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- The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Jean is an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, who does not want Genevieve to share in his life of suffering. Martial is an internationally-respected astronomer who discovers the return of Lexell's Comet, on a collision course for Earth. Meanwhile, the rich play while the world is arming for war. Martial decides to use the impending threat of world destruction to reorganize and improve global society. But he is opposed by the rich financiers and government officials who stand to lose their power and influence.
- During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
- A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag ; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.
- Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
- A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.
- While he's a houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jewish man Ferdinand de Levis is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy.
- Based on a true story, this film tells of an expedition into the Amazon jungle to find an archaeologist who had vanished three years previously. They run into a tribe of warlike headhunters, who are determined to add the expedition members' heads to their collection (in the real story, the archaeologist was found to have been murdered by a tribe of Brazilian headhunters).
- A demure Manchester schoolmistress falls in love while holidaying in the Austrian Tyrol.
- The manager of a rubber plantation marries a native and she tries to poison him.
- The expedition sets forth to Magdalena Bay in Baja California to look for fighting fish. The crew consists of Chinese, Irish, Russian and Swedish men as well as a cameraman. Pelicans nest on a nearby island and there are flocks of birds everywhere. The crew's first catch is a couple of big bass. They encounter seals on shore and take two pups for pets, returning them later when they turn out to be too much trouble. The crew meets a fleet of tuna boats and is invited aboard. One boat will hold 140 tons of fish. Later they encounter a whaling fleet. When a whale is caught, it is stripped of its blubber, a procedure called flensing. The blubber comes off in one large strip called the blanket, which is cut into chunks to be boiled down for the oil. The rest of the carcass is then ground up for fertilizer. The crew stops at an island to obtain fresh water and they learn that a devil fish in the neighboring waters has scared away the natives' food fish. They decide to catch the devil fish with the aid of a native, Pancho, who sells sharks' fins for a living. First, however, the crew catches fish for the natives. Soon the water is filled with sharks, including a leopard shark and a hammerhead. The crew explores a sunken ship where moray eels are rumored to breed and finding no eels they catch several sting rays instead. Finding themselves in the midst of a school of porpoises, they remember the sailors' belief that to kill them is bad luck, and continue without harming the animals. Finally, the crew encounters the devil fish, a large manta ray. After eleven hours of struggle, they land the fish, which at 4,200 pounds and 17 feet across is so large that it takes nine hours to tow it 18 miles. One of the largest mantas on record, a small boy can stand in its open mouth.
- A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, is really a wealthy nobleman.
- Grace Marwood and her husband, a hopeless hypochondriac, take a cruise where she falls in love with the ship's medical officer, young Dr Daventry. The two continue to meet chastely for several years, with Marwood's behaviour becoming ever more selfish and insufferable in the interim, until her husband finally becomes suspicious and accuses her violently of the adultery she has not in fact committed, provoking her to leave him for the man she loves. Meanwhile, the invalid's every whim is catered to by the mysterious well-educated footman Simpson, who is apparently prepared to put up with anything from his employer. But Marwood falls genuinely ill, and Daventry is the only doctor in England who may be able to save him... and the footman has a secret of his own...
- Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
- A woman and two violinists ' drama.
- During World War I, the British navy disguised some of its warships as civilian cargo ships, known as Q Ships, in order to fool the Germans. German U-boat commander Capt. Von Haag spots one of these ships, commanded by Adm. Sims, in the English Channel and begins tracking it, leading to a war of nerves between Von Haag and Sims.
- In this fast-moving fantasy, an unsophisticated student escapes from a boarding school to become, after many trials and tribulations, the "toast of Paris."
- A "Screen Traveler" entry conducted by André de la Varre, this special concerns about Egypt, most precisely Cairo and the Pyramids, filmed in the late 1930's. The film shows many of the modernized aspects from the city and also some of its old traditional markets and landmarks.
- When his mother is attacked and killed by a lion, infant boy Boru is adopted by a passing tribe and raised by the tribe's chief. The young boy and the chief's son Nikitu grow up to become close friends and skilled hunters. When a drought threatens the tribe's existence, Boru and Nikitu traverse the countryside looking for a water source, only to get caught in the open when a lightning storm sets the tribe's homeland on fire.