A barber who mistakenly believes he has killed a burglar and seeks shelter in the home of a manicurist.
A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather....
The Callbox Mystery (1932) is a British quota quickie crime film about a detective investigating murders linked to a mysterious callbox, likely involving suspects from a will, with a newspaper woman assisting and uncovering deeper secrets behind the apparent financial motives.
Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Temple.
After Henry Dawson and Robert Harwell quarrel at Elaine Huntington's garden party, Henry disappears and Robert is accused of murder. Although Robert is found guilty and sentenced to death, Elaine, who loves him, believes he is innocent and does everything in her power to help him.
Major Temple vainly tries to purchase of the priests the Green God he sees on a visit to China. He commissions Robert Ashton to get it for him, promising him the hand of his daughter in marriage.
This silent mystery is considered a lost film.
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants.
In her first Paramount film, Billie Burke plays Helen Wentworth, an heiress who's bored with the high life and decides to enjoy a bit of the low life.
A murder is committed at a country mansion. All the guests present at the estate fall under immediate suspicion as investigators attempt to solve the mystery before they strike again.
After finding her sister dead, Maria tries to find out who or what is to blame.
A young nurse reports to work in a hospital's psychiatric wing and gets involved in a series of mysterious deaths.
The wife of a TV executive thinks she might have committed a murder and is tormented by a stalker while locked inside an empty TV station.
A mystery writer's son is being held for $1 million ransom.
After a popular singer dies in a mysterious auto accident, her fiancee assembles all those who were to attend there wedding, hoping to find her killer.
Audacious Jeanne works in a book bindery, is given a diary written by Thomas Dodd to bind. The diary portrays Dodd as a scoundrel who fathered a girl by a woman he never married, and Dodd's family as a nest of vipers. Jeanne decides it is her duty to save this corrupt family and presents herself to Dodd as his illegitimate daughter. In fact, Dodd is a meek old man whose scandalous diary was pure fantasy, and the only hostile member of the family is Dodd's greedy brother Jerry, who was the only sympathetic character in Dodd's diary. Jeanne falls in love with Dodd's nephew Kent, though she dutifully urges him to marry Hazel Jenkins, a woman whom Jeanne believes Kent has wronged. A lost film.
The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer Philip Vantine (John St. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 1889 murder occurred.
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
12 part silent serial- 1. The Castle of Fear 2. The Spider's Web 3. The Vanishing Heiress 4. The Room Without a Door 5. Shots in the Dark 6. Ambushed 7. The Secret of the Coin 8. Into the Web 9. The Baited Trap 10. The Lady in White 11. The Closing Web 12. The Final Reckoning. A prequel to The Ace of Scotland Yard.