Director Gordon Wiles’s modest 1935 mystery Charlie Chan’s Secret is set in a creepy old mansion in San Francisco, where Chan (Warner Oland) endures séances, apparitions, a hurled knife, and Herbert Mundin’s insufferable comic butler […]
All the team are on top form in director H Bruce Humberstone’s droll 1937 episode Charlie Chan at the Olympics, set in pre-World War Two Berlin and including newsreel shots of the 1936 Olympic Games, […]
Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Circus is a middling, though still entertaining enough episode, in which Warner Oland stars as Chan, who probes a circus killing, along with the help […]
Director Harry Lachman’s 1941 Dead Men Tell again stars Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, who uncovers the murderer of eccentric old lady Miss Patience Nodbury (Ethel Griffies) – apparently scared stiff by a ghost! – […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1956 D-Day the Sixth of June stars Robert Taylor and Richard Todd as married US officer Captain Brad Parker (Taylor) and British colonel Lt. Col. John Wynter (Todd) are both in love […]
Director Cy Endfield’s 1969 biographical historical drama De Sade [Das Ausschweissende Leben des Marquis De Sade] is a flop American co-production bid by American International Pictures with Germany to make a popular European art movie, […]
Writer-director Bernard Girard’s 1966 crime drama Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a bright and brash tongue-in-cheek-thriller adventure starring James Coburn as Swinging Sixties ladies’ man crook Eli Kotch, a paroled conman masterminding a gang’s […]
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