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Flirting with Dangeris a 1934 American comedy adventure film directed byVin Mooreand starringRobert Armstrong,Edgar KennedyandWilliam Cagney(James Cagney'slookalikebrother). The picture was released byMonogram Picturesand has a running time of 62 minutes Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Marked Menis a 1940 American film directed bySam Newfield(using the pseudonym "Sherman Scott") forProducers Releasing Corporation. The film is also known asDesert Escapein the USA (TV title). Plot: Bill Carver (Warren Hull) is a man wrongfully imprisoned after being framed by gangster Joe Mallon (Paul Bryar). In prison he is involuntarily involved in a jailbreak, also arranged by Mallon, who is serving in the same facility. The attempted break fails, and Mallon and his gang are soon caught by the police and put back behind bars—except for Bill, who escapes to the Arizona desert and picks up a stray dog he names Wolf. In the small town ofTempe, he meets Linda (Isabel Jewell) who offers him work with her father, Dr James Prentiss Harkness (John Dilson). Bill stays with the doctor, but then there is another jailbreak at the prison, this time a successful one. The escapees hold up a bank and make it look as though Bill was involved in the robbery. He has to clear his name of being part of the bank raid, and the only way he can do this is by catching the real perpetrators, Mallon and his men. He leaves his safe haven at the doctor's house and starts tracking the gang through the desert. Soon he finds Mallon and the others, who are lost and need Bill's help to find the border and cross into Mexico. He agrees to help them, seeing his chance of clearing his name, but the journey becomes a living hell for them all. Because of the lack of water and the dangers in the desert at night, only Bill, his dog and Mallon remain when they come close to the border, as during the trek he has brutally killed his henchmen for arguing with him when trying to quench their thirst from the dwindling supplies they are carrying. At this point Bill forces the weak and starving gangster to sign a written confession, proving his innocence. As Mallon finishes signing the document, Dr Harkness and his daughter arrive to rescue them. The gangster tries to kill Bill, but he is rescued by his dog. A free man, he returns to live in peace with the doctor and Linda, whom he marries. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Danger Lightsis a 1930 AmericanPre-Codedrama film, directed byGeorge B. Seitz, from a screenplay byJames Ashmore Creelman. It starsLouis Wolheim,Robert Armstrong, andJean Arthur. The plot concernsrailroadingon theChicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad(Milwaukee Road), and the movie was largely filmed along that railroad's lines inMontana. The railway yard inMiles City, Montana, was a primary setting, while rural scenes were shot along the railway line through Sixteen Mile Canyon, Montana. Additional footage was shot inChicago, Illinois(where the Milwaukee Road was headquartered until 1986, when it went out of business). The film was the first ever shot in the newSpoor-Berggren Natural Vision Process. In 1958, the film entered thepublic domain in the United Statesbecause the claimants did not renew itscopyright registrationin the 28th year after publication. Plot: Dan Thorn (Louis Wolheim) is a divisional boss on theMilwaukee Railroad, based inMiles City, Montana. The film opens with a landslide across the track and Thorn dispatching, then accompanying, a repair crew to clear it. Severalhobosare lounging nearby and are put to work helping the crew. Thorn discovers that one of the hobos, Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong), is a formerrailroad engineerwho lost his job over insubordination. Thorn finds he likes the man and demands that he better his life by returning to work for the railroad. Doyle repeatedly refuses even as he starts the work, but Thorn is a hard man to say no to, and Doyle is hired. Thorn is engaged to Mary Ryan (Jean Arthur), but his job leaves him unable to give her much time or attention. When an engineer's wife dies, Thorn spends time with the man to keep him from getting drunk and endangering his railroad job. This leaves Thorn unable to attend a social event, so he asks Doyle to go with Mary instead. Afterwards, the two are using a railway bridge to walk home when a fast train approaches. Doyle whisks Mary into a trackside refuge and kisses her as the train rushes by. Mary still cares for Thorn, but she falls in love with Doyle. Finally he persuades her to run away toChicagowith him and get married. But as they walk along the tracks toward the station, Doyle's foot becomes trapped in arailroad switchas it is remotely reset for the train. At this point Thorn approaches and threatens Doyle over Mary, but when he realizes the man is trapped, he manages to pull Doyle clear of the switch at the last moment. Doyle is safe but Thorn is hit by the train and seriously injured. The local doctor says Thorn will die unless he can be taken to Chicago for brain surgery within 5 hours, which would require a new speed record for the trip. Doyle volunteers to drive a special train and is able to accomplish the feat. Thorn is saved. Two weeks later, Thorn is taken back to Miles City by train, conscious but depressed. At the station, Mary is the first to board, and promises to return to him. But Thorn says that during his enforced rest he has come to realize that he is already married—to the railroad. He frees her to marry Doyle with his blessing. Then, overhearing railwaymen outside speaking as if he is done for, he shouts at them to get back to work. They do, and his depression lifts. