Mystery

Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley (Van Heflin) is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier (Robert Ryan) shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be as director Fred...

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time and then she was no more. Jazzman Danny Parkers wife was murdered, and Danny was powerless to prevent it. Now the heartbroken Danny is on the skids, lost among the derelict tweakers of L.A. Or is he? In Dannys...

Having come upon a foundering freighter in the English Channel, salvage skipper John Sands (Charlton Heston) discovered one soul remaining on board-tight-lipped first officer Gideon Patch (Gary Cooper)-and the cargo gone. As official inquiries got...

Robert Montgomery stars in and directs this snappy adaptation of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective mystery. Montgomery portrays Marlowe, private eye. As director, he's also the film's private eyes, using a subjective camera presenting the action...

Take an ocean voyage of full-masted fright with Dead Calm, "a spare, smart, seductive piece of moviemaking with enough tension to keep us all hyperventilating for hours" (Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times). Thriller specialist Phillip Noyce (Patriot...

The roughest of Alaska's oil-rig roughnecks, Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal, also making his directorial debut) specializes in fighting oil-well fires. Yet he faces an even more incendiary battle against renegade Aegis Oil president Michael Jennings...

Private eye Nick Carter's detective adventures encompassed over 1000 stories, a 1943-1955 radio series and, among his screen heroics, these three MGM "Bs" starring Walter Pidgeon (soon to be Greer Garson's costar in nine films, including Mrs. Miniver)...

Mystery novelist Phillip Blackwood has writer's block. He hits the courtrooms for inspiration - and is zapped with a doozy. A mysterious Romanian woman arraigned for murder arouses both his creative and amorous impulses. Is she guilty? Who are the...

Two-time Academy Award winner* Spencer Tracy (a 1955 Best Actor Oscar nominee for this film) plays World War II veteran Macreedy, who keeps his own counsel about why he's come to Black Rock and who keeps his wits about him when confronted with threats...

Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn star in this sexy thriller about a beautiful musician who regains her sight, only to witness a brutal murder. Emma Brody (Stowe) has been blind since she was 8 years old. Now, after almost 20 years in the dark, her sight...

In Alfred Hitchcock's world, theaters are where danger stalks the wings, characters are not what they seem and that 'final curtain' can drop any second. The droll Stage Fright springs from that entertaining tradition. Jane Wyman plays drama student Eve...

Private eye Lew Harper is in deep this time. Hired by an old flame to unravel a seemingly routine blackmail case, he's so far down he may never come up for air. Paul Newman returns as the quick-witted detective he first played nine years before in Harper...