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- Karmen seduces with her dancing in an arcade room.
- Official music video of the magnificent Romanian singer AMI.
- A woman suspected of murdering her fiancée becomes married to a man who is, ironically, the other suspect in the same murder.
- Wayne Adams is murdered in a Barbary Coast saloon and gambling hall in San Francisco in 1880, and his sister, Julie, enlists the aid of the district attorney, Michael Lodge, in gathering evidence in which to convict the owner of the gambling house of the crime. In order to do so, Julie poses as a dance-hall-girl, and soon finds herself in a dangerous situation.
- Clark Manning, a fur trapper, is false accused of stealing pelts from other trappers' snares and sets out, with the aid of a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman, Constable 'Bones" Blair, to clear his name and find the true thief.
- An exploration of the future of second-had bookstores in Melbourne, Australia.
- Two show-business wannabees get their big chance to show off their big-time act and talents in a nightclub,and bomb. Othet acts come on---endlessly---and do well, but the kids will be back.
- This documentary follows a Central and South American expedition led by explorer Lewis Cotlow. The travelogue begins on the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama, where the crew visit the San Blas Indians. The narrator describes their colorful dress and notes that the chief product of the island is coconuts. Continuing their travels to the Port of Belem off the coast of Brazil, the crew take a riverboat up the Amazon River, detouring up a tributary, where they spot many wild birds, including toucans, egrets and papagayos. After a brief encounter with a tribe known as the Bororos, who reveal their fishing techniques, they canoe to a section of the river in Peru to visit the Yagua tribe. Male members of the tribe take the crew on a leopard hunt using blowguns and then return to the camp to celebrate. The next stop is the Guano Islands, off the coast of Peru, where seals and guanyos are prevalent. The crew return to the coast to visit with the Colorados Indians, who use red paste made from a native seed to cover their bodies and that of the narrator's, who joins them in decorating his body. The crew then travel to the western base of the Andes Mountains in search of the "hot-tempered" Jivaro tribe. As a result of the Jivaros' religious beliefs that they must seek revenge for the murder of any member of their own family, they have become headhunters. The narrator describes the entire process, from the murder and decapitation to the boiling water process used to shrink the heads. The film closes with narrator commenting that "only men crueler than nature can survive" in the wild terrain of the Amazon jungle.
- The Sole survivor of a space shuttle crash Former astronaut Uriel that something special as awakened in him.
- Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.
- Don Michele, a young priest from Puglia, arrives in Rome, called by his uncle Mimi, a cardinal who holds a high office in the Vatican, who has entrusted him with the parish of a village.
- Top U.S. government spy-smasher John Baxter (Ralph Bellamy) does just that as he is aided by Eleanor Dunlap (Fay Wray) and companion federal agent Ted Hall (Regis Toomey) while being highly abetted by top enemy agent Dr. L. B. Carter (Walter Kingsford) and his minions of gang members and henchmen.
- American reporters Helen Warnet and Jed Howard meet on a boat to Shangai unaware that Japan had just invade China and enemy spies are everywhere.
- A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
- Newlyweds refuse help from their families as they struggle to make it on their own.
- On the eve of an American Legion convention, National Commander Metcalf and District Attorney Dan Blaine, also a Legionaire, go to Lou Tanner, local race-track manager, and ask him to close the track before the delegates arrive. Tanner refuses, in the presence of Kimball, a wealthy stable-owner and arms manufacturer. The latter invites Dan and Metcalf to dinner. While Dan dances with Mimball's pretty secretary, Eve Rogers, Kimball tells Metcalf he will see to it that the track closes if the Commander will use his influence to have the Legion defeat a certain bill pending before Congress---an arms-control act that would limit the sale of guns to private citizens. Metcalf declines, for Legion sentiment is strongly in favor of the bill(this is a fictional movie.) Craig, an aide to Kimball, tears a page from the classified directory and circles a costumer who can provide him with a Legion uniform, rents the uniform under an assumed name, and as soon as he leaves, signals to Lawlor, a henchman, who enters the store and kills the owner. THe morning of the big parade, Metcalf is expected at his office at 9:30; Kimball telephones Tanner and, posing as Metcalf, asks him to call at the Legion headquarters at 9:20. Craig, dressed as an Legionaire, waits for tanner and kills him with a gun fitted with a silencer. He then waits for Metcalf in the outer office and pretending to make a contribution to the Commander's collection of firearms, presents him with the gun he used to murder Tanner. Metcalf is charged with murder. Kimball summons Dan, saying he can clear Metcalf by producing the man who gave Metcalf the gun. His intention is to dress the murdered costumer in Craig's rented-uniform. In turn, Kimball demands support for killing the pending arms bill. Dan refuses. Now, as the convention is about to begin, its Commander is in jail charged with murder and this is not good publicity. But, possibly, if Eve discovers the torn directory page, it may give Dan a clue to who the killer is. Especially if the 13th-billed Jimmy Hollywood (as Sid Hinkle) can mimic Kimball's voice.
- Screenwriter Philippe (Duchaussoy) imagines a crime committed by his wife Sylvie (Delon) and a mutual friend Pierre (Serre): a dead body is put in a trunk but the hand sticks out. Sylvie and Pierre begin to have an affair and things get very dangerous and the imaginary crime is on its way to becoming prophetic.
- Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies, including an old maid Mademoiselle Cadenat (Mrs. Padlock), are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum.
- A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough seas and each other.
- Two people have been murdered in Clayton by a mysterious killer using a blow-gun. Socialite club-leader Phoebe Witherspoon comments that "the town needs another Ma Pilkington, the best police chief the town ever had", and the town's newspaper editor, Henry Wright, sends reporter Breezy to find the late Ma Pilkington's daughter, Jane "Pilky" Pilkington. She is given the job of tracking down the killer, and policeman Mulligan is assigned to assist her. But after two more unsolved murders, Wright buys Pilky a ticket back to Horsetrot, the town in which they found her, and summons a Chicago detective to take over the case. Pilky is depressed by this turn of events and more so when she learns that Breezy is engaged to actress Maybelle. Mulligan is also fired. The killer strikes again, killing stage producer Tommy-Gun Tucker, and the Chicago detective decides to return to the safe confines of the Windy City, leaving Pilky again in charge. She sees Maybelle take a note out of Tucker's pocket during the investigation. She filches the note and, through it, tracks down the killer as being town coroner Dr. Bleaker, who was mixed up in some shady deals with Tucker and Maybelle. Mulligan is re-instated and Pilky remains in Clayton as the police chief.
- An assistant astronomy professor is shocked when his aunt's final wishes require him to manage her beauty salon for two years, or he will inherit nothing, only to discover that some of its workers are leaders of a blackmailing operation.
- A woman doctor is divided between the dedication to her profession and the much needed attention to her husband and daughter. This will cause a serious crises when the husband is left for an emergency on their wedding anniversary, as he had planned something special for a celebration.
- Following the murder of a policeman and unable to get proof against the real killer, District attorney Walter Forbes takes a novel approach to get there. He induces an ex-convict to stand trial for the killing and gets the set-up conviction he wanted. His purpose is to make the head of the criminal underworld and killer come out into the open, under the impression that because of the conviction of the ex-convict he is no longer in any danger. He then calls the real killer on the telephone, which he has wired to be broadcast over the radio.
- A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
- The pretty owner of a 'greasy spoon' cafe helps a handsome customer involved in robbery and murder.
- An aristocratic Englishman is engaged to a brewery heiress. He's not happy though and, during a visit to a circus he meets and falls in love with a human cannonball.
- Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls. Chet Eaton, Johnny's brother and in-charge of the China operation, is drinking too much, plus a local Tartar bandit, Ho-Fing, is raiding and sabotaging the operation, having been bribed by a rival company. Johnny bribes him also but Ho-Fing is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately guy and doesn't stay re-bribed. Johnny decides hand-grenades speak louder than money, and have a longer-lasting effect on Oriental bandits.
- A dangerous drug-smuggling case becomes even more dangerous when an investigating lawyer discovers that the individual behind the operation is a police probation officer.
- A bank district supervisor relates how he has been accused of a murder involving the bank's vice-president's brother and his mysterious wife, who has long police record, and to which he intends to plead guilty.
- In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
- A German scientist takes refuge in an unnamed South American country and finishes the development of a weapon of mass destruction; his assistant Lesky is paid by a Chinese spy ring to abduct the scientist and appropriate the weapon. Superagent Z7's mission is to find them and prevent that, which he does--at the cost of a number of lives.
- Famed magician Mr. Gregory is visited back stage one night by an amateur magician and his wife. Immediately smitten with Ellen Randall, Gregory plots to win her over.
- Is love the same the world over? The Pacific remains the most unique in its approach to love - Love which is often strange, sometimes cruel, but always beautiful.
- A boxer turned minister offers shelter to a tank fighter framed for killing a policeman.
- Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. "You'll have to murder me first", Louise tells him and three hours later she is found dead, shot with her husband's pistol. When Charles is arrested, Kathy desperately sets to work to prove his innocence.
- Joey Davis has just been married to Gloria, but before they can have their wedding night, he's called into service in the Navy. He smuggles his new bride into the camp. The camp is under heavy security because the Navy has obtained a new top secret kind of thermostat (and the formula necessary to make it work), which will keep weaponry dry. There is a murder--someone is trying to steal the device, and the newlyweds become involved in the investigation. The major suspect is Gordon Shane with whom the lead investigator has had dealings in the past. The killer has left an essential clue with Gloria, but she doesn't realize it yet. Is Shane the culprit; and if not, can the mystery be solved before the real killer murders Gloria?
- Bridget Monaghan, a dressmaker and mother of six illegitimate children, tries to maintain her current lifestyle while the fathers of her six children try to run her out of their small Irish town and her children seek to gain lives of their own--and the lonely Bridget seeks a romance for herself.
- In the village of Tirangole in Sudan, Africa, native boy Lonuha prepares to become a man of the Iago clan by joining in the annual hunt. While the women of the tribe care for the children, carry water from wells, prepare the food and gather wild herbs, the men perform traditional pre-hunt rituals. One of the tribe's many primeval customs involves Ibwoni, the "witch doctor," treating the ill by bleeding them and burying the blood in the earth. In another custom, children have their two front teeth "gouged out with a knife" as soon as permanent teeth grow in. Scars, collars and disfigurations are common adornments and badges of beauty. All the activities are watched over by Lomiluk, the rainmaker and spiritual head of Tirangole. This year, there is plenty of water and the cattle and goat herds are healthy. To prepare for the hunt, the men practice spear-throwing. The blacksmith creates a spear especially for Lonuha, and as tradition demands, the boy spears a cow in the jugular vein, then drinks the blood. Later, the "Father of the Land," a woman named Abolone who holds a hereditary position of great spiritual power, mixes a magic brew of charcoal, earth and saliva. Soon, about two hundred men from all of the clans of Tirangole gather for the hunt, the scars on their shoulders connoting how many men they have killed. Today, the warriors tell tales of past prowess, while Lonuha grows anxious to hunt. Finally, the hunting party fans out in a circle that will eventually span about ten square miles. They move past water buffalo, lions, scorpions, hyenas, snakes and crocodiles in their pursuit of giraffes, bush-bucks and antelope. Lonuha is able to prove his masculinity when he spears an antelope, and feels great pride when he brings meat back to his mother. Later, the women of the tribe gather fish from the river in nets while breaking into jealous arguments. Months later, the villagers work diligently to prepare food and supplies, but a dangerous drought moves in. Lonuha, his heart heavy with fear for his clan, notes the dry river bed and runs to Lomiluk for help. The rainmaker performs a ritual at the rain shrine, in which a goat is strangled and its stomach contents mixed with beer, earth and saliva to form a sacrifice to the ancestors. After a wild rain dance, Lonuha watches with satisfaction as a storm arrives, signaling a good year of peace and plenty.
- A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.
- As the narrator discusses the advantages of becoming familiar with the foreign lands and peoples being seen by American soldiers fighting overseas, scenes of North Africa are shown. The exquisite crafts made by different artisans are presented, and the journey then continues down through Africa along the Niger River. Across to the East, near Lake Chad, a wedding ceremony is celebrated, and then, to the South, along the Ubangi River, villagers live together in peace and harmony. The process of ritual scarification is demonstrated to the expedition members, and then, in another village, the King of the Watusi watches as his subjects dance and play musical instruments. Later, in the Belgian Congo, a "white hunter" leads the search for an adolescent elephant, which is captured for domestication. The expedition then follows the route of convoys carrying military men and supplies across the Indian Ocean to Bombay, where cows, which are considered sacred, wander through the streets. India is a country of many religions and different ideologies, including the Hindu who believe that the holy Ganges River will enable one's soul to go directly to heaven if one's ashes are scattered into it. In another part of India, Hindu men atone for their sins by inserting silver skewers and pins into their faces and bodies. In Ceylon, where powerful Allied sea-bases maintain their strongholds against Japanese forces, women artisans make lace, as they were taught by the Dutch. Then, "devil dancers" rehearse for the annual festival in which hundreds of pilgrims and special elephants march in a procession on the way to a shrine containing a sacred tooth of Buddha. Other Buddhists live and worship in Rangoon, Burma, which is home to many other interesting and unusual peoples. Teak, the hardest and most precious of tropical woods, is harvested in Burma with the help of elephants, which are specifically bred for the work due to the declining numbers of wild elephants. High in the mountains, hermit priests explain that there are still believers in the ancient legend of a snake god who was conquered by a mortal woman. The explorers leading the expedition travel to the small village of Kenzi, where only priestesses are allowed to tend to the living king cobras that are the embodiment of Naga, the snake god of fertility. After anointing herself with a sacred powder, a priestess lures a cobra out of his cave and then kisses his head three times to prove her domination over the dangerous creature. Despite the fact that two of her comrades have been killed during the ritual, the priestess shows no fear and accomplishes her goal. The explorers then make their way back to their companions and realize that, just as American soldiers are becoming familiar with the varied wonders of the world, so must ordinary citizens have respect for other cultures if war is to be prevented from breaking out again.
- John Randolph (Warren Hull), an idealistic young newspaper owner who uses his paper as an instrument for the public good, uses a campaign against crime to successfully run grafting politicians out of town. District Attorney William Burnette (Wallis Clark), father of Barbara Burnette (Marsha Hunt) who John loves, learns that John's father (unknown to John) is a criminal they are seeking. He refuses to prosecute him and John, not knowing the real reason, turns against Burnette and tries to run him out of office.
- The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
- Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.
- When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.