During World War II a secret society of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb (Bela Lugosi). It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that everyone's true motives and identities are revealed. When occult societies battled for the control of the world, the Green Dragon Society, of which the Nazi occultist Karl Haushofer was a member, was said to represent secret societies in the Far East including China and Japan. One of few movies about secret societies, such as the SS and the Green Dragon Society in World War Two.
The Perils of Pauline (1947) is a fictionalized Hollywood account of silent film star Pearl White's rise to fame. Pearl White (Betty Hutton) is a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become a dramatic actress. She joins a touring theatrical troupe managed by handsome but pompous Mike (John Lund), but fame and fortune elude her because she's unable to suppress her natural rambunctiousness. In desperation, White takes a job at a movie studio, where she promptly finds herself in the middle of a slapstick pie fight. Pearl soon becomes world-famous as the star of such cliffhanging, tied-to-the-railroad-tracks serials as The Perils of Pauline. A great retro-movie on the birth of the cliff-hanger serial!
Zombies, Nazis and Mind Control all collide in this moody 40s thriller on a Caribbean Island with lots of very nasty things. The early telling of a secret island base for the use of the battling superpowers. The movie starts somewhere over the Caribbean during the very beginning of WWII, a small plane gets downed by a tropical storm. The pilot, his passenger, and the passenger’s manservant find themselves on a plantation owned by the mysterious Dr. Sangre. The manservant discovers that there are zombies wandering about, while the pilot and the other guy figure there’s something rotten about Dr. Sangre. It turns out that Sangre is a spy for an unnamed European power —apparently the Nazis—that was before Pearl Harbor and America wasn’t officially in the war yet) and has captured a U.S. military official. And he plans to use a voodoo ritual to extract classified information from his prisoner. Starring Dick Purcell (of Captain America serial fame), Mantan Moreland and Joan Woodbury. The best of all the old zombie movies!