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Captain Scarlettis a 1953 Americanadventure filmdirected byThomas Carr, that was shot in Mexico. The film is set in France following the fall ofNapoleon, stars Richard Greene in the title role as aRobin Hood-type avenger and the Brazilian actressLeonora Amarin her final screen role Plot: In post-Napoleonic France, the Duke of Corlaine reprimands Count Villiers because his Spanish fiancée, Princess Maria, has run away. When Maria's carriage is accosted by highwaymen, Captain Scarlett, a Frenchman returning from England, fends off the attackers. Villiers arrives shortly after and arrests the remaining highwayman, but is ungrateful to Scarlett. Scarlett later meets with his old friend the Friar, who warns him that the duke is appropriating property and ordering his guards to terrorize residents, who are imprisoned if they resist. Scarlett is uninterested until he learns that his own estate now belongs to Villiers. Scarlett later slips into the bedroom at the estate where Maria is being held. She boldly offers him money in exchange for helping her escape, but Scarlett insists on friendship as his only payment. However, Scarlett is captured and held in the dungeon with the highwayman, Pierre du Cloux. Pierre and Scarlett form an immediate friendship when Pierre explains that he was forced into his new "trade" after his family's estate was confiscated by the duke. Scarlett and Pierre outwit their guard and escape under cover of the wedding festivities for Maria's and Villiers' arranged marriage. Before leaving the estate, Scarlett rescues Maria. They then ride to a safe encampment where Pierre's friends help lead the pursuing guards astray. Villiers spots the imposter as the hood flies off the head of the rider pretending to be Maria, rides back, finds the camp, and duels with Scarlett until his own death. After Maria exchanges her wedding dress for men's clothing, she happily agrees to ride with Scarlett and Pierre rather than return home to face another arranged marriage. The partners then patrol the countryside, coming to the aid of peasants who are being robbed or arrested by the duke's guards. A frustrated duke offers Scarlett's estate to his friend, Etienne Dumas, if he succeeds in killing the outlaw. Etienne disguises himself as a peasant and arranges with the head of the guards to bait Scarlett with a mock execution. The next day, Etienne is saved from the executioner's blade as expected by Maria, Pierre and Scarlett. Etienne then convinces the three friends to allow him to join them. That night, the Friar brings Scarlett a message to visit Josephine, a farm woman whom Scarlett and his friends saved from tax collectors. To help Scarlett avoid a potential trap, Etienne volunteers to go in his place. Once there, however, Etienne takes advantage of Josephine's attraction to Scarlett by telling her that the captain has rebuffed her. He then gives her a pouch of gold coins to buy her cooperation in a secret plan to entrap Scarlett. Unaware of Etienne's duplicity, Scarlett accompanies him back to the farmhouse. Later, at Etienne's signal, Josephine steps outside. He then plunges his sword through an open window into what he believes is Scarlett's back, but is only his empty red cloak. Scarlett, his suspicions having been aroused by the impoverished Josephine's lavish meal, engages Etienne in a duel, which ends with Etienne's death. Maria and Pierre, meanwhile, grow uneasy at their friend's long absence and ride to the farmhouse in time to help Scarlett fend off the guards and a jealous Maria punishes Josephine. The next day, the three friends continue their mission and overwhelm a greedy guard at a toll road. During the ensuing chase, Maria falls from her horse and is captured. The duke then posts public notices that Maria will be executed the next morning unless Scarlett and Pierre surrender. The duke expects a rescue attempt and anticipates the outlaws' tactics. Nevertheless, they outwit his guards and gain access to his house. While Pierre duels with several guards, Scarlett confronts the duke, who has Maria bound to a chair. When a guard emerges from hiding and holds a knife to Maria's throat, Scarlett releases the duke. However, Maria bites the guard's hand, forcing him within range of Scarlett's sword, with which he disables the guard. Scarlett then kills the duke in a duel and frees Maria, who rewards him with a passionate kiss. The three friends then ride away. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Captain Kiddis a 1945 Americanadventure filmstarringCharles Laughton,Randolph ScottandBarbara Britton.It was directed byRowland V. Lee, his last before he retired,and produced byBenedict Bogeausand James Nasser. The music was conducted byWerner Janssen. The film was released byUnited Artists. It has entered thepublic domainbecause the producers neglected to renew the copyright in 1972. In his memoirs,Nikita Khrushchevnoted that this was one ofJoseph Stalin's favourite films, and that Stalin identified with the mischievous captain Plot: In 1699, pirateWilliam Kiddloots and destroys the EnglishgalleonThe Twelve ApostlesnearMadagascar. He and three confederates bury the stolen treasure on a remote island. He returns to London and hires agentleman's gentleman. Kidd then presents himself at the court ofWilliam III of Englandas an honest shipmaster seeking a royal commission as aprivateerafter striking his colours to a pirate. The king is persuaded by Kidd that the captain ofThe Twelve Apostleswas that pirate, who has disappeared with its treasure. The King grants the