High Explosive

High Explosive 1943

5.50

Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto cars who has been banned from racing, to go to work hauling nitro. "Buzz" makes a play for Connie Baker (Jean Parker), Mike's secretary and girlfriend, and also for Doris Lynch (Barbara Lynn), fiancée of Connie's younger brother, Jimmy ('Rand Brooks'), and gets Jimmy to replace him on a dangerous nitro haul and Jimmy, of course, has an accident and gets killed. But "Buzz" finds a way to redeem himself. The hard way.

1943

Hell's Island

Hell's Island 1955

5.40

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.

1955

They Made Me a Killer

They Made Me a Killer 1946

5.60

A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.

1946

Midnight Manhunt

Midnight Manhunt 1945

4.50

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

1945

The Far Horizons

The Far Horizons 1955

6.20

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.

1955

Crosswinds

Crosswinds 1951

5.90

A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.

1951

Submarine Alert

Submarine Alert 1943

4.60

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.

1943

Run for Cover

Run for Cover 1955

6.70

An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.

1955

Captain China

Captain China 1950

5.00

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.

1950

Big Town After Dark

Big Town After Dark 1947

5.50

A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.

1947

Dangerous Passage

Dangerous Passage 1944

4.90

Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.

1944

One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many 1944

5.20

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

1944

Fear in the Night

Fear in the Night 1947

5.40

The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.

1947

Jamaica Run

Jamaica Run 1953

5.00

Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.

1953

The Lawless

The Lawless 1950

5.80

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

1950

Alaska Highway

Alaska Highway 1943

5.00

Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormsby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Coswell, the daughter of road engineer Blair Caswell.

1943

Nightmare

Nightmare 1956

5.90

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.

1956

The Big Caper

The Big Caper 1957

6.20

A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.

1957

Dark Mountain

Dark Mountain 1944

5.30

A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.

1944