Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston’s bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston’s organization and…

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers…

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.

Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can’t find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a…

A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man’s death.

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look…

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

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…

Herman Melville’s mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.

Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no…