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- A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
- An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
- Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.
- Residents of a part of London declare independence after they discover an old treaty, which leads to the need for a "Passport to Pimlico".
- When beautiful Mary returns home to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
- In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
- The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths the Fury estate to her Fuller relatives, but Allan's illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
- A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?
- When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street receives help from Chinese detective James Lee Wong and local newspaper reporter Bobbie Logan.
- Super-sleuth Lamont Cranston, (aka "The Shadow") investigates the theft of jewels from a grave.
- Mr. Wong stops at nothing to gain the possession of 12 coins of Confucius, which will bring him great power.
- When the American clipper ship "The Queen" is attacked by pirates off the Hebrides in 1830, Mate Kirk Hamilton is injured and must be put ashore at Queensland Colony, Australia, for treatment and recuperation. There, he meets and falls in love with Elaine Jeffries, daughter of the magistrate and all-but-fiancée to rancher Martin Shannon. She also finds herself attracted to Kirk, and a rivalry develops between the two men. Meantime the pirates, led by Captain Hackett, decide to raid the colony and, in the process kidnap Elaine and her friend. Nancy. Kirk, and Shannon lead the pursuit, having not only the romantic triangle to resolve, but the pirates to overcome and, along the way, being stranded on a volcanic island inhabited by dinosaurs.
- A man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals.
- In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
- The tape version, if one exists, may be 114 minutes but the film, on original release, ran the same 140 minutes in the USA as it did in England. It is an experimental transposition of the Eliot play to the screen and, as such, and Eliot a poet, the film deals more with sound and meaning than it does film movement, i.e., static shots with voice overs. It is the story of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.
- Along the Spanish coast, American smuggler Mike Alexander comes into conflict with human-trafficker Captain Nicarescu and both of them are tracked by undercover Spanish police inspector Carnero.
- "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" is a 1943 fantasy / horror anthology movie, where a man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters with evil and the supernatural.
- A crown, supposedly made from a nail out of the Cross of Christ and the metal of Roman swords, becomes a legend and a symbol of justice.
- A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
- Alex Kyle is an Irish Traveller. Whilst out poaching he is disturbed by the local gamekeeper. In an attempt to escape he hurls a rock at the man and kills him. One veteran Garda Officer, Mannigan, is determined he will not escape justice.
- Basically a travelogue featuring footage of Angkor Wat (in Cambodia) shot by a couple of explorers in the WWI years, with additional footage shot on a Hollywood set by George M. Merrick . Roadshown for years as part of a double feature with Inyaah (Jungle Goddess) (1934) (also called "Virgin of Sarawak" and later "Jungle Virgin" and "Strange Adventures") with the result that "Inyaah" also carries "Forbidden Adventure, 1938" as an incorrect alternate title in some quarters.
- A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant.
- It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent.
- 1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.
- In Mr. Radfern's house relatives and in-law parasites are pestering him about lending them money. One day he discloses that he is earning his living by illegal means, scaring them off for good. But did he just tell that story in jest?
- Farmer Mark Warrow lives an unhappy existence with his shrewish wife Martha. His only happiness comes from his dog. When his wife loses her temper and kills his beloved pet, Warrow snaps and murders Martha. He goes on the run and comes across a young woman in a caravan. She gives him a lift and unbeknownst to him, she recognizes him and plans to write a book called "I Met a Murderer". She unexpectedly falls for him as the police close in.
- A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.
- Film produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union -- featuring several well-known Broadway actors -- recreates Triangle Fire of 1911 and compares working conditions of the 1910's with the 1950's.
- Set in post war Japan, an American woman tries to clear her brother's reputation as a drug smuggler after his apparent suicide. She gets help from a seemingly kind Englishman.
- Crime reporter Larry Doyle, who contributes to the capture of the Padroni gang, is later framed for murder by the gang leader.
- All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
- A native son returns to the isolated, backwards village in the Okefenokee Swamp where he was raised, with ideas of bringing modern day progress in terms of schools, canals, new roads, running water, and other needed changes, but is met with resistance by nearly all of the residents, some out of ignorance, and some with selfish vested interests in seeing that no changes be made.
