Irving Pichel Movies

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.

Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.

A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.

"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.

Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Glenda is packing to leave, she receives a threatening phone call from her obsessed, former lover Leo. Glenda con...

Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his abs...

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An i...

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.

Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she...

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the sta...

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.