The Cobra Strikes

Apr 24, 1948

1h 2m

★ 5.0

NO CLUES! NO MOTIVE! NO TELL-TALE MARKS! but 3 dead men prove it's MURDER

Overview

A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

Genres

Mystery

Crime

Production Companies

Ben Stoloff Productions

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Cast

Dale Cameron

Sheila Ryan

Michael Kent

Richard Fraser

Olga Kaminoff

Leslie Brooks

Theodore Cameron / Dr. Damon Cameron

Herbert Heyes

Police Capt. Monihan

James Seay

Hyder Ali

Richard Loo

Police Sgt. Harris

Lyle Latell

Atlas Kilroy

Pat Flaherty

Kasim--Houseboy

Philip Ahn

Franz Lang

Fred Nurney

Morton--New Butler

Leslie Denison

Victor Devereaux

George Sorel

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

6.1

Crime of Passion

Dec 28, 1956

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

7.1

Angel Face

Jan 2, 1953

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

7.6

Laura

Nov 26, 1944

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

7.5

Zodiac

Mar 2, 2007

The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

3.8

Headline Hunters

Sep 15, 1955

A rookie reporter in pursuit of an expose gets tangled up with big-time mobsters.

6.2

The Mothman Prophecies

Jan 25, 2002

Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.

7.9

The Night of the Hunter

Jul 27, 1955

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

6.0

Doctor X

Aug 3, 1932

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

5.9

The Return of Doctor X

Nov 23, 1939

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.

7.3

The Lady from Shanghai

Dec 24, 1947

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

6.0

Scream 3

Feb 4, 2000

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

7.6

Mildred Pierce

Oct 20, 1945

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

5.8

The Case Against Brooklyn

Jun 1, 1958

A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.

5.8

The Dark Past

Dec 22, 1948

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.

7.3

Odd Man Out

Jan 30, 1947

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

7.3

Panic

Jan 15, 1947

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.

6.6

Railroaded!

Sep 25, 1947

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.

4.5

New Orleans Uncensored

Mar 1, 1955

Discharged naval officer Dan Corbett moves to New Orleans and accepts a job as a longshoreman, unaware that the docks are run by an infamous racketeer. When the dock manager is murdered before he can notify the authorities of their criminal scheme, Dan coordinates with the police to go undercover and investigate.