- Two prospectors find a map to a diamond mine, partner with aviators for financing. In Africa, they face interference from villains also seeking the diamonds. One partner is killed, raising stakes in the race to claim the mine.
- A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.
- A native girl takes care of a blind artist when he is shipwrecked on a south sea island.
- Four-part documentary (each part of which was also available as a short subject) relating to films and other customs of the 1910s and 1920s, consisting of: 1) "Stars of Yesterday", a parade of closeup shots of about 45 silent-era film stars ranging from Marie Dressler to Dolores Costello, Tom Mix and Tony (the horse) to Douglas Fairbanks; 2) "Time Marches Back", a compilation of about a dozen newsreel items ranging from the 1899 Jeffries-Fitzsimmons prize fight thru Babe Ruth's early days with the New York Yankees, and also personalities such as Teddy Roosevelt at home and the inauguration of Prince Edward; 3) a filmed Victoria stage melodrama, "The Drunkard", originally produced by Louis Weiss in the 1930s; and 4) a de-subtitled reprise, possibly edited, of the 1915 motion picture "East Lynne", with satirical narration and sound effects...
- Chicken farmer John Lloyd learns the importance of blood tests when he gives his pregnant wife a dose of the clap after a one-night fling with a lonely waitress. Shot in Harmony, Georgia, with a cast of non-professionals and produced in association with the Georgia Department of Health, Birthright originally began as a serious educational film but took a detour into degradation.
- Smilie that is. A tramp cures a teenager's amnesia and she fails to recognise him afterwards.
- A GI WAS WASHED ASHORE ON AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC DURING WW2...ZORITA PERFORMED HER SNAKE ACT FOR HIM......HE WAS A BROADWAY TALENT AGENT AND AFTER THE WAR BROUGHT HER BACK TO THE STATES AND SHE PERFORMED AT VARIOUS CLUBS, THE SNAKE EVENTUALLY STRANGLES HER.............I was the still photographer on the set.....have photos...Howard Kiser.
- Tom Brandon, a young doctor who, working with and for the police department, takes a job as the doctor for a gang of criminals. His fiancée, Mary Davis, who he can't tell the real reason for his actions, breaks their engagement.
- Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies -including an old maid Madame Cadenas (=Mrs Padlock (sic))-are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum.
- During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.
- Planning to make an expedition into the Matto Grosso jungle, George Breakston and Yorke Coplen fly from Los Angeles to Brazil. Their Brazilian guide is explorer Mike Roginsky. Accompanied by Brazilian natives, Breakston and Coplen search for an English explorer who disappeared in the jungle twenty-five years earlier and is now rumored to be the leader of a group of Indians. Along the way, Coplen wrestles with an alligator. On the river, a native falls into the water and is eaten alive by piranhas. The expedition arrives at a small village, where they meet a white doctor. Although he has no information about the lost explorer, he tells them about a white woman who has been captured by a band of Urubu Indians. Led by the doctor, they rescue the woman, a schoolteacher. When the men are about to leave, they discover the body of a white man dressed in Indian garb. Because he is dead, however, Breakston and Coplen realize they will never know if he is the man for whom they were searching.
- When his mother is attacked and killed by a lion, infant boy Boru is adopted by a passing tribe and raised by the tribe's chief. The young boy and the chief's son Nikitu grow up to become close friends and skilled hunters. When a drought threatens the tribe's existence, Boru and Nikitu traverse the countryside looking for a water source, only to get caught in the open when a lightning storm sets the tribe's homeland on fire.
- The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
- A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
- A recounting of some of the most famous and infamous crimes in recent American history, featuring such notorious figures as Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd, and John Dillinger, with many of their crimes and/or captures re-enacted. Also featured are lawmen such as FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover and Judge Edgar North, who sentenced the kidnappers of wealthy beer magnate Charles F. Urschel to life sentences in prison.
- Gods of Bali documents the practices and beliefs that found the Balinese existence. Carefully attenuated to the details of the rituals it captures - which range from musical performances, to trances, to the staging of myths - the film depicts a society in which the gap between heaven and earth isn't nearly as wide as it is in the West. Here, the religious and ritualistic aspects of life are as irreducibly a part of existence as food, geography, and language.