A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.

There's Always a Woman

1938

English

6.7

♡ 7

38%

Alexander Hall Director

Walter Kingsford as Grigson

Pierre Watkin as Mr. Ketterling

Lester Matthews as Walter Fraser

Melvyn Douglas as William 'Bill' Reardon

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.

Man Hunt

1941

English

7.2

♡ 8

87%

Fritz Lang Director

Joan Bennett as Jerry Stokes

Lester Matthews as Major

William Haade as Third Sentry

Roddy McDowall as Vaner

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.

The Far Horizons

1955

English

6.1

♡ 9

42%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

based on true story

Drama

historical figure

historically inaccurate

History

lewis and clark expedition

Romance

Western

Rudolph Maté Director

Lester Matthews as Mr. Hancock

Helen Wallace as Mrs. Marsha Hancock

Bill Walker as Tom

Larry Pennell as Wild Eagle

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.

Flame of the Islands

1955

English

5.8

♡ 3

Edward Ludwig Director

Peter Adams as Clint Johnson

Howard Duff as Doug Duryea

Frieda Inescort as Evelyn Hammond

Lester Matthews as Gus

A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.

Hollywood Horror House

1970

English

5.5

♡ 2

Action

Horror

Thriller

Donald Wolfe Director

Hal Taggart as Guest

Lester Matthews as Ira Jaffee

Miriam Hopkins as Katharine Packard

Florence Lake as Mildred

An enigmatic young man manipulates his way into working at the decaying mansion of a once prolific, but now reclusive and alcoholic, movie star named Katharine Packard. While the rest of the house staff become suspicious of Vic's intentions, the aging movie queen is smitten. But as Vic begins behaving in more and more erratic ways, it becomes clear that he's far more sinister than his demeanor implies.

The Paradine Case

1947

English

6.5

♡ 12

71%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Gregory Peck as Anthony Keane

John Williams as Barrister Collins

Alfred Hitchcock as Man Carrying Cello Case

Lester Matthews as Police Inspector Ambrose

In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and convinced of her innocence. His obsession clouds his judgment as he builds a defense implicating her servant, André Latour—an act that leads to devastating consequences both in court and at home.

Spy 77

1933

English

5.8

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Arthur B. Woods Director

Arnold Bell as Austrian Officer

Austin Trevor as Captain Larco

Lester Matthews as Coloneilo Romanelli

Cecil Ramage as Ermete Davila

Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.

Werewolf of London

1935

English

6.3

♡ 12

80%

himalaya mountain range

Stuart Walker Director

Warner Oland as Dr. Yogami

J.M. Kerrigan as Hawkins

Valerie Hobson as Lisa Glendon

Lester Matthews as Paul Ames

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

The Invisible Man's Revenge

1944

English

5.7

♡ 9

40%

Ford Beebe Director

Ian Wolfe as Feeney

Evelyn Ankers as Julie Herrick

Jon Hall as Robert Griffin

Lester Matthews as Sir Jasper Herrick

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.