Characters
En los años 70, un variopinto grupo de exploradores y soldados es reclutado para viajar a una misteriosa isla del Pacífico. Entre ellos están el capitán James Conrad, el teniente coronel Packard y una foto-periodista. Pero al adentrarse en esta bella pero traicionera isla, los exploradores encontrarán algo absolutamente sorprendente. Sin saberlo, estarán invadiendo los dominios del mítico Kong, el gigante gorila rey de esta isla. Será Marlow, un peculiar habitante del lugar, quien les enseñe los secretos de Isla Calavera, además del resto de seres monstruosos que la habitan.
Author
Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "The Four Righteous" are not of this opinion, however: "Sentenced to death and executed for countless crimes" they leave at the scene. More "honorable" personalities must die before the perfume Higgins betrays the murderer and exposes the "honorable personalities" as heads of the organized trafficking of girls.
Writer
There is good reason for Sir Douglas Wonderly to summon the family and a lawyer to his stately home. He wants to announce a change in his will. At the same time, a dangerous mental patient escapes from a nearby psychiatric ward. Higgins and Lane are put on his trail. But the arrest of the psychopath proves to be extremely difficult. Shortly thereafter, a mysterious hooded man is on the loose in the castle. He frightens Sir Wonderly so much that the old man suffers a shock and falls into a coma. But that's not all: the will suddenly disappears and two sons are murdered. Sir John personally intervenes to solve the case with Higgins and Lane.
Novel
Whenever a criminal is killed in London, a black Jaguar is nearby, with a white cat always sitting in the passenger seat. Inspector Higgins and Inspector Lane find a joker card on all the victims. Their investigation leads them to a diamond smuggling ring.
Characters
Gracias a técnicas muy modernas, unos científicos consiguen mantener a King Kong en coma durante diez años; pero para salvarle la vida necesitan hacerle una transfusión de sangre, y no hay ningún animal que tenga un plasma parecido. En la isla de Borneo, el explorador y aventurero Hans Mitchell caza a Lady Kong, un ejemplar de gorila hembra similar y la traslada a Atlanta. Una vez despierto, King Kong siente la presencia de Lady Kong, la busca y los dos huyen a un bosque cercano. Allí son perseguidos de nuevo, pero la doctora Franklin, que se ha encargado del primate durante diez años, y Hans Mitchell han formado una pareja decidida a todo con tal de ayudar a los gigantescos animales.
Novel
A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Novel
El coronel Daniel Blimp, del servicio secreto británico, viaja a Bangkok para investigar el asesinato del embajador inglés durante una fiesta en su residencia. Blimp recibe la ayuda de Keats, otro agente del servicio secreto. Los dos descubren que el hombre que disparó contra el embajador es ciego, y tiene la piel negra como resultado de un extraño fenómeno de mutación. (FILMAFFINITY)
Novel
Writer
A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.
Novel
Henry es un joven profesor de italiano en una escuela inglesa para mujeres. A pesar de estar casado, flirtea con una de sus alumnas. En uno de sus paseos, a orillas del Támesis, la chica ve algo extraño entre la vegetación. El profesor no le cree, pero poco después halla el cadáver de Hilda, una compañera de clase de su alumna. El comisario Barth se encarga del caso y pronto comienza a sospechar del profesor, quien se ve en el dilema de decir lo que sabe a costa de revelar su amorío con la joven.
Story
Un asesino mata a dos mujeres dejando como firma una media luna de plata en sus cuerpos. Un joven empieza a investigar el crimen cometido y se alía con el marido de una de las mujeres. La policía investiga sin éxito mientras que la pareja de hombres comienzan a seguir pistas que les llevan a descubrir que la media luna plateada corresponde a un joven americano del cual se ha perdido la pista. La pareja se irá acercando a la verdadera personalidad del asesino mientras éste seguirá matando, cada vez con mayor violencia.
Writer
Giorgio, un joven e introvertido pianista, es razonablemente feliz junto a su novia Françoise. Pero cuando ella aparece muerta en un parque, su mundo entero sufrirá un convulso cambio. La policía arresta a un hombre de mediana edad como principal sospechoso del crimen, pero Giorgio no se contenta con eso. No está de acuerdo con el sistema judicial y los métodos policiales pero sus problemas se multiplicarán cuando conozca a Sarah, que resultará ser la hija de Alessandro Marchi, el presunto culpable del crimen... (FILMAFFINITY)
Novel
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head.
Novel
En la ciudad africana de Akasawa se ha descubierto una extraña sustancia que ciega a las personas. Varias personas, representando diferentes intereses internacionales, combaten por hacerse con ella y un agente del servicio británico llega para investigar el caso, con el pretexto de hacer turismo.
Novel
Al poco de separarse de su marido, Helen muere en un accidente de coche. Su ex-marido, John, pronto se verá involucrado en una investigación policial, que determinará si realmente fue un accidente, un asesinato o un suicidio...
Writer
A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his jacket pocket. Kurt after that a second, mysterious murder happens: A city-famous dancer of the Las Vegas Girls, who perform at the London Odeon Theater, is poisoned. Is there a connection between the pretty dancer and the hotel guest? Inspector Perkins and his colleagues are pressed for time. The "man with the glass eye" strikes deadly again and again. A first clue leads Scotland Yard to a billiard club, where one has to show a glass eye as an admission ticket.
Novel
Una serie de extraños asesinatos atemoriza a la ciudad de Londres. Scotland Yard persigue a una banda que ahoga a sus víctimas en el Támesis. El Inspector David Perkins de Scotland Yard, descubre que un gorila se encuentra detrás de estos extraños asesinatos.
Novel
Un asesino en serie, que se autodenomina "El cadáver risueño", se disfraza de esqueleto y mata a sus víctimas con una anillo en forma de escorpión, lleno de veneno.
Novel
Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
Novel
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas
Story
Mientras viaja a través de Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell va a parar por casualidad al lugar donde se celebran las negociaciones entre la banda local de "Los Cinco dragones de oro" y un peligroso grupo de gangsters.
Novel
Scotland Yard persigue a un maníaco homicida llamado La Mano Azul, que es lo que usa para matar a sus víctimas.
Novel
Investigando un asesinato y una serie de robos, un detective de Scotland Yard va a parar a la mansión de una rica y extraña familia que convive con un grupo de monjas. El detective sospecha que las monjas no son lo que aparentan.
Story
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
Novel
Un detective que investiga una serie de asesinatos y robos a mano sospecha que los miembros de un circo ambulante pueden estar implicados.
Novel
Un asesino en serie encapuchado inventa una nueva forma de asesinar a sus víctimas: las azota hasta la muerte con un látigo. La policía intentará detenerlo antes de que cometa más asesinatos.
Novel
Los herederos de la fabulosa fortuna de Lord Curtain son asesinados uno tras otro. Junto a las víctimas aparece la tarjeta de visita de un antiguo delincuente conocido como "El Brujo". El Brujo deberá colaborar con el inspector Wesby para demostrar su inocencia.
Novel
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Novel
A man released from prison falls in love with the blind wife of a cellmate, whom he promised, when inside, to visit. He poses as the real husband, planning to kill him, but finds the wife is not so innocent as he thought.
Novel
La hermana de un famoso criminal que anda suelto, llamado El Brujo es asesinada. El inspector Higgins de Scotland Yard cree que El Brujo intentará vengarse de los asesinos de su hermana, y planea tender una trampa para capturarlo. Sin embargo, pronto los cadáveres empiezan a amontonarse y parece que El Brujo puede volver a escaparse.
Novel
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
Novel
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...
Story
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
Novel
El anciano Lord Lebanon, que siempre fue muy aficionado a las bromas, acaba de morir en su remoto castillo escocés. Su abogado Tanner reúne a los herederos y les lee la voluntad del fallecido Lord: deberán permanecer durante seis días y sus noches en el castillo, con el fin de que entre ellos se reconcilien. Si lo consiguen se dará lectura al testamento definitivo. Aunque la disposición no agrada, todos los presentes aceptan por la ambición de no perder su parte de la herencia. Una tormenta les deja sin luz ni teléfono, quedando aislados del exterior y, poco tiempo después, empieza una serie de estrangulamientos en los que se utiliza un pañuelo indio. Tanner inicia las investigaciones, pero también podría ser la próxima víctima... o el mismo asesino.
Novel
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.
Novel
A young woman is harassed by a man and seeks help from the police. The officer who visits her falls in love with her, but shortly after she is murdered.
Novel
Scotland Yard investiga una serie de asesinatos, en los cuales las víctimas han sido envenenadas con veneno de serpiente.
Novel
A man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.
Novel
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
Novel
Un asesino en serie llamado El Tiburón aterroriza Londres matando a sus víctimas con un arpón y luego, vestido con un traje de buzo, utiliza los túneles del alcantarillado de la ciudad para escapar.
Novel
En la estación londinense de Waterloo un hombre muere sin causa aparente, y un desconocido intenta sin éxito apoderarse de la llave que el fallecido lleva en el cuello. Con él, son ya dos cadáveres en los que se han encontrado una llave similiar, lo que lleva al inspector Martin a sospechar un nexo común. Sus investigaciones le llevan al despacho del abogado Haveloc, albacea de la familia Selford, quien le cuenta que el anciano Selford, repartió 7 llaves entre amigos de confianza, con el encargo en que el día en que su hijo y heredero llegue a la mayoría de edad, deben reunirse y abrir con las 7 llaves una puerta tras la cual se encuentra la herencia.
Novel
Bandas rivales de Chicago se trasladan a Londres, con la intención de extorsionar a los británicos ricos.
Novel
Arson is the way out for a failing cosmetics company.
Novel
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.
Novel
When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.
Novel
Margaret Reddle, empleada en el despacho del abogado Shaddle, es contratada como secretaria de la extraña condesa Eleonora Moron que reside en el castillo de Cornerfleet. La joven piensa que, con el nuevo empleo, quizá acaben las siniestras amenazas telefónicas que recibe desde hace un tiempo. El último trabajo que le encarga Shaddle consiste en hacer firmar unos documentos a una tal Mary Pinder, quien se encuentra en prisión desde hace20 años, acusada de envenenar a su marido. Margaret puede echar una ojeada a los documentos y descubre con sorpresa que se trata de su propia madre. A partir de ese momento empiezan a suceder misteriosos acontecimientos que indican la existencia de un complot.
Novel
Un hábil falsificador de libras esterlinas tiene en jaque a la policía inglesa. Ajeno a ello, Peter Clifton, un joven millonario, se casa con Jane, sobrina de un célebre pintor, y la pareja inicia su vida común en la mansión de Longford Manor, cerca de Londres. Ambos parecen haber olvidado el desagradable incidente del día de la boda, cuando Basil Hale, un antiguo pretendiente de Jane, interrumpió la ceremonia. Pero extraños sucesos ocurren en la mansión: una noche Jane descubre a su marido junto a una prensa de imprimir, y cuando se hace de día Peter, amnésico, se despierta sin recordar nada de la noche, y en su habitación encuentra un martillo y una camisa con manchas de sangre. El misterio sigue en aumento.
Novel
A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.
Novel
Un asesino desconocido, que usa una media negra para ocultar su rostro, deja un puñado de narcisos amarillos en la escena de sus crímenes. Es la séptima película de Edgar Wallace producida por Rialto y está basada en la novela de Wallace "The Daffodil Mystery".
Novel
Un asesino, que camufla su cara con unos cristales blanquecinos sobre sus ojos, le está haciendo el trabajo sucio a un médico de seguros, para que pueda cobrar el dinero del seguro de las víctimas.
Novel
La finca del emigrante americano Abel Bellamy (Gerd Fröbe) está embrujada por el fantasma del Arquero Verde, un tipo de Robin Hood del siglo XIV que aterrorizaba a los antiguos propietarios. Ahora, que el gángster vuelve a casa por asuntos poco claros y su sobrina Valerie (Karin Dor) viene con su padre adoptivo para establecerse en la mansión colindante, para disgusto de Bellamy, el arquero ha vuelto. ¿Quién es y qué quiere?
Story
TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.
Story
A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.
Novel
A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.
Novel
Un ladrón de bancos, Clay Shelton, es sentenciado a muerte por el asesinato de uno de los policías que le detuvo. Instantes antes de ser ahorcado, profetiza que todos los que tuvieren alguna relación con su muerte serán a su vez ejecutados por él quien llama “El brazo de la Horca”. Nadie se toma en serio sus palabras, pero poco tiempo después se producen varios accidentes mortales, y perecen el fiscal que lo acusó, el juez que le condenó y el verdugo que le ejecutó. Algunos testigos señalan la presencia de un desconocido con la mano alzada en forma de garra, exactamente como Shelton había predicho. Otros afirman haber reconocido al mismo Shelton. ¿Se trata de su fantasma o de un doble? Mientras el pánico se extiende entre el resto de los supervivientes, el inspector Long está seguro de que las muertes tienen un origen racional y no sobrenatural, y para asegurarse abre la tumba de Shelton...
Novel
Un maníaco anda suelto por Londres, decapitando a sus víctimas y enviando las cabezas a Scotland Yard.
Novel
En la prisión de Toulouse está a punto de ejecutarse una sentencia de muerte, pero la torpeza del verdugo, al dejar un clavo en la guillotina, salva la vida del reo. Once años más tarde, una ola de chantajes asola la ciudad de Londres: ciudadanos de buena posición económica reciben una carta de extorsión en la que aparece impreso un círculo rojo. Todos los que no ceden al chantaje o avisan a la policía son fríamente asesinados, y siempre, junto a cada víctima, se encuentra un trozo de papel con un círculo rojo impreso. El inspector Parr, de Scotland Yard, y un célebre detective privado, Derrick Yale, unen sus esfuerzos en la investigación policial. Los crímenes siguen, pero poco a poco, las sospechas se van concentrando en un número reducido de personajes.
Novel
Una banda de delincuentes tiene atemorizada la ciudad de Londres con sus delitos: tras cada fechoría dejan como señal la marca de una rana, y su misterioso jefe oculta la identidad bajo un grotesco disfraz, en el que destacan unos ojos terroríficos. El inspector Elk, encargado del caso, se enfrenta a un problema insoluble: no hay pistas útiles, y los testigos potenciales guardan silencio por miedo a morir. Richard Gordon, sobrino del jefe de Scotland Yard, inicia su propia investigación, y sus pesquisas le llevan a un club nocturno, el “Lolita”. Varios personajes sospechosos se cruzan en su camino...
Original Story
Theatre Play
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
Novel
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
Writer
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder...
Novel
Columbia's 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940's "Deadwood Dick" and ahead of 1941's "White Eagle") is another of director's James Horne's "classics" where he evidently figured that the same reactions that served him well in Laurel and Hardy films would work well in action serials where he has all hands, heroes and villains alike, doing some kind of over-the top "take", no matter the situation. This loose adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story finds Michael Bellamy (Kenne Duncan in his Kenneth Duncan period) inheriting Garr Castle, but his brother, Abel Bellamy (James Craven, as usual making Oil-Can Harry look smooth), has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself. When Michael's wife, Elaine Bellamy (Dorothy Fay), fails to return after visiting Abel, her sister Valerie Howett (Iris Meredith), accompanied by their father,
Novel
En la estación londinense de Waterloo, un hombre muere sin causa aparente, y un desconocido intenta sin éxito apoderarse de la llave que el fallecido lleva en el cuello. Con él son ya dos los cadáveres en los que se ha encontrado una llave similar, lo que lleva al inspector Martin a sospechar de un nexo común. Sus investigaciones le llevan al despacho del abogado Haveloc, albacea de la familia Selford, quien le cuenta que el anciano Lord Selford, antes de morir, repartió 7 llaves entre amigos de confianza, con el encargo en que el día en que su hijo y heredero llegue a la mayoría de edad, deben reunirse y abrir con las 7 llaves una puerta tras la cual se encuentra la herencia. Más tarde el inspector escucha un extraño relato de labios de un hombre aterrorizado: se trata de un experto ladrón de cajas fuertes, que le informa que le han secuestrado y llevado a un lugar desconocido, con el propósito de que abriera una puerta con 7 cerraduras.
Theatre Play
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Writer
At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin. But Isla is reluctant to do so, and is also frightened by the two footmen of the household who she suspects of locking her in her room at night. Following a village dance, the household's chauffeur is found strangled with an Indian scarf.
Novel
El doctor Orloff parece una persona benefactora, que incluso ha fundado un asilo para ciegos. Pero tras esta pantalla se oculta una organización secreta que se lucra por medio de la extorsión, la tortura y el asesinato.
Novel
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Novel
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
Novel
27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter.
Writer
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
Novel
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
Writer
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
Writer
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
Novel
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
Novel
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
Novel
Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
Novel
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Novel
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
Novel
Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
Novel
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
Novel
A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..
Story
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
Writer
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.
Novel
A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
Theatre Play
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Novel
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
Dialogue
A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
Theatre Play
A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
Novel
Story
The homonymy of her husband with a criminal who has several murders on his conscience, committed in Canada, scaring the young wife who is a passionate reader of mystery novels and has a guilty conscience
Novel
A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
Story
Un delincuente (Frank Reicher) revela el escondite de un fabuloso botín de un millón de dólares. Su médico personal (Warner Oland) sueña con apoderarse de él, pero debe competir con un detective privado (Stuart Erwin) y una mentalista (Dorothy Wilson). (FILMAFFINITY)
Idea
Un equipo de cine va a rodar una película a la misteriosa isla de Teschio, al este de Sumatra. Allí descubren la existencia de una civilización prehistórica y de una tribu ancestral que secuestra a la atractiva Ann, la actriz protagonista, para ofrecerla en sacrificio ritual a King, un gigantesco gorila.
Story
Un equipo de cine va a rodar una película a la misteriosa isla de Teschio, al este de Sumatra. Allí descubren la existencia de una civilización prehistórica y de una tribu ancestral que secuestra a la atractiva Ann, la actriz protagonista, para ofrecerla en sacrificio ritual a King, un gigantesco gorila.
Novel
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
Novel
The officers of the Flying Squad attempt to track down a drug-smuggling gang.
Theatre Play
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
Theatre Play
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
Theatre Play
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Screenplay
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Theatre Play
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
Novel
Writer
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a plot to have Sir Henry murdered by a terrible trained hound.
Novel
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
Theatre Play
A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.
Producer
A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.
Screenplay
A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.
Director
A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.
Screenplay
A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the hypocratic oath.
Theatre Play
A musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman.
Story
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
Screenplay
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
Director
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
Novel
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Writer
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Novel
The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
Novel
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Novel
A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
Theatre Play
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
Novel
Novel
Novel
A Lord poses as a stableboy and rides a girl's horse when a crooked knight injures her jockey.
Novel
Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.
Novel
An ex-crook's horse wins despite his crooked rival and regains the formula for a malleable glass from a Russian.
Novel
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Story
Although she is the mastermind of a gang of crooks, Kate Westhanger's talents are unknown to those outside her circle, thus enabling her to infiltrate George Flanbaugh's gold syndicate. While ostensibly working for Flanbaugh, Kate actually is compiling information on a large gold shipment. One day, while working, Kate meets young criminologist Michael Pretherson, and although finding herself attracted to the sleuth, she laughs at his detective work and challenges him to stop her.
