Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941)

Мир в опасности: великий и ужасный Доктор Зло угрожает запустить ядерную ракету, требуя 100 миллиардов долларов! Но на каждого суперзлодея есть свой супергерой. Спустя 30 лет, проведенных в криогенной камере, неподражаемый Остин Пауэрс, лучший секретный агент Ее Величества и любимец всех женщин, разморожен и вновь готов к действиям! Вместе с напарницей, очаровательной Ванессой, он легко обойдет все хитроумные ловушки, расставленные коварным противником, и спасет человечество!

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.

Лимож, президент сети супермаркетов, страстно влюбляется в молодую девушку, которая работает помощницей менеджера в одном из отделов. Он просит её жить вместе с ним и, взамен, предлагает всё, о чём она когда-нибудь мечтала.

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.

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.

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

Гуфи планирует спокойный день на отдыхе, но ему нужно второе дерево, чтобы повесить гамак. Но у горного льва другое мнение на этот счёт.

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…

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

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.

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

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

A social gathering is rocked to its core when Jack accuses his best friend's wife of infidelity. But as the allegations start flying, it soon emerges that a far more sinister game may be at play...

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.

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.

The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, James Rogers. Mrs. Braun asks Inspector Queen to help find the long-missing Barbara. The inspector's son, Ellery, works on the case. He goes to a home frequently visited by Dr. Rogers where the bell is answered by Nikki Porter who Ellery mistakes for Barbara and insists she return to the Braun home. Nikki does, to protect Barbara, and a short time later finds herself alone in a room outside Braun's bedroom. She finds him dead - his throat cut. No weapons are found and the door to the room where Nikki had been is locked, and she is suspected. Ellery hides Nikki in his apartment. Braun's body, sent for an autopsy, disappears and in its place is a life-sized statue of the dead man.

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

A private eye (Richard Travis) and his girlfriend (Sheila Ryan) avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

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.