Alias Nick Beal (1949)

Director: John Farrow

Writers: Jonathan Latimer (screenplay), Mindret Lord (original story)

Stars: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter and Thomas Mitchell

Genres: Mystery | Drama | Thriller

Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his town of the gangsters infesting it. so as to be even a lot of economical in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. someday he meets an odd, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to assist him to realize his finish. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of straightforward cash, straightforward sex with an alluring young girl and also the promise of straightforward success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician however a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to point out him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who may be "Old Nick" , that's to mention Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man once more.

A Blueprint for Murder (1953)

Director: Andrew L. Stone

Writer: Andrew L. Stone

Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters and Gary Merrill

Genres: Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller

Two orphans, Polly and Doug, live with their stepmother Lynne; Polly collapses with identical mystery symptoms that killed her father. The kids' visiting uncle, Whitney Cameron, is warned that the symptoms match strychnine poisoning, however that poisoners are seldom detected and barely convicted. positive enough, no case may be created against the plain suspect; thus what will Whitney do to save lots of ensuing victim?

23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

Director: Henry Hathaway

Writers: Philip MacDonald (novel), Nigel Balchin (screenplay)

Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles and Cecil Parker

Genres: Mystery | Thriller

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears a part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to search out a kidnapped kid. When he gets no facilitate from the police, he along side his butler, and his ex fiancée, conceive to track down the crooks.