King Louis XV
Orson Welles interpreta al siniestro mago José Bálmano, más conocido por el sobrenombre de Cagliostro, quien se verá envuelto en una trama de intrigas palaciegas a través de la cual de piensa reemplazar a la Reina María Antonieta con una doble, para así poder tener acceso al poder. Adaptación de la novela de Alejandro Dumas.
The Vicar
El aviador británico Peter Carter, en su avión en llamas y a punto de estrellarse se enamora de la voz femenina que contesta a su mensaje de socorro. Parece que se ha salvado milagrosamente y encuentra a su interlocutora. Pero un enviado del más allá le notifica que está entre la vida y la muerte y que si quiere sobrevivir, tendrá que defender su caso ante un tribunal celestial. Simultaneamente a esta situación sobrenatural, un equipo de médicos lucha en el quirófano para curar a Peter una lesión en el cerebro.
Garter King-at-Arms
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Adjutant
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
General Belmont
Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Director
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
