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Free mystery and crime films
The detective series were the bread and butter of the studio B unit: a recurring sleuth, a country house, seventy minutes, four of them a year. They were made to fill the bottom of a double bill and a good many of them are far better than that job required.
Alongside them are the straight crime pictures: heists, con men, courtroom dramas and prison films, most of them made fast and cheap by people who had made a dozen already that year and knew exactly where to put the camera.
All free, all in full, no account and no subscription.
21 films
13 of them carry an audio description track written and recorded here — all the described films are listed together.
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Carnival of Souls (1962)Audio described
A young woman walks away from a river crash that should have killed her, takes a job as a church organist in a new town, and finds herself followed by a pale man nobody else…
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Dementia 13 (1963)Audio described
After her husband dies suddenly, Louise Haloran hides his death and goes to his family's castle in Ireland, hoping to secure his inheritance. The family is still mourning a…
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He Walked by Night (1948)Audio described
On a foggy Los Angeles night, a patrolman stops to question a man outside a radio supply store, and is shot. The man, Roy Martin, is careful, clever and handy with radio and…
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His Girl Friday (1940)Audio described
Hildy Johnson, the star reporter who divorced her editor Walter Burns, comes back to the paper to tell him she is marrying Bruce Baldwin, an insurance man, and leaving for…
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Impact (1949)Audio described
Walter Williams, a San Francisco businessman devoted to his wife Irene, sets off to drive to Denver on business, with a passenger Irene has promised a lift. Then word comes back…
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Inner Sanctum (1948)Audio described
A woman is found dead beside the railroad tracks, and with the trains stopped by a flood, the man who left her there takes a room in a small-town boarding house, where a curious…
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Kansas City Confidential (1952)Audio described
A hold-up is pulled off by four men who have never seen one another's faces, and the florist's delivery driver framed for it goes after them one at a time. Phil Karlson's heist…
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Scarlet Street (1945)Audio described
Christopher Cross, a cashier given a gold watch for 25 years of faithful service, has always wanted to be a painter and still paints every Sunday. In Greenwich Village he meets…
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The Great Train Robbery (1903)Audio described
Bandits tie up a railroad telegraph operator, rob a train and its passengers, and ride off into the woods. Edwin S. Porter's ten-and-a-half-minute western for Edison, told…
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The Hitch-Hiker (1953)Audio described
Two friends driving to Mexico on a fishing trip, Roy Collins and Gil Bowen, pick up a hitch-hiker, Emmett Myers, a killer the police are already hunting, and he takes them south…
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The Stranger (1946)Audio described
Mr. Wilson of the Allied War Crimes Commission lets a prisoner named Conrad Meineke escape, on the chance that he will lead him to Franz Kindler, a Nazi who has disappeared…
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The Terror (1963)Audio described
Lieutenant André Duvalier, a French officer separated from his regiment, meets a young woman named Helene in the forest and, looking for her, finds his way to the castle of Baron…
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Woman on the Run (1950)Audio described
Walking his dog late one night in San Francisco, Frank Johnson sees a man shot down in the street from a passing car. He is the only witness, he has a bad heart, and soon he is…
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Concrete Cowboys (1979)
Tom Selleck and Jerry Reed are a couple of con-artist cowboys from Montana who end up in Nashville in the adventure of their lives.
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Detour (1945)
"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme of explicit…
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Dressed To Kill (1946)
Aka 'Sherlock Holmes in Dressed To Kill' - features Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.
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Great Guy (1936)
James Cagney plays the plucky Irish crusader, Johnny Cave, who fights against corruption at the Weights And Measures Department. James Cagney is great in this movie. It shows why…
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Quicksand (1950)
An engrossing suspense film with Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, and Jeanne Cagney. Needing money for a date, Rooney borrows $20 from the cash register, starting a chain of events…
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Secret Agent (1936)
He has to kill a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general first and then Elsa Carrington who helps him in his duty. Stars: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine…
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Based on the Sir Authur Conan Doyle story "The Dancing Men", Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are placed in WWII europe to help protect a scientist and his invention from the…
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Suddenly (1954)
"Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer…