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A man wants to get even with an aircraft plant by blowing it up. He conceals a bomb in his lunch box and warns him to get out of the place in time. The son does escape, but a friend sees the lunch box and, thinking his buddy forgot it, puts it in his car.
An older man,Evans, walks into a record store, slips the young clerk, Fred, a huge bill and pleads for him to come to his hotel to discuss something important. He goes and finds Evans beaten and mumbling something about a record. Fred is knocked out and awakens to find Evans now dead and himself set-up to take the rap for his murder. Fred races back to the store, hoping to find the record the dead man was talking about.
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Julia, the model for a character in her husband's comic strip, informs a police detective that her spouse is going to murder her. He bumped off her "twin" in that morning's strip and she's sure he's going do get rid of her in the same grizzly way that evening.
A college student studying abnormal psychology thinks the owner of a wax museum dedicated to murderers can teach her a few things. Police lock down Dr. Violet's exhibit when an actual corpse is found in the museum, trapping the co-ed alone with the murder expert.
In World War II Italy, Count Montressor has watched with horror as his former stable boy became a powerful Nazi general. In the process, General Fortanato has murdered the Count's sister and stolen his wife. Knowing the General plans to murder him, Count Montressor lures him into the palace's catacombs to taste the rare cask of Amontillado he has procured.
A former soldier who works at an all-night diner is scheduled for the electric chair. There's one witness who can clear him of the charges, but that person has disappeared.
Detained by the side of the road where his wife Mollie was found murdered, John explains to a deputy the events leading up to that moment. Their busybody neighbor Lillybelle had made accusations about Mollie's infidelity, as had a mysterious stranger who traveled the road near their home. Realizing John was wise to her, Mollie tried to flee but Lillybelle blocked the door.
An American lover of architecture is escorted to a crumbling Mexican castle by the local padre. He warns the visitor to keep his room door locked and avoid the family that lives there--especially the maniacal mother when the black wind blows. Eventually, the curious American learns the horrible truth about the family's history of blood lust.
A self-absorbed couple takes their daughter on a vacation, unaware that the child is urgently wanted by health officials. The little girl was afraid to tell them she'd been bitten by a dog, and the animal turns out to have been rabid.
Emily's moved back home to care for her battle-ax old mother and it has placed her marriage in jeopardy. Arriving home from work, she finds an escapee from a mental hospital with the old bitty he's tied up and gagged (because she's obnoxious). While he hides at their house for a few days, Emily is supposed go to work as usual but not utter a word of his presence to anyone--or it will be curtains for the old lady.
A dramatic story of the Black Hand's operations in New York's Little Italy during the 1890's.
An elderly man is in a desperate search for a youngster who is in peril of passing evil's point of no return.
Lady Sannox, the toast of London society, carries on an obvious affair with Douglas Stone, an arrogant, young surgeon. Lord Sannox, a retired star of the stage, is thought to be a clueless old man unaware of the liaison. After discussing with the Lady his plan to murder her husband so they can marry, Stone is hired by a desperate man to perform a questionable operation on his wife. Lord Sannox, we learn, is not as oblivious to his wife's infidelity as he appears.
The impulsive wife of a jealous man is paid a visit by the very person her husband most despises.
D.P. Bradford's wife invites a couple of his old bomber crew buddies to New York to ring in 1950. New Year's morning as the guys sleep off their hangovers, the Bradford's daughter takes her puppy for a walk in Grand Central Station. There she's kidnapped by a German named Hans and held for $30,000 ransom. D.P. and his buddies, who had grown apart over the years, reunite on the mission to rescue his daughter from the kidnapper's clutches.
A father and son moving out of a boarding house get into a tussle with the sleazy landlord who promptly drops dead on the floor. Since the father has a past record, the two hide in the attic while the police investigate, wating to make their escape.
The murder of a Professor has undergraduate Kate investigating the case with help from a newspaper reporter.
A man who's been suffering from amnesia suddenly gets his memory back.
The members of the suicide club are all men who wish to end their lives. One member draws the card the ace of spades meaning he must kill another member and make it look like an accident.
Prior to the United States going to war with Italy, one of the country's leading Fascists challenges an American to a duel.
Teenage practical joker Jerry pretends his new stepfather revealed something incriminating while talking in his sleep. Rather than laughing it off, Henry Lord gets very defensive and becomes threatening. After suffering a suspicious accident, Jerry is convinced his stepfather has something in his past he's willing to kill to keep secret.
Tommy, an errand boy, hangs around a hot dog stand when he's not in transit. The stand, a front for criminal enterprises, provesdangerous when he's hired by a shady character to deliver a package at exactly 5 PM that evening. With time to kill, he goes to a baseball game. Tommy doesn't realize that the package contains 20 grand from a payroll heist and that a pair of criminals have figured out that he's holding the money.
Officer Malone is murdered outside a "gay 90s"-themed nightclub simply by buying a seemingly harmelss gift from one of the showgirls. His son, a rookie cop, takes a vacation from the force to find the murderer himself. At the club, he uncovers the deadly secret that got his father shot: they're selling illegal drugs.
Arthur Dawson is a young American who lands in a Mozambique port and goes in search of a stolen idol.
Detective Sam Cragg goes to meet a client in the "Little Serbia" section of the city and finds the man murdered. Everyone in the neighborhood lives in fear of the unseen C. W. Roberts. a mysterious loan shark who keeps the poor permanently in debt. Cragg send a book to Roberts and watches to see who picks it up.
The notorious criminal Ma Barker and her gang of four sons blaze a murderous path from beginnings in Missouri to their final showdown with FBI agents and their machine guns in Florida.
Young actor Dan Bedell stops off in New Orleans for his first Mardi Gras. He gets a visit from gambling boss Morgan Nelson and his bodyguard who's shot from outside of the window. Morgan scrams, leaving Dan to be framed for the murder. With his girlfriend and one of her pals, Dan decides to dispose of the corpse by ditching him in the crowd, passing him off a passed out Mardi Gras drunk. Nelson returns, finds the others involved covering-up the death, and is not pleased.
An American bets two British friends that he can spend the night alone in a "haunted house."
On a midnight scavenger hunt for a department store sales receipt, a man encounters a murderer in a store.
The FBI pursues a man to the wilds of Borneo.
A dangerous blonde wants to lose her husband so she seduces an old boyfriend into doing the deed. The old flame is in for a surprise when she promptly gets rid of him.
After killing a former medical examiner, lawyer Robert Quartermain has his picture taken by a street photographer while leaving the scene of the crime. When he learns the photographer possesses the only evidence against him, Quartermain goes to see the shutterbug and bumps him off, too.
A woman has a very good reason for ordering her husband to keep his mouth shut when it comes to tipping the police off about a murder.
A reporter unexpectedly becomes involved in a series of violent, brutal murders.
Dr. Joe Parker and his family are awakened by a gun-wielding criminal demanding treatment for his brother. The man's in serious condition after a bullet pierced his lung. With a pistol pointing at their daughter, the doctor and his wife are forced to perform surgery even though the patient requires hospital treatment to survive
A disturbed young man with a murderous background latches onto an older woman and her daughters. He worms his way into their family by charming the mother, even accompanying them to their summer cottage. One daughter's attempt to break off her flirtatious affair with the volatile man, whose true colors begin to show.
