Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
Gambling with death... for a $5,000,000 stake!
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 6M
Director : Charles Lamont
Escritor : Joseph Hoffman
Sinopse
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
É a história de artaban (Martin Sheen), um médico da antiga Pérsia, que dedicou sua vida à busca do Messias. Procurando nas Sagradas escrituras o significado real da vida, Artaban descobre sobre Jesus, O Rei dos Reis. È então que ele se desfaz de todas as suas posses materiais, compra três pedras preciosas, e inicia uma jornada através do deserto onde deve encontrar-se com outros três Magos e, com eles, ir ao encontro de Jesus. Artaban não chega à tempo de encontrar-se com os Magos. Muitos imprevistos também o impedem de encontrar Jesus antes de sua crucificação… porém, na manhã de Páscoa, uma mensagem divina fará com que artaban compreenda o verdadeiro significado da vida.
A gang of local thugs come in and start roughing up the customers and get abusive with the daughter. Suddenly, an elaborately coifed and tastefully dressed woman shows up and rescues the young woman and her father from further harm. This is Iron Pussy.
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
The Ekipo Ja, a group of sane gypsies led by the gypsy Juan De Dios, is in possession, unknowingly, of a sacred seal able to make wishes to him who possesses it. And who wants to possess above all is the Marquesa, a wealthy stranger who does not hesitate to use cunning Italian art dealer persecuted by the police and associated with the Russian mafia, to remove the seal from Juan de Dios. But neither the Marquesa, neither the Italian nor the Russian, not even the Spanish Police, known the capacity Juan de Dios and his men to mess things up and, incidentally, become involved themselves.
Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.
Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore) to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father (Erwin Kaiser) is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.
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?
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market. Teaming with the treacherous Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc), Dunham prospers in his newly-found illicit profession, much to the dismay of his best friend, reporter Mark Andrews (Tom Tully). When Tamara has the troublesome Andrews murdered, Dunham realizes the folly of his behavior and works overtime to squash the black market for good and all.
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.
A Secret Agent must race against time to stop terrorists about to unleash an unknown strain of the Ebola Virus.
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
Um grupo terrorista conhecido como "Athena" e liderado pelo Mentor Diabólico Son Hyuk ameaça a Coréia do Sul e o restante do Mundo. Agora depende do agente especial Lee Jung Woo da Agencia de Segurança Nacional desbaratar esta terrível conspiração. Jo Soo Young, a filha do Presidente da Coréia do Sul, é sequestrada e escondida na Itália. Jung Woo e sua equipe são incumbidos de achá-la e trazê-la de volta.
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.
An Indian agent is sent to observe the actions of a scientist but the mission becomes complicated when he falls in love with the scientist's Pakistani caretaker.
O filme conta a história de Kimball O´Hara - Kim -, um jovem órfão, nascido e educado na Índia, quando essa ainda era uma colônia britânica. Vagando pelas ruas de Lahore, encontra um velho lama (sacerdote) tibetano, a quem passa a seguir como chela (discípulo). Num ambiente ora hostil, ora sedutor, Kim o "amiguinho de todo mundo", vê-se envolvido em empolgantes aventuras. Carrega dentro de si os contrates da cultura ocidental e da oriental. Repleto de provérbios orientais, o romance apresenta um quadro detalhado da vida na Índia.