Caged 1950
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of life insurance.
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.
Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write anything for a period of one month.
A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man.
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.
British crime film directed by Ralph Ince
A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal.
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...