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- After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.
- A British agent is murdered on a passenger train. Before his death, he plants important secret papers in the trunk owned by a female passenger.
- Shortly before an important meeting of five investors, one of them, Robert Norman, is shot dead in his study. The police come in to solve the crime, while headstrong journalist Claire Haines attempts to get the scoop on the story to impress her editor.
- Mary Lee is the new head of a Chemistry Laboratory. Thompson and his work-mates are resentful of her appointment and try to make her fall in love with John in the hope that this will make her neglect her work.
- A newspaper reporter sets out to track down a cop killer.
- This film is based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas Pere and set in Holland in 1672. The wealthy but naïve Cornelius Van Baerle spends his time cultivating tulips, ignorant of the fact that his godfather, Cornelius De Witte, was murdered for having supported Louis XIV when most of the Dutch support William of Orange. Cornelius is also unaware of the fact that his success in growing a unique black tulip has created an enemy # his neighbor Isaac Boxtel, another tulip fancier. Boxtel alerts the authorities that Cornelius is connected with political dissidents and the poor fellow is arrested, though he manages to hide the black tulip bulb in his pocket before being thrown in jail. Cornelius becomes friends with Rosa, the daughter of the turnkey Gryphus. He gives her one of the three black tulip flowers, but Boxtel steals it...
- A secret agent puts his life on the line to save a town's liquid explosives from crooks.
- A man in an unsatisfying marriage fakes amnesia in his sly pursuit of extramarital adventures.
- A story of smuggling and jewel thieves on board an ocean liner.
- A drama about a blind scientist who upon regaining his sight discovers his unfaithful wife has stolen his top secret formula for her lover.
- Lovestruck young man pretends to be a famous writer in order to impress a girl while on a cruise.
- A bookmakers clerk, Grierson, finds himself in financial difficulties and forces his step-daughter to marry Nevern, a caddish song-writer, for his money. When she finds life unbearable with Nevern she decides to divorce him and marry Hardwicke, a newspaper reporter. Grierson schemes to murder Nevern in the hope that his step-daughter will inherit all his money and that she'll be generous towards him (not knowing he will be the murderer). After secretly building up what he thinks is alibi upon alibi, he commits what he believes to be the perfect crime, only for an incredible slip to prove his undoing.
- Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold of The Crazy Gang play detectives searching a Scottish castle for a missing will. Criminals pretending to be ghosts try to foil their efforts, then some real ghosts enter.
- A young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses his balance and falls.
- A two-reel melodrama-short of a loved-crazed peasant killing the husband of his former sweetheart only to find out she wasn't all that ready to lose her husband, and she kills the killer. It may have been silent in England, its country of origin, but the actors were speaking in very pronounced British accents when the film arrived in New York.
- A landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be next?
- A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities. Instead, he takes over and makes a success of everything.
- Man murders his business partner. A detective and his wife attempt to solve the case.
- A group of doctors perform an experimental brain surgery on a hardened career criminal, with hopes that it will result in his becoming a more law-abiding citizen. This low budget British "quota quickie" is presently presumed to be a lost film.
- After the disappearance of the estate librarian, and the murder of another, Kerrigan is summoned by the lady of the manor to solve the mystery, and maybe find the Claydon treasure.
- Mops is a waitress. This is the (musical) story of a humble girl's rise to fame.
- Itinerant Scot performers: One daughter of a veteran trouper weds a ne'er do well and dies in childbirth.Her spendthrift man goes but later returns to bleed the old man out of remaining savings.Another daughter makes good as a singer.
- A swindler pretends to be a faith healer.
- A young woman breaks off her engagement and runs of with a fiddler player.
- It is a psychological drama involving conflict between two brothers.
- Comedy of marital infidelity.
- A clergyman and a turf accountant, both called Smith, get mixed up.
- Released in the US in 1940 while a drive was being staged in Ireland to stop the smuggling of munitions across the Ulster border. The story involves a family, the Muldoons, living in a village on the Ulster border. Pamela Wood, the daughter, is being romanced (and romancing back) border-guard Lian Gaffney. A damper is dumped on the romance when her brother, Max Adrian, is recognized as one of the rebels. He is caught by the guards, but manages to escape after saving the life of Gaffney
- Pretending to be American radio commentators, Clapham & Dwyer introduce a series of revue artistes.
- Aristocrats change places with servants.