Mask of the Dragon (1951)

Частный детектив Сэм Спэйд начинает смертельную охоту за таинственно исчезнувшей бесценной статуэткой «мальтийского сокола». Эта реликвия пришла в современный мир из глубины веков и символизирует собою возможность управления людьми, народами, странами. Человечеством, в конце концов. Более-менее подкованному человеку известно, что миром правят секретные ордены и организации, а поэтому интерес к этой теме вечен и непререкаем.

Действия картины разворачиваются в мире, который контролируют биоинженерные корпорации. Их сверхзадача - синергия компьютера и человека: "чипизация" неблагонадежных, прошивка мозга для тотального контроля над обществом. Привлекательная идея научного прогресса незаметно для гуманистов выродилась в манию кибернетической тирании. На фоне этой глобальной болезни человечества высвечивается трагическая судьба отдельного человека, подминаемого системой, но не теряющего надежды на свободу и счастье. Главного героя "Прошивки" Люка Гибсона лишили прошлого, перепрошив его сознание с помощью биокомпьютерного имплантата. Теперь Люк борется за свое будущее, узнав истинные мотивы ученых.

Бывший уголовник Джонни, вынужден участвовать в ограбление Босса мафии, который держит в доме миллионы на черный день. Но он не знает, что на деньги Босса имеют виды еще 7 преступников…

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.

A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

Четверо начинающих воров - Джулиан, Одри, Холли и Кевин, прокалываются на заказном ограблении. Ошибка обходится им слишком дорого: в 1 миллион долларов, которого у них нет. Под угрозой близкой расправы друзья, как будто бы, находят выход, застраховав свои жизни на миллион... Теперь смерть любого из них может спасти остальных!

Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.

Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.

Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.

Young art gallerist Katarina's dad suddenly goes missing. It turns out that her dad, a prominent art dealer, is kidnapped in Egypt by his former smuggle partner, who has been released due to the Arab spring. To save her father, Katarina has to find the hidden statue that the kidnapper demands as ransom.

Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.

Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?

Doctor and dedicated husband embarks on a murderous quest for vengeance against the men who raped his wife.

An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder victim's sister.

Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid. They learned a trade in the army. Killing.

Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.

Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews, whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden penniless. Mathews' chicanery seems particularly coldblooded, inasmuch as his daughter Marian is engaged to Jarden's son Walter. When the latter disappears, Mathews asks Ellery Queen to locate the young man.