The Valiant
A juror who helped convict a young actress of murder becomes convinced of her innocence and reopens the case, risking reputation to uncover the real killer.
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancÈe captive.
Just prior to his execution, a condemned murderer decides to tell the authorities who hired him to commit the murder. However, he's killed by a poison dart in front of a roomful of officials and repor…
A prominent townsperson turns into a killer after his wife leaves him.
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's…
A government agent falsely accused of murdering a professor takes the identity of "The Puma", a Mexican vigilante leader, to hide his real identity and find the actual killers.
A small-town district attorney's saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest list for a motive and culprit.
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the rightful owner of the gold and her sweetheart.
When her twin sister is drowned, a woman assumes her identity to be near the man she loves.
After being framed and imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, a small-time hoodlum breaks out of jail to find the real killer.
A novelist investigating a notorious serial killer becomes possessed by the spirit of the murderer, leading to a series of gruesome events.
An embattled attorney fights to topple corrupt town officials by running for mayor, and is aided by a visiting stranger, who's actually a vacationing Supreme Court justice, John Josephus Grant.
A woman apparently marries a corrupt deputy D.A. to get evidence that a certain criminal was framed for murder.
By the director of Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain, wh…
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with the acquitted man.
A poisoned Frank Bigelow, with only a few days left to live, seeks to uncover his killer and their motive.
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they…
A traveling gravedigger during an (unspecified) war adopts a orphan he finds alone in the desert. After the war with the orphan grown and business slow, the orphan begins to generate business himself …
A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her whe…
Using a prominent medium, a fake seance is held to entrap a murderer. But when a new murder is committed during the ritual, the medium turns amateur detective to prevent her own daughter from being ar…
A young French soldier cut off from his unit is beguiled by a mysterious woman, whom he learns is the wife of the local Baron - and that she seemingly died twenty years earlier.
Nightclub singer 'the Canary' blackmails acquaintances, ends up murdered. Only witness also killed. Detective Philo Vance investigates to uncover her killer among numerous suspects she had exploited.
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.