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Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a baby photographer who fantasizes being a private eye. A baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks for help locating her missing husband. This is followed by sinister doings in a gloomy mansion & sanatorium, with Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney Jr. Hope's character ends up framed for murder with every plot twist & parody of thriller cliches imaginable.
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Screen legend George C. Scott gives a strong, sensitive portrayal of a deeply religious Midwestern businessman whose daughter, while on a church-sponsored outing, runs away from home. He hires an oddball detective, who learns that the daughter has been making cheap sex films. When the father realizes that he can no longer trust the detective, he decides to hunt for his daughter himself. Posing as a porno film producer casting a new movie, he gathers...
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When a beautiful woman claims that her dear husband has disappeared, the investigation takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Scotland, where they uncover a plot involving a clandestine society, Her Majesty's Secret Service, and the Loch Ness Monster! But before he can deduce matters to the elementary, Holmes makes an error that may jeopardize the national safety of Britain and ruin his reputation.
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Cabaret singer Kim Ling, the daughter of a Chinese general who has been accused of absconding with government funds, arrives in the Straits Settlements. There she meets Gregory Prin, a half-caste gunrunner and head of a jungle empire where he treats the Malaysians ruthlessly. She agrees to accompany him in search of her father, as she has several reason to believe Prin is responsible for the general's disappearance.
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Lady on a train (1945): A young woman is a witness to a murder outside her compartment window. With a penchant for reading mystery novels and the help of a mystery writer, she sets out to solve the case after police refuse to believe her story.
Tangier (1946): The beautiful Maria Montez is determined to bring a Nazi collaborator to justice in this exotic, suspense filled noir. In the North African city of Tangier, where every secret has its price,...
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Mystery of Marie Roget: A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress.
Chicago Deadline: On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Iron Man: An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler...
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