster
68
?
7.2
/741/
71
/12/
61
/8/

Underground (1941)
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
poster
66
?
6.5
/554/
75
/7/
56
/5/

Where There's Life (1947)
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
poster
62
?
6.4
/531/
61
/6/
60
/3/
3.3
/210/

Lucky Jordan (1942)
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
poster
44
?
5.1
/180/
40
/1/
43
/10/

Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939)
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
poster
59
?
6.4
/165/
55
/2/

Eagle Squadron (1942)
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
5.5
/80/
35
/2/

The Pilgrimage Play (1949)
Nelson Leigh assumes the role of Jesus Christ in this drama that depicts such historical events as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper while portraying the period in which Christ roamed the countryside preaching the gospel.
poster
?
6.1
/101/
10
/1/
40
/1/

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953)
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
poster
?
6.0
/81/
37
/6/

House of Cards (1947)
In this film without sound, a man awakes disheveled in a rooming house. He stares out the window seeing children playing and a well-dressed man sitting on a chair in the middle of the street reading a newspaper and looking up at him. A headline describes the murder of a child. The disheveled man, whose face expresses fear and despair, leaves, going through the city, alarmed when anyone looks at him. A woman invites him to look through a public telescope. He does then keeps going. He climbs a hill. Two fencers appear; so does a jester. Is flight fruitless?
poster
63
?
6.6
/468/
61
/5/
61
/8/
3.3
/213/

The Affairs of Susan (1945)
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
poster
44
?
5.6
/247/
50
/1/
50
/2/
20
/3/

Around the World (1943)
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.


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