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The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement
The ninth installment in the twelve episode OCTAVIUS AMATEUR DETECTIVE series (of which THE ADVENTURES OF THE WRONG SANTA CLAUS is or perhaps is not a part). Octavius is a bumbler who "never fails" to solve the crime due to an endless array of good luck and coincidence. He goes in search of local car...Start your free trial to watch -
The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus
Amateur detective Octavius agrees to portray Santa Claus for his friends. Unfortunately, a burglar appears and puts on a Claus costume of his own. Two is one too many. The other St. Nick gets away with the loot and its up to Octavius to track down the culprit.Start your free trial to watch -
Cave of the Living Dead
The police cannot solve the mystery of seven murders which have alarmed the inhabitants of a small village. They call in Inspector Doren (Adrian Hoven) of Interpol but the only clue the town's chief constable can give his young and famous colleague is the fact that each time a murder was committed, the...Start your free trial to watch
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Cover Girl Killer
Set in the sleazy world of a backstreet 1950s nightclub, a serial-killer is believed to be murdering the models of a glamour magazine. When cover-girl Gloria Starke (Bernadette Milnes) is found dead after going on an assignment with mysterious bespectacled television producer, Spendosa (Harry Corbett),...Start your free trial to watch -
Curtain at Eight
Handsome Broadway star Wylie Thornton is shot to death backstage at his own birthday party in front of a dozen witnesses. Unfortunately, the theater lights had been cut off, and no one saw a thing. Widely despised as a cad by those who knew him, Wylie had an ex-wife, girlfriend and assorted business...Start your free trial to watch
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Danger Zone
When you deal with dames, you are in the DANGER ZONE, as the character of crime detector Dennis O'Brien (Hugh Beaumont) learns in his inaugural mystery-drama. The private eye first cracks a case involving a smuggling ring, then tackles an assignment that involves blackmail, murder and film noir's top bad guy, Tom Neal.Start your free trial to watch -
Dead Man's Memories
Along a stretch of the Portuguese coast, a man's body is found. Police detective Pinto (Miguel Guilherme) then finds a tantalizing clue: a video camera in a car parked nearby with a tape of a young woman (Sylvie Testud) who was unaware she was being filmed. Pinto tracks down the woman and questions her but...Start your free trial to watch -
Dressed to Kill
DRESSED TO KILL awakened memories of the Holmes of literature. Watson refers to the latest edition of The Strand Magazine and its publication of "Scandal in Bohemia." It didn't matter that the original publication of this story took place in 1891, for producer/director Neill always made sure to merge contemporary with the...Start your free trial to watch
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Exit no.6
EXIT NO.6 is a place where anything is possible. One summer, Van Dine teams up with his buddies Vance, Fion and Vivian to investigate a series of mysterious incidents involving disappearing high school girls. All the evidence leads to an online secret society named “Autumn Leaves Club.” As the gang of fearless friends dig...Start your free trial to watch -
FBI Girl
Fingerprints don't lie, which is why a state governor with a hidden criminal past wants a file card with his prints stolen from FBI headquarters. Not so fast: guardians of the law Cesar Romero and George Brent are there to make America secure! Raymond Burr at his sinister peak and an exciting helicopter-motorboat chase keep...Start your free trial to watch -
Fingerprints Don't Lie
Can fingerprints be faked? That's the question that crime specialist Richard Travis must ask himself when he finds Richard Emory's prints on the gun that was used to kill the town's mayor; but many, including the mayor's daughter, refuse to believe that Emory was responsible. More twists, and a second...Start your free trial to watch
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
A country boy (Glenn Tryon) arrives in Hollywood and encounters a strange collection of characters, including a clueless hotel detective (Oliver Hardy) and a cross-dressing thief (Stan Laurel). This is Laurel and Hardy's first collaboration under Hal Roach.Start your free trial to watch -
Getting Evidence
A jealous husband visits the Hawkshaw Detective Agency (a redundant naming device in its own right) and asks the detective to obtain evidence of his wife's supposed infidelities. Only a photograph is deemed acceptable evidence and the private eye's attempts to secure it provide a series of comic incidents,...Start your free trial to watch -
Ghost Mother
An undercover agent was brutally murdered by a ruthless group of drug dealers. His sister, Nuntha is entrusted to care for his children, but she is also killed by her brother's murderers. When the drug dealers decide to hunt down the children, Nuntha returns from the dead to protect them and seek vengeance. GHOST MOTHER is...Start your free trial to watch
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Hardly Gold
Beautifully shot in 35-mm, HARDLY GOLD is a high-comedy action adventure written and directed by artist William Wegman, starring his well-known Weimaraners, Fay Ray, Battina, Crooky and Chundo. The Hardly family spends its summers at the Hardly Inn in Maine, where the Hardly Boys play tennis, croquet, badminton, and hunt...Start your free trial to watch -
The Hooded Terror
This drama/thriller is both classy and suspenseful. No one suspects a millionaire stamp collector to be the head of the country's most notorious and feared organized crime ring. It's up to an amateur detective to track him down with little cooperation from the police.Start your free trial to watch -
The Line
Amidst a volatile underworld, a member of an Asian crime family is brutally murdered in cold blood. To prevent a gang war, recently promoted detective James Jewel is teamed with rogue undercover cop Mike Calis. Against the clock, the officers must unravel the truth behind the killing. The deeper they delve, the greater the...Start your free trial to watch




