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Dr. Ferrari knew what kind of woman Nora was the moment he laid eyes on her. She was very beautiful and equally utterly heartless. She was the kind of a woman who wants everything, gives nothing, and still thinks she’s a passionate bargain for any man completely unconscious of the fact that her only motivation in life is to humiliate, dominate, and finally destroy any man she can get her hands on. But that didn’t matter because she had three million dollars, and Dr. Ferrari had already made up his mind if his plans worked out that he was going to kill her....

A man and his strangely silent son are on the run from the police.

Peter Lorre is typecast as The Maestro, a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom!

"The Beast Must Die" is a powerful story of vengeance and retribution. Herbert Marshall plays the part of Felix Laine, a writer by profession of detective novels, who was planning to kill a man. He didn’t know his name, where he lived, or what he looked like, but he knew that he was going to find him and kill him. He recorded all of the details in a diary, which was either the best murder novel he had ever written, or an incriminating document.

The Blackout Killer is hiding somewhere aboard a ship. Olivia De Havilland stars as Judith Webster, who found herself embarked upon a journey into darkness. It is 1939, shortly before England and Germany were at war. Judith was in London serving as travelling companion to wealthy American Mrs. Prescott. When Mrs. Prescott died, Judith had promised to arrange her a burial at sea. It was on this journey that she learned of the “Blackout Killer” and feared that he was the man she had befriended and fallen in love with.