In His Girl Friday, hard-driving newspaper editor Walter Burns learns that his star reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, plans to leave journalism behind and marry a mild-mannered insurance man. Determined to keep both his best reporter and perhaps his former marriage from slipping away, Walter lures Hildy into covering one last explosive story involving a … Read more
In It’s a Joke, Son!, blustery Southern patriot Beauregard Claghorn finds himself pulled into a state senate race after a political machine schemes to use him as a spoiler against his own wife, Magnolia. What begins as a plan to split the opposition vote quickly gets out of hand when Beauregard proves far more popular … Read more
Old resentment follows Jon Davis and Foxy Pattis into military service when the two men find themselves together at an Army Air Forces aerial gunnery school. Foxy, now an instructor, makes life difficult for Jon, but their rivalry becomes even more complicated when both men are drawn to the same woman. Training eventually gives way … Read more
Army officer and private detective Eddie Delaney is drawn into a dangerous investigation after his police-sergeant father is murdered by racketeers trafficking in valuable wartime rubber. With the help of radio personality Linda Ward and police lieutenant Bill Decker, Eddie follows a trail through nightclubs, crooked businessmen, and underworld connections as he tries to uncover … Read more
Ace test pilot Brad Farrell is accustomed to risking his life in experimental aircraft, but he wants something safer for his younger brother Doug, a newly trained aeronautical engineer. Their relationship becomes strained when both men become involved with Carol Blake and with her father’s revolutionary aircraft design. As romance, professional rivalry, and the dangers … Read more
A sailor’s brief leave should be just long enough for him to marry his sweetheart and enjoy a short honeymoon, but nearly everyone around the couple seems determined to complicate the plan. When the bride’s scatterbrained mother loses her fortune through the schemes of an unscrupulous former suitor, the groom’s fast-talking father steps in with … Read more
Ruthless pirate William Kidd conceals his crimes behind the appearance of a respectable sea captain and convinces the king to give him command of a mission escorting a valuable treasure ship. Kidd intends to use the royal commission to enrich himself while eliminating anyone who could expose his past, but one member of his crew … Read more
Kindhearted but gullible Georgi is expelled from a traveling medicine show after exposing the worthless tonic his companions are selling and soon wanders into a town controlled by thoroughly corrupt officials. Terrified by reports that an undercover Inspector General is coming to investigate them, the mayor and his cronies mistake Georgi for the feared government … Read more
Sherlock Holmes rescues Swiss scientist Dr. Franz Tobel from the Nazis and brings him safely to England along with his revolutionary new bombsight, an invention that could alter the course of the war. But Tobel’s efforts to safeguard his work soon attract the attention of Holmes’s brilliant and ruthless enemy Professor Moriarty, who intends to … Read more
A series of gruesome murders across London draws Sherlock Holmes into a case involving young women whose deaths appear to have no obvious connection. His investigation leads to the mysterious Lydia Marlowe, a circle interested in hypnotism, and the unexpected return of his greatest adversary, Professor Moriarty. As Holmes uncovers a scheme involving murder, mind … Read more