The Secret Six (1931)
“Go ahead and shoot if you got the nerve.” A gritty, Pre-Code gangster flick from MGM, The Secret Six features a solid performance by Wallace Beery as “Louis ‘Slaughterhouse’ Scorpio,”…
The Seventh Victim (1943)
“Weird pagan rites in secret dens of exotic mystery!” A young woman named “Mary Gibson” (Kim Hunter) leaves a boarding school to search for her missing sister “Jacqueline” (Jean Brooks)…
The Snake Pit (1948)
“It was strange, here I was among all those people, and a the same time I felt as if I were looking at them from some place far away .…
The Gangster (1947)
“I knew everything I did was low and rotten. I knew what people thought of me. What difference did it make? What did I care?” An offbeat film noirish crime…
The Ghost Goes West (1935)
“Did you ever meet a ghost with a sense of humor?” Rene Clair’s first English-language film, this offbeat comic fantasy produced by Alexander Korda features Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)…
The Ghost Ship (1943)
“Men are worthless cattle, and a few men are given authority to drive them.” As with any Val Lewton production for RKO, The Ghost Ship, which was directed by Mark…
The Ghost Train (1941)
“When the train come tearing and a roaring through the station, with its whiskers blowing and it haunted steam up …” A curious little artifact of British cinema featuring a…
The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)
“If that’s a girl, then I don’t know what my sister is!” Buxom Jayne Mansfield stars as aspiring singer “Jerri Jordan” in this Frank Tashlin classic (originally titled Do Re…
The Station Agent (2003)
“It’s funny how people see me and treat me, since I’m really just a simple, boring person.” Best known as “Tyrion Lannister” in the critically acclaimed HBO series Game of…
The Steel Trap (1952)
The Steel Trap [1952] The Steel Trap [1952] - Image “The difference between the honest and the dishonest, the stupid and the smart, is a debatable line.” In this criminally…