Philip MacDonald
1) The Rasp
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Excerpt: "The Owl shows its blue and gilt cover on the bookstalls every Saturday morning. Thursday nights are therefore nights of turmoil in the offices in Fleet Street. They are always wearing nights; more so, of course, in hot weather than in cold. They are nights of discomfort for the office-boy and of something worse for the editor. Spencer Hastings edited The Owl, and owned a third of it; and the little paper's success showed him to possess both...
2) Patrol
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The novel that inspired John Ford's The Lost Patrol: A band of World War I soldiers fights to survive in the desert after their leader is shot and killed. There had been, here, eleven men. Now ten rode away. . . . In the Mesopotamian desert during the First World War, an unseen enemy guns down the leader of a British patrol. The officer was the only one who knew their orders, and he did not told anyone else where they are located. Now the sergeant...
3) The Noose
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Gentleman detective Anthony Gethryn is in a race against time to save an innocent man from the hangman's noose.
Colonel Anthony Gethryn is recalled from a holiday in Spain to solve a murder in the November fogs of London. He finds that his wife is sheltering Mrs. Bronson, whose husband is in prison awaiting execution for the murder of a gamekeeper six months before. A petition for reprieve has been rejected and Bronson will shortly hang for someone...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006, p1934
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Just as Chan (Warner Oland) is packing to go home after solving a case in London, a lovely young woman, Pamela Gray (Drue Leyton), begs him to solve another case: her brother Paul is on death row for a crime, Pamela says, he didn't commit. Moreover, Paul's defense lawyer (Raymond Milland), who happens to be Pamela's fianc?, doesn't even believe Paul is innocent. With only three days to uncover the truth, Chan spends the weekend at an English country...
5) Rebecca
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
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1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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I walked with a zombie: A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who suffers from a strange catatonic condition, and learns about local voodoo practices in her search for a cure.
Robert Louis Stevenson's The body snatcher: A surgeon and teacher of anatomy needs fresh cadavers for classroom demonstrations and pays a sinister cabman to supply them. When the cemeteries become more closely guarded,...
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 280 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Shriek in the night: A psychological thriller revolving around the non-accidental death of a wealthy philanthropist. Only a final shriek in the night is heard when the victim plummets from his penthouse balcony the night of the murder. Nearly everyone in the apartment building falls under suspicion, but when three more murders occur, the police are baffled. Hoping to outdo one another, rival reporters, Pat Morgan and Ted Rand begin to do independent...