Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government.
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.
A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
In France, an inspector solves the poisoning of his rich aunt.
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
