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Investor Robert Norman murdered before meeting. Police investigate. Journalist Claire Haines pursues story to impress editor. Intertwining narratives of crime solving and reporting unfold.

After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.

A British agent is murdered on a passenger train. Before his death, he plants important secret papers in the trunk owned by a female passenger.

Mary Lee is the new head of a Chemistry Laboratory. Thompson and his work-mates are resentful of her appointment and try to make her fall in love with John in the hope that this will make her neglect her work.

Man murders his business partner. A detective and his wife attempt to solve the case.

A secret agent puts his life on the line to save a town's liquid explosives from crooks.

This film is based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas Pere and set in Holland in 1672. The wealthy but naïve Cornelius Van Baerle spends his time cultivating tulips, ignorant of the fact that his godfather, Cornelius De Witte, was murdered for having supported Louis XIV when most of the Dutch support William of Orange. Cornelius is also unaware of the fact that his success in growing a unique black tulip has created an enemy # his neighbor Isaac Boxtel, another tulip fancier. Boxtel alerts the authorities that Cornelius is connected with political dissidents and the poor fellow is arrested, though he manages to hide the black tulip bulb in his pocket before being thrown in jail. Cornelius becomes friends with Rosa, the daughter of the turnkey Gryphus. He gives her one of the three black tulip flowers, but Boxtel steals it...

A swindler pretends to be a faith healer.

A story of smuggling and jewel thieves on board an ocean liner.

After the disappearance of the estate librarian, and the murder of another, Kerrigan is summoned by the lady of the manor to solve the mystery, and maybe find the Claydon treasure.

A man in an unsatisfying marriage fakes amnesia in his sly pursuit of extramarital adventures.

A newspaper reporter sets out to track down a cop killer.

A bookmakers clerk, Grierson, finds himself in financial difficulties and forces his step-daughter to marry Nevern, a caddish song-writer, for his money. When she finds life unbearable with Nevern she decides to divorce him and marry Hardwicke, a newspaper reporter. Grierson schemes to murder Nevern in the hope that his step-daughter will inherit all his money and that she'll be generous towards him (not knowing he will be the murderer). After secretly building up what he thinks is alibi upon alibi, he commits what he believes to be the perfect crime, only for an incredible slip to prove his undoing.

A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities. Instead, he takes over and makes a success of everything.

A drama about a blind scientist who upon regaining his sight discovers his unfaithful wife has stolen his top secret formula for her lover.

A group of doctors perform an experimental brain surgery on a hardened career criminal, with hopes that it will result in his becoming a more law-abiding citizen. This low budget British "quota quickie" is presently presumed to be a lost film.

Pretending to be American radio commentators, Clapham & Dwyer introduce a series of revue artistes.

A clergyman and a turf accountant, both called Smith, get mixed up.

A landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be next?

Released in the US in 1940 while a drive was being staged in Ireland to stop the smuggling of munitions across the Ulster border. The story involves a family, the Muldoons, living in a village on the Ulster border. Pamela Wood, the daughter, is being romanced (and romancing back) border-guard Lian Gaffney. A damper is dumped on the romance when her brother, Max Adrian, is recognized as one of the rebels. He is caught by the guards, but manages to escape after saving the life of Gaffney