In 16th century Rome, the Cardinal cannot reveal a murder committed by his military rival.
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
An impersonator pins a crooked deal on a magnate, who kills himself.
Episodes in the life of the 17th-century painter.
A financier’s suicidal plan has unexpected results.
A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible – but finds that it has catastrophic consequences.
A Regency innkeeper’s son poses as a travelling pugilist in order to clear his father’s name of theft.
An Irish colleen has a brother in the IRA and a lover in the British Army.
On a drunken drive to the coast, an ex-naval officer interrupts what he believes to be a smuggling operation, and informs Scotland Yard…
A dance band leader wins a European princess.
When Ellen O’Hare leaves her poor aunt, the Duchess, in Ireland for a singing career in England, she joins street guitarist Terry O’Ryan. She eventually returns unsuccessful to Ireland to discover that the Duchess is now rich.
A suburban father reveals he is a forger.
During the early days of the gramophone industry, the daughter of a record manufacturer loves the son of the man he cheated.
At the turn of the 20th century, a jilted French artist becomes a vagabond and falls in love with an orphan girl.
The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy.
An actor playing Othello nearly strangles his wife.
In slummy Limehouse, a young Chinaman loves the daughter of a brute, who then kills her; the Chinaman then kills him and commits suicide.
After leaving prison, a father saves his son from the same man who had been responsible for his own conviction.
For a bet, an explorer spends the night in a waxworks Chamber of Horrors.
War in 1940 is followed by plague, rebellion, a new glass-based society and the first rocketship to the moon.
A musical film star loses his voice, affording an opportunity for an aspiring young student looking for his big break.
An incompetent seaman is washed away on an old ketch and lands on a South Sea isle.