From Headquarters (1933)
SEE...The Miracles of Science the "lab" blood test x-ray and ultra-violet ray track down a murderer!
Género : Misterio, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 4M
Director : William Dieterle
Escritor : Robert N. Lee, Peter Milne
Sinopsis
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Homicide cop Rita Cates takes a murder case where the victim is a Las Vegas stripper. The investigation immediately takes a perverse turn when she discovers the prime suspect: a psychotic ex-cop with whom she once had a torrid affair. That initial affair drove Cates' husband to suicide, but it doesn't stop her from picking up where she left off. In the heat of passion, she jeopardizes the case, her career and her life.
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
A wealthy young woman struggles to find love while surrounded by possible suitors.
While Popeye Doyle is investigating what appears to be a very simple drug overdose, he becomes involved in international intrigue. The Mosad and various other foreign diplomatic figures turn up everywhere he goes. The drug overdose becomes a very involved murder case.
Al Fuller (Jolson) es la estrella de un espectáculo ambulante de trovadores de gira por los Estados Unidos. El grupo se desplaza a una modesta ciudad del sur, donde el hombre se enamora de Nora Meadows (Lois Moran), estrella del espectáculo, pero el problema es que ella ama a Westy, un apuesto miembro de la misma troupé. Incidentalmente, Fuller se convertirá en acusado de intento de homicidio de su compañero y rival en el amor.
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown is a wrestler named JoJo and he is forced to enter the ring and face down a musclebound masked opponent (Frank S. Hagney). Making matters worse, the masked marauder is convinced that his wife has been fooling around with JoJo. JoJo is knocked out early in the proceedings, whereupon he dreams he's a sultan surrounded by harem girls. A romantic subplot involves Paul Gregory and Claudia Dell. Gregory works for Dell's father and Dell asks her father to give Gregory a promotion so that she can spend more time with him. When Gregory refuses to be promoted without earning the position, she threatens to have him fired and Gregory quits his job. Gregory attempts to start a new career as a championship wrestler and is trained by Lightner and Brown. When Dell finds out about this, she attempts to stop him and asks for his forgiveness. She pleads with him to not fight but he has already promised...
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Historia sobre el consumo de la heroína en un grupo de jóvenes.
Una joven estudiante de Derecho sufre un intento de asesinato por parte de un perturbado que asegura que la conoce de otra vida anterior en la que ella le mató. El asesino no cesará hasta acabar con la vida de la chica.
A cinematographer and his assistant are attracting aspiring young actors and actresses by getting them to try out for their movie. Once filming, the evil cameraman actually kills them. The detective on the case has his hands full trying to help out runaways with stars in their eyes. When some of the people he knows turn up dead, he takes it personally, and as he gets closer to the truth his girlfriend is endangered.
Trece mujeres que fueron compañeras de escuela piden a un swami que les haga sus horóscopos. Las noticias que reciben no son buenas para ninguna de ellas…
Hay alguien que se dedica a asesinar bonitas muchachas de vida alegre. Al parecer, tiene que ver con el mundo de la pintura y la escultura, pero nadie sabe de quién se puede tratar. Un millonario, novio de una muchacha que desapareció, al parecer del mismo modo que las otras, contrata a una bella mujer enmascarada para que averigüe lo sucedido. Esta bella muchacha tiene como compañera de piso y ayudante a una despampanante joven, simpática y entrometida.
Max Lewinsky un detective de la policía de Londres, pierde la pista del peligroso criminal Jacob Sternwood al que sigue el rastro desde hace tiempo. Tres años después, no ha conseguido superador su fracaso. Sin embargo, cuando el hijo de Sternwood es detenido tras un atraco que ha salido mal, Lewinsky sabe que su presa volverá para rescatarlo.
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
Un juez y su amante son investigados bajo sospechas de corrupción.
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
Aventuras y desventuras de unos barberos de una reserva india que deben viajar a Ginebra para una Conferencia de Paz
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.