An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.

Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th-century London. She’s fortunate enough to rapidly find…

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an “M” onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the…