Too Many Winners (1947)

教会で働くケラーから殺人の懺悔を聞いた神父ローガン。だが、状況証拠から神父自身が犯人にされてしまう。聖職者の彼は懺悔の内容を語ることができず……。戒律に挑戦した異色のサスペンス。

「ピエロがお前を嘲笑う」のボータン・ビルケ・メーリング主演、「パンドラム」や「ニック NICK」シリーズを手がけたクリスチャン・アルバート監督で、爆弾魔に脅迫され絶体絶命の危機に陥る男の壮絶な運命を描いたサスペンス。ベルリンの不動産会社で大規模な建築プロジェクトに携わるカールは、ある月曜日の朝、娘と息子を車に乗せて学校に送り届けようとしている最中に、正体不明の男からの脅迫電話を受ける。男はカールたちが座席を離れると爆発する特殊な爆弾を車に仕掛けたと言い、巨額の金を支払うよう要求してくる。同じ犯人に脅迫された上司とその妻が目の前で爆死させられるのを見たカールは、やむを得ず要求に従おうとするが、爆発の際に破片を浴びて息子が重傷を負った上、今度は警官隊に包囲されてしまう。警察は、カールが不仲の妻への復讐のため子どもたちを人質にとったと考えていた。やがて、八方塞がりのカールの前に脅迫者が大胆にも姿を現し……。

In the town of Cutter, most people keep to themselves. But when John comes home to find his girlfriend missing, he sneaks into his neighbor's house, finding his girlfriend and several other kidnapped people tied up in the basement. When the neighbor come home, John is forced to get out of the house alive and lead the group to safety.

Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do bring home. They hatch a plan for a robbery but at what price?

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

The story revolves around the greedy nephew of a crime lord, who has his uncle bumped off so that he can take over the business. There are several silly plot threads which include his wish to also bump off the stepson of his dead uncle, and eliminate the assassins he hired (in order to tie up loose ends). Meanwhile, a cop is out to arrest any or all of the bad guys.

For years, a blackmailer has been preying on the weaknesses of others throughout London. When Holmes hears of the utter misery this mystery man is creating, he adopts a campaign to thwart his evil scheming. The campaign astonishes Dr. Watson by its strangeness and finds Holmes falling in love.

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.

John Wyatt is a government agent sent to smash a counterfeiting operation near the Mexican border. Joining Doc Carter's medicine show they arrive in the town where Curly Joe, who once framed Carter, resides.

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?

A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.

A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)