commission. Kidd recruits a crew from condemned pirates inNewgateandMarshalseaprisons, promising them aroyal pardonat the end of their voyage. Among them is the quarrelsome though cultured Adam Mercy. Kidd makes him the new master gunner because of his claimed prior service with pirateCaptain Avery. The King sends Kidd and his ship theAdventure Galleyto the waters near Madagascar to rendezvous with the shipQuedagh Merchantand provide an escort back to England. TheQuedagh Merchantcarries Lord Fallsworth, the King's ambassador to theGrand Mughal, his daughter Lady Anne Dunstan, and a chest of treasure from the Indian potentate to King William. Kidd's story about a pirate he fought nearby persuades Lord Fallsworth to switch ships with his daughter and the precious cargo. Kidd's navigator Jose Lorenzo lights a candle in the ship'smagazine. Just as the transfer takes place, theQuedagh Merchantblows up. Kidd also arranges a fatal "accident" for Lord Fallsworth, leaving only a frightened Lady Anne. She turns to the only man she thinks she can trust, Shadwell, Kidd's servant. When she mentions the recent battle with pirates, Shadwell tells her it never happened. He advises her to put her faith in Adam Mercy. On the voyage home, Kidd schemes to rid himself of his three close associates (to avoid sharing the booty) and Mercy (whom he suspects of being a spy). Mercy is really the vengeance-seeking son of Admiral Lord Blayne, the slandered captain ofThe Twelve Apostles. When a smitten Lorenzo tries to force himself on Lady Anne, Kidd is delighted when Mercy engages him in a sword fight. Lorenzo is driven overboard to drown. During the fight, Mercy's medallion is torn from his neck. Kidd finds it and recognizes the Blayne familycrestso he strongly suspects Mercy is really a relative of the murdered Captain Blayne. Kidd drops anchor at a lagoon. Kidd, Orange Povey (his only surviving confederate, protected by an incriminating letter that will be sent to the crown authorities if he should die), and Mercy go ashore and dig up the loot fromThe Twelve Apostles. When Mercy sees the Blayne crest he feigns indifference, but Kidd goads him by insulting his dead father's honor. Mercy is enraged and attacks Kidd, fighting him and Povey. Outnumbered, Mercy is knocked unconscious, falls into the water, and does not resurface. While the others believe him dead, he swims secretly back to the ship. Mercy and a loyal crewman row Lady Anne away in the ship'sjolly boat, but are spotted. Shadwell sacrifices himself needlessly to cover their escape and Kidd blows up the jolly boat. Believing himself safe, Kidd appears before King William with the Mughal's treasure to claim his reward (Lord Blayne's aristocratic title and estate). He learns that Mercy and Lady Anne have survived and preceded him to court. The King's men found the loot fromThe Twelve Apostlesafter searching Kidd's cabin. Kidd is tried, condemned and hanged. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Bird of Paradiseis a 1932 Americanpre-Coderomanticadventuredramafilm directed byKing Vidorand starringDolores del RíoandJoel McCrea. Based on the 1912play of the same namebyRichard Walton Tully, it was released byRKO Radio Pictures. In 1960, the film entered thepublic domain in the United Statesbecause the claimants did not renew itscopyright registrationin the 28th year after publication per theCopyright Act of 1909. Plot: As ayachtsails into an isolated tropicalisland chainsomewhere in the Pacific Ocean, a large number of islanders inoutrigger canoespaddle out to greet it. The islanders dive for trinkets the yacht's crew throws them. A shark arrives, setting off a panic as much with the crew as the islanders. Johnny Baker (Joel McCrea) attempts to catch it hand casting with a large hook, but is yanked overboard when a loop of line attached to the impaled shark cinches around his ankle. Comely native swimmer Luana (Dolores del Río) cuts through the rope with a knife she had earlier been thrown as a trinket, saving his life. At a welcome banquet that night, Johnny sees young island men ritually carry off young maidens, and seeks to do the same with Luana, but is stopped and castigated by the local chieftain, her father. With brief nudity and underwater swimming scenes, they swiftly fall in love. Later, the yacht moves on, but leaves Johnny on the island for an adventure. He discovers Luana has been promised to another man – a prince on a neighboring island. She is spirited away to this island for thearranged marriage, while Johnny is waylaid. During an elaborate dance sequence, Johnny has made his way to the island in the nick of time, runs into a circle of fire, and rescues her as the natives kneel to the fire. Johnny and Luana then travel to another island where they hope to live out the rest of their lives. He builds her a house with a roof of thatched grass. However, their idyll is smashed when the localvolcanoon her home island begins to erupt. She confesses to her lover that her sacrifice alone can appease the mountain. Her people take her back. When Johnny goes after her, he is wounded in the shoulder by a spear and tied up. The people decide to sacrifice both of them to the volcano, but on the way, the couple are rescued by Johnny's friends and taken aboard the yacht. Johnny's wound is tended to, but his friends wonder what will become of the lovers. Luana does not fit into Johnny's world. When Johnny is sleeping, Luana's father demands her back. She goes willingly, believing that only she can save her people by voluntarily throwing herself into the volcano. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Beneath the 12-Mile Reefis a 1953 AmericanTechnicoloradventure filmdirected byRobert D. Webband starringRobert Wagner,Terry MooreandGilbert Roland. The screenplay was byA.I. Bezzerides. The film was the third motion picture made inCinemaScope, coming afterThe RobeandHow to Marry a Millionaire. The supporting cast featuresJ. Carrol Naish,Richard Boone,Peter Graves,Jay Novello,Harry Carey Jr.andJacques Aubuchon. Plot: Mike (Gilbert Roland) and Tony Petrakis (Robert Wagner) areGreek Americanfather and son sponge-diving entrepreneurs who find themselves in competition with the Rhys family,Conchfishermen who are prepared to resort to violence and murder to maintain their established fishing grounds off theGulf Coastof Florida. Run-ins between the two clans lead to an exchange of threats and all-out brawls. Further complications ensue when Tony Petrakis meets Gwyneth Rhys (Terry Moore), and the two fall in love. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Beat the Devilis a 1953adventurecomedy filmdirected byJohn Huston. It starredHumphrey Bogart,Jennifer Jones, andGina Lollobrigidaand featuredRobert Morley,Peter Lorre, andBernard Lee.Huston andTruman Capotewrote thescreenplay, loosely based upon the 1951 novel of thesame nameby British journalistClaud Cockburnwriting under the pseudonym James Helvick. Huston made the film as a sort of loose parody of the 1941 filmThe Maltese Falcon, which Huston directed and in which Bogart and Lorre appeared. Capote said, "John [Huston] and I decided to kid the story, to treat it as a parody. Instead of anotherMaltese Falcon, we turned it into a... [spoof] on this type of film." The script, written on a day-to-day basis as the film was shot,]concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to claim land rich inuraniumdeposits inKenyaas they wait in a smallItalianport to travel aboard atramp steameren route toMombasa plot: Billy Dannreuther is a formerly wealthy American who has fallen on hard times. He is reluctantly working with four crooks: Peterson, Julius O'Hara, Major Jack Ross, and Ravello, who are trying to acquireuranium-rich land inBritish East Africa. Billy suspects that Major Ross murdered a British Colonial officer who threatened to expose their plan. While waiting inItalyfor passage to Africa, Billy and his wife Maria meet a British couple, Harry and Gwendolen Chelm, who plan to travel on the same ship. Harry seems a very proper and traditional Englishman, while Gwendolen is flighty and a compulsive fantasist. Billy and Gwendolen have an affair, while Maria flirts with Harry. Peterson becomes suspicious that the Chelms may be attempting to acquire the uranium themselves. Though this is untrue, it seems confirmed by Gwendolen, who lies about her husband and exaggerates his importance. Billy and Peterson decide to take a plane instead, but their car runs over a cliff when they are pushing it after a breakdown and the pair are wrongly reported to have been killed. In order to replace Peterson's lost capital, Ravello approaches Harry Chelm and explains their scheme. Just then, to everyone's surprise, Billy and Peterson return to the hotel unharmed, just as the purser announces that the ship is at last ready to sail. On board, Harry reveals that he knows about Peterson's scheme and intends to inform the authorities. Peterson orders Major Ross to kill Harry, but Billy thwarts the murder attempt. Disbelieving Harry's outraged accusations, however, the ship's drunken captain has Harry locked in the brig. The ship's engine malfunctions and the passengers are told to escape by lifeboat. When Billy goes to rescue Harry, he finds that he has freed himself and left the ship, intending to swim ashore. Having abandoned ship, the passengers land on an African beach, where they are arrested by Arab soldiers. They are interrogated by Ahmed, an Arab official who suspects that they may be spies or revolutionaries. Billy creates a distraction by fleeing the room, and befriends Ahmed when he is recaptured by talking to him aboutRita Hayworth, whom he pretends to have known. Billy then persuades him to send the party back to Italy by sailing boat. After the party land, they are questioned by aScotland Yarddetective who is investigating the murder of the Colonial officer. Just as he seems taken in by Peterson's smooth talk, Gwendolen reveals Peterson's scheme, his involvement in the murder, and his attempt to kill Harry. The detective promptly arrests Peterson, O'Hara, Ross, and Ravello. As the four crooks are led away in handcuffs, Gwendolen receives a telegram from British East Africa saying that Harry has acquired the land where Peterson and the others were aiming to enrich themselves; he is now extremely wealthy and willing to forgive Gwendolen. Billy laughs happily, saying, "This is the end, the end!" Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents#ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Air Devilsis a 1938 Americanaction comedyfilm directed byJohn Rawlins, based on an original story, "The Fighting Marines" byHarold Buckley. The film starsLarry J. Blake,Dick PurcellandBeryl Wallace. Plot: Set in the island of Taro Pago in the years beforeWorld War II, two former Marine pilots, John P. "Horseshoe" Donovan (Larry J. Blake) and Percy "Slats" Harrington (Dick Purcell), are hired as air "constables" (constabularies) to keep order on the remote Pacific island. Both friends vie for the attentions of Marcia Bradford (Beryl Wallace) and, through a series of misadventures, find that neither will win out. The two pilots find that local tavern owner, Tom Mordant (Charles Brokaw), has been stirring up the natives and a civil war is brewing. The two rivals have to combine forces to stop violence