An amusing and intriguing farce about a circus ostrich that snatches and swallows a valuable diamond from an Arab diplomat.
A newly-wed couple thinks themselves lucky when a cruise line screw-up puts them in a luxury suite aboard a ship. But when their cabin is broken into by a nine-fingered man, they change their minds.
After a woman is forced to marry a man befitting her social position, she falls into a 27 year silence.
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While on holiday in Monte Carlo, a wealthy man is swindled by a man who claims to be a psychic.
A gambler gambles away a bookie's payoff and has to find a way to get it back. He decides to ice a rich aunt.
A mayor recruits a major chemical manufacturer to build a new plant in a small town and is hailed as a hero for creating jobs. But when the company's former chemist tells him about the chemical they produce, he has second thoughts.
An out-of-work artist and his out-of-work actress wife move into the home of a wealthy friend who is sure his wife is trying to kill him with witchcraft.
Two buddies from Ohio enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War. They agree to stay together and look after each other in battle. But when the fighting gets hot and heavy, one cuts and runs while the other remains, mortally wounded. The consequence of that cowardice is dire.
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An evil woman and her loser boyfriend try to figure out where the woman's dead husband kept his money. The best friend of the deceased aims to stop them.
A police officer is assigned to guard the king of a tiny, little-known country during the king's visit to the United States. The cop immediately recognizes the king as an escaped convict from his old neighborhood who was convicted of murder.