Mississippi, 1830’s. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents’estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to…
After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence…
Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film’s main purpose…
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby…
Beau Nash is a “gentleman crook” who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested, his sister Claire–aka “Lady Byron”–swears to get revenge. The gang frames Donald, the best friend…
A reporter’s marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn’t commit.
A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn’t belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his…
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
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