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Moonfleet
set in the eighteenth century, the film is about John Mohune, a young orphan, played by Jon Whiteley, who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox, played by Stewart Granger, is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Master Minds
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.
The Paleface
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it.
Terror by Night
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
Bedlam
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
A Scandal in Paris
A smooth-talking French thief (George Sanders) wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray, wishing to remain young and handsome for eternity, essentially sells his soul so that a portrait can age instead of him. Over the course of the years, Dorian commits every sort of sin, heavily influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton. But as his life goes on, he slowly realises the emptiness and evil which he has succumbed to.
Isle of the Dead
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka.
House of Dracula
The main plot is that Dracula and Larry Talbot are both seeking a cure for their respective monster afflictions from Dr. Edelmann (Onslow Stevens).
The Lodger
The inhabitants of a boarding house fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
The Invisible Man's Revenge
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
The Ghost Ship
A new crew member has to deal with a sea captain that may be crazy.
Torture Ship
A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship.
The Spy in Black
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
The High Command
A general of the old school, who believes strongly in his own honour and sense of duty, must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier, during the Irish War for Independence in 1921.
Rembrandt
The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.