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- An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
- This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
- On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
- Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity, with unfortunate results.
- A reporter is assigned to write an article on a nudist camp.
- Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
- A sadistic prison warden takes out her sexual frustration on her women inmates. While a caring physician tries to improve the jail's brutal atmosphere, a pair of rebellious inmates take matters into their own hands.
- Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double cross them.
- Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jenson, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on Arthur while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
- The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
- When the Daughters of Dixie nominate a candidate for State Senator, the local political machine run by Northerners fears its candidate will be defeated, and chooses her husband as a candidate in order to split the anti-machine vote.
- Twelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.
- A young woman wishes to marry her boyfriend and raise a family, but because her own family has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities--her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue to have children, and her brothers are crippled, have mental problems or are jailed--she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any more children. Her boyfriend and a kind priest desperately search for a way to stop the forced sterilization before it's too late.
- A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim.
- Drama about a young woman, Erica, who is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years, where she faces deplorable conditions. With the aid of the warden, she sets out to prove her innocence.
- A biology teacher helps two teenagers who have strict and neglectful parents.
- Myrt has a show chock-full of talented performers who deserve to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his hands on the show's pretty young star, Marge. Myrt teams up with Marge's boyfriend to try to thwart the randy producer and get the show to Broadway.
- After an Englishwoman dies, leaving behind two children, her devoted friend decides to take the children to find the woman's husband, an American serviceman who had returned to the USA. But the father, now a successful architect, claims not to remember ever having gotten married or having any children.
- After Palermo falls in 1793, a notorious ladies man joins the underground resistance movement--but still finds time for the ladies.
- Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller, whose flashy clothes and snappy car indicates easy money. Shandy likes to visit Dave's apartment and listen to the radio. Dave drops and breaks a bottle of liquid, tells Shandy it is furniture polish and tells him not to mention the incident. Unknown to Dave, Shandy takes a bottle of it home. Polishing the wood on the cash drawer with the liquid, Shandy notes that one of the six dollars he had placed there from a sale is missing, immediately suspects Joey and sets out to find him. Tom drops by the shop and notices that the polish has taken the finish off of the wood, sniffs the contents of the "polish" bottle, takes a taste and discovers it is bootleg gin. Shandy returns and tells Tom where he acquired the bottle. Tom arrests Dave and Ruth thinks it is out of jealousy. Shandy pawns a harp his mother had left him to replace the dollar Joey had stolen. Shandy goes out in a rainstorm to try and raise money to repay Tony for a window Joey has broken, and becomes gravely ill from the exposure and is on the brink of death.
- A boy in a small country school is bored with his prissy teacher's monotonous lessons, and dreams that his idol, Babe Ruth steps in to invite all the boys out to play a round of sandlot baseball. Even the teacher joins in, and Ruth shows them some of his big-league pitching techniques.
- Listen, children, and you shall hear the real story of how they made a monkey of Ponce De Leon in Palm Beach. Ponce De Leon had one great ambition and that was to be young. But in spite of the fact that he entered all of the dance contests, he had to have his face lifted every three weeks and had three Jack Dempseys performed on his nose. But when he lost the last contest, he decided to make a trip to Florida for an application of the Fountain of Youth. Arriving at Palm Beach on a rum runner, he asked the first Indian he met where was the Fountain of Youth. The Indian, who was pulling telephone poles apart with his fingernails, said, "Ask my father." De Leon discovered the father had finished plowing his pop-corn patch and was trudging homeward with the plow upon his shoulder. After some misgivings, the ancient but rejuvenated Indian agreed to show our hero the pool. But there were so many other Indians coming in and going out revivified that De Leon had a terrible time getting there, and then the Indians put up a job on him because they were afraid he would spoil the water. Every Indian that went in came out forty years younger. So when De Leon finally got into line and jumped in, the Indian chief stepped on him and kept him so long under water that when he finally emerged he had reverted to the original form of human life and become a monkey.
- A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.
