Howard Benedict

Сидящий в Дартмурской тюрьме вор скрывает местоположение украденных и спрятанных в музыкальных шкатулках печатных пластин Государственного банка Англии. Когда начинаются убийства невинных покупателей шкатулок, Холмс и Ватсон приступают к расследованию.

Холмс нанят Роландом Карстэрсом, чтобы предотвратить воровство «Звезды Родезии», огромного алмаза, принадлежащего матери Карстэрса, Леди Маргарет. Догадываясь, что алмаз будет украден в поезде по пути от Лондона до Эдинбурга, Холмс ловко подменяет алмаз Леди Маргарет, в то время как заходил в ее купе. Вскоре после этого, Роланд был убит, а поддельный алмаз украден...

Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.

At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?

Шерлок Холмс и доктор Ватсон сопровождают принца, наследника Восточного царства, на пассажирском корабле, следующем из Англии в Алжир. Принца представляют как племянника Ватсона, так как он является объектом многочисленных покушений со стороны лиц, желающих захватить контроль над его страной.

In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.

A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.

Шерлок Холмс нанят Министерством внутренних дел, чтобы определить местонахождение Британского подданного, который направлялся в одну из юридических контор в Вашингтоне и был похищен несколько дней назад. Холмс узнает, что этот человек был правительственным агентом, который должен был доставить секретный, документ в виде микрофильма американскому правительству. Самый важный вопрос, была возможность у него передать пленку кому - то еще прежде, чем он был взят? Во время Второй мировой войны секретный британский агент, несущий жизненно важный документ, был похищен на пути в Вашингтон. Британское правительство обращается к Шерлоку Холмсу с просьбой вернуть похищенное.

Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.

Работая на британское правительство, Шерлок Холмс должен переправить Франца Тобеля из Швейцарии в Англию прежде, чем до него будет в состоянии добраться Гестапо. Тобель разработал очень точную систему наведения для бомбардировщиков и настаивает на скорейшем внедрении ее в производство. Скоро однако, он исчезает, и оставляет закодированное сообщение, которое Холмс должен расшифровать. Дело начинается в Швейцарии, где Шерлок Холмс спасает изобретателя бомбардировочного прицела, который союзники хотят спрятать от Нацистов. Но по возвращении в Лондон, кажется, что изобретатель не тот, кем он представлялся.

The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.

Сокол и журналистка Энн Риордан пытаются разгадать цепь загадочных убийств, начавшихся после того, как бывший рестлер, освобожденный из тюрьмы, отправляется на поиски своей девушки.

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.

In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.

Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.

In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.

Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time they try to con a millionairess into funding their latest show by posing as old friends of her lost love.

George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps, smuggled from England. Wendy Barrie is the true heir to this treasure, and the Saint is engaged to protect her and the stamps. Our hero meets Barrie in a posh Palm Springs resort, where a gang of homicidal thieves have converged to relieve the girl of her inheritance. Three murders and one kidnapping attempt later, the villains are foiled by the Saint, with the aid of his onetime partner in crime Pearly Gates (Paul Guilfoyle). The Saint in Palm Springs is the sixth in RKO's series of films based on the character created by Leslie Charteris.

A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.