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A timid tourist on a world voyage is unexpectedly swept into danger and romance in the back streets of Mozambique.
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A timid tourist on a world voyage is unexpectedly swept into danger and romance in the back streets of Mozambique.
Second-class tourist Ronald Dawson gets lost in a Mozambique storm while returning a souvenir and stumbles into a room with dead men and a mysterious woman. She leads him through…
A defiant Amazon plantation owner relies on ingenuity and nerve as an immense army of flesh-eating ants closes in on his estate.
Plantation owner Leiningen refuses to abandon his Amazon estate when a miles-wide army of ants approaches, convinced human intelligence can defeat the threat. After his defenses fail, he personally crosses…
Bandleader Eddie Bloch turns a forbidden voodoo chant into the number that makes him famous, then begins wasting away after Papa Benjamin and his followers place a curse on him.…
Bandleader Eddie Bloch turns a forbidden voodoo chant into the number that makes him famous, then begins wasting away after Papa Benjamin and his followers place a curse on him.…
Bandleader Eddie Block builds his fame by turning a forbidden voodoo chant into his signature number despite Papa Benjamin's warning that profaning it carries a death curse. As Block wastes…
Oil engineer Humphrey Ward boards the Taurus Express for home and is drawn into a dangerous web of refugees, couriers and enemy agents. After a gunfight leaves two suspected Greek…
An American businessman traveling toward home becomes entangled in an international espionage plot after assisting a mysterious woman aboard a train.
Young Cynthia Winship leaves her critically ill mother in a Paris hotel after a doctor sends her across the city for medicine. When she returns, the hotel denies that her…
A young woman in Paris discovers that her mother has vanished from their hotel and is plunged into a terrifying conspiracy when everyone insists the woman never existed.
J. F. Morner plans to murder the Snake Doctor and steal the savings hidden in his cabin, using jealousy and a hunting trip as cover. Morner dies after reaching toward…
Suspicious farmer J. F. Mauna hates the local Snake Doctor and eventually tries to steal the healer's hidden savings. Reaching into the hiding place, Mauna believes a cottonmouth has bitten…
Traveler Arthur Llewellyn stops in the isolated village of Martin and becomes fascinated by Ilsa and townspeople who watch him with the unsettling intensity of cats. He flees after discovering…
A traveler feels oddly expected in an isolated border village and gradually uncovers a sinister connection between its residents, its cats and his own fate.
Professor Guildea, a brilliant skeptic who dislikes human attachment, becomes convinced that an invisible presence has entered his home and developed an intimate, repellent affection for him. The unseen thing…
A solitary professor who despises affection becomes the unwilling object of devotion from an unseen presence that increasingly invades his private life.
Lawson becomes obsessed with a beautiful, unnatural grove in Africa, builds his home beside it and falls increasingly under the influence of the ancient goddess Ashtaroth. Alarmed by his friend's…
A shipwreck salvager searching for a fortune in gold uses an old diving suit to appear before islanders as the god Jimmy Goggles. A local witch doctor tries to exploit…
First mate Harper records the mystery aboard the Evening Star after Captain Burgess marries the widow of the ship's former captain, DeRell. Burgess becomes convinced DeRell's ghost has returned, secretly…
An American trader in Manila becomes involved with Delphina, the unhappy wife of a powerful Spanish colonial official, and is drawn into a dangerous voyage aboard a Chinese junk. When…
An American trader in Manila becomes involved with Delphina, the unhappy wife of a powerful Spanish colonial official, and is drawn into a dangerous voyage aboard a Chinese junk. When…
A collector insists on shipping a deadly bushmaster snake from Venezuela despite warnings about the danger, and the snake escapes aboard the passenger vessel. After days of terror and fruitless…
After suffering symptoms he believes are the beginning of a disabling stroke, 52-year-old Christopher Bell secretly gives up his business and attempts to make his death look like a mountaineering…
Sailors regard a handsome sailing ship as a murderous jinx after a long history of fatal accidents, but she behaves peacefully while brothers Ned and Charlie Wilmot sail with Maggie…
Young regimental drummers Jakin and Piggy watch the British Fore and Aft break under Afghan fire and decide to shame the soldiers back into action. They march into the open…
Three escaped convicts cross the tropical sea on a primitive raft with a native guide they despise and underestimate. Thirst and greed turn the fugitives against one another until all…
Mild-mannered Scotsman John Todd takes a post at an African trading station where bullying Captain Brock humiliates workers and repeatedly provokes him. When Brock beats Todd and prepares to punish…
Dr. Dudley takes Fowler in his time machine to the year 100,080, where they find a beautiful childlike people living above ground and predatory Morlocks below. When the Morlocks seize…
After accidentally killing camp boss Thorne in a fight, Billy Loring flees into the Canadian north and is finally captured by Sergeant Brokaw. A blizzard traps captor and prisoner together…
Plantation owner Leiningen refuses to flee when a vast army of ants approaches, trusting a network of defenses and his own intelligence. When the ants overwhelm the plantation, he runs…
The disappearance of the Blue Water sapphire sends the Geste brothers into the French Foreign Legion, where their secret follows them to a brutal desert outpost under Sergeant Lejaune. After…
After surviving a mountain fall, Nunez discovers an isolated valley whose people have been blind for generations and regard his sight as a defect. He falls in love with Medina-Sarote…
A farmer's painful tooth sends him to Paul Revere and, through a chain of comic circumstances, helps set events of the American Revolution in motion.
Two explorers reach a lost African city ruled by a beautiful immortal queen who believes one of the newcomers is the man she has awaited for centuries.
A combative sea captain recently jailed for assault sets out to prove himself by rescuing survivors during a hurricane, only to face a perilous medical emergency and more trouble.
Soldiers of fortune Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan leave India determined to become kings in remote Kafiristan. Using military skill and the people's belief that they are more than ordinary…
Soldiers of fortune Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan leave India determined to become kings in remote Kafiristan. Using military skill and the people's belief that they are more than ordinary…
A celebrated thief escapes from prison in southern France and turns the pursuit by detective L'Amir into a contest of vanity and wits. As fear and obsession distort everyone around…
During a violent storm, a ship's first officer struggles with a dangerous list while an enigmatic passenger seems unnervingly tied to the vessel's fate.
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