Screenplay: Craig Rice

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Dan Duryea · Herbert Marshall · Gale Storm · Howard Da Silva

Plot Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under suspicion of ties with racketeer Carl Durham....

Direction Stanley Logan

Cast George Sanders · Tom Conway · Jane Randolph · Don Barclay

Plot Gay Lawrence, amateur detective known as The Falcon, learns that his brother Tom has been reported murdered on a ship arriving from South America. Gay pursues the murderers, despite the...

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Brian Donlevy · Claire Trevor · Irene Hervey

Plot Semi-successful lawyer John Malone is intrigued by local night club singer Anna Marie St. Clair. After meeting her at the club, he is present when her boss (and more?) is...

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Margaret O'Brien · Angela Lansbury · George Murphy · Phyllis Thaxter

Plot Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can...

Direction William Clemens

Cast Tom Conway · Jean Brooks · Elaine Shepard · Amelita Ward

Plot Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Pat O'Brien · George Murphy · Carole Landis · Lenore Aubert

Plot A lawyer and two newlyweds get mixed up in mock mystery at a resort.

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Marjorie Main · James Whitmore · Ann Dvorak · Phyllis Kirk

Plot "Murder-on-the-train" mystery has lawyer Malone chasing his paroled embezzler client (Kepplar) who still hasn't paid Malone's fee. When Kepplar jumps parole on a train to Chicago, Malone follows, in company...

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Keefe Brasselle · Marilyn Erskine · Aline MacMahon · Arthur Franz

Plot Eddie Cantor, beloved "banjo eyed" entertainer who conquered stage, films, radio, and television, is given the Hollywood biopic treatment in this largely uninvolving film. The storyline charts Cantor's professional progress,...