Thomas P. Manning, businessman and chess expert, mysteriously shot in a locked room, dies clutching some chess pieces. Police are baffled, and finally abandon the case. Six months later, victim's daughter Leah Manning, stung by a scurrilous book about the case, enlists the aid of Charlie Chan and Number 3 Son. Additional murders follow, leading to a climactic confrontation in a...
A scientist working on an important new invention which will protect Allied shipping from U-boat torpedoes has been assigned Secret Service security protection. Amazingly, despite the fact that his laboratory and experiments are located on the upper floor of his Washington mansion, he decides to host a cocktail party for friends on the first floor. Even though several of his gu...
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie investigates.
When three employees of a bank are found murdered with cobra venom, Charlie Chan connects the homicides to a case he had worked in Shanghai in 1937. Even though he arrested the alleged murderer, whom later escaped from the police, Charlie wouldn't be ...
海伦(玛琳·黛德丽 Marlene Dietrich 饰)原本拥有一个幸福的家庭,和丈夫爱德华(赫伯特·马歇尔 Herbert Marshall 饰)之间感情十分要好,两人共同抚养着小儿子约翰(迪基·穆尔 Dickie Moore 饰),生活堪称典范。然而,战争的开始打破了笼罩在这家人头上的宁静时光,爱德华穿上军装走上了战场,毫不意外的,最终,海伦在焦急和担忧中迎来了爱德华的死讯,与此同时,海伦赖以生存的房子也在一把火中化为乌有,无奈之下,她只得沦为娼妓。
很快,海伦便凭借着自己的美貌和智慧在欢场了声名远扬,人们称她为“金发维纳斯”。海伦希望能够在自己的恩客中找到下半生的依靠,但遗憾的是,这些男人根本没有想过要对她负责。