Max Barwyn

1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in...

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with...

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry...

Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft...

Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform...

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his...

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are...

After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she...

An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl...

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's...

Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth...

"Felipe, a sailor falls madly in love with Valencia, a Spanish dancing girl, who is sought after by Don Fernando, the governor. When Felipe deserts...

The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of...

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the...

Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not...

After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The...

A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers...

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the...

Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for...