At a seaside resort, a man finds his wife dead and tries to frame her lover, but becomes confused with two real murders with a different purpose.
A blackmailer extracts money for a crime not yet committed.
Four factory girls seek relaxation and various kinds of romance at the local palais.
A boy and girl set off on a trail of armed robbery and murder.
Police investigating a woman’s death build up several different impressions of her.
During the Napoleonic wars a widow is co-opted as a spy.
A wife finds that her husband has been replaced by a gangster who aims to rob a bank.
In a Ruritanian country, spies pursue a surgeon, the only man who knows that the dictator is dead.
A young man joins London’s police force. The elderly copper who trains him is killed in a shoot-out, but the killer is apprehended.
An ageing Broadway star suffers from the hidden menace of a self-effacing but secretly ruthless and ambitious actress.
A professor engaged on atomic research threatens to blow up London unless his work is brought to an end.
A French girl singer is captured by the Nazis, and made to broadcast for them.
A nun becomes the government’s chief witness in identifying the murderers of a US postal inspector.
Divorcing parents think again when their twelve-year-old daughter runs away.
A man with a short time to live has a thoroughly enjoyable and useful final fling.
A British archaeologist is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate and turning a blind eye.
In Victorian Glasgow, a well-to-do young woman is accused of murdering her lover, but the verdict is ‘not proven’
In 1904 London, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper.
A man is on the run for a backstage murder, and his girlfriend takes a job as maid to the great star he says is responsible.
A Frenchwoman with an English husband spies for the French resistance, is caught and tortured.
After the Civil War, Southern veterans trying to rebuild their homes are helped by a gunslinger.
In order to cement a new trade pact, an international financier plans to marry his daughter to the son of an African sultan.
A man supposedly killed in an air crash turns out to be the head of a counterfeiting ring.
A small boy steals a magnet and accidentally becomes a hero.
The owner of a small engineering works, impatient with the unionism of his men, gives them a chance to run the factory themselves.