Edward IV (Ian Hunter) has usurped the throne from the incompetent Henry VI, and rules with the aide of his brave and intelligent brother, Richard of Gloucester (Basil Rathbone). Richard does help his brother, but mainly with an eye toward helping himself. He sees six individuals in his way to becoming king, and he plans
A Joker pulls the emergency cord to stop the train in order to retrieve his hat that had flown out a window. This causes the train to arrive at the station late, and with no other trains coming until morning, stranding a group of passengers. Besides the Joker, the group include a newly Married Couple,
The new owners of the Paris Opera House are told, after the sale, that there is a ghostly phantom haunting the place. The Phantom sends a threatening note, insisting that young, pretty singer Christine (Mary Phibin) be given the lead part that currently belongs to prima donna Carlotta (Mary Fabian; yes, two actresses with similar
The arch-criminal The Bat has just finished his most daring robbery and heads off to the country to a mansion rented by elderly but fierce Cornelia Van Gorder. The house is soon filled with an array of strange characters, including Van Gorder’s niece, a suspected bank robber, a suspicious doctor, a stern police detective, a
In a flashback that never ends, but does include multiple other flashbacks we learn that Susan Webster (Ellen Drew) left her small town for the big city, only to fall in with gangsters (Robert Paige, Joseph Calleia, Gerald Mohr, Marc Lawrence, and Paul Lukas) who trick her into becoming a prostitute. <Nope, hold on. The
With the previous four Japanese Mars missions destroyed (maybe by a UFO, maybe not, but let’s not get too worried about little details like that), a new mission is set to go, with a manly-man captain, a goofy sidekick, a hot American Blonde, and a doctor who will soon be replaced by a grumpy American,
Lieutenant Yoshinari Yonemori is part of a plutonium transport sea convoy that runs into an atoll. Overwhelmed by the near disaster, he pushes his way onto the insurance investigator’s team that’s trying to determine what happened. Meanwhile, zoologist and all-around science expert Dr. Mayumi Nagamine is pulled in by Police Inspector Osako to investigate deaths
After several strange kidnappings and attacks, the undersea empire of Mu makes its demands known: Destroy the super-sub Atragon, and then become colonies of Mu. The first of these is tricky as Japan doesn’t know anything about the Atragon. It was a project under the command of Captain Jinguji who supposedly died at the end
Five years have passed (even though the film was released seven months later). After an exceptionally long synopsis of the events so far, we find out that The Bat is still at large, and still has hypnotic power over Flor. His plan is…well, the same as always. He wants the breastplate and armband again. And
The three Mexican Aztec Mummy films were made back-to-back in 1957 and it is best to think of them as an old, ‘40s-style serial rather than three movies. The pacing works better that way, as does some of the cheapness and fanciful elements. Just consider the endings of the first two films as cliff hangers.
Nina MacCarron (Rosemary La Planche), daughter of the late Doctor Carruthers, of “Devil Bat” fame, is found comatose, having just arrived in town. She has a fear of vampires and her father, and she’s put under the care of expert psychologist Dr. Clifton Morris (Michael Hale), who wants to kill his wife and put the
Peculiar Dr. Ted Stevens (Kent Taylor) and bizarre government agent Bill Grant (Rodney Bell) discover a radiation burnt body on an unusual looking beach. Ted approaches oddball oceanographer Professor King (Michael Whalen) and his attractive daughter who’s the only one who seems human. Meanwhile King’s assistant follows king around and hides in bushes while his