Durante la Revolución Francesa, la Pimpinela Escarlata (Sir Percy Blakeney) arriesga su vida para rescatar aristócratas franceses de la guillotina y ponerlos a salvo a través del Canal de la Mancha. Pero un embajador inglés, obsesionado con llevar a la Pimpinela Escarlata ante la justicia, chantajea a la mujer de Sir Percy… quien ni siquiera sabe que su marido es el temerario libertador.
Un lujoso tren que viaja hacia Trieste es el escenario de este entretenido film de espionaje, en el que se tratará de dar con aquellos que robaron unos importantes documentos a un político durante una recepción de una embajada francesa.
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the woman is his ex-mistress, and the judge knows that she is not the killer - but if he comes forward, he stands a good chance of ruining his marriage and his career.
During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband, so she travels to France to the village where he's stationed. Dorothy disguises herself as the daughter of a local, which leads to complications when she's suspected of being a German spy.