- Babe Ruth comes to visit a boys orphanage. The headmaster of the orphanage asks him to umpire a game the boys will play, which Babe consents to do. As Babe is umpiring behind the catcher, one of the players, Freddy, strikes out with the bases loaded, and his team loses the game. His teammates berate Freddy for striking out. Freddy leaves the field and starts crying. Babe encourages Freddy and offers to take Freddy to the ball park and teach him how to hit a baseball. At the park, Babe shows Freddy how to bunt. Then he shows Freddy about choke hitters and swing hitters. Then Freddy hits the balls pretty well. The next day, Babe is back watching another game with the same boys playing and someone else is umpiring. It comes to Freddy's turn at bat and the kid who is managing the team doesn't want Freddy to bat because he doesn't think Freddy can hit the ball. Freddy insists that he take his turn at bat. Freddy comes up to the plate and hits a home-run. His teammates, including the kid managing the team, cheer Freddy for hitting a home-run. Babe walks back to his car and finds that it's full of kids. He gets the kids out of his car and tells them he'll be back for another game.
- The story is about a bank president who has been stealing from the bank. One night, as he is working on the books to cover his crimes,a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversation that ensues it is revealed the visitor is an escaped convict that was a formed employee of the bank who was railroaded to prison to cover the crooked banker's crime. As with other entries in this series,there is a shadow projected every so often with a voice forecasting what is to come.
- Tobias is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named ‚El Paso Kid', and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. When he is caught he accepts his sentence only to prove himself a hero in chains.
- After talking to a young coed in the stands at a game, Ruth agrees to go out to her girls college to give some instruction to their ball team. He does so and when their big game takes place, he's there to coach. When Madelynne comes to bat, Ruth trades places with her to make the winning hit, but the subterfuge is exposed, and he's chased off the pitch, escaping on the back of a car.
- In a story, with the back-drop of San Francisco's general labor strike of 1934 (depicted by newsreel footage), a Civil War veteran , Hank (Willard Mack), sets out to show his two oldest sons, Max (Ben Lyon) and George (Charles Sabin), the error of their ways when they take an interest in Communism propaganda. Willard Mack, who directed, wrote and starred in this film, died shortly after the film was finished.
- Babe Ruth plays ball with some kids.
- Robinson Crusoe meets Friday on a desert island and adopts him as his valet. While fishing, a pelican catches all the fish Robinson catches as the latter throws them towards his creel. Crusoe loses his temper, chases the thieving bird into a hollow log and catches ... a skunk. Later, Friday attempts to cook some pancakes, but uses gunpowder instead of baking powder, and the meal is blown sky-high. Attacked by cannibals, Crusoe and Friday manage to hold them off. Friday throws his spear through the nose rings of a line of cannibals, holding them in position until he binds up the lot. The cannibal chief and his warriors being held captive, Crusoe and Friday manage to rescue a captive white girl from the chief's hut.
- Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.
- The difficulty Columbus has in persuading Isabella to help him, having to combat the jealousy of Ferdinand, the revolt of his crew who chase him all over the ship, the false discovery of land that turned out to be a bald-headed man in front of the telescope, the arrival in America just to be stopped and rid of hooch by an Indian cop at the three-mile limit and the manner in which Christopher sneaked his bottle ashore provide the basis for this comedy.
- Cleo's nose, stung by a bee concealed in a bouquet given her by Julius Caesar, swells up and has to be fixed by her beauty doctor, who tries out several shapes before he finds one that appeals to the historical vamp. Anthony arrives on the scene, cuts Caesar out with Cleo and runs away with her down the Nile in his two-oared galley. Caesar sics his pet alligator on the fleeing couple, the boat breaks in half, and Mark manages to capture the reptile. As the two rivals gamble for Cleopatra's hand, she runs off with Ramesis in his Ford chariot, but the machine breaks down and Cleo, like many other girls since, has to walk home.
- Paul calls on his sweetie, who gives him a locket as a keepsake. When a patriotic call to arms is sounded, and riders are needed to warn the neighboring villages, the gallant youths hang back, and Paul, backing against a mule, is kicked plumb into the gathering, and accepted. Mistaking an owl's glittering eyes for the signals, he dashes off and adventure meets him along the road. First, pursued by two British horsemen, he turns around in his saddle, shooting them dead. Then two cannoneers are knocked over by him. Racing ahead of a cannonball, he waits aside a wall and drives through after the cannonball tears open the barrier. Still more troubles occur, but at last he arrives at his sweetie's home and discovers through the window that her father's aide is a traitor, and that he is trying to wrest papers from her. Paul rides into the house on his horse, licks the villain, but eats his lunch standing.
- The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
- Fly-by-night stage producer Bob Grant inadvertently saves the life of small-towner Thomas Maxwell. The grateful Maxwell invites Grant to move in with his family, which he does, rapidly wearing out his welcome. Finally booted out of the Maxwell household, Grant takes Tom's homely but sweet-voiced daughter Dora with him, giving her a cosmetic makeover and turning her into a big star -- and thereby repaying his host's kindness in a most roundabout fashion.
- Rembrandt starts in on the painting trade as an apprentice to Dabben Dauber, who spends more time on the canvas than Firpo. Dauber leads his apprentice a merry chase until the latter decides to get his own studio. Before he starts, he sees a customer come into his boss' studio and, rather than lose the trade, he starts to paint the old gent's portrait while the sitter's daughter wanders around. The model begins to grow uneasy, and Rembrandt makes things easier for him by bouncing a vase off his dome, and promises his daughter to finish the picture at some other time. Once established in his own studio, he is invited to exhibit at the greatest Dutch gallery. Dauber steals into his studio and steals his masterpiece, leaving a bare canvas in its place. Rembrandt pursues, carrying the blank canvas. A party drinking wine, a sign painter giving directions, a ditch digger, and a ripe tomato all help to make it an even better work than the missing picture, and he is awarded the prize, and wins the charming girl.
- Omar, poetry piece-worker, falls for Atta Bey-Bee, favorite in the harem of Sultan Hassan Feifeh, and invades the latter's seraglio in order to glimpse his new-found love. Omar overpowers the eunuch guards of the harem, but is detected by the sultan and chased all over the establishment. Disguised as a dancer, Omar returns and vamps the sultan. Rescuing Atta, he discovers she already has a hubby waiting for her, so he swears off further harem-scarem adventure. Moral: When a man decides to take a wife he should be careful whose wife he takes.
- The only event in Franklin's life that is burlesqued is his drawing the lightning from the sky by means of a kite and a key. Most of the footage is taken up with good slapstick stuff, involving trick photography where the lightning after being captured chases Benjamin and his black servant all over the house until he finally captures it and puts it in a box and the servant uses it to propel an old-fashioned bicycle and to chase a doubting rival.
- A primitive barber shop has two barbers, Fearnot Flinthatchet and Faintheart Lovejoy, the old proprietor, and his manicurist daughter, Cutie Cuticle, who uses a grindstone for a nail file. Faintheart appeals to Cutie, but Fearnot was bolder and carried her kicking to his cave. Faintheart consults Ala Gazem, a bewhiskered magician who looks into the future and shows Faintheart how, in civilized society, he would battle for the same lady against the same bold bozo, and win. When he comes out of the reverie he hops in on Fearnot's cave, where the latter is entertaining the lady in question. Faintheart takes a huge club and bounces it off Fearnot's dome repeatedly without making any impression. Then Fearnot arises, takes his trusty bludgeon and taps Faintheart but once. The latter keels over, and Fearnot resumes his seat with total indifference.
- John Smith tells how Pocahontas fell for him and aroused the jealousy of Chief Hole-in-the-Sock, his bitter rival. After a long chase, the Chief had caught the captain when the latter's escape up a cliff was cut off by a wild bear. Pocahontas had put her broad metal anklet about her lover's neck to deflect the headman's tomahawk, but it was detected and removed by the jealous rival. Just as her lover was about to be decapitated, Pocahontas flung herself across her lover's body and pleaded for his life, explaining to her father that Captain Smith and his brother made such good cough drops.
- The familiar story of William Tell furnishes the basis for this one. William is shown "sassing" the governor and being made to shoot an apple off his son's head to secure his freedom. He attempts to substitute a pumpkin, the son eats one apple and an apple-hawk gets the other. He finally succeeds and the governor tries his hand, but the arrow is bent and boomerangs, striking him in the trousers.
- After a strenuous set-to with his domineering spouse, Rip Van Winkle is driven from his home and seeks solace in the neighboring mountains. He meets some dwarfs and helps them push a huge cask up a steep hill only to find, after his labor, he has given a free ride to some lazy dwarfs concealed therein. He engages in a game of bowls with them, but they bewitch the pins and he loses. Consoling himself with quaffing some of their potent ale, he falls asleep and wakes up twenty years afterwards. He and his dog - both with beards - seek out their former haunts. They find times have changed. Mrs. Van Winkle is still a flapper, the children are full-grown and the village is a thriving town. He is welcomed back to the family hearth, however, and all ends happily.
- Two young boys in a tribe in central Sudan face everyday hardship just trying to survive with the rest of their people.
- Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball-diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident cause his luck to turn bad, and results in him turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, at the end, he is still blowing smoke.