and bring the island back to peaceful times Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents#ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Adventures of Tartu(alternate British title and American release title:Sabotage Agent, also known asTartu) is a 1943 BritishSecond World Warspy filmdirected byHarold S. Bucquetand starringRobert Donat.It was a morale booster of the era portrayingNazisas highly corruptible due to their desire to seduce women and to gain personal advancement Plot: British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday wartime job ofdefusing unexploded bombs. Fluent inRomanianand German and having studiedchemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascistIron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazipoison gasand sabotage the chemical plant where it is being manufactured. However, his contact is arrested before he can arrange for a job in the factory. Tartu is instead assigned work as a foreman at a munitions factory, where he is issued a German uniform. He is billeted in the house of Anna Palacek (Phyllis Morris) and her daughter Pavla (Glynis Johns), who works in the plant; also living there are German Inspector Otto Vogel (Walter Rilla) and the lovely Maruschuka Lanova (Valerie Hobson), who lives well by making herself popular with the German officers. That day Pavla shoots a German who earlier had had the man she loved executed. Tartu provides her with an alibi, winning her trust, and then reveals himself as a secret agent. Needing to get into the chemical plant, he asks her help to contact theCzech underground, and is surprised when she contrives for him and Maruschuka to go on a date. They talk guardedly but make it clear they are both working against the Nazis. At work the next day, Pavla is seen attemptingsabotage. She whispers to Tartu to protect himself by denouncing her. He does, and she is summarily executed. The factory manager rewards Tartu by arranging the transfer he wants, to the chemical plant. The same day, Maruschuka contacts Dr. Novotny (Martin Miller), the leader of the local resistance group, and says she trusts Tartu. However they have already concluded that he had saved Pavla as a trick to win the confidence of the underground and order him killed. To arrange this while avoiding the execution of 200 Czechs by the Nazis in retribution, Maruschuka returns home and comes on seductively to Vogel. She tells him she's sure Tartu is a spy and Vogel says he will call the Gestapo. But she suggests Vogel advance his career by taking the initiative and killing Tartu himself. Vogel wants evidence, so she goes out again with Tartu that night, so that Vogel can overhear them talking. But they are interrupted before this can happen. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Adventure in Iraqis a 1943 Americanadventure filmdirected byD. Ross Ledermanand starringJohn Loder,Ruth Ford,Warren DouglasandPaul Cavanagh. The film is based on the 1921 playThe Green GoddessbyWilliam Archer. Plot: Three Americans flying a small plane to Cairo, Egypt, are forced by engine failure to land in Iraq and are taken prisoner by an Arab chieftain. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama#VintageconnoisseurPresents#ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Thirteenth Guestis a 1932 Americanpre-Codemysterycomedy thrillerfilm, released on August 9, 1932. The film is also known asLady Bewarein theUnited Kingdom. It is based on the 1929 novelThe Thirteenth Guestwritten bycrime fictionauthorArmitage Trail best known for the novelScarfaceon which the1932 movieof the same name was based. The novel was filmed again in 1943 asMystery of the 13th Guest. Plot: Marie Morgan (Ginger Rogers) has been lured to an old abandoned house by a false note from a friend, and is in jeopardy although she doesn't yet realize it. As she sits at the table inside, she thinks back to the banquet held there 13 years earlier, when she was a little girl. Only 12 of 13 guests had attended, and the manor's owner, the Morgan family patriarch, who was then dying, has since passed on. The chance to claim the bulk of the estate fortune has resulted in an ongoing campaign of murder by someone targeting the original 12 guests, whose dead bodies are being left at the table in the same seats they had occupied originally. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Yellowstoneis a 1936 Americancrime filmset inYellowstone National Park, directed byArthur Lubinand released byUniversal Studios. The film, starringJudith Barrett, Henry Hunter,Ralph Morgan,Alan Hale,Raymond Hatton, andAndy Devine, combines murder mystery, romance, and natural setting. The famous historic buildingOld Faithful Innis featured in the film.Maltin, Leonard Plot: An ex-con is murdered in Yellowstone National Park while a bank robber's son is searching for the loot his father hid there 20 years before Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Sphinxis a 1933 AmericanPre-Codemystery drama film directed byPhil Rosen. The film was remade byWilliam BeaudineasPhantom Killerin 1942 Plot: A man comes out of the office of "Garfield Investment Company". He meets the janitor in the stairs and asks him for a match, and then what time it is. "It's nine" the Italian-American janitor Luigi Bacciagalupi answers and wants to know from which apartment he came out. The man leaves without answering. Shortly after, the janitor finds a dead man in the office of "Garfield Investment Company". Newspaperman Burton from the Chronicle is there to talk with the inspector. Before he can see him he talks with the watching police officer, and after a while, realizes that the Garfield Investment