Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Podcasts on mystery films, Warner Archive.

The latest episode of the Warner Archive Collection podcast discusses the release of Bill Elliott Detective Mysteries (1955–57), a DVD of films with Elliott as a detective working in the LA sheriff's office:

Calling Homicide (a police officer's death is connected to the murder of a head of a modeling school)

Chain of Evidence (man with amnesia faces murder charges)

Dial Red-O (disturbed veteran is accused of killing his wife)

Footsteps in the Night (Elliott on the trail of a strangler)

Sudden Danger (son seeks his father's murderer)

Other podcast episodes include:
  • Episode on Terror on a Train (1953, with Glenn Ford) and The Decks Ran Red (1958, with James Mason and Dorothy Dandridge)
  • Episode on The Mask of Dimitrios (1944, from the novel by Eric Ambler), A Dangerous Profession (1949), Duffy of San Quentin (1954), The Fall Guy (1947, from Cornell Woolrich's "Cocaine"/"C-Jag"), FBI Code 98 (1963), and Loophole (1954)
  • Episode on the Hildegarde Withers Mystery Collection that features the spinster detective created by Stuart Palmer and popularized by Edna May Oliver

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