The story of a convicted man who tries to prove his innocence from a prison cell.
The story of a man who learns his own date of death by seeing it on a tombstone.
A sickly 14-year-old girl being raised by a domineering aunt is given a ferret by the gardener's son. The girl ascribes supernatural powers to the creature. When she wishes a toothache on her aunt, the woman coincidentally gets one. The girl then ups the ante and begs the animal to have her aunt killed.
A murderer and his girl disguise themselves in order to flee New York City with police and a rival gang in hot pursuit.
Two phony clairvoyants, traveling with a carnival, turn detectives and amaze even themselves by uncovering a murderer and collecting a reward.
A young couple moves into an apartment unaware that its previous tenant was recently murdered. They're unnerved by a couple of intruders who ransack their home; the pair is looking for drugs hidden somewhere on the premises.
A sweet, motherly wife placidly poisons her husband for her children's sake, because she believes he is trying to poison her.
Leonard Vole is arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly acquaintance. He employs an experienced but aging barrister as his defense attorney.
A bank teller finds himself a little short on funds when the bank examiner is due to arrive.
An American man and his wife from an unnamed Communist country exit her country via the train, she with a phony passport. When a ten-year-old girl enters their compartment, the couple fears that the child will turn them in.
A suburbanite wants to escape from it all and so plots the murder of his shrewish, hypochondriac wife. A gangster and his glamorous wife enter the plot and bring further complications.
A man tries to use mental telepathy for murder.
A greedy woman caught up in her selfish desire for everything she wants enlists her servant to help kill her wealthy husband.
Set in the shadow of the guillotine during the French Revolution, this is a Christmas tale with a heartwarming ending.
In a prison execution chamber, a murderer has a battle of wills with his executioners.
The story of a man who commits murder and gets away with it - as told by the man the police think was the victim.
Two dastardly fellows try to put one over on the other in a scam of deceit.
A domineering widow takes her step-children to Europe and The Holy Land where a murder ensues and Poirot investigates.
A woman is haunted by her late husband who returns with a vengeance to make her confess to murdering him.
A woman unjustly accuses a man of murder. A year later he returns, exacting his revenge.
A little man with a meek sense of humor plays a terrible prank on his colleague.
The owner of a roadside diner finds money missing from the cash register and suspects the teenage helper who hero-worships him. A wounded killer, fleeing from the police, arrives at the diner and has a profound effect on both man and boy.
A pair of mischievous leprechauns cause problems for a couple.
A hit man conducts his business thru information filed with the IRS.
A minister attempts to catch a killer.
The pilot of a private plane gets drawn into a dangerous family crisis when the young daughter asks his help to escape the clutches of her rich, but brutal father.
Story of a psychologist who employs the long-discredited method of phrenology (using the bumps on someone's head to develop a personality profile) to help catch a killer.
A wrestler resents being an accessory on his wealthy wife's arm.
The next victim on a hit man's list is a loved one.
A prosecutor tries to find justice in a courtroom in the Wild West.
Heidi, a young circus acrobat is in love with two different men, her guardian and an animal trainer.
An actress is thought to have committed suicide, but the investigation leads to murder.
The story of medical quackery in the underworld.
A man becomes involved with a South African diamond smuggling ring.
A woman tries to make a name for herself after working for a decade as a ghost writer.
A young boy tells his Uncle about his godfather, Mr. Lupescu, and describes him as having a big red nose, red gloves, red eyes and little red wings.
A rookie on the police force wants revenge against the thugs who roughed up his brother.
An artist addicted to gambling becomes involved with murder to settle his debt.
Drama of a missing persons detective's search for a beautiful girl.
A gangster has his face altered by plastic surgery.
A policeman's wife is charged with murder, and he sets out to clear her name.
A drama of a police officer who became the victim of mistaken identity.
The story of a spinster whose search for belated love brought death.
A homing pigeon helps a honeymooning couple deliver a murderer into the hands of the law.
A mystery dealing with a surprise witness to a murder confession.
A drama of a deadly legacy and a woman's calculated revenge.
A story of a desperate man with a strange ambition.
A late-breaking story has reporters on the hunt for the real killer.
An ex-acrobat turned girder of a skyscraper comes to heads with another worker.
A washed up boxer makes the mistake of borrowing money from a mobster.
An ex-soldier, completing a five-year prison term for a crime committed by his army buddy but for which he accepted guilt, gets a shock when he goes to New York to look up his "true" friend.
A police captain in charge of the lineup at the station house is worried about his wife's love for him when he experiences a prophetic nightmare.
A homeless half-wit, grateful even for the insulting, bullying attention of a lout at a neighborhood bar, meets up with a gangster's long-suffering kept woman at a city park one evening.
Americans, adrift in the South seas, struggle to celebrate Christmas.
A bandit steals an armored car and finds his get-away complicated by an unfaithful wife.
A city boy runs away from the slums only to be trapped in his new environment by the very elements that caused his flight.
A psychiatrist is kidnapped by gangsters who want information obtained by the specialist about an intended victim.
Two punk crooks try to hijack the secret bankroll of a big time hood.
A wealthy woman's scheme to tape-record a rendezvous between her niece and young pianist backfires.
A fact-finding expert's analytical prowess is upset when he turns amateur detective.
Two teenagers turn amateur detectives and are trapped by gangsters in a deserted bus station.
Two former slum boys, one now a famous comedian and the other an ex-convict, return to their home neighborhood to settle an old score.
An AWOL Marine saves his family from disgrace in a shrewd deal with gangsters.
A drama about two con men who join forces.
A harassed wife deals with matters in her own way.
An American writer loses his passport abroad and discovers that it had been stolen by another young American, a suspected murderer who was married to an Italian girl and wanted to effect passage from France through Switzerland to Italy.
An elderly man knowingly involves his son in a hit-and-run accident.
The Kid gets mixed up in a barroom holdup and, in trying to demonstrate what a brave guy he is, forces his companion to shoot the bartender dead.
A garage mechanic, desperate for money, tries his luck at a shabby, gangster-owned gambling den with what he thinks is a sure formula for predicting dice throws.
A street-wise kid who begs in a museum sneaks into the building and meets a man who identifies himself as a Secret Service Agent. In fact, the older man is a thief who needs the boy's help to escape when his exit plan is scuppered.
A dejected girl get involved in mysterious dealings when she joins a Lonely Hearts club.
The story of a young couple involved in a bookmaking ring.
A youth witnesses a homicide and is marked for death by two hoodlums who trap him in a speeding subway train.
A florist's delivery boy witnesses a homicide.
A switchboard operator is trapped in a deserted office by a dangerous mental patient.
Racketeers attempt to gain control of a minor league baseball series.
An ailing financier has delusions that his wife is not being faithful.