After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.

They Live by Night

1948

English

7.4

♡ 13

96%

Nicholas Ray Director

Frank Ferguson as Bum

Harry Harvey as Hagenheimer

Ian Wolfe as Hawkins

Mickey Simpson as Shadow

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

The Frisco Kid

1979

English

6.3

♡ 21

54%

philadelphia, pennsylvania

rabbi

Western

Robert Aldrich Director

Ian Wolfe as Father Joseph

David Bradley as Julius Rosensheine

Frank De Vol as Piano Player - Old Timer

Harrison Ford as Tommy

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1940

English

7.3

♡ 2

86%

John Cromwell Director

Ian Wolfe as Horace Greeley

Trevor Bardette as John Hanks

Louis Jean Heydt as Mentor Graham

George Chandler as Minor Role

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

Saboteur

1942

English

7.1

♡ 22

81%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Margaret Hayes as Henry's Wife in Movie

William A. Boardway as Navy Officer at Ship Launching

Ethelreda Leopold as Party Guest

Ian Wolfe as Robert

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

The Lost World

1960

English

5.5

♡ 18

20%

Action

Adventure

central and south america

Irwin Allen Director

Ian Wolfe as Burton White

Jill St. John as Jennifer Holmes

Michael Rennie as Lord John Roxton

Fernando Lamas as Manuel Gomez

Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.

My Friend Irma

1949

English

6.4

♡ 11

65%

George Marshall Director

Diana Lynn as Jane Stacey

Ian Wolfe as Minister

Kathryn Givney as Mrs. Rhinelander

Don DeFore as Richard Rhinelander

Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.

Homebodies

1974

English

6.5

♡ 5

76%

Larry Yust Director

Wesley Lau as Construction Foreman

Peter Brocco as Mr. Blakely

Douglas Fowley as Mr. Crawford

Ian Wolfe as Mr. Loomis

When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.

Colorado Territory

1949

English

7.2

♡ 7

70%

Raoul Walsh Director

James Mitchum as Child

Ian Wolfe as Homer Wallace

John Archer as Reno Blake

Monte Blue as U.S. Marshal

After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.

The Pearl of Death

1944

English

7.1

♡ 9

77%

Roy William Neill Director

Ian Wolfe as Amos Hodder

Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson

Evelyn Ankers as Naomi Drake

Colin Kenny as Security Guard

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.

The Scarlet Claw

1944

English

7.2

♡ 11

73%

Roy William Neill Director

Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson

Ian Wolfe as Drake

Jack Kenny as Villager in Pub

Frank Austin as Villager in Pub with Dr. Watson

When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.

Dressed to Kill

1946

English

6.8

♡ 9

83%

Roy William Neill Director

Marjorie Bennett as Antique Shop Assistant

Charlie Hall as Cab Driver

Ian Wolfe as Commissioner of Scotland Yard

Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.

No Way Out

1950

English

7.4

♡ 16

85%

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director

Robert Adler as Louie - Assistant Deputy in Hospital Prison Ward

Frank Richards as Mac

Ian Wolfe as Watkins

Barbara Pepper as Woman

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

Tomorrow Is Forever

1946

English

7.3

♡ 9

60%

Irving Pichel Director

Richard Long as Drew Hamilton

John Wengraf as Dr. Ludwig

Ian Wolfe as Norton

Amzie Strickland as Ship Passenger

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

On Dangerous Ground

1951

English

7.2

♡ 8

89%

78%

Action

based on novel or book

Nicholas Ray Director

Nestor Paiva as Bagganierri

Ida Lupino as Mary Malden

Ian Wolfe as Sheriff Carrey

William Challee as Thug

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

99 River Street

1953

English

7.4

♡ 13

100%

Phil Karlson Director

John Indrisano as Fight Referee

Peggie Castle as Pauline Driscoll

Frank Faylen as Stan Hogan

Ian Wolfe as Waldo Daggett

A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

Love Letters

1945

English

7.0

♡ 5

62%

amnesia

based on novel or book

William Dieterle Director

Joseph Cotten as Alan Quinton

Gladys Cooper as Beatrice Remington

Mary Field as Nurse in Italy

Ian Wolfe as Vicar

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."

Flesh and Fantasy

1943

English

6.9

♡ 8

86%

Julien Duvivier Director

Ian Wolfe as Librarian

Edward G. Robinson as Marshall Tyler

Thomas Mitchell as Septimus Podgers

Edgar Barrier as Stranger in Mask Shop

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.

The Prince and the Pauper

1937

English

7.2

♡ 9

71%

61%

Adventure

based on novel or book

William Dieterle Director

Barton MacLane as John Canty

Forrester Harvey as Meaty Man

Errol Flynn as Miles Hendon

Ian Wolfe as Proprietor

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.