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- In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
- An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.
- Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
- An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.
- On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...
- Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
- Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
- French police inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a rich Paris widow and ends up chasing the killer up the Eiffel Tower's girders.
- The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.
- Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes come true.
- In Weimar-era Berlin, an aspiring writer strikes up a friendship with a vivacious, penniless singer.
- In London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.
- During WW2, Italian Navy divers use underwater chariots to mine the keels of British warships, forcing the British to send underwater demolition expert Lionel Crabbe and his team to counter these enemy actions.
- In 1940, the Captain of an old Royal Navy destroyer struggles with his crew, as well as the Nazis.
- Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
- Russian Captain defects to England, not for politics but due to gender discrimination. English Captain ordered to sell capitalism. Defector argues communism better. They fall in love despite KGB attempts to retrieve her.
- A court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit's funds.
- Vivanne is thrown on her own when her lover is arrested for murder. Searching for a place to live, she eventually finds a room in a boarding-house run by a woman who provides room-and-board for unmarried mothers with an ulterior motive.
- 74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Roman Empire.
- A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than ten hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.
- A CinemaScope remake of The Four Feathers (1939).
- When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress that he had just met at London Airport murdered in his flat. It leads him into the world of murder, blackmail, and a fake passport scam.
- A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.
- A weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists.
- After a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death, over a cup of tea.
- Emma interrupts Albert's bachelor party, he gets cold feet about marrying her daughter. Unsure if Emma's vow to change will last, Albert marries Shirley anyway.
- Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.
- Feature version of the 1936 serial "Shadow of Chinatown."
- A man is convicted of murder. He denies murder, and uses an ancient curse to threaten those responsible for sentencing him to death.
- The pretty owner of a 'greasy spoon' cafe helps a handsome customer involved in robbery and murder.
- Since the local church is not willing to bless Peppino's donkey for a successful recovery, Peppino went to Rome to see the Holy Father, in spite of the numerous difficulties of actually getting in to see him.
- The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility.
- A syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they decide to enter him as a jumper.
- Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia's many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova who has been laying claim to the throne from the Crimea. Once there, he finds the local charms of the Princess hard to resist.
- Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry. To flush the thieves into the open, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels but plan to kill him and keep both the jewels and the money.
- A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
- American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. He is puzzled by the reception and welcome he receives from the management of the casino until he finds he has been framed on a charge of murdering a U.S. Treasury Agent. He escapes with Kay Wonderly and they flee to a deserted village where he leaves Kay to hide out. Nick gets aid from a mysterious character named Massine, whom he suspects of trying to collect the reward offered on his capture. Nick discovers that the men responsible for the agent's death are members of an international counterfeiting ring, using the casino to pass the bogus money.
- Three bookies concoct a dim-witted scheme to kidnap a racehorse and a star jockey, then swap them with a pair of lookalikes to make a fast buck.
- Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journeys from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
- A lonely older woman falls in love and marries a lascivious young band leader; an action that ultimately destroys her family.
- A senior civil servant is condemned to hang for murder but he claims to have top secret security information...
- A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
- An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out.
- Tolen is after Harkins' ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch.
- After the fall of Saigon, a Vietnamese officer named Cobra receives orders from the CIA to rescue General Chu, who has fallen into the hands of the Viet Cong along with some secret microfilm.
- Three stories based on real Scotland Yard cases: The Lady's Companion; The Telephone; The Interrogation.
- Some children try to capture a wild horse with the aim of selling it to mend an old boat. Then another child turns up and claims to be able to capture the wild horse all by himself.