Nigel Bruce

Limelight -- Peter Gatien's Manhattan empire of legendary hotspots counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined an era in New York.

A precious jewel is stolen on the train and the owner is blamed for its disappearance. Sherlock Holmes will find out what really happened.

The son of a nobleman, engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps travels to Egypt and, while there, conceives of a canal which will connect the Mediterranean and Red Seas.  In an effort to attain the backing of the French President, Napoleon, he enlists the help of the woman he loves, Eugenie (Loretta Young).  Now the mistress of Napoleon, she agrees to help him, but only under the condition that he temporarily dissolve the government, a deal which opens the way for Napoleon to become the new emperor and Eugenie his empress.

Unofficially an extension of the television show "China Smith," this actioner stars Dan Duryea as Callahan, a private eye living in Singapore. An old girlfriend (Marian Carr) hires him to find out what her shady husband (Patric Knowles) is up to. When Callahan digs deep, he discovers a plot to kidnap one of the world's leading nuclear scientists and hold him for ransom with an ominous consequence for not paying up: the destruction of Singapore.

Robert Stack (Airplane!) stars in this exotic African adventure based on historical events from the 1890s, when two man-eating lions in British East Africa began consuming railroad workers constructing the first railway on the continent. Bob Hayward (Stack), the man in charge of the project, initially brings in big-game hunters to kill the marauding beasts, but when the lions turn the tables on the hunters, he's forced to take on the task himself.

This documentary examines the career of New York club owner Peter Gatien, whose run-ins with the law eventually had him deported to Canada. Through Gatien, viewers are treated to a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of New York's wild nightlife.

Peter Gatien's Manhattan empire of legendary hotspots counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined an era in New York.

Peter Gatien's Manhattan empire of legendary hotspots counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined an era in New York.

As the owner of legendary hotspots like Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA, Peter Gatien was the undisputed king of the 1990s New York City club scene. The eye-patchsporting Ontario native built and oversaw a Manhattan empire that counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined the image of an era in New York. Then years of legal battles and police pressure–spearheaded by Mayor Giuliani's determined crackdown on nightlife in the mid-’90s–led to Gatien’s eventual deportation to Canada and to the shuttering of his glitzy kingdom.

American adventurer Jeff Williams (Ronald Reagan) is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin (Danny Chang), and a beautiful Red Cross volunteer (Rhonda Fleming), who arranges for their harrowing escape to Hong Kong. There, Jeff arranges to sell Wei Lin's valuable figurine, but even as Jeff has a change of heart, fence Tao Liang (Marvin Miller) kidnaps the child and demands the treasure.

Matrimony means different things to different people. For temperamental artist Geoffrey Carroll, it means he's in his element. Andout of his mind. In their only screen pairing, two of film's all-time greats star in a psychological thriller rife with pelting rainand pealing bells, blackmail and murder, calculated dread and an unnerving finale. Humphrey Bogart portrays Geoffrey, who's making ahabit of poisoning one wife and marrying another when the former no longer inspires his canvases. Barbara Stanwyck plays his currentwife Sally, who puts two and two together and comes up with six – as in six feet under, the place she'll be if she continues toaccept the glass of milk Geoffrey regularly offers as a nightcap. Alexis Smith also stars as a predatory neighbor who becomes theobject of Geoffrey's thirst for feminine variety. Drink up, thriller fans!

Two people die after buying musical boxes. Sherlock Holmes traces the boxes to a criminal in prison who is there for stealing printing plates. Could this provide the solution to his crime?