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- Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
- After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
- A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.
- Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
- A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.
- The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
- Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
- A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
- An architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman.
- A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.
- The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.
- A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
- The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
- A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
- An actor can only get a radio job if he can prove that he's an authentic cowboy.
- Hydraulic Mining versus Sacramento Valley Farming.
- Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
- An idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life.
- The neglected wife of a high profile attorney dallies with a unscrupulous womanizer and finds herself involved in blackmail and murder.
- An entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.
- War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to get Texas to take his flight assignment to Cleveland. Returning from Cleveland to Newark, Texas' plane crashes attempting to land on the airfield under extremely bad weather circumstances and he dies from this accident. Dizzy feels guilty for his friend's death and takes the next flight to Cleveland under even worse circumstances, testing a new anti-ice device on the plane.
- Reporters, vigilantes, a moll and a crooked lawyer work to bring down a bootlegger.
- An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
- After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.
- A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
- Spring fever hits the Hiltons: Dad's distracted by an actress during tax season, Mom faces an unexpected suitor, the eldest son yearns to travel Europe, daughter mourns a failed romance, and the youngest dreams of Rossetti.
- The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme.
- A girl from Syracuse goes to New York to see her boyfriend, an architect who no longer cares for her. Fellow residents at a women's hotel encourage her to become a top model. When the boyfriend tries to come back to her, he has rivals.
- Union spy Gail Loveless impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer.
- A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
- A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
- An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
- Two young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the other's boyfriend begins to fall for her.
- A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
- A lawyer's fiancée leaves him after he defends a racketeer accused of murder, but she needs his help when her new beau is accused of killing an old flame.
- An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
- It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drunken British sergeant.
- A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
- A New York chorus girl's friends encourage her to pursue a handsome socialite.
- A love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood.
- A chambermaid impersonates the fictional subject of a composite photo that won a beauty contest, with whom a famed aviator falls in love.
- Lecherous bosses make it difficult for an attractive secretary to keep jobs, so she decides to appear considerably more homely in hopes of holding onto work.
- A young woman living in an Irish fishing village inherits her late grandfather's estate, but is forced to spend three years in England training to be a proper lady to collect the fortune.
- Hannah is so tight with her money that she takes her son, Donnie, to the charity ward a week after he hurts his leg. But she has always hoarded her money since her late husband wasted most of it and now she plans to save it for Donnie. But when Donnie graduates from Princeton, he does not want to go into banking at Hannah's bank, he wants to be a writer, which upsets Hannah. But the greatest blow of all comes when Donnie meets the daughter of the man who jilted Hannah 30 years before.
- An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father.
- After her businessman father moves her family from Kansas City to New York, a woman falls in love with an engaged man.
- Old man invites three of his illegitimate children to live with him.
- A successful crooner who doesn't want to join the Navy decides to prove to his father, a Navy admiral, that he has what it takes to make it in the fleet.
- Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
- Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.