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Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 15, 2018

The Spider's Web (1927) [Lost Film]

The New York Age
New York, New York, New York
Sat, Jan 08, 1927 · Page 6

The Pittsburgh Courier
Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Sat, Nov 06, 1926 · Page 6

The Evening Journal
Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
Wed, Mar 02, 1927 · Page 11

The New York Age
New York, New York, New York
Sat, Jan 08, 1927 · Page 6

The New York Age
New York, New York, New York
Sat, Jan 08, 1927 · Page 6

 The Pittsburgh Courier
Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Sat, Jan 15, 1927 · Page 9

Starring:

Storyline
Mary Austin, a widow dwelling in a small Southern delta town, is visited by her neice, Norma of New York. At the depot Norma meets and makes a date with Ballinger for later that night. Meanwhile, Elmer Harris, a detective with the U.S. Secret Service, has come from Chicago looking for a criminal. When Harris comes to Mary's house that night, he recognizes Ballinger as the man he's seeking. Ballinger's associates force Norma and Mary to return. Despondent, Mary takes up gambling; when she hits big and tries to collect her money she is framed for murder. Harris and Norma unravel the mystery and find the persons who committed the crime which leads to Mary's release from prison. 

*** This film is considered lost until notified otherwise. ***

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Penitentiary (1979)

























Starring:

Storyline
Hitchhiker Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy) gets a lift from prostitute Linda (Hazel Spears) in her van and travels with her to meet her clients. After a fight breaks out with the men, Gordone is knocked unconscious and awakens to find he has been wrongly charged with murder. As a way to protect himself in prison, Gordone starts fighting other inmates. This leads him to discover an underground boxing tournament, with the top prize being a prison release.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Faceless Man (1980's)























Starring:


Storyline
When Piet, an innocent man looking for work, gets roped up in an assassination on a local politician, he ends up working with the police to bring the culprit who hired him to justice. But it is soon revealed that Detective Andrew, whom Piet is helping work the case, is in fact the criminal known as the “Faceless Man”, and it soon becomes a cat and mouse game to bring this corrupt police man to justice.