A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.
Just out of prison Joe Harris looks to restart his life. His wife Barbie has moved and the one man who can tell him where refuses to do so. Enraged, Joe beats the old man senseless and runs away to his father's home, where he also finds his wife. A police detective comes around about the beating (which will soon to become a murder) and Joe insists he's innocent. Joe tells his wife and father he's a changed man and he's only a suspect because of his prior conviction. Barbie and Fred struggle with their desire to believe Joe's plea versus their fear he'll never change.
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
