A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor’s preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the…

A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend – but she claims she’s being framed.

An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead…

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan…

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his ’employed-prison-graduates’ are Helen…

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate’s heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he…

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.