Frederick Schrecker

After a nocturnal car accident on the English countryside, an unfortunate couple is invited to a mysterious manor occupied by a creepy embalmer who throws sexy drug parties there.

When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to England. His girlfriend Paula is kidnapped but her handbag is discovered at the scene of the crime by the aristocratic private eye, Duke Martin. Inside it he discovers the secret formula that the agents are searching for and tracks down her sister Paula. As Johnny grows frantic for the safe return of his girlfriend, Duke Martin plays a deadly game of double bluff with the enemy agents.

In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.

While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.

Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately, Red spies know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to hypnotise him, and make it appear that he is a traitor.

Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Invité par son ami Harry Lime, le romancier américain Holly Martins se rend à Vienne, divisée en quatre zones d'occupation. Tout juste arrivé, il apprend que Lime vient de perdre la vie dans un accident de la circulation et qu'on l'enterre ce jour même. L'écrivain n'est pas au bout de ses surprises. Au cimetière, il est abordé par le major Calloway, pour qui Lime n'était qu'un vulgaire trafiquant, une crapule. Choqué, Martins décide de mener une enquête sur le défunt. Il fait bientôt la connaissance du mystérieux baron Kurtz, l'un des deux témoins de l'accident, l'autre étant un Roumain du nom de Popescu…

A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.

En villégiature sur la Côte d'Azur, le riche homme d'affaires Victor Danemore décède subitement. Travaillant pour Danemore et présent au moment de sa mort, l'agent de publicité Dave est intrigué par le mystérieux passé de son ancien employeur. Il découvre que celui-ci était un maître-chanteur. En pleine guerre froide, il suit alors ses traces en France, en Suède et en Autriche.

Un ancien espion britannique se retrouve mêlé à un complot visant à renverser le communisme avec l'aide d'un superordinateur.

A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

Une jeune femme paralysée rejoint sur la Cote d'Azur son père qu'elle n'a pas vu depuis dix ans. Hébergée par Jane sa belle-sœur, Penny croit voir à plusieurs reprises le cadavre de son père.

One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally know the name of the traitor - and that he or she comes from within their own unit - their annual gathering becomes a deadly trial...