Company just that morning went bankrupt. "Another broker went down the flush". The janitor recognizes on the police records the man who came out of the office, Mr. Breen. During the trial he sticks to what he has seen and what he has heard, though two different doctors testify that Mr. Breen is deaf and mute since birth. Young chronicle newspaperman Jerry Crane, in love with his good-looking girl colleague, has a feeling that Breen is a strange guy and tries to convince her not to go for interview to his house. Meantime a young broker tells him he has a hint, if he gets enough money for it. Breen comes to see the young broker before at half past eight the Burton comes to his house. A second time Mr. Breen asks for the time after seeing his victim. The puzzling case has the parallel love story of the two newspaper-people of the Chronicle. While Burton, who wants to marry Crane, is skeptical about Breen, Crane is fascinated, and dedicates him a series of articles. When Inspector Riley thinks he saw Breen hearing the playing of the piano when they are in his house, the next morning a third dead man is on the list. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Sunset Murder Caseis a 1938 American film directed byLouis J. Gasnierand starringSally RandandEsther Muir. The film is also known asHigh Explosivein theUnited Kingdom. Plot: After her policeman father is killed and nightclub singer Nina is murdered, Kathy posing as stripper Valarie goes to work underground to catch the gangster. Her boyfriend reporter Lou watches out for her. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

A Shriek in the Nightis a 1933 Americanpre-Codemysterycrime filmwith elements of romance directed byAlbert Rayand starringGinger Rogers,Lyle Talbot, andHarvey Clark.It was produced by theindependentstudioAllied Pictures, and remains the company's best-known release Plot: Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan (Rogers) and Ted Rand (Talbot) find themselves unravelling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

A Shot in the Darkis a 1935 Americanmystery filmdirected byCharles Lamont. Plot: A college student (Charles Starrett) discovers his roommate's body hanging from a window and calls the police. What at first looks like suicide turns out to be murder. While a police investigation is ongoing, more students are killed. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Shadows on the Stairsis a 1941 Americanmystery filmdirected byD. Ross Lederman.It is based onFrank Vosper's playMurder on the Second Floor. The British subsidiary ofWarner Brothershad previously produced afilm adaptation of the workin 1932. Plot: Residents of a London boarding house come under suspicion during a string of murders. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Invisible Avenger is a 1958 film noir crime film directed by James Wong Howe, Ben Parker and John Sledge. The film was a compilation of two pilot episodes of a 1957 Republic Pictures TV show called The Shadow. When the show failed to sell, the episodes (one of which was directed by cinematographer James Wong Howe) were edited together and released as a theatrical feature called Invisible Avenger. The film was re-released in 1962 under the title Bourbon Street Shadows by the Louisiana-based MPA films. The episodes were shot on location in New Orleans Plot: Pablo Ramirez is an expatriate from the Caribbean nation of Santa Cruz that is under control of a military dictator called the Generalissimo. From New Orleans, Ramirez plots a revolution and his return to Santa Cruz. To assist in this and to protect him from the Santa Cruz secret police who are in New Orleans he seeks the help of Lamont Cranston through a mutual friend, jazz trumpeter Tony Alcade. In the midst of a telephone call to Cranston, Tony is murdered by the secret police. Cranston and his metaphysical mentor Jogendra come to New Orleans to bring Tony's murderers to justice and freedom to Santa Cruz. Though no one knows the identity of the crime fighting trouble shooter The Shadow who has telepathic powers, everyone knows that he can be contacted for help through Lamont Cranston. As Cranston protects Pablo from secret police assassination and kidnapping attempts, the Generalissimo broadcasts the execution of Pablo's twin brother that is shown on television in the United States in a scheme to draw Pablo into the open. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Rogues' Tavern is a 1936 American murder mystery film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Wallace Ford, Barbara Pepper, and Joan Woodbury. The film was produced by Mercury Pictures, and released by Puritan Picture on June 4, 1936. Plot: It is a bleak and windy night when Jimmy Kelly (Wallace Ford) and Marjorie Burns (Barbara Pepper) arrive at the Red Rock Tavern with plans to marry as soon as possible, but are told there are no rooms available. Mrs. Jamison (Clara Kimball Young) agrees to let them stay until the justice of the peace gets there, as they've arranged to meet him there. Everyone in the tavern is shocked when Harrison is killed, apparently by a wild dog that breaks in and attacks him. Mason appears to call the coroner and asks for him to get there as soon as possible. Because of the weather and the late hour, Mrs. Jamison agrees to let Jimmy and Marjorie stay the night, Jimmy in Bill's room, and Marjorie in Joan's room. A little while later Hughes is killed in the same manner, seemingly by a wild dog. Jimmy attempts to call the coroner but the phone is not working, and upon closer inspection discovers the line has been cut, which leads him to suspect a dog is not the real killer. Wentworth arrives at the tavern, he says that he left as soon as he received Mason's telegram. Mason is surprised, as he, Harrison, Hughes and Joan all got telegrams that say they are from Wentworth. Suddenly the lights go out, and Jamison says a fuse must have burned out. Jimmy searches outside and finds the dog that is supposedly responsible for the killings and puts a makeshift leash on him and takes him inside. Mason goes to search Hughes' room for a gun and is killed in the process, which rules out the dog as the killer. The lights then come back on again. Marjorie searches the guests luggage with Mrs. Jamison's help. Jimmy begins to question the remaining guests to determine who might have motive, then a fist fight breaks out among them and Jimmy is knocked unconscious. Bill, Joan and Wentworth panic and try to leave the tavern but suddenly find themselves trapped inside by locked doors and barred windows. As Jimmy is regaining consciousness, Bill Joan and Wentworth turn to Jimmy for help, since he is a detective. Jimmy then tries to determine what reason someone would have to try to kill any of them and they admit to being jewel smugglers. Marjorie, who is still searching through the luggage, discovers jewels in Joan's suitcase. Marjorie then searches Jamison's room and finds a dog's head, Jimmy accuses the wheel chair bound Jamison of being the real killer and he confesses. Meanwhile a man who has been lurking outside hides in the basement. Jimmy suspects Jamison confessed to cover up the real killer. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The President's Mystery is a 1936 American film directed by Phil Rosen. The film is also known as One for All in the United Kingdom. Plot: The film deals with a "problem Mr. Roosevelt submitted . . . whether it was possible for a man, weary of faithless friends and a wasted life, to convert a $5,000,000 estate into cash, disappear and start anew in some worth-while activity." (cited from The New York Times – Monday, April 16, 2012) Disillusioned attorney James Blake is engaged by his friend George Sartos to lobby on behalf of the National Cannery against a bill that would've empowered smaller businesses. After James is successful, he encounters Charlotte Brown, who runs a cannery that is the main livelihood of the small town of Springvale; the cannery has been forced to close because of the bill. James listens to the townsfolk and is inspired to help them. James liquidates his assets, closes his bank accounts, and stages a failed business venture to make it seem that he's gone bankrupt. Once ready, he leaves his estranged wife, Ilka, to fake his death in a car accident. Ilka tries to inform George, who is also her lover, about James's strange behavior but is accidentally killed by George's manservant, Andrew. James learns about Ilka's death through the radio, and how James is blamed for it but the case is considered closed since his "body" was found by the police. Some months later James, using his new name James Carter, is in a relationship with Charlotte and has turned her cannery into a success. They are visited by George, who wants to buy out their business. George recognizes James and tries to blackmail him into compliance. When James refuses, George informs the police and James is arrested for Ilka's murder. While James is held in the town jail, George plants agents provocateurs to cause a riot to destroy the cannery. James learns of this and, due to his good relationship with the people of Springvale, is allowed out of the town jail to talk the rioters down and bring proof of his intentions to keep the cannery going. Meanwhile, James's former manservant Roger, acting on his own initiative, finds out from Andrew that Ilka's death was an accident. George is arrested for causing the riot, and James is released, freeing him to marry Charlotte. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Panther's Claw is a 1942 American film directed by William Beaudine and distributed by Producers Releasing Corporation. It is a loose sequel to two Columbia Pictures films of the 1930s, The Night Club Lady and The Circus Queen Murder. Plot: After a policeman catches Everett P. Digberry leaving a cemetery in the middle of the night, Digberry explains that he was instructed to leave $1,000 on his aunt's grave. He is brought to police headquarters where he explains that he received a letter with instructions from someone called the Panther, and several others who received similar letters are with the police as well. The police commissioner determines that the group members are all connected with an opera company. They suggest a baritone named Enrico Lombardi who may have a motive, as he was recently banished from the company. Lombardi is enraged to find his name in the newspaper as the prime suspect and confronts Nina Politza, who had received a letter from the Panther. Digberry intervenes but Lombardi chokes and strikes him. The police attempt to identify the Panther by comparing the typewritten letters to samples from various typewriters. The killer is revealed to be Captain Edgar Walters. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Portrait of Alison is a 1956 British atmospheric crime film directed by Guy Green. It was based on a BBC television series Portrait of Alison which aired the same year. In the United States the film was released as Postmark for Danger. It was also known as Alison. Plot: A car plunges over a cliff in Italy. Both passengers, newspaperman Lewis Forrester and actress Alison Ford, are killed. In London, Lewis's brother, Tim, is an artist. He is painting his favourite model, Jill, for a beer advertisement. She tells him that she is giving up her party life to marry Carmichael. However, she is kissing Tim passionately when a police inspector arrives. Tim gets a strange commission, from a Mr Smith, to paint Smith’s dead daughter, the car crash victim. He gives him a photo to work from and a beautiful blue dress to use for posing the picture. Jill sees the dress and admires both it and the portrait of Alison. She goes to meet her fiance for lunch but forgets a box she was to give him. Jill is found dead in Tim's flat wearing the blue dress. The face on the portrait has been erased and the photo on which it was based has disappeared. The police arrive and ask if they can open the box. It contains an empty bottle of Chianti with a British label: Nightingale & Son - a firm that does not exist. The chianti bottle is sketched in the corner of a postcard from Rome sent to Tim from Lewis. Tim is a prime suspect in the murder. Meanwhile we learn Alison is not dead, as she is seen walking around London. She appears at Tim's door and explains that the woman killed in the car crash was a hitchhiker but everyone presumed it was her. She is involved in an international diamond smuggling deal. Tim invites the police in order to prove that Alison is alive, but she has disappeared. She has gone to see her father in a hotel. He seems involved in the diamond smuggling. Allison solicits the help of Forrester's brother, Tim. Then, as the story unfolds, a number of mysterious, unsolved questions keep emerging, along with two more murders and a suicide. It turns out that no less than four of the major characters are part of the international ring of diamond thieves, and that an independent blackmailer is at work as well. After arrests are made Tim and Alison are alone. He asks if she can stay with him until he completes her portrait. She asks how long this will take. When he answers all my life she says that's fine. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents#MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Death in the Air (aka Pilot X and The Mysterious Bombardier) is a 1937 American film directed by Elmer Clifton and stars Lona Andre, John Carroll, Leon Ames and Henry Hall. The film is also known as Murder in the Air in the United Kingdom and as The Mysterious Bombardier (American reissue title). The film was Fanchon Royer's first production for her new company, Fanchon Royer Features, Inc. Film Daily reported that noted "G-Man" Melvin Purvis was offered a role in this film, but turned it down. The story concerns commercial aircraft being shot down by a large black fighter aircraft with a large "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects may be the very pilots that have been gathered together to solve the mystery, and are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion. Plot: Inspector Gallagher (Willard Kent) of the United States Department of Commerce views a number of crashes and disappearances of Goering-Gage Aviation Corporation aircraft as suspicious. With United States Army Reserve test pilot Jerry Blackwood (John Carroll), Gallagher visits the Goering-Gage company. Jerry test flies Goering-Gage aircraft but finds nothing wrong. When a severely injured passenger from a crash claims a mystery aircraft attacked them, the owner, Henry Goering (Henry Hall), hires psychiatrist Dr. Norris (John Elliott) to question the man. Dr. Norris believes a psychotic ex-World War I flying ace, whom he dubs "Pilot X," may be behind the attacks. With the help of Blackwood, Goering and Norris assemble a group of five ex-flying aces living in the area who may have a connection with the mysterious Pilot X. He recruits German Lieutenant Baron von Guttard (Hans Joby), French Lieutenant Rene Le Rue (Gaston Glass), British Captain Roland Saunders (Pat Somerset), Canadian Lieutenant Douglas Thompson (Wheeler Oakman), and American Lieutenant John Ives (Reed Howes). The group meets in a mansion to plan how to confront the mysterious Pilot X. One pilot, however, von Guttard comes under immediate suspicion when Goering is uneasy with son Carl (Leon Ames), an ex-German prisoner of war. On their first patrol, Pilot X attacks, killing von Guttard. Later that day, Le Rue is killed by Pilot X and the next day, Saunders has a mental breakdown. Blackwood receives a note from Pilot X, asking him to meet him in the sky at six o'clock the next morning. Thompson, meanwhile, receives a similar note but Pilot X, who is on the airfield, paints an "X" on Thompson's aircraft. Blackwood mistakes Thompson for Pilot X, and kills the Canadian. When a paint can is found in Ives' locker, all accuse the American ace of being Pilot X. That night, Dr. Norris calls the elder Goering, telling him that he knows who is Pilot X, but is murdered. Gallagher believes Blackwood is Pilot X, and sends Ives and Saunders after him. Helen Gage (Lona Andre), Henry's ward, however, first finds part of Saunders' goggles near Norris' dead body, then finds the other half in his aircraft. Crazed, Saunders takes off after Blackwood with Helen trapped on his aircraft. Once in the sky, Pilot X appears and attacks Saunders, wounding him. In a fierce dogfight, Pilot X attacks Blackwood but is shot down. In the wreckage of Pilot X's aircraft the body of Carl Goering is discovered along with a photograph of Carl in a German uniform. He was not a prisoner of war, but deserted and joined the German Air Force. With the mystery solved, Blackwood and Helen realize that they are attracted to one another and embrace. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMysteryDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #MurderMystery Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur