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- An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
- On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
- This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
- Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity, with unfortunate results.
- A sadistic prison warden takes out her sexual frustration on her women inmates. While a caring physician tries to improve the jail's brutal atmosphere, a pair of rebellious inmates take matters into their own hands.
- Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
- A reporter is assigned to write an article on a nudist camp.
- Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double cross them.
- Drama about a young woman, Erica, who is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years, where she faces deplorable conditions. With the aid of the warden, she sets out to prove her innocence.
- After an Englishwoman dies, leaving behind two children, her devoted friend decides to take the children to find the woman's husband, an American serviceman who had returned to the USA. But the father, now a successful architect, claims not to remember ever having gotten married or having any children.
- Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jenson, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on Arthur while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
- The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
- Twelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.
- A young woman wishes to marry her boyfriend and raise a family, but because her own family has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities--her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue to have children, and her brothers are crippled, have mental problems or are jailed--she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any more children. Her boyfriend and a kind priest desperately search for a way to stop the forced sterilization before it's too late.
- A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim.
- When the Daughters of Dixie nominate a candidate for State Senator, the local political machine run by Northerners fears its candidate will be defeated, and chooses her husband as a candidate in order to split the anti-machine vote.
- A biology teacher helps two teenagers who have strict and neglectful parents.
- Myrt has a show chock-full of talented performers who deserve to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his hands on the show's pretty young star, Marge. Myrt teams up with Marge's boyfriend to try to thwart the randy producer and get the show to Broadway.
- Listen, children, and you shall hear the real story of how they made a monkey of Ponce De Leon in Palm Beach. Ponce De Leon had one great ambition and that was to be young. But in spite of the fact that he entered all of the dance contests, he had to have his face lifted every three weeks and had three Jack Dempseys performed on his nose. But when he lost the last contest, he decided to make a trip to Florida for an application of the Fountain of Youth. Arriving at Palm Beach on a rum runner, he asked the first Indian he met where was the Fountain of Youth. The Indian, who was pulling telephone poles apart with his fingernails, said, "Ask my father." De Leon discovered the father had finished plowing his pop-corn patch and was trudging homeward with the plow upon his shoulder. After some misgivings, the ancient but rejuvenated Indian agreed to show our hero the pool. But there were so many other Indians coming in and going out revivified that De Leon had a terrible time getting there, and then the Indians put up a job on him because they were afraid he would spoil the water. Every Indian that went in came out forty years younger. So when De Leon finally got into line and jumped in, the Indian chief stepped on him and kept him so long under water that when he finally emerged he had reverted to the original form of human life and become a monkey.
- Tobias is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named ‚El Paso Kid', and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. When he is caught he accepts his sentence only to prove himself a hero in chains.
- After Palermo falls in 1793, a notorious ladies man joins the underground resistance movement--but still finds time for the ladies.
- After talking to a young coed in the stands at a game, Ruth agrees to go out to her girls college to give some instruction to their ball team. He does so and when their big game takes place, he's there to coach. When Madelynne comes to bat, Ruth trades places with her to make the winning hit, but the subterfuge is exposed, and he's chased off the pitch, escaping on the back of a car.
- Babe Ruth plays ball with some kids.
- The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.