Boris Ingster

Critics and fans agree: Stranger on the Third Floor is the little B picture that launched one of the greatest movements in cinemahistory: film noir. Peter Lorre plays the eerie title role in this once-neglected gem about a reporter (John McGuire) whosetestimony sentences a small-time loser (Elisha Cook Jr.) to the electric chair for murder. When the reporter himself is fingered ina second murder, he realizes both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger – but will anyone believe him? All the shadowy, shivery,angled angst of German Expressionism is here, married to the hard-boiled moral ambiguity that marks the genre. The highlight: asuspense-and-sweat-drenched dream sequence that jolted 1940 audiences into an exciting new way of looking at the movies.

When a reporter whose testimony sentences a small-time loser to the electric chair for murder is himself fingered in a second murder, he realizes both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger - but will anyone believe him?

In ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a champion gladiator during turbulant times leading up to the fatal eruption of Vesuvius. Outstanding epic spectacle starring Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone and Louis Calhern.

During the German occupation of World War II, an American wife in Paris, Kitty (Topper's Constance Bennett), arranges with her older friend, Emmeline (Gracie Fields), to smuggle a British soldier out of France. Rather than escape themselves, the women establish an underground network in Paris to help people fleeing from Nazi tyranny - but with danger lurking around every corner.