Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew ...
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying fo...
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retire...
A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he bec...
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the...
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan f...
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceas...
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to ev...
A senior at an Ivy League college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepte...
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pac...
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and...
In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hi...
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years l...
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins t...
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob...
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.