Tala Birell

Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN.

While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.

During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.

Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.

Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder takes place.

One of two Philo Vance mystery movies released by PRC.

Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.

A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.

When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.

A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.

A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.

Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.

Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.

An evil sea captain and the forces of nature threaten two divers' search for a fortune in gold in the South Pacific.

Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...

Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three socialites.

After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.

Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.

잃어버린 공룡 뼈를 찾으려 하는 소심한 고생물학자와 별 이유도 없이 그에게 방해가 되기만 하는 듯한 젊은 여인이 만나고 함께 하면서 떠들썩한 소동이 벌어진다. “사랑의 충동이란 종종 갈등의 형태로 모습을 드러낸다”라는 대사가 나온다. 이 말은 하워드 혹스의 영화 거의 대부분에 들어맞는다고 할 수 있는데 그 점에서는 당연히 이 스크루볼 코미디 영화도 예외가 될 순 없다.

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.

A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.

In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.

Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart. The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper.

범죄학을 공부하는, 가난하지만 명석한 학생 라스콜니코프는 악덕 전당포업자가 거리의 여자 소냐를 철저히 무시하는 광경을 보고는 소냐를 측은하게 여긴다. 그러나 소냐는 누구보다 따뜻한 마음씨를 가지고 있는데, 라스콜니코프는 가족을 제대로 보살필 수 없는 무능함과 끝없는 빈곤의 굴레 속에서 고뇌에 빠진다. 가족들과의 다툼 끝에 격분한 그는 결국 전당포업자인 노파를 살해한다. 지울 수 없는 죄는 라스콜니코프 자신을 짓누르고, 죄책감과 망상이 그를 사로잡고 만다. 디트리히와 결별한 후의 첫 번째 작품으로, 러시아의 대문호 도스토예프스키의 동명소설을 각색했다. 스턴버그는 원작의 방대한 이야기를 좀 더 단순화시켜 범죄와 죄의식, 자백과 체포의 과정에 더욱 집중한다. 광기를 더해가는 라스콜니코프와 냉철한 형사 포르피리의 쫓고 쫓기는 관계는 긴장감 넘치며, 그 무엇보다 영화를 지탱하는 힘으로 작용한다.

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.

A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.

Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?

Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.

A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.

Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once.

The ambassador of the Kingdom of Luvaria orders Baron Belmar, his attaché, to win the interest of Mona, wife of the war minister, who opposes a treaty the ambassador very much wants signed. However, his mission is complicated by the fact that Helene, the ambassador's wife, is extremely jealous of every woman he meets, for she was responsible for getting him his appointment as attaché. Belmar, nevertheless, is in love with Greta, who will not marry him until he is proven worthy of her trust. After many narrow escapes from exposure of the personal intrigue, he manages to sway the attentions of Mona, who persuades the war minister to sign the treaty, thus gaining Belmar an appointment as ambassador to Peru and Greta as his wife.